A couple of weeks ago, my friend Lora Innes was attending the Baltimore Con in um, Baltimore and she was taking commissions.  Naturally, I jumped on board and had her do a picture of a character from The Dreamer (Liz) and a Rival Angels character (Sun).  I didn’t ask for anything specific and what was created was the awesome.  Seriously, Lora’s a tremendous artist, check out her site to see what I mean, so I’m always happy to get some commission work with her. Hilariously accurate, Lora mentioned that it made her laugh because "Sun is SO the type of athlete to NOT smile in a fan photo." Vote to see what she means!

Due to popular demand, I present to you the Rival Angels Forum!

Please bang away at it and let me know what you think here or in an email, and that goes for problems, comments or suggestions. Just be sure you look it all over, it’s fairly intuitive especially if you’ve been to boards before and there is a link to get back to the Rival Angels website so you won’t be stuck.

The last comic convention of the year for me is in the bag and I have to say it outproduced every and all expectations that I had!  First of all, it was great meeting everyone!  My throat was actually sore after the con and all of the next day.  I sold as many Rival Angels books in one day at FallCon as I did at one day at Wizard World.  The difference is that WW had at least two to three times the attendence, so very cool.  Its important to note, that I improved my selling pitch quite a bit.  In Wizard World, the pitch was this long, awkward thing.  Now, its pretty straight and to the point and I wish I would’ve thought of it sooner. XD  The Brooke print, once again, was the favorite of the day.  Not really sure why.

Because of the 5 1/2 hour drive, we ended up getting to the con right as it opened so after registration, we were a few minutes late, but it turns out that people were already at our table looking for Rival Angels!  After a quick setup and introduction to our neighbors, things started cooking.  More after the jump….

This was the first convention sketch of the day for Patrick (primus21).  Patrick was at the con from bell to bell and visited a few times showing us all of the cool loot he got at the con as well as discussing Rival Angels.  It’s always great to listen to comments and suggestions about the con.

Sam was another fan of the comic and the second sketch here came within minutes of the opening of FallCon.  Again it was great to talk with another reader of the  comic and get his thoughts.

The Ghostbusters in the house!

Captain Hammer will save us.

The Imperials here, checking out some rebel propaganda.

Can’t have the Empire without the Jedi!  They were looking for some Imperials to slice and dice.

Always good to know you can count on Spidey…

This Thor costume is way cool, look at the freakin’ hammer!

Now here’s a fun story… turns out Mistress Jean here came by looking for the comic(!) but understandably, didn’t really have any dough on her. After talking with her for a bit, she went looking for a cash machine to come buy the book! That alone, I thought was cool. Well, a few minutes later, a gentleman came over and asked what Mistress Jean was checking out. I told her the comic and he told me that when Mistress Jean was looking for my table earlier and then bought a book for himself and the lovely mistress, saying that he hadn’t visited her at her work in a while and would drop it off. So, way cool.
All in all, a great time, and in hindsight was a better time than Wizard World save the extra 4 hour drive. FallCon knows how to treat its creators and a huge thanks goes out to them for a great time.

Oh yeah, one last thing, remember when I was at the Smackdown tapings a while back…well here I am at the show

Thanks everyone for a great time, it was a lot of fun.

I thought it might be fun to have everyone list some of their favorite wrestlers.  Just copy and paste the list below.  I put my list up too, but looking at it again, I could easily change it around. I also didn’t put mine in any particular order either, but feel free to rank them if you like.

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Singles:
1-Sting
2-Bret Hart
3-Davey Boy Smith
4-Jeff Hardy
5-RVD
Ladies:
1-Lita
2-Sarah Stock
3-Medusa
4-Maryse
5-Cheerleader Melissa
Tag:
1-British Bulldogs
2-Road Warriors
3-Tully and Arn
4-Arn and Ole
5-Hardy Boyz
Light Heavyweight/Cruiserweights:
1- Rey Rey
2-AJ Styles
3-Kaz
4-Jay Lethal
5-Kid Kash
Managers:
1- Jim Cornette
2-James Dillion
3-Bobby Heenan
4-The Genius
5- Paul Heyman
Factions:
1- DX
2-Four Horsemen
3-Dangerous Alliance
4-nWo (first year)
5- ecw Dudleys
Underated:
1-Jeff Hardy
2-Matt Hardy
3-Kaz
4-AJ Styles
5-Tomko

I’ll be attending the 20th anniversary MCBA FallCon October 4th-5th.  I’ll be selling the Rival Angels Convention special which is a manga-ish size, 36 page full color comic.  I’ll also have prints of the Upstart Girls as well as other popular icons of entertainment.  On top of that I’ll be doing sketches, commissions or otherwise.  If you’re in the neighborhood, be sure to drop by and say HI!

Now, if you’re not going to be in the neigborhood but you want some cool Rival Angels stuff, take a gander over at this here .