SDCC 2010!

So SDCC 2010 has come and gone. Can You believe it? 5 nights of hard core nerding out, and Heather and I seem to have survived. As last year celebrated the 25th anniversary of the turtles, this year paled in comparison for those of you are simply Turtles fans. However, for comic and media fans at large, this year was just as big as any other.

But you’re hear to talk turtle right? Well lets do that then. I’ll go over some TMNT related stuff that we did! First stop, Heavy Metal.

In addition to promoting War of the Worlds: Goliath, and the new graphic novel by my long time personal friend MF Wilson: Flourecent Black, Kevin and crew was there in full force to greet turtle fans as well. As Kevin often has a TMNT related exclusive; this years was this nifty 70’s throw back poster of various TMNT covers by Kevin. And while these posters are a limited run of 1000, Kevin was kind enough to spare a few for GGM to give away at a later date 🙂

On a personal note, on night 1 I has brought Kevin a bunch of Pre-Mirage work that he had done (as the name implies, this is all stuff he drew before meeting Peter). That night I took the signed work and carefully placed it all in a museum quality album. The next day I brought the album back to Kevin and asked that he sketch the cover. He seemed more than happy to do so.

And the finished product:

Kevin and crew also held a War of the Worlds: Goliath panel, at which they spoke about the project. I actually took video of the panel for the audio turned out to be garbage so I am not going to bother to post it… Here is a picture of the gang sitting at the table though.

Afterwards, I asked Kevin if it would be creepy if I took his name plate. He chuckled and gave it to me. Hehe!

Other familiar faces we saw at the con included Michael Zulli (who actually hosted a panel that we sadly missed), Mike Dooney, Dave Garcia (of Panda Khan fame), Stan Sakai, and Jake Black (who, while not having table space, was running around the floor having the time of his life!)

I got the opportunity to pick up some great original work from Dave, Mike, and Stan! Mike was also kind enough to sign almost his entire body of work for me.

Last but not least, it would be silly not to mention the SideShow Exclusive Mouser. These were available to those of us to Pre-ordered through the website a month or so prior to the event.

They look and feel every bit as cool as they’ve been recently hyped to be. In addition to the Mouser, a prototype of Mike and Leo were also in attendance. I have to say…the Leo head is growing on me. Not perfect…but less gut wrenching now that I’ve seen it in person.

So that just about does it for our romp through SDCC 2010. Heather and I checked out a TON of stuff that isn’t Turtles related, and if you’d like to see our full photo album for the event, you can go here!