From the first line of the Genesis 1:3 to the radioactive arachnid bite that turned scrawny Peter Parker into a spider-man to the titular face-hugging creature in Alien, the greatest stories ever told all owe their beginnings to a single metaphorical light-bulb going off in someone’s head. (more…)
I’ve been attending New York comic book conventions since I was a kid. I vaguely remember going to one at the Jacob Javits Convention Center and going to quite a few of the Big Apple Comic Conventions held in the Church of St. Paul the Apostle’s basement. I’m a lifer, what can I say. When Reed Exhibitions started holding the New York Comic Con seven years ago, the New York City comic book convention scene changed drastically.
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