DAY TWO-
I woke up early, maybe 7:30. Not something I like to do on a Saturday, but… Marvel needed me. As I descended into the subway in Queens to head to the con, the train was already waiting in the station. I ran for it, and was lucky enough to make it! Except that as the doors closed behind me, the nice ladies on the train informed me that my digital camera had fallen out of my pocket and down onto the tracks between the train and the platform. So, that was fun.
Thankfully, I called my wife when I got into Manhattan, and she went down and retrieved the camera. She told the station agent that it had fallen on the tracks, and he had a scoopy-thing which he used to get it back. The camera was fine. If you’re like me, you’ve probably imagined losing something on the subway tracks before. Well, now you know, it can be retrieved. Public service announcement for the day. But, that means no pictures on Day Two*.
As I mentioned yesterday, I worked the first shift at the Marvel Booth on Day Two. The first thing we did was set up the booth, getting the ropes positioned and such. Then we sorted through the portfolio submissions that had been left at the booth the day before. Myself, CB Cebulski and a couple other assistants combed through the copious submissions, whittling it down to the 12 or so that would get portfolio reviews. After a bit of time wrangling the Bendis autograph line, I took a shift of portfolio reviewing, myself. All the artists I met with were very talented…I would not be surprised to find a few of them working on a Marvel comic sometime in the future.
After that, I was free of my booth-working obligations. I walked the floor with a couple of my fellow Marvelites (Sebastian Girner and Tom Van Cise, mostly) and did a bit of shopping. I bought a few comics, a few DVDs. I got to meet the sixth Doctor**, which was very exciting. I met up with Ryan Stegman, a really “incredible” artist about to do a run on a book I assist on. He told me about a scandalous commission he accepted, of which I can say nothing more here.
I spent another good chunk of time cruising Artist’s Alley, but at approximately 5:37 PM, rounding the corner of the last aisle, all energy was drained from my body as though I had been touched by Morbius’s vampire-sucker-fingers from the Spider-Man cartoon. I spent the rest of the day’s con relaxing at the Marvel booth, but even so, after dinner with CBC guys***, I only stayed at CB Cebulski’s party that night until about 10:45 or so. This makes me an impressive lightweight, as I spoke with many the following day who were out until 3 AM or later. That being said, I actually slept. So there.
Be seeing you,
Jordan D. White
* I hadn’t even tried to bring it on Day One.
** Colin Baker, for those of you who do not know Doctor Who.
*** We discussed Nightwing’s value as a character.
until now , I used to respect you.
Knowing you're the kind of man that let his wife rescuing a falling camera instead of taking care of it...
I don't know what kind of value I 've to accord to your writing now.
friendly yours,
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About this blog: Jordan loves reading comics, and he loves thinking about them way too much. Super Hero morality, quirks of continuity, and the daily grind of putting out funnybooks… it’s all fair game.
About the author: Jordan D. White is an assistant editor at Marvel. In his free time, he reads way too many comics. Seriously.
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