Coast City Comic Con; I Love It When A Comic Con Comes Together

We geeks certainly love a good comic con. The vendors, the guests, the artists, the events, and of course being able to congregate with fellow comic enthusiasts. Have you ever wondered what goes into putting on a comic show? Well we here at Comic Addicts had a chat with Tristan Gallagher and Ross Kearney at Coast City Comics (CCC) in Portland, Maine about what went into their comic con happening next week starting November 11.

A little background on CCC: Coast City Comics is located on Congress Street right in the business district of Portland. They are actually two shops in one. They also have Monster Fun Box Emporium which sells unique t-shirts that they make themselves, retro video games, and most importantly, toys that will bring you back to your childhood. Of course also being a comic shop the have the latest figures, hero clix, and other comic merchandise as well as the latest issues of the weekly comics.

(Ross Kearney [left] & Tristan Gallagher [right])

A Big Halloween Treat: An Interview with How It Should Have Ended

Since most everyone who reads Comic Addicts is too old to go trick or treating we decided to give a big ol' treat anyway. We were able to have a chat with the folks at How It Should Have Ended (HISHE). They were really cool folks who were happy to chat with us.

For those unfamiliar with HISHE it's a couple of guys, and a gal, who decided that movies didn't always end the way they felt they should have. So they started doing their own parody endings much to the amusement of many people. We here at Comic Addicts were curious about some of the things over at HISHE and here is what they had to say:

Give heed to The Marvel Cosmic! (Part 2)

Welcome back folks to our final round-up of all things Marvel Cosmic! It's been great fun for me to dig back into my archives and my brain and reminisce about all the fun I had the first time around reading these comics.
So without any further rambling, lets get down to business and pick up where we left off, for anyone that missed the last one click HERE and check it out - the rest of you follow me:

(and as always the images I've used are as high-res as I could find so click to enjoy or download!)

6) GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (ongoing 2008-2010)

Guardian Time b****es!!

With Nova over not too long after A:C and the events over and all, there was a void within with the lack of beautiful story-telling and artwork... but then DnA came to the rescue again! Picking up after the end of Conquest, Peter Quill - the man known as Star-Lord - brought together a most unlikely team: Rocket Raccoon, Mantis, Groot, Drax the Destroyer, Phyla-Vell (the new Quasar) and Gamora.
Together this rag-tag bunch were what he called The Guardians of the Galaxy and Star-Lords intention was to have a team that would be proactive in helping people and saving the galaxy instead of waiting for something like the Annihilation Wars to happen and simply reacting defensively. Its like they say: a good offense is the best defense!
They take up residence in a place called Knowhere which is (and I quote): "Located within what appears to be a severed head of a Celestial floating along The Rip (the extreme outer edge of all Spacetime with no specific physical location), Knowhere acts as a make-shift port of call and observatory of the End of the Universe for intergalactic travelers of all species and from all times." And the stations head of security is another new addition to the character list who has become a fast-favourite not just for me but for fans around the globe - Cosmo the Russian space-dog. Don't ask his back-story, he's a dog in a space suit but has power that I would say is approaching Jean-Grey and Cable's in some regards - he's a powerful telepath and and even more powerful telekinetic capable of knocking out two, count em TWO superteams with a single TK blast. Plus a whole load of other stuff, trust me - not a canine to mess with.

You go Cosmo!

Give heed to The Marvel Cosmic! (Part 1)

Welcome back one and all to another edition of the Wayfarer - and this week Im going to have to get right to it as we're going to be covering some titles and events that have been requested by many readers and comic-fans out there looking for guidance. And we are ready to provide it!

CLICK TO ENLARGE!!

Today's extra-special post covers the amazing and highly successful (unexpected for Marvel in fact at the time) world(s) of cosmic adventure and intergalactic action that exploded onto the comic world with the Annihilation event and began a true renaissance of space-based science fiction in comics.
For a science fiction fan such as myself it was an absolute blessing because (and I say this to in the spirit of honesty) while DC's work on the space books with the GL titles has been great, its basically Lantern-centric space opera - more Star Wars then Star Trek if you will. And maybe its just me but as much as a good dramatic space opera can be fun, there's nothing quite like the mind-bending awesomeness, the creativity, the blurring of lines and unavoidable tight-rope walk of disbelief and clear understanding and the familiar.

In this Marvel in my opinion has actually crafted a far superior mythos through the able and masterful craftsmanship of the legendary team of Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning - lovingly known to fans as DnA because of their long history of excellent work together in comics across the industry.

Building on a base set up over the years by Jim Starlin, Keith Giffen and other legendary story-tellers this new set of Cosmic tales are a pleasure for readers both old and new - if you like me have read all the old books like The Infinity Gauntlet then its brilliant, but in a twist on tradition, if you've never read anything of them before you can still jump right back into the middle of things here with no trouble!

What Im going to try and do is break it down for you into the basic bits and order so that you can be caught up in no time and today like me be hankering and waiting Gollum-like for more tales of space adventure and entertainment with some of the more compelling and well crafted characters and stories from The Big Two comic publishers in quite a while.
So come, sit back and let your eyes wander over this quick little burst of the Power Cosmic (as the Silver Surfer puts it) and maybe if I can do this just right you might find yourself compelled to get past that little hesitation that always comes when trying a new book.