Hey all, NutMeg here. I was recently witness to quite a spectacle--there were comics, games, movies, TV shows, and wondrous beauty. That’s right, I said wondrous beauty. Want to know more? Well, read on, full speed ahead, and damn the Dewitos! Here's this year’s scoop from NYCC.
First up, Kabam Media invited us to try out their lineup of mobile games hitting app stores soon. Marvel: Contest of Champions is expected out in December for Apple and Android. Probably the best graphics of the games I saw, I had the chance to play as Spider-Man. Much attention was paid to rendering Spider-Man’s sleek, spidery form with particular definition in his arms and legs.
The game mixes and matches characters with different scenarios. I fought the Punisher as Wolverine in a scene from Guardians of the Galaxy. I don’t think that’s a combo we’ll be seeing on the big screen anytime soon. You can also play the same characters against each other. I think Marvel fans of all ages will appreciate this game.
Lord of the Rings: Legend of Middle Earth is available on iTunes and Google Play. In it, you can play as Tolkien’s legendary characters; dwarf, elf, human, or Hobbit. Players have the choice to battle Sauron's evil forces or play against other players worldwide. Players can build teams by gaining characters through different quests and create their own teams ready for battle.
The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle Earth is their first Free-to-Play game for mobile devices based on the movie coming out next year. It is a game that allows players to build empires and allies to fight enemies. There are special points awarded to players when joining with other alliances. In addition, players can summon heroes like Gandalf, Legolas, and Bilbo to lead the fight in The Desolation of Smaug expansion pack. The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle Earth is available on iTunes, Amazon app, and Google Play.
Another game in the works is based on the popular HUNGER GAMES franchise, due to come out in 2015. It will be based on part on the latest film, MOCKINGJAY.
Moonrise was among my favorites of the games I got to try. Filled with stylish action, I’d consider it my ideal fantasy game. You play a warden, fulfilling quests to level up not only yourself but your team of monsters, which you assemble over time. Some of the quests entail battling other wardens and their teams of monsters. There's also a PvP mode. I played against the demonstrator, and even though he clearly knew the game better than me, I wasn’t going out easy. Though I lost, I took everyone with me, poisoning them all! Muahahaha! Ahem. Moonrise is really geared towards personalization. When you start the game, you can personalize the way your character looks. This includes hair, skin, body type, clothes, and accessories. There is a variety of different styles and colors. You can also add your name, so characters are speaking to you directly. Moonrise is expected to come out early 2015.
Spirit Storm is an action role playing game (ARPG) that is in some ways similar to Moonrise. You choose which class, Sorcerer or Barbarian, you will play. The idea is to capture spirits which give you abilities to defeat enemies. There's a cooperative mode where you can play as a team with your friends and battle enemies together. Spirit Storm is also expected out in 2015.
Creature Academy is expected to be out in early 2015 in the U.S., but it’s already a big hit in Korea. It’s set in a world where humans and animals have been spliced, creating “creatures”. The idea of the game is to obtain creatures in a crumbling world and train them to do good. There are three game modes. You can battle monsters, fight bosses, and play against other players. One of the unique things about this game is the choice to play manually or in auto-play mode. Auto-play can be your autopilot whenever you need it. Comes in handy if you’re in the middle of a battle and you need to wrap things up.
Now, what better way to kick-off the New York Comic Con than with an event honoring one of the most iconic comic book characters of all time? The United States Postal Service unveiled their new “Forever” stamps featuring the Dark Knight Detective himself, Batman, on the occasion of his 75th anniversary. Jim Lee was on hand to talk about his art being used in the stamps, as well as his childhood love of philately (stamp collecting, to the layperson). Dan Didio also spoke about this honor this represented for not only Batman but for DC as a whole. Of course, the guest of honor was none other than Batman himself, who took the stage in what was clearly not a homemade costume, as the curtain came down revealing the line-up of the new stamps.
