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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, I am getting back into my (bad) old habits of
multiple posts in one day. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But I just had to say to No Way, Thanks for the Con
Report! And you do have a way cool fiance, even if she doesn't know how to
operate your camera. (Believe me, I can relate!! I'll bet she could
operate my scanner. I'd call her to find out, but i don't know how to
operate my daughter;'s cell phone.) </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>OK Connor! We know you were there and we
expect a Con report. Or next time We WILL show up and eat all of your
food!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And in the interests of not making you all hate me
even more by posting another message tonight, here are the results of the 9 IG
card and Sketch card sale today on ebay: The sketch card went for
$625. Pretty much within the typical price range. (It also means the
guy selling it took a $260 loss!) The IG cards went for anywhere from
about $22 to $39, avergaing $28. That's also about the norm. As yiou
might expect, Jim Lee's ($33), Dave Sims ($34), and Jeff Smith's ($39) went for
the most. So now those of you wondering about the price of IG cards have
some idea what market price is. At least for today. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>OK, I'm going to bed.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gary G. </FONT></DIV>
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<A title=no_way8888@yahoo.com href="mailto:no_way8888@yahoo.com">No Way</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=groop@groo.com
href="mailto:groop@groo.com">groop@groo.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:52
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Groop] Calgary Con
Report-</DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top>Greetings, Groop-<BR><BR>Unfortunately, I don't have a
lot to tell; I was only able to attend for a portion of Sunday.<BR><BR>I
did, however, manage to catch Sergio at his table. As always, he
was a consummate gentleman- I wore my 25th anniversary hat (thanks
again, Gary!), and his first words upon seeing me were "Hey, nice
hat!".<BR><BR>Unfortunately, also as always, he was very busy, so there
simply wasn't a lot of time to chat.<BR><BR>A quick photo of Sergio in a
position that I'm sure most of you will have seen him in before-
<BR>http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/6647/0904261431000.jpg- hunched
over a sketch, heh.<BR><BR>For those that are curious, in the photo he's
doing me a sketch of a character from the Naruto anime ("Sasuke
Uchiha")- it's the favourite character of one of the boys I sponsor
through Compassion Canada, and given that said character's (English)
Voice Actor was present at the con, I thought it would be a very cool
gift to have his favourite character (signed by the VA), done by one of
MY favourite artists.<BR><BR>And the other photo that I THOUGHT I had
gotten, I apparently didn't, somewhat to my disappointment- it wouldn't
mean a lot to most of you, but it was a shot of him and me
together. Apparently my fiancee hit the wrong button
*sigh*<BR><BR>Mark, unfortunately, had had to leave before I got there,
and wasn't slated to return before the end of the con, so I missed
him.<BR><BR>Other than the Mark and Sergio show, there was the usual
parade of costumes- the 501st Stormtrooper's Calgary branch was out, so
there were some very impressive Star Wars costumes wandering about (I
spotted a Clone Trooper, a Storm Trooper or two, both Boba and Jango
Fett, that purple-outfitted female bounty hunter whose name I have no
idea of from Episode II, two Darth Vaders (one rather more impressive
than the other), and a Rebel X-Wing pilot), along with the usual
assortment of anime and superhero characters (it was with a weird
mixture of shame and pride that I realized I recognized almost every
single one that I saw, heh...)<BR><BR>I also stumbled upon a rather good
dealer out of Victoria who had a lot of classic... stuff, including
original Pogo collections (I didn't look too closely, being on a limited
budget and the books costing $35 apiece, but at a guess I would have
been surprised if they were any newer than 1950-something), DVDs of the
complete works of Tex Avery (which I snapped up immediately- I'm very
nearly as much a fan of Tex' work as I am of Sergio's), and a few other
odds and ends, including a couple of comic collections that I had been
wanting to find for some time (Don Rosa's "The Life and Times of Scrooge
McDuck" series).<BR><BR>I also picked up a couple of pieces of entirely
superfluous, but impressively large, bits of cutlery- a replica katana
and some sort of long blade that can become a two-ended short-bladed...
thing, or else have the blade come out of the opposite end of the hilt
entirely. Mostly useless unless I'm planning to do what Groo does
best, but entertaining.<BR><BR>Brief glimpses were also caught of Ray
Park (aka Darth Maul, Toad from the X-Men films, and Snake Eyes from the
upcoming GI Joe film- he seems to like the Calgary Con, he was there
last year, too), Bruce Timm (executive producer of the DC Animated
Universe... I actually wanted to talk to him, and maybe snag a sketch,
but he was busy (borderline swamped), so we wandered off... and he was
gone ten minutes later. Bah), Margot Kidder, and a bunch of other
people who I theoretically should have recognized but didn't
=P<BR><BR>Oh- I also got to exchange pleasantries with Gavin Blair,
co-creator of the seminal CG Animated series, "ReBoot", although it was
mostly a "Hey, I love your work, hurry up and release it on DVD" sort of
situation. Apparently it's horribly tied up in some kind of rights
dispute, though. Feh.<BR><BR>Not much else to tell- the con was
winding down somewhat, and my fiancee wanted to catch the reptile show
that same day (what can I say? I have a very cool fiancee), so we
moved on.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>David<BR></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR>
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