Billy and I drove down to Long Beach the other day to catch the comic-convention. This was a double 'first-timer' for me; I had never been to a comic-convention or Long Beach before. Having been there, I really wish Long Beach wasn't so far south of us - I loved it, I know it has a bad-rap of being a dangerous town, and I'm sure if you turned down the wrong side-street, you could find yourself in trouble, but compared to Ypsi [the town I used to live in... where out the kitchen window you could see the toothless-40-year old cracked out hookers working main st], it's not so bad - hell Ypsi didn't have a Ferris wheel or a roller coaster that crossed above the street. Anyways, here's a bunch of random pictures from our day:


Here's the Ferris wheel I mentioned... and you can see a bit of the roller coaster behind it. This is all right behind the Long Beach Convention Center.




The guy on the far right, wearing the Incredibles shirt is Alex Ross, and the giant blow-up of all the super hero's is some of his work.


I almost crapped my pants when I found out Ryan Reynolds was at the convention - they were there to plug their remake of Amityville Horror, the girl is rumored to be playing the new supergirl... for those of you who might find that interesting.


Stan Lee. He's cool...


When Billy and I were in line to buy something to snack on - the girl in front of us was wearing this... and shouldn't have been. Billy made me take a picture - some of you are probably thinking, "yeah right, mike, you pervert". But I really didn't want to - I was afraid the flash would make her turn around and shoot me the evil-eye. So I put my fingers over the flash.




I was taking a picture of this guy to make fun of later... but he stopped and shot me this ultra-cool pose. So I have nothing to say...


Billy eating some 5-dollar French fries as he watched the storm-trooper guy walk away.


Kevin Smith signing stuff.




This is the Aquarium behind the convention center - I really wish we could have gone in, but I had to work at 6 - so we didn't have time.






Billy had the hots for the lady in the middle... she was very nice.


I'm not sure what that look on Billy's face is - and he's probably going to hurt me for posting an unflattering pic' of him - but all the same, here he is in the entrance of center.