I stirred up some trouble while I was interviewing Matt Seinreich and Breckin Meyer, of ROBOT CHICKEN fame. Seinreich shared that the ROBOT CHICKEN season lineup is all set and that they are working on this year’s Christmas special. However, when I mentioned that last year Meyer, known for his acting, laughingly revealed that the rest of the writing team kept rejecting his ideas, Seinreich wryly claimed that there was no improvement and that Meyer is still an awful writer. Furthermore, as Seinreich was leaving he asked us to give Meyer a hard time.
When I gave Meyer the opportunity to respond to Seinreich’s claims, he stood up from the table, and proceeded to yell across the room to Seinreich, but Seinreich denied ever making the comment. Meyer then fessed up to being a terrible writer. Even playing a lawyer on Franklin & Bash (which he also has tried writing for) has not helped him to win arguments in the ROBOT CHICKEN writing room.
I was hanging out in the Press area when a guy came over who I thought looked familiar, but I couldn’t remember if he was just another press person or somebody I’d seen on TV. I was half listening to what he and other journalists were talking about; I heard him mentioning being in the show WICKED. I started to chime in with some of the other women journalists on how awesome it must be to be part of a Broadway show. This random stranger then mentions that he’s heading down to check out some of the panels. I had to ask the girl sitting next to me on who this stranger was. It turned out to be Justin Guarini (runner up to Kelly Clarkson on AMERICAN IDOL).
However, I had the chance to run into Guarini again when I was coming out of the Robot Chicken interviews. Guarini mentioned that he was at his first convention and was super excited to attend. Due to my enthusiasm, Guarini thought it was my first convention, and although it wasn’t by a long shot, I told him it always feels like the very first time. Like a viiiiirgin… Hey! We got to talking about what’s cool to check out as he and his crew were deciding on what to do next. I told him that it’s harder on Saturday to check out the con floor. So with that said, we ended up taking a photo and parted ways.
I had the chance to catch the BIRDMAN panel hosted by Chris Hardwick with Ed Norton and Michael Keaton. It’s clear that it’s tough to pin down exactly what kind of film Birdman is-- it really can’t be pigeon-holed. Birdman has drama, comedy, and action. It is and isn`t classified as a superhero movie. Norton and Keaton did spend a lot of time in their underwear. Keaton mentioned as they were shooting the scene where Norton is in his banana hammock, they were desperately trying not to laugh. There is a second scene where Keaton is running around the city in his tighty whities. Norton explained his character’s relationship to Keaton`s character as a hate/love/hate. Near the end, Keaton admitted that working on the film drove him a little insane, but that it was all part of his character. There was a clip that showed Keaton walking on the streets normally, but his mind is having a conversation with his alter ego Birdman. Birdman (speaking just like Michael Keaton Batman) is flying over Keaton and is trying to convince Keaton to become the superhero.
While walking around the con floor, I saw a booth offering manicures. Nothing wrong with a little TLC. Sally Hansen was introducing their new line of nail products called Impress On Nails. Five minute manicure and Presto! I'm ready to roll. What does that have to do with comics? Not a goshdarn thing. But the line was a mile long, so they obviously knew where their customers were!
I had the chance to sit and talk with the cast of GOTHAM. We heard from executive producer Danny Cannon, who explained that GOTHAM is a twist on the normal approach to Batman. While the setting is modern, the tone is that of the ‘70s where crime was at a high. The social order is similar to a medieval caste system. People are fighting to get higher up on the ranks. In other words, a stage for war.
GOTHAM, we are told, is meant to evoke a sort of modern Grimm’s Fairy Tales, frightening, but with moral undertones. Cannon wanted GOTHAM to be a tale of Batman for a new generation while also shedding light on the origins of the other key characters in his world. Something to enjoy for all ages.
