{"id":4575,"date":"2010-06-30T01:15:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T05:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4575"},"modified":"2021-03-15T19:33:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T23:33:06","slug":"4575","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4575","title":{"rendered":"Heroes Con 2010, Part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I can’t think of a better way to jump start Part 5 <\/strong>of my 2010 Heroes Con<\/strong> report than with a photo of Dave Wachter<\/strong><\/a> holding a commission of Sly<\/strong> from The Expendables<\/strong><\/em> that he did for me at the show.\u00a0 I first met Dave<\/strong> at Heroes Con 2009<\/strong> and got a head sketch from him.\u00a0 Since then I’ve been back for several other sketches<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 As you can imagine, I hope that the one pictured won’t be my last.\u00a0 You can bet I’ll post a scan of it soon so you can see it in all it’s glory.<\/p>\n

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Mick Foley<\/strong> was a guest at Heroes Con<\/strong> this year.\u00a0 I took along my copy Have a Good Day<\/strong><\/em><\/a> so that I could get Mick<\/strong> to autograph it.\u00a0 Mick <\/strong>was only going to be at the show on Saturday<\/strong>.\u00a0 Since he’d never been at any convention I’d ever attended, I wasn’t sure what kind of crowd he’d draw.<\/p>\n

Saturday<\/strong> rolled around and still no buzz about Mick<\/strong> being at the show.\u00a0 Perhaps getting his autograph would be a piece of cake.\u00a0 I went by the booth where Mick<\/strong> was going to sign and asked when he could be expected.\u00a0 They said he had just arrived in town, was getting lunch and should be at the booth around 1:30.\u00a0 They said if I showed up then, I’d be right on time.\u00a0 I checked my watch and saw that I had time to run across the street, grab a bite and still be back before 1:30.<\/p>\n

So that’s what I did.\u00a0 In fact I got back about 1:25.\u00a0 I headed over to get in line and was surprised to find Mick<\/strong> already signing.\u00a0 I started back tracking the line which wrapped around a corner and then down a long aisle and then out of sight.\u00a0 Before I had taken 3 steps I was stopped by a young lady working at the show.\u00a0 She said, “If you’re wanting to get in line for Mick Foley<\/strong>, you’re too late.\u00a0 The line has been capped.”<\/p>\n

I was stunned.\u00a0 She repeated herself.\u00a0 I explained that I had checked at the booth and was told if I returned by 1:30 I would be okay.\u00a0 She said the demand for Mick <\/strong>was more than anyone anticipated and the line was capped.\u00a0 I thought about arguing my case, but realized it would do no good and it wasn’t her fault.\u00a0 The line was huge, by far the biggest I’d seen at any show for any guest.<\/p>\n

I hought, “Good for Mick Foley<\/strong>.”\u00a0 I was happy that so many people wanted to meet him and get a photo or autograph.\u00a0 Perhaps I’d meet him at another show.\u00a0 How could I complain?\u00a0 The day before I had gotten the most amazing sketch from Brian Stelfreeze<\/strong> for my Stallone art collection<\/strong>.\u00a0 I’d also received a call from my boss saying that I was getting a promotion!\u00a0 Heck, maybe I really would get a chance for Mick Foley’s autograph<\/strong> at another show… little did I know that my good luck wasn’t over (and I’ll tell you about that in another post soon)!<\/p>\n

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I wish I knew more about this piece.\u00a0 It was donated to the HEROES CON<\/strong> art auction.\u00a0 I don’t know the artist or who won the art, but I did think it was a pretty cool piece.\u00a0 Hope you like it as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t think of a better way to jump start Part 5 of my 2010 Heroes Con report than with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[58,61,52,17,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-authors","category-books","category-celebs","category-comics","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575","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=4575"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26001,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions\/26001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}