Azrael's Merryland Blog

Read or Die convention

the venue

I don't want to read that day, I went there to meet and have some chika with friends..
and later on... I died! ahhahhaha died of terrible hunger, that I almost tempted to eat Lace's jollibee pasalubong.

here's my Az gag video blog tour inside Read or Die convention

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lpU4u723AE

and all of the photo coverage here
in HI RES haahah

I went first to Comic Oddysey that day to return something and plan to meet my sister and Mark Cerbo the reigning Mr. Muscle man of Cybertron hahaha, I texted Carl and Meann to get my P100 discount ticket, a ticket discount for New Worlds Alliance members, at first I thought that the entrance fee is P500, coz I saw in the past in their website that they will charge P500 if you are a professional, but Im not sure about that and I just interested in getting one and coz Im a student I have no problems in the ticket fee coz I can get their student discount ticket.

Me and Mark (always late) went there and Its freaking cold inside the hotel, its nice to go back to Intercon, one of my favorite venues whenever I attend conference and seminar and I also loved the food. Hotel food are the best! (Im dreaming of going back to Shangri La hotel, over flowing with bacon and pasta)

I visited the booth of Gerry's Komikero Booth, the NWA, Randy's Cool Republic, Comic Quest, Mango and more.. I visit them all and see the latest stuff sold there.

Komikero booth

Im having a good chat with Gerry and he told me that theres a Frank Miller 300 comic sold in Booktopia, I think it was around of P1500, and it was a wow price, we were having coversation about the 300 movie that time. Lots of surprises came when I heard about his comic project THE HUNT which will be soon be seen in a local magazine, and Im shocked about the backside of that story. Im going to wait for that!

Its a long time in a galaxy far far away hahahahaha since a hang out again with fellow NWA people, Jedi Masters in their costume with lightsabers roaming around the venue and of course there are Trekkies in their Classic TOS costume, I forgot to tell Mark to wear his, while me Instead of going out as a Bounty Hunter or a Matrix dude, I just don my customized TransFormers Philippines Tshirt hahhahaa.

There are lot of bargained books inside, the event was like a small Philippine Book Fair, Im eyeing some Garfield books and Gary Larson paperbacks, but Im more interested to buy Don Martin or Matt Groening if ever I saw one, but Im glad that I didnt grab those Garfields, coz Lace told me when I got home that she have lots of Garfields here, hmmm I'll check their library for that.

D.A. people at Komikero booth

I forgot to browse Gerry's items for sale, I know he has some cool comics for sale that time, coz Im a comic maniac for this season and Im soooooooo interested to buy and read more of it, and I forgot to see some of his original art for sale, which Im planning to get one if ever I have the right mooolah.

Meann of Star Wars Phil. and Rain of HEROES Phil.

and ohhh thanks to Meann Ortiz of Star Wars Philippines and also to Mellow Touch for my freebie exclusive items of ERAGON, heheheh me and John Becaro got cool items with dragon pictures and Eragon.

thanks to Randy of Cool Republic for giving us those UPPER DECK Philippine Basketball Assoc. or PBA trading cards, its one of a cool freebie that I got and wow! theres Patrimonio and the others in a trading card, I told him it is a cool item coz im here in Manila if there are PBA celebs roaming around Im going to get their autograph with the card, Im not a basketball fan but having a cool collectible is a good keep.

more pics here!