Donal Logue, Harvey Bullock, compares his character to Ralph Fiennes’ character from SCHINDLER’S LIST. Fiennes wasn’t playing a cut-out kind of Nazi; people need to be slightly empathetic toward the bad guy before they take actions that will make them difficult to relate to. According to Logue, if you’re just a straight up bad guy, the character becomes boring not only to you, but for others to watch.
Logue has read some of the GOTHAM comics. He thinks that Bullock is a complicated kind of guy. Logue says that Bullock goes back and forth, sometimes trying to save the day midway through. At the same point, Logue says that his character in the comics is an asshole. That sometimes Bullock will take things too far. Logue finds that some of the stuff that Bullock does in the comics is not suitable for eight o’clock television.
Logue outlook on GOTHAM was similar to Cannon’s. He compared it to the Irish mob (one of the members of the press pool was from Ireland), and said GOTHAM is being run by mafia-like gangs. Logue explains that his Bullock is in survival mode. Basically, sometimes you have to work with dirty types of people to get to someone deeper and dirtier than they are.
At one point, Logue mentioned the trouble notorious Boston gangster Whitey Bulger caused here in the U.S. I mentioned that my brother was in a documentary playing a young Whitey, which led to a brief conversation about New England (I was born in New Hampshire) before we had to part ways. Donal Logue is a fun guy to talk to.
Robin Lord Taylor who plays Oswald Cobblepot had a lot to share. Taylor, who is a natural blonde, shared that he has to dye his hair every week and half. He joked that he gives Bed, Bath and Beyond a lot of business because he has gone through so many towels.
Taylor shared that he enjoys live tweeting on Twitter because of the live feedback. He shared that it’s come back 99.9% positive. However, the real reason for the love of live tweeting stems back to Taylor’s love for the theater. He mentioned that when you are on stage in front of an audience you won’t get verbal feedback to tell you what the audience is thinking, but the audience’s reaction to your performance is a more immediate kind of feedback. Live tweeting is very similar to that kind of feeling, although expressed verbally. Although Taylor can’t read the faces of his audience, the immediate thoughts shared by fans have been really great, he says.
While describing his character, Taylor mentions that people shouldn’t sympathize with the psychopath. He even says that sympathy is too nice of a word to describe how the audience should understand who Oswald Cobblepot is. At the same time, Taylor is trying to show through his character another side to Oswald that hasn’t been seen before; vulnerability. While he hasn’t added anything unscripted to his part, Taylor feels that each actor has brought their own personality to the character they play.
In regards to working with Carol Kane, Taylor had nothing but praise for her. He mentions that Kane picks up on little cues with the people she works with. They had rehearsed together and bonded over sharing stories about themselves with each other. Taylor says that he finds Kane so inspiring in the way she is thorough with her work. He’s been a huge fan of Kane and finds working with someone like her very fulfilling.
I had the chance to check out the panel for ABC’s new show, FOREVER. In attendance was Matt Miller (series producer), Ioan Gruffudd (Dr. Henry Morgan) and Alana de la Garza (Jo Martinez). If you haven’t caught up with this show, it’s about a man who simply can’t die-- no matter how many times Henry tries to kill himself or dies by accident, he is reborn again, naked in the Hudson River. Ew.
Out of the three at the panel, the most enthusiastic to be at NYCC was Matt Miller, who had all the beans to spill. Some spoilers included that Henry will at some point get arrested for being nude in the Hudson River. Right now we will see Henry rebirthing in the Hudson River, but we will eventually see Henry showing up in other rivers as well. There will be a story that ties together Jack the Ripper and Henry (expected for Halloween); additionally, Henry will meet other historic figures and the back stories of how they tie into his life. Henry and Abraham (Henry’s son) will go to Vietnam to kick ass; this will tie into how Abraham gets his first kiss. When a veteran recognizes Henry as having died in the war, Henry and Abraham are forced to move to avoid some awkward explanations. Bummer! Unfolding from this will be Abraham’s anger at Henry for these upheavals. This goes forward in the weird parenting relationship Henry and Abraham have over each other. Due to Henry’s eternal youth, it’s not always clear who the dad is; the two end up taking turns parenting the other.
