Gem City Comic Con

 

I really didn't have a lot to do last weekend, other than a dinner at the local Masonic Lodge, and one of my friends called up and asked if I wanted to tag along to a local comic show. He had a computer repair job in the afternoon, so it was just going to be a short trip. Since admission was only $10, I couldn't resist. 

We headed down to the Dayton convention center and got a decent parking spot, arriving about half an hour before the show opened. Since we were there before it opened, we got a free signed print from Stuart Sayger, which was nice. (If awkward to carry around.) It did take a few tries to find his booth, but we did it.

I was just looking for anything that would catch my eye, and I did pick up a few things. Like the Funko Pop Deadpool Trex that I have been looking for all summer. (I bought two, my son wanted one as well, and it was becoming a competition to see who would get to find it first. I drive and have money, so there was a bit of an advantage.  There were other things that I might have bought if I had a real job, like a bust of Captain Picard face-palming. It was really tempting though! 

Even though the show was Comic specific, there were a few cosplayers, at least two that I saw from My Hero Academia. It was a small show though, and we actually paid the parking garage fee two minutes shy of two hours. (Saved a dollar or two!) 

My friend didn't quite find what he was looking for (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comics) and he was told by one vendor that they had them in their store nearby. So after the Con, we headed to Bell Book and Comic where he may have spent almost $200 on comic books. I'm not judging, I quit collecting comics in college, but I transitioned to Anime Cels for a while, then ran out of money. (I may have over 100 manga books now though. I would rather not count them. Most of Inuyasha and Full Metal Alchemist, and a number of others.)

While it wasn't as large as GalaxyCon was in Louisville, not by a long shot, it was still a nice local show. I might go back next year. It wasn't exactly expensive, and I could have (should?) completed my youngest son's Assassination Classroom manga set, so he would want to go for that alone. And besides, maybe next time I will have the money to burn just for Picard's Facepalm statue.