KAPOW Day 1 (Part 2).

Some other great guests at the show today.

Scott Snyder.

Mr Scott Snyder was a very gracious (and well deserved) winner of the Stan Lee Award for Best Writer and Man of the Year.  (This is a shot of him at his signing table).

Dave Gibbons (always the best ambassador for UK comics - a real gent).

Barry Kitson (who to seemed to spend the whole day mobbed).

Mark Millar (of course).  Think he was glued to his signing table.

NIA.

KAPOW Day 1 (part 1).

Great Day at KAPOW today.  Thought we would share a few of the memories.  Enjoy.

Got in the hall in time for the Joe Quesada 10am chat on the SFX stage. As usual he was great to listen to.  He spoke about how he tries to get the art on at least one Marvel cover done every month to keep his eye in, but literally has no time for anything else (busy man that he is at Marvel).

When asked about his ideal Marvel movie he told the audience that he would love to see a Killraven movie get made and that it had all the right ingredients to be a great film.  I have to say that I agree with him.

I didn't get to any other panels but did notice Mr Q throughout the day walking about and giving his time to the fans.

NIA (more to come).

Through the post!

Just got home from Kapow to find these beauties waiting for me!

100 Bullets, gin and cinnamon!

Warning - May contain nuts (kind of).

I have of late been re reading the great 100 Bullets from Vertigo Comic by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso.  A superb book that is always taking you by surprise.  I am up to volume number 4 : A Forgone Tomorrow and it's as excellently twisted as I remember.

Comics are to me the sort of medium that is improved by the circumstances that you read each book.  We all as comics fans choose carefully what we are going to read on holiday, or on the train to work, etc etc.

I have made the decision to only read 100 Bullets when I have been drinking.

Does that surprise you?  It shouldn't. Some of my favourite art has been created whilst under the influence of something or other.  So why shouldn't they be consumed in a similar fashion.  My twisted mental faculties seem in this particular case to gell well with the extreme situations detailed in the pages of this trade paperback.  A train journey through urban central London whilst reading about drug dealers in central park and bandaged murderers fits like a jigsaw piece once combined with extreme alcohol consumption.

I don't recommend it to everyone.  Just kind of flows well for me.

What I one hundred percent would not recommend is the Cinnamon Challenge.  Please watch the below link before reading on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyk7utV_D2I

Now I only did a tea spoon full.  And I am not quite as animated as the lady in the video.  But yes it did come out of my nose.  In fact it still feels like it is coming out of my nose this morning.

But hey it gave everyone a bit of a laugh.

The combination of however of 100 Bullets, cinnamon and gin seems to have made me think I am hilarious (I am).  And I decided to send a flurry of texts.  Some of them are below.

The challenge will continue!  Although I may not try the dare part again anytime soon.

NIA.

Just loving these books.

How good are these covers.

Crime Noir - exactly how it should be.

NIA.

Instagram.

Hi all. I am now on instagram as Ezohyez.

Come follow.

NIA.

Phew - Crime Noir.

Phew. Thought I had run out of Hard Case Crime, then these arrived.

NIA.