Well, I guess there really isn’t anything else to do other then just come out and say it: the Buckeye Comic Con really sucked today. The summer show usually is their smallest, so it wasn’t really too much of a surprise, but it was still disappointing. And this one just seemed extra small.
It sounds like a stupid complaint, but it was nothing but comics. Yeah, only comics and a comic book convention? You can see how, as a comic book fan, I would be upset. Okay, let me explain: I have a pull sheet at Comic Town, so I already get most of the comics I want. I go to the cons for the extra stuff. But it just wasn’t there this time. There were no trade paperbacks (Collections of whole story arcs.), no statues or bust, no posters, no movies. And, on a more understandable complaint, the comics that they did have weren’t really all that great. Lots of old stuff. I know I run the risk of having my geek license revoked by saying this, but I actually like modern comics more then Golden or Silver Age stuff. You’ll hear most hard-core comic fans argue that those were the days “back when comics were still good”, but I just like modern comics more. Don’t get me wrong, I completely understand and appreciate the influences of those periods. There are even a few exceptions that I really love. But, for the most part, I just don’t like reading them. In my opinion, today’s comics have stronger and more developed characters as well as stories. For instance, one complaint I’ve heard a few people say about both DC’s “Infinite Crisis” and Marvel’s “House of M” is that when they were told in 6-7 issues, back in the day, they would have been told in, like, two. But I personally think that shows why comics are better currently. “Back in the day” the comic usually went a) Oh, no, there is a problem, b) Superman punches some guy, c) Happy ending. Now we go so much more in depth.
Eh, I could go on but I’ll spare you.. Like I said, there just wasn’t a whole lot I was interested in. In the end, I only bought 5 comics. I finished off my collection of “Teen Titans” and I picked up one issue of Green Arrow that I was still missing. (Three more to go until I have the complete set.) I couldn’t even find the books that friends had me looking for. (Jon had me going for Tag and Bink –though, dude, I think I still have that one issue you left at my house-, and James at work had me looking for the issue of Amazing Spider-man that introduced the new costume.)
Of course, it could have just been me. Disappointed in the con, I went to Comic Town afterward and I still couldn’t find anything I wanted. I was just really unlucky today, I think.
Oh, well. This show may not have been so good, but the Fall one is in October and that one is usually their best. Heck, even Mid-Ohio Con isn’t that far away. (Last weekend of November.) I can’t wait.





