We got there while they were setting up…

February 6, 2009 on 1:24 pm | In Comic Cons, Comics, video games | No Comments

I’m here! At the New York Comic Con! My second consecutive year of liveblogging this illustrious convention full of Stormtroopers and greasy, greasy-haired men! It’s full of awesome so far, even though the doors of the con officially opened only 26 minutes ago.

With the press pass I was able to get in at 10 this morning, so I’ve done a good job of tramping up and down the floors of the Javitts Center for a good three and a half hours now. Without the crush of fans, I was able to secure a few sketches and get a TON of great pictures, including some real celebrities! Sorry Toxic Avenger, you don’t count.

The big thing this year is GAMES. Video games, card games, toy games, everything. No longer are the bargain bins of yo-yos for sale, this place has been taken over by the big games. Every new video game release has its own booth, which counts for a good 1/4th of the entire con floor this year. That means dealers tables, selling boxes of books, are few and far between. Alas, I will not spend oodles of money on Detective Comics this year.

The Wizards of the Coast booth was full of gamers right at 10 AM.

Gamers who normally would play Magic: The Gathering at home, rushed in as press and professionals to sit down at these big tables and…play the same game they would have at home. This place was like ants on a popsicle and it wasn’t even 11 AM. These are professionals, spending their press credentials on doing exactly what they would have been doing on a Saturday anyway.

Godfather II is on display if you come by the con.

It may be an exciting game, but since no one was playing it, it looked mostly like your character corners a guy in bad pants and then just kind of sways with him for a while. There is the option to “pummel”, but it’s way more fun just to keep him trapped there, swaying in that way that Non-player Characters do when they’re not being hit.

Fishing Masters: World Tour wasn’t getting much love. Then again, it was still early, maybe everyone who was eagerly awaiting Fishing Masters: World Tour was still in line. At last I saw, Fishing Masters: World Tour was still not getting much love. Might be the venue.

Here’s a random booth selling fantasy novels (I think), with a Wii. They were not selling the Wii. I’m not even 100% sure that they were selling fantasy books. But they did have a Wii.