{"id":3734,"date":"2009-10-26T18:21:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T22:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2023-02-21T14:06:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T19:06:03","slug":"florida-supercon-helps-heroescon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3734","title":{"rendered":"Florida SuperCon Helps HeroesCon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2009\/z102609cons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"655\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?s=Heroes+Con\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>I&#8217;ve been going to <\/strong><strong>Heroes Cons<\/strong><strong> for years<\/strong><\/a>. <strong>Heroes<\/strong> is without a doubt one of the best run, most loved and finest conventions you could ever find. It&#8217;s put on by good people, always has great guests, and has something for everyone.\u00a0 <strong>Heroes Con 2010<\/strong> will be the <strong>28th year<\/strong> of the show and surprisingly, the event was in danger of not happening.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Shelton Drum<\/strong>, who runs the show, discovered that the only date\u00a0that he could book\u00a0the <strong>Charlotte Convention Center<\/strong> was the same weekend as<strong> Florida SuperCon<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Shelton <\/strong>didn&#8217;t want to infringe on\u00a0the<strong> SuperCon<\/strong> and so his options were to go to\u00a0a smaller venue\u00a0on a different date or cancel the show for <strong>2010<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0Neither was a good option.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So <strong>Shelton<\/strong> contacted\u00a0<strong>Mike Broder<\/strong> [who runs the <strong>Florida SuperCon<\/strong>] and\u00a0told him of the\u00a0conflict.\u00a0 Surprisingly,<strong> Mike<\/strong> said that he thought he would be able to change the date\u00a0of his show and\u00a0after a little research, did just that.\u00a0\u00a0How often do you hear of &#8220;competitors&#8221; helping each other out?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I guess I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised.\u00a0 <strong>Mike Broder<\/strong> also puts on a great show and has always come across as a straight shooter who truly loves <strong>comics, art<\/strong> and <strong>conventions<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?s=Florida+SuperCon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I was\u00a0able to attend his show last year and had a blast<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0I planned to attend again next year.\u00a0\u00a0 After reading about his willingness to help Heroes Con, not only do I plan to attend, but will encourage everyone to join me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been going to Heroes Cons for years. Heroes is without a doubt one of the best run, most loved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32032,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions\/32032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}