long beach comic con

i wasn't planning to go to lbcc, but i came across a 10 dollar discount from livingsocial for sunday and decided to get a ticket...it was smaller than comikaze and less crowded, but the comic selection was better...i picked up the color edition of bone...it was an impulse buy that i shouldn't have made...the deal was better than what i could get on amazon but still way more expensive than the black and white version...it's a good print though, and the pictures do look a lot better in color...

http://www.boneville.com/

i was very tempted to get the absolute sandman volumes, but they are super expensive (5 volumes at about 80 bucks each)...a new slipcover set is coming out this weekend, so i'll wait for that instead...the absolute volumes have more content, but this slipcase set is a lot cheaper (still expensive though)...

http://www.amazon.com/Sandman-Slipcase-Set-Neil-Gaiman/dp/1401238637

another book i was thinking of getting was the invisibles...

http://www.vertigocomics.com/graphic-novels/the-invisibles-omnibus

pulp fiction is going to have a black friday sale, so i'll check them out...they had a large booth at the convention, and the employees knew their comics...their prices were also similar to amazon, which is rare for a brick and mortar store...even with a discount, the sandman and invisibles books would probably cost about $200 together...not cheap

http://www.pulpfictiononline.com/

couple of new comics that looked interesting were saga and the manhattan projects...might pick up these too...

http://www.imagecomics.com/comics/4620/Saga-1

http://www.imagecomics.com/comics/4621/The-Manhattan-Projects-1

they had the walking dead compendium 1 and 2 for a good price, but i think i'll wait until the series is completely over before deciding to get them...

http://www.imagecomics.com/series/349/The-Walking-Dead

 i hope this isn't the start of a comic book collection...

there was a new vendor that sold metal "posters" of firefly that was really cool...the california browncoats had a raffle for a similar metal poster with jayne instead of mal, but i didn't win...he also had ones for buffy, star trek, and star wars...the walking dead one is cool too with live action and comic counterparts (my camera stinks)...

http://www.geekograph.com/

he also had metal bookmarks, but only had them for lotr and harry potter...i asked why he didn't have firefly, and he said the original thinking was to have bookmarks for stuff that were books...made sense to me, but if he had firefly bookmarks, i would have bought them...i was close to getting the mal poster, but i really wanted one of the whole cast and the ship and without the writing on the side...maybe he'll make some new ones...

here is an article of some of the cosplay...pictures are better than anything i could have taken with my camera...

http://io9.com/5957891/the-most-amazing-and-inspirational-cosplay-from-long-beach-comic-con-2012

decent show to go to for 10 bucks...