Just back in from New York Comicon, and all I can say is — well, exactly nothing, because I lost my voice on the first day of the show and it never realy came back. I went from a sort of Sally Kellerman rasp to a Lionel Stander croak (Max from Hart to Hart) to nothing at all.
Not the sort of thing that makes it particularly easy to call a taxi, although I did meet one of the more interesting taxi drivers while heading to Times Square. Instead of simply swearing at the workmen in the road, he'd give them a personality review worthy of Babu from Seinfeld. "You are a very bad flag man! A bad flag man and a very bad human being!" I also got out to he touristy ESPN Zone, where I couldn't have heard myself speak anyway during the hockey game. Something about that experience suggested that New Yorkers may not exactly like Bostonians much, sportswise...
And film ads for Indiana Jones and Iron Man were everywhere. A big Indy ad is the first thing I saw on the island, and there were gigantic ads on buildings for Iron Man. Speaking of which, Andy Mangels' new book, Iron Man Beneath the Armor
, was out — including a nice section on my time on the series. It's a book worth checking out — follow the link to more info.
I did a signing at the Dark Horse booth with Rob Williams, the writer of Star Wars: Rebellion and the upcoming Indiana Jones mini-series, Tomb of the Gods; that's him on the left and me on the right, below, flanking an Indy fan. (That's Dark Horse publisher Mike Richardson in the background left.)
One of the interesting things was the Firaxis booth, where they were showing the new Civilization version for consoles, Revolution. This mural artist worked throughout the show...
Thanks to everyone there, especially Marc Patten, Chris Revekant and the Heroes in Action crew!