Comic-Con part deux
TelltaleGames
Former Telltale Staff
On Sunday morning, a miracle happened. We checked out of the hotel, climbed into the car, and found... the camera bag! It had been hiding under the back seat the whole time. Lame.
We vowed to spend our last hours traveling the show floor to bring you nothing but the highest quality Comic-Con content, but before we set out on this quest, Max Allan Collins stopped by our booth with his son, Nate. You might not know the name, but if you're a Telltale fan you probably know his work -- Max writes the dialogue for the CSI games. We got him caught up on the status of Hard Evidence (coming to PC, Xbox 360, and Wii this fall, if you haven't been paying attention), and showed him the trailer that was released last week. We offered them a copy of 3 Dimensions of Murder, but not only do they already own that one, it turns out that Nate is also a Sam & Max fan and Season One subscriber. The kid's got taste.
[readmore]
The time had come to explore new ground, so Jake and I grabbed the camera and got moving. Our first stop was Steve's booth, four aisles away from ours. It was super convenient to have him so nearby. We'd been running over there throughout the show, dropping off Max for President pins and printed Interlopers, and he'd been sending people our way to check out the games. Steve even stashed the Sam & Max costume in his booth when it wasn't being worn because he had more space than us. (It was a little creepy, sitting there on the floor like a life-sized doll...)
As usual, the area around Steve's booth was crowded with fans waiting to get a book or print signed, so we lurked behind them and snapped pictures while no one was looking. In addition to the new street prints based on the Season One DVD cover, Steve had his last copies of some older prints with him, including the office print that used to be in our store and the art from the Hit the Road box. He also brought several pieces of original art, one of which was the cover of the Season One soundtrack.
Steve signing things, and receiving his Eisner from the Pope in a recreation of Friday night's award ceremony.
On Friday, we'd been told by one of the guys at Hothead that a Fone Bone costume was roaming the floor, so we decided to seek it out at Scholastic's booth. As we were walking, we came upon a Bone poster in one of the booths, with a long line of people queued up under it. "Wouldn't it be funny if Jeff Smith was here doing a signing?" I said. We rounded the corner, and lo and behold, there was Jeff Smith doing a signing. All during the show we'd heard from people that he was around, but we hadn't run into him yet and didn't realize he had his own booth. (Failure!) He was going to be around for a little while, so we said we'd be back and made our way over to Scholastic.
The Scholastic booth was like a little bookstore, with tons of Bone and Harry Potter stuff set out. We ran into a woman named Cathy, who works with the Scholastic Book Fairs in San Diego. Coincidentally, it turned out Cathy was the lucky soul who had been wearing the Bone costume during the show. We arranged a rendez-vous with our Sam & Max costume at Jeff's booth and elbowed our way back there to watch the magic unfold.
Seeing the two costumes together was really... weird. The camera inside the Bone costume wasn't working, so Cathy couldn't see anything when she was inside it. She was being escorted by her son and Steve Hamaker (who does the coloring of the Bone books), but even so, she couldn't stay in the suit for too long at a time. It took a little while for Nick to get the guy in our suit over to Steve's booth and for a few minutes it looked like the two costumes would never meet, like two ships passing in the night (or something), but then they showed up and the magic happened. People swarmed around snapping pictures, kids and grown-ups alike, shouting, "Oh look, it's Sam & Max!" and/or "Oh look, it's Bone!" (plus the occasional, "hey, is that Casper?"). It was a very surreal Comic-Con moment.
Our next stop was the Penny Arcade booth, where Gabe and Tycho were signing. We had a little chat with Jerry (aka Tycho) about the Sam & Max games and the upcoming Penny Arcade games, and then Mike (aka Gabe) drew in our sketchbook.
Left to right: Steve's drawing of Sam & Max in my Surfin' the Highway, Gabe's rendition of Sam & Max and a drawing of his own, Fone Bone courtesy of Jeff Smith.
Last but not least, we hit the Flight booth to check out the newest book, which contains a story by Telltale's good friend Graham Annable. Daniel was hoping to meet the editor, who's a high school friend of his wife's, but the booth was mobbed and we ended up just standing around awkwardly looking at the books. I plugged Flight at last year's Comic-Con and I'll do it again: this is a beautiful compilation, with a little something for everyone inside. I didn't buy it because I'd already spent all my money at Jeff's booth (on the One Volume Edition and a Fone Bone plush toy!), but I'm regretting it now.
So that's it for Comic-Con 2007. Well, not it it, because this week Nick's working on piecing together all the video he shot, but that's it for blogs. Oh, except I almost forgot to mention that the new sketchbook and poster print are now in the store...
