{"id":14449,"date":"2018-06-18T23:51:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T03:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=14449"},"modified":"2018-06-18T23:51:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T03:51:51","slug":"heroes-convention-2018-charlotte-convention-center-17-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=14449","title":{"rendered":"Heroes Convention 2018, Charlotte Convention Center: 17 June 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I made my annual trek to the Charlotte Heroes Convention last Saturday, and spent the whole four hours I was there on the convention floor, trying to see every booth. Certainly a far cry from a couple of rooms in the Woodlawn Holiday Inn as it was in the beginning!<\/p>\n

Of course, Charlotte being Charlotte, I found that the parking lot I had used for the last 10+ years was just a (deep) hole in the ground now, so I had to find another, which was luckily close enough to not risk getting lost.<\/p>\n

I know Chris Claremont was there, but I did not make it to his (or any) presentations though I did see SC's Roy Thomas at a booth on the floor. Stan Lee was not there this year, and news stories suggest he's not doing very well unfortunately.<\/p>\n

I think Harley Quinn continues to be the most popular costume, and of course where there's Harley, there will be Ivy as well. I saw one Mera whom I don't recall seing before (and with a fork for a trident). I didn't see any Groots or Gamoras this year...<\/p>\n

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Swag:<\/p>\n

For the first time this year, I didn't see any booth with old pulp magazines (though I could have missed some), and very few with old paperbacks.<\/p>\n

Anway..<\/p>\n

Hartness was at a Columbia con a few years ago pushing his Black Knight Chronicles<\/a> books, vampire action tales set in Charlotte. I found them entertaining, so I bit when he was there at Heroes Con with a new series about Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter<\/a>, which is apparently also set in Charlotte and ties back into the original Dracula<\/i>. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but it's on the list.<\/p>\n

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Crockett Johnson is remembered mostly today (if at all) for his series of children's books about Harold<\/i> and his magical purple crayon. But before that, he wrote this WWII era comic strip about the put-upon young boy Barnaby<\/i> who is dragged into all types of unlikely situations by his well meaning but incompent fairy godfather Mr. O'Malley<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\"Cushlamocree!\"<\/p>\n

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Don't know anything about these two, but one was pitched to me as Star Trek<\/i> with funny animals, and the other was free.<\/p>\n

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This was pitched by the author who was quite enthusiastic and loquacious. I came away a little unsure if it was a fantasy of some sort or a period murder mystery. I'll find out eventually.<\/p>\n

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The pitch here was for \"70s late nite drive-in vampire feature..\".<\/p>\n

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I'm a sucker for anything with \"Doc\" in the title.<\/p>\n

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You will believe water can flow uphill..<\/p>\n

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Pirate booty! (Yeah, I think I used that joke last year..)<\/p>\n

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I'm a sucker for surrealism too, though the contents seem to be not quite what I expected.<\/p>\n

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