Another Thor-related BK toy

OK, kids, here is the Destroyer, the “villain” of the new Marvel film about Thor, the god of Thunder.

Now all I'm missing is one item.

The Hawthorne Comicbook Con

So, yesterday I spent the day @ the the Hawthorne High School Fundraising Comic Con. I was invited there by my good friend, John Wilcox (who — in turn — was invited by his friend, Joe Sinnott (yes THAT Joe Sinnott). who was also a guest). So John set it up, and we headed down there for the day. Well it turned out to be a very fun day as we each connected with old friends and had a great day. I didn’t get as many photos as I wanted, but still, it was fun.

Here is Buddy Scalera (author of Creating Comics from Start to Finish)

And here is Janine Naimoli Frederick, holding up a page from her new (proposed) series (art by Ian Dorian)

Green Lantern & Free Comic Book Day

So, on Free Comic Book Day, I attended the Bronx Hero Con, but I arranged with my regular comic book shop to save for me the whole run of comics that were available on FCBD, and, well in addition to the 30 (free) comics I acquired there was this very cool Green Lantern Heroclix figure.

Then I did also acquire an even dozen of Peter Parker Spectacular Spider-Man and Peter Parker Spider-Man comics as I move forward with filling in the (ever narrowing) gaps of my Spider-Man comic collection.

Green Lantern joins my collection of FCBD Heroclix figures (although I seem to think that I have a Spider-Man figure somewhere. I’ll have to look for him).

Another BK Thor toy

Here is Sif's headress:

Now there are only two more toys to acquire from BK...

Brave and the Bold @ McDonald’s

OK Kids, here we go with the final two sets of Batman/Brave & Bold toys that are appearing in McDonald’s Happy Meals.

Set #5

Set #6

Thor & Batman take over fast food Joints!

Yep, Like we’ve been telling you folk, Both the Mighty Thor (Marvel) & Batman (DC) have been hanging around fast food joints the past several weeks. First Thor landed @ 7-Eleven, before moving over to Burger King (and Dr. Pepper bottles & Cans).

This is group #7

This is group #8

This is seriously fast becoming the very best fast food toy set of all times!

Bronx Hero Con 2011

OK, so this past weekend I went to the third annual Bronx Hero Con 2011 (although I do wish that it wasn’t on Free Comic Book Day, but that’s and entirely different post) . Needless to say, I had a great time, and well, not only did I get the opportunity to spend the day with some of my very good friends, I did also get to co-interview (along with Mark Mazz) Don McGregor, which was very cool.

I think that the best part of the day was when we took Don out to dinner, and we got to listen to many behind-the-scenes stories about what Marvel and comics were like back in the day. Very entertaining.

Also it was engaging to learn that there were so many fights over what kinds of stories Don was “allowed” to tell, because — from my own recollections — of those days and stories, that they seemed organic, and, well, natural. I honestly don't recall any controversies (at least in my — admittedly small — circles of comics) at that time.

Beyond that, just spending the day with Ray Felix, and all of the very talented Bronx comicbook creators, was well worth the time.

Oh yeah, in case I haven’t mentioned as of yet. Ray is publishing an anthology comic about Bronx Heroes, and well, he’s accepted a concept of mine as one of the on-going series within the comic. The original series was entitled Strēt Lēgəl (Street Legal). Well, I extracted the core essence of that series (the two central characters), and am using them to preview the concept (now called “Don’t Call Us Heroes”. Well, (and much to my surprise), Ray recruited the very talented Carl Kent who produced some very outstanding character designs of my characters, and, well completely blew me away with how totally cool they looked.

I’m very excited about (finally) getting this concept up off the ground, and I’m really hoping that I’ll be able to convince CK to hop on board and lend his incredible talents to this project of mine that is dear to my heart.

Anyways, I just wanted to tell you all about the Bronx Hero Con, (and Strēt Lēgəl / Don’t Call Us Heroes) and all of the fun that I had there, and all of the wicked-cool comics that I scored (which I’ll be reviewing and posting about in short order). So, stay tuned, and (as was I) be prepared to be amazed by the trully amazing talent that you’ll discover in the Bronx.

Here are some pics from the Con:

Ray Felix

Don McGregor & Mark Mazz

Don & Mark

Don & Mark (again)

Michele St. Martin

Jim Web (taken @ MoCCA Fest)