Questions regarding what happens to Henry’s belongings when he dies were answered by Miller. Henry’s clothes disappear from the scene when Henry dies, anything on Henry when he passes disappears with him. However, if for instance something were to fall out of his pocket, that remains at the scene. This occurred in a previous episode already where Henry’s watch fell out of his pocket at a crime scene where Jo Martinez finds it. These little clues are what keep the people in Henry’s life guessing what Henry’s secret is.
Speaking of Henry’s secret, the mystery caller who claims to know about Henry’s secret will pop up from time to time. As the series goes on, Henry will meet the mystery caller. There was a clip teasing us as to the possibilities of who this mystery caller might be. According to Miller, not all episodes will include the mystery calls. Miller explains that if the mystery caller doesn’t fit in with the storyline, there will not be a call.
Regarding their characters, Gruffudd commented that he find himself well-acquainted when working in scenes of Henry’s past, due to his background with other historically-based projects. He finds working on the modern day scenes a little trickier, however. De la Garza on the other hand mentioned she is familiar working on a modern set given her background of acting on NCIS: LOS ANGELES and LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT.
Now that I’ve shared with you some of the highlights of this year’s convention, I think it’s only fair to talk about the down sides as well. Let’s start with the wristbands. I understand that panels like THE WALKING DEAD are extremely popular, and they need some way of filtering the crowd. But even the costume contest panel, usually a staple of my convention reports, was a no-go due to being unable to obtain a wristband. All I wanted was a few pics for my cosplay-loving fans. Is that so much to ask? Apparently so!
When I learned about Wristband-Gate (apparently, show staff were selling off wristbands for their personal profit) it made me even madder. And even when I did get into some of the big panels, I was herded off to the side where the ASL interpreters sit (I have nothing against ASL interpreters, they rock! I’m hard of hearing and love learning the language. Matt even caught me eavesdropping on one). But when you’re trying to get photos for those who couldn’t be there, that makes it tough. I wound up spending most of my time on the floor, and I didn't even get drunk.
So I left the convention, thoughts bittersweet in my head,
Discovered Jim Henson rose from the dead.
Back to Penn Station to find some grub,
Seems all of fandom followed me to the hub.
And for now I bid you farewell,
Til next year, another story to tell.
Your faithful correspondent, Nutmeg.
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Proofs, co-edits & common sense provided by Sleazy G
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First up, Kabam Media invited us to try out their lineup of mobile games hitting app stores soon. Marvel: Contest of Champions is expected out in December for Apple and Android. Probably the best graphics of the games I saw, I had the chance to play as Spider-Man. Much attention was paid to rendering Spider-Man’s sleek, spidery form with particular definition in his arms and legs.The game mixes and matches characters with different scenarios. I fought the Punisher as Wolverine in a scene from Guardians of the Galaxy. I don’t think that’s a combo we’ll be seeing on the big screen anytime soon. You can also play the same characters against each other. I think Marvel fans of all ages will appreciate this game.
Lord of the Rings: Legend of Middle Earth is available on iTunes and Google Play. In it, you can play as Tolkien’s legendary characters; dwarf, elf, human, or Hobbit. Players have the choice to battle Sauron's evil forces or play against other players worldwide. Players can build teams by gaining characters through different quests and create their own teams ready for battle.The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle Earth is their first Free-to-Play game for mobile devices based on the movie coming out next year. It is a game that allows players to build empires and allies to fight enemies. There are special points awarded to players when joining with other alliances. In addition, players can summon heroes like Gandalf, Legolas, and Bilbo to lead the fight in The Desolation of Smaug expansion pack. The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle Earth is available on iTunes, Amazon app, and Google Play.
Another game in the works is based on the popular HUNGER GAMES franchise, due to come out in 2015. It will be based on part on the latest film, MOCKINGJAY.
