If It’s Sunday, This Must Be Philadelphia
Posted By Ardellis on June 17, 2007
My mother is spoiling the cat rotten. My inlaws are doing the same for the dog. And here we are, my husband and I, in the City of Brotherly Love.
We came in late yesterday morning, and hung out at Wizard World for the day. Andy won some cool swag in Are You Smarter Than a Comic Book Expert, in which he needed absolutely no help from any of the experts (several Wizard staff members and Tom Brevoort from Marvel) up there until he got tossed a Moon Knight question that no one knew the answer to — including the expert he was currently teamed with, Ricky Purdis, Wizard’s price guide editor. For the record, I think Ricky had been cursed: he failed miserably to help anyone who relied on him throughout the entire contest.
I have acquired another Nightcrawler statue. The pirate one. It’s yummy.
And the highlight of the day was when Andy got to talk to Jim Steranko for a few minutes. The words that come to mind are “gracious, personable, and dapper.” I think he may be the first person I’ve met in real life whom that last one truly fits. He’s also amazingly modest. He was telling Andy about when he first started in comics, and how amazing it had felt to meet all the people whose work he’d grown up admiring, and he actually blinked in shock and was speechless for a couple of seconds when Andy said, “I know exactly how you feel.”
Definitely a good day.
Today, we play tourist. Tomorrow, it’s off to the Franklin Institute for the King Tut Exhibit. If we’re really lucky, we may hook up with friends for dinner in between.
That sounds amazing! I wish we could have met you at points between, but Richard’s sister got heat stroke at VARF and things went pear-shaped after that. (hot day + heavy costume = bad)
Still, I’m glad you guys are doing all sorts of wonderful things. Am V. jealous about the Kurt statue.
Shit! Is she OK?!?
She rallied quite admirably after several bottles of water and a wet bandana applied to pulse points, (plus some french fries for sodium replacement) but she had a pretty miserable time of it, I’m afraid.
VARF is a really nice little new Faire, and if it’s ever possible (next year?) you guys should come down for it one weekend.
I’m glad she’s OK. I always worry about people who overdress for faires in warm weather. Or underdress when it’s cold and/or wet, for that matter.
It does look like a good time. Hard to predict what our situation will be next spring, but we can certainly put it on the wish list.