I will admit it — I am not a comic book reader. The occa­sional ‘Archie” back in the 90’s, maybe. But ask me the ori­gin of any ran­dom char­ac­ter and I will have to use my “phone-a-friend” option. With that in mind, Rich and I try to attend the big comic con­ven­tions that hit New York each year, as he is a comic reader. This past...

As a life­long comic book reader, I have always enjoyed attend­ing comic con­ven­tions and see­ing so many great cos­tumes and throw­backs to my child­hood. Since I have been doing MTR, we have now cov­ered two very dif­fer­ent Comic-Cons. The one we cov­ered last year was geared more towards the main­stream audi­ence and in addi­tion had a...

5. Pan­das are not as love­able and hug­gable as you might think.   4. Like most fam­i­lies, My Lit­tle Pony has some black sheep. Cour­tesy of Heather V. Kre­iter — Shaman Soul Studios 3. James Marsters is awe­some. He under­stands that he got where he is thanks to peo­ple like us and he returns the love.   2. Morena Bac­carin was...

A Note From Rich-My other half decided to share her thoughts on comic con. Enjoy her take 10. The kiosk hot dogs smell like stinky feet cheese.…please don’t eat them for fear of the H1N1 Virus… 9. We arrived late and missed Ric Flair.…for that we got The Bushwack­ers instead…BOO! Les­son learned: Go early next time. 8. Candice Michelle from...

I should have made this post at the same time Slick made his but I didn’t get a chance to. I now present you with the 10 things I learned at the Big Apple Con. 10.Bathrooms at comic con­ven­tions are the worst known to man.I’d com­pare them to a bath­room at Penn Stattion 9.Dear fat kids please wear cos­tumes fit­ting your body type. Last time I...