Moonrise was among my favorites of the games I got to try. Filled with stylish action, I’d consider it my ideal fantasy game. You play a warden, fulfilling quests to level up not only yourself but your team of monsters, which you assemble over time. Some of the quests entail battling other wardens and their teams of monsters. There's also a PvP mode. I played against the demonstrator, and even though he clearly knew the game better than me, I wasn’t going out easy. Though I lost, I took everyone with me, poisoning them all! Muahahaha! Ahem. Moonrise is really geared towards personalization. When you start the game, you can personalize the way your character looks. This includes hair, skin, body type, clothes, and accessories. There is a variety of different styles and colors. You can also add your name, so characters are speaking to you directly. Moonrise is expected to come out early 2015.Spirit Storm is an action role playing game (ARPG) that is in some ways similar to Moonrise. You choose which class, Sorcerer or Barbarian, you will play. The idea is to capture spirits which give you abilities to defeat enemies. There's a cooperative mode where you can play as a team with your friends and battle enemies together. Spirit Storm is also expected out in 2015.
Creature Academy is expected to be out in early 2015 in the U.S., but it’s already a big hit in Korea. It’s set in a world where humans and animals have been spliced, creating “creatures”. The idea of the game is to obtain creatures in a crumbling world and train them to do good. There are three game modes. You can battle monsters, fight bosses, and play against other players. One of the unique things about this game is the choice to play manually or in auto-play mode. Auto-play can be your autopilot whenever you need it. Comes in handy if you’re in the middle of a battle and you need to wrap things up.Now, what better way to kick-off the New York Comic Con than with an event honoring one of the most iconic comic book characters of all time? The United States Postal Service unveiled their new “Forever” stamps featuring the Dark Knight Detective himself, Batman, on the occasion of his 75th anniversary. Jim Lee was on hand to talk about his art being used in the stamps, as well as his childhood love of philately (stamp collecting, to the layperson). Dan Didio also spoke about this honor this represented for not only Batman but for DC as a whole. Of course, the guest of honor was none other than Batman himself, who took the stage in what was clearly not a homemade costume, as the curtain came down revealing the line-up of the new stamps.
I stirred up some trouble while I was interviewing Matt Seinreich and Breckin Meyer, of ROBOT CHICKEN fame. Seinreich shared that the ROBOT CHICKEN season lineup is all set and that they are working on this year’s Christmas special. However, when I mentioned that last year Meyer, known for his acting, laughingly revealed that the rest of the writing team kept rejecting his ideas, Seinreich wryly claimed that there was no improvement and that Meyer is still an awful writer. Furthermore, as Seinreich was leaving he asked us to give Meyer a hard time.When I gave Meyer the opportunity to respond to Seinreich’s claims, he stood up from the table, and proceeded to yell across the room to Seinreich, but Seinreich denied ever making the comment. Meyer then fessed up to being a terrible writer. Even playing a lawyer on Franklin & Bash (which he also has tried writing for) has not helped him to win arguments in the ROBOT CHICKEN writing room.
I was hanging out in the Press area when a guy came over who I thought looked familiar, but I couldn’t remember if he was just another press person or somebody I’d seen on TV. I was half listening to what he and other journalists were talking about; I heard him mentioning being in the show WICKED. I started to chime in with some of the other women journalists on how awesome it must be to be part of a Broadway show. This random stranger then mentions that he’s heading down to check out some of the panels. I had to ask the girl sitting next to me on who this stranger was. It turned out to be Justin Guarini (runner up to Kelly Clarkson on AMERICAN IDOL).However, I had the chance to run into Guarini again when I was coming out of the Robot Chicken interviews. Guarini mentioned that he was at his first convention and was super excited to attend. Due to my enthusiasm, Guarini thought it was my first convention, and although it wasn’t by a long shot, I told him it always feels like the very first time. Like a viiiiirgin… Hey! We got to talking about what’s cool to check out as he and his crew were deciding on what to do next. I told him that it’s harder on Saturday to check out the con floor. So with that said, we ended up taking a photo and parted ways.
