ECCC: A Roundabout (P)Review

So here I am sitting in my humble abode wondering what I can bring with me across the country to this wonderful and beautiful comic con I have heard so much about in the past. I have comic after comic that I want to have signed and graded, but signed by who you ask. You can hurry now and visit their website to see all the illustrious creators they have. First and foremost for me is Gerry Conway to add his scrawl next to Stan Lee's and John Romita's on my Amazing Spider-Man #129.  And the likes of Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams will also be making their way there along with one half the creative team of the New Mutants, Chris Claremont. Should I mention the joy of an Epic Elfquest run reprinted by Marvel, maybe an issue #1 to be signed by Richard and Wendy Pini.

I was thinking of having my Marvels book signed, but then I wanted to have the only book of X-Infernus I don’t have in a 9.8 signed and graded, but for the life of me I can’t figure out where that book is. I will continue looking up to the day of my departure but what is this, these beautiful copies of the Spider Man and Black Cat story by Kevin Smith and Terry and Rachel Dodson, do I dare, can I dare? I printed out an invoice for those for CGC, the worst that could happen is my decision not to have them signed by the artists and graded by CGC.

But why, yes WHY am I going across country to a convention so far away from home when I can just wait until Wizard World arrives here in Philadelphia? Because it is the ECCC and as the time draws near I get more and more excited. This isn't just a comic-con, this is a chance to meet friends. A dinner is to be held for the “Boardies”, a bunch of us that love the idea of encapsulating a comic by CGC and placing them in a set on the registry of possibly the best comic book, recently I have fallen in love with the idea of getting the worst possible too.

I never thought in my wildest dreams I would be sitting at a dinner table with others just like me. Comic collectors, aficionados, geeks, nerds, dweebs, and any other assorted names that were given to what makes “The Big Bang Theory” such a big hit. I will be talking about the convention for weeks to come. I must imagine that if I am this excited before the event, by the time the event is done, I fear I will only be looking forward to go gain in 2014.

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Big Bang Theory

I finally finished Season Four of the Big Bang Theory. It took me a long time to finally get them on DVD and Blue Ray but once they were on sale I had to get them. Sure, they were comic book geeks but they were also super intelligent. I was watching them when Bagofleas posted about Sheldon and wanted to finish the seasons I owned before answering.

It's safe to say I am not like Howard at all, except maybe having a Jewish Mother. I don't live at home. I left that nest when I was eighteen, not realizing how many more comic books I could have bought if I just stayed home. I am not like Raj either, although I might be shy around woman (non work related) I don't shut my mouth as soon as they appear in the room, and my sister became a doctor not a lawyer. Then there was Leonard who got the impossible girl and then was dumped. Yea, I was a lot closer to Leonard.


But the question was about Sheldon. Was I neurotic as he? I don't handle my Comic Books with gloves, hell some days I eat pizza while I read them. I do have a certain way to do things and I stick with that as if it was gospel but that is because if I go outside my safety area, I start to mess up. Of course this is because I trained myself this way after the car accident gave me some minor brain damage. I can remember what my room looked like when I was a year and a half old but have no idea what happened last week, unless it was painful

At work I have started to emanate some of Sheldon's traits and fell almost right into his character. I might even re-watch the series again to get his character down to really freak people out. So I would have to say for my Sheldonisms I am about %30 like the character but I am still 100 percent like me.

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Tnerb