Baltimore Comic Con Report

Last weekend, Jermaine and I along with our buddies Frank and Adrian headed up to Charm City for Baltimore Comic Con. Our adventures started before we even got there. We stopped into Richmond Comix for a moment before making our way to Stories Comics on Forest Hill Ave. in Richmond.


This place was a gold mine and gets highest regards from all of us! They have a ton of out of print trades and hardcovers for cover price and their back issue pricing policy was that if it didn't't have a sticker it was cover price or if it was less than a dollar cover it was a buck. Even bette, they were have a 25% off EVERYTHING sale all weekend. I personally grabbed the Comicology Kingdom Come Companion, a first printing Wonder Woman Hiketeia hardcover, a first printing Selina's Big Score hardcover, the first three issues of the Titans/Legion of Super Heroes crossover and the last issue that I needed of Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E.

For dinner, Adrian and Frank found a stop from the Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, the Village Cafe on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. The calzones were awesome! We rolled into Baltimore around 9:00 and bummed around the Inner Harbor before grabbing a late bite at Pratt Street Ale House.


The show floor was too crazy to remember everything. We lunched across the street in the Gallery food court where I had my second Big Mac ever. Dinner was Phillip's Seafood buffet where I gorged on crab legs and Jermaine chugged down a massive margarita. Breakfast Sunday morning was crappy Subway and lunch on our way out of town was Red Hot and Blue, a barbecue joint in Laurel, MD that we had hit up 2 years earlier.

I did pick some stuff up at the show as well. Frank and I were trying to get as many signatures as possible on our Wednesday Comics hardcovers. Even though I'd already gotten Brian Stelfreeze's scratch at HeroesCon, I asked him to do a quick Catwoman retouch and this is what I got:


Late Saturday afternoon I was talking to my old friend Mark Morales and in between defending the Yankees, I picked up this incredible Secret Invasion splash page for an amazing deal:


I asked Mark if he could get Leinil Yu to add Derek Jeter to the whole piece, but it was a no go.

Frank and I waited for about an hour for Paul Pope and he did not disappoint. He found something to talk about with everyone that stepped in front of him and he did this great Adam Strange sketch:


After a brief visit with our pal Smitty (Brian Smith) and the rest of the Stuff of Legend crew, it was time to head home. Now I'm just counting the days till NYCC in October!