I had the chance to catch the BIRDMAN panel hosted by Chris Hardwick with Ed Norton and Michael Keaton. It’s clear that it’s tough to pin down exactly what kind of film Birdman is-- it really can’t be pigeon-holed. Birdman has drama, comedy, and action. It is and isn`t classified as a superhero movie. Norton and Keaton did spend a lot of time in their underwear. Keaton mentioned as they were shooting the scene where Norton is in his banana hammock, they were desperately trying not to laugh. There is a second scene where Keaton is running around the city in his tighty whities. Norton explained his character’s relationship to Keaton`s character as a hate/love/hate. Near the end, Keaton admitted that working on the film drove him a little insane, but that it was all part of his character. There was a clip that showed Keaton walking on the streets normally, but his mind is having a conversation with his alter ego Birdman. Birdman (speaking just like Michael Keaton Batman) is flying over Keaton and is trying to convince Keaton to become the superhero.While walking around the con floor, I saw a booth offering manicures. Nothing wrong with a little TLC. Sally Hansen was introducing their new line of nail products called Impress On Nails. Five minute manicure and Presto! I'm ready to roll. What does that have to do with comics? Not a goshdarn thing. But the line was a mile long, so they obviously knew where their customers were!I had the chance to sit and talk with the cast of GOTHAM. We heard from executive producer Danny Cannon, who explained that GOTHAM is a twist on the normal approach to Batman. While the setting is modern, the tone is that of the ‘70s where crime was at a high. The social order is similar to a medieval caste system. People are fighting to get higher up on the ranks. In other words, a stage for war.
GOTHAM, we are told, is meant to evoke a sort of modern Grimm’s Fairy Tales, frightening, but with moral undertones. Cannon wanted GOTHAM to be a tale of Batman for a new generation while also shedding light on the origins of the other key characters in his world. Something to enjoy for all ages.Donal Logue, Harvey Bullock, compares his character to Ralph Fiennes’ character from SCHINDLER’S LIST. Fiennes wasn’t playing a cut-out kind of Nazi; people need to be slightly empathetic toward the bad guy before they take actions that will make them difficult to relate to. According to Logue, if you’re just a straight up bad guy, the character becomes boring not only to you, but for others to watch.
Logue has read some of the GOTHAM comics. He thinks that Bullock is a complicated kind of guy. Logue says that Bullock goes back and forth, sometimes trying to save the day midway through. At the same point, Logue says that his character in the comics is an asshole. That sometimes Bullock will take things too far. Logue finds that some of the stuff that Bullock does in the comics is not suitable for eight o’clock television.Logue outlook on GOTHAM was similar to Cannon’s. He compared it to the Irish mob (one of the members of the press pool was from Ireland), and said GOTHAM is being run by mafia-like gangs. Logue explains that his Bullock is in survival mode. Basically, sometimes you have to work with dirty types of people to get to someone deeper and dirtier than they are.
At one point, Logue mentioned the trouble notorious Boston gangster Whitey Bulger caused here in the U.S. I mentioned that my brother was in a documentary playing a young Whitey, which led to a brief conversation about New England (I was born in New Hampshire) before we had to part ways. Donal Logue is a fun guy to talk to.Robin Lord Taylor who plays Oswald Cobblepot had a lot to share. Taylor, who is a natural blonde, shared that he has to dye his hair every week and half. He joked that he gives Bed, Bath and Beyond a lot of business because he has gone through so many towels.