We vowed to spend our last hours traveling the show floor to bring you nothing but the highest quality Comic-Con content, but before we set out on this quest, Max Allan Collins stopped by our booth with his son, Nate. You might not know the name, but if you're a Telltale fan you probably know his work -- Max writes the dialogue for the CSI games. We got him caught up on the status of Hard Evidence (coming to PC, Xbox 360, and Wii this fall, if you haven't been paying attention), and showed him the trailer that was released last week. We offered them a copy of 3 Dimensions of Murder, but not only do they already own that one, it turns out that Nate is also a Sam & Max fan and Season One subscriber. The kid's got taste.[readmore]
The time had come to explore new ground, so Jake and I grabbed the camera and got moving. Our first stop was Steve's booth, four aisles away from ours. It was super convenient to have him so nearby. We'd been running over there throughout the show, dropping off Max for President pins and printed Interlopers, and he'd been sending people our way to check out the games. Steve even stashed the Sam & Max costume in his booth when it wasn't being worn because he had more space than us. (It was a little creepy, sitting there on the floor like a life-sized doll...)
As usual, the area around Steve's booth was crowded with fans waiting to get a book or print signed, so we lurked behind them and snapped pictures while no one was looking. In addition to the new street prints based on the Season One DVD cover, Steve had his last copies of some older prints with him, including the office print that used to be in our store and the art from the Hit the Road box. He also brought several pieces of original art, one of which was the cover of the Season One soundtrack.
Steve signing things, and receiving his Eisner from the Pope in a recreation of Friday night's award ceremony.
On Friday, we'd been told by one of the guys at Hothead that a Fone Bone costume was roaming the floor, so we decided to seek it out at Scholastic's booth. As we were walking, we came upon a Bone poster in one of the booths, with a long line of people queued up under it. "Wouldn't it be funny if Jeff Smith was here doing a signing?" I said. We rounded the corner, and lo and behold, there was Jeff Smith doing a signing. All during the show we'd heard from people that he was around, but we hadn't run into him yet and didn't realize he had his own booth. (Failure!) He was going to be around for a little while, so we said we'd be back and made our way over to Scholastic.
The Scholastic booth was like a little bookstore, with tons of Bone and Harry Potter stuff set out. We ran into a woman named Cathy, who works with the Scholastic Book Fairs in San Diego. Coincidentally, it turned out Cathy was the lucky soul who had been wearing the Bone costume during the show. We arranged a rendez-vous with our Sam & Max costume at Jeff's booth and elbowed our way back there to watch the magic unfold.
Seeing the two costumes together was really... weird. The camera inside the Bone costume wasn't working, so Cathy couldn't see anything when she was inside it. She was being escorted by her son and Steve Hamaker (who does the coloring of the Bone books), but even so, she couldn't stay in the suit for too long at a time. It took a little while for Nick to get the guy in our suit over to Steve's booth and for a few minutes it looked like the two costumes would never meet, like two ships passing in the night (or something), but then they showed up and the magic happened. People swarmed around snapping pictures, kids and grown-ups alike, shouting, "Oh look, it's Sam & Max!" and/or "Oh look, it's Bone!" (plus the occasional, "hey, is that Casper?"). It was a very surreal Comic-Con moment.
Our next stop was the Penny Arcade booth, where Gabe and Tycho were signing. We had a little chat with Jerry (aka Tycho) about the Sam & Max games and the upcoming Penny Arcade games, and then Mike (aka Gabe) drew in our sketchbook.
Left to right: Steve's drawing of Sam & Max in my Surfin' the Highway, Gabe's rendition of Sam & Max and a drawing of his own, Fone Bone courtesy of Jeff Smith.
Last but not least, we hit the Flight booth to check out the newest book, which contains a story by Telltale's good friend Graham Annable. Daniel was hoping to meet the editor, who's a high school friend of his wife's, but the booth was mobbed and we ended up just standing around awkwardly looking at the books. I plugged Flight at last year's Comic-Con and I'll do it again: this is a beautiful compilation, with a little something for everyone inside. I didn't buy it because I'd already spent all my money at Jeff's booth (on the One Volume Edition and a Fone Bone plush toy!), but I'm regretting it now.So that's it for Comic-Con 2007. Well, not it it, because this week Nick's working on piecing together all the video he shot, but that's it for blogs. Oh, except I almost forgot to mention that the new sketchbook and poster print are now in the store...
This discussion has been closed.