Taylor shared that he enjoys live tweeting on Twitter because of the live feedback. He shared that it’s come back 99.9% positive. However, the real reason for the love of live tweeting stems back to Taylor’s love for the theater. He mentioned that when you are on stage in front of an audience you won’t get verbal feedback to tell you what the audience is thinking, but the audience’s reaction to your performance is a more immediate kind of feedback. Live tweeting is very similar to that kind of feeling, although expressed verbally. Although Taylor can’t read the faces of his audience, the immediate thoughts shared by fans have been really great, he says.While describing his character, Taylor mentions that people shouldn’t sympathize with the psychopath. He even says that sympathy is too nice of a word to describe how the audience should understand who Oswald Cobblepot is. At the same time, Taylor is trying to show through his character another side to Oswald that hasn’t been seen before; vulnerability. While he hasn’t added anything unscripted to his part, Taylor feels that each actor has brought their own personality to the character they play.
In regards to working with Carol Kane, Taylor had nothing but praise for her. He mentions that Kane picks up on little cues with the people she works with. They had rehearsed together and bonded over sharing stories about themselves with each other. Taylor says that he finds Kane so inspiring in the way she is thorough with her work. He’s been a huge fan of Kane and finds working with someone like her very fulfilling.I had the chance to check out the panel for ABC’s new show, FOREVER. In attendance was Matt Miller (series producer), Ioan Gruffudd (Dr. Henry Morgan) and Alana de la Garza (Jo Martinez). If you haven’t caught up with this show, it’s about a man who simply can’t die-- no matter how many times Henry tries to kill himself or dies by accident, he is reborn again, naked in the Hudson River. Ew.
Out of the three at the panel, the most enthusiastic to be at NYCC was Matt Miller, who had all the beans to spill. Some spoilers included that Henry will at some point get arrested for being nude in the Hudson River. Right now we will see Henry rebirthing in the Hudson River, but we will eventually see Henry showing up in other rivers as well. There will be a story that ties together Jack the Ripper and Henry (expected for Halloween); additionally, Henry will meet other historic figures and the back stories of how they tie into his life. Henry and Abraham (Henry’s son) will go to Vietnam to kick ass; this will tie into how Abraham gets his first kiss. When a veteran recognizes Henry as having died in the war, Henry and Abraham are forced to move to avoid some awkward explanations. Bummer! Unfolding from this will be Abraham’s anger at Henry for these upheavals. This goes forward in the weird parenting relationship Henry and Abraham have over each other. Due to Henry’s eternal youth, it’s not always clear who the dad is; the two end up taking turns parenting the other.Questions regarding what happens to Henry’s belongings when he dies were answered by Miller. Henry’s clothes disappear from the scene when Henry dies, anything on Henry when he passes disappears with him. However, if for instance something were to fall out of his pocket, that remains at the scene. This occurred in a previous episode already where Henry’s watch fell out of his pocket at a crime scene where Jo Martinez finds it. These little clues are what keep the people in Henry’s life guessing what Henry’s secret is.Speaking of Henry’s secret, the mystery caller who claims to know about Henry’s secret will pop up from time to time. As the series goes on, Henry will meet the mystery caller. There was a clip teasing us as to the possibilities of who this mystery caller might be. According to Miller, not all episodes will include the mystery calls. Miller explains that if the mystery caller doesn’t fit in with the storyline, there will not be a call.
Regarding their characters, Gruffudd commented that he find himself well-acquainted when working in scenes of Henry’s past, due to his background with other historically-based projects. He finds working on the modern day scenes a little trickier, however. De la Garza on the other hand mentioned she is familiar working on a modern set given her background of acting on NCIS: LOS ANGELES and LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT.Now that I’ve shared with you some of the highlights of this year’s convention, I think it’s only fair to talk about the down sides as well. Let’s start with the wristbands. I understand that panels like THE WALKING DEAD are extremely popular, and they need some way of filtering the crowd. But even the costume contest panel, usually a staple of my convention reports, was a no-go due to being unable to obtain a wristband. All I wanted was a few pics for my cosplay-loving fans. Is that so much to ask? Apparently so!
When I learned about Wristband-Gate (apparently, show staff were selling off wristbands for their personal profit) it made me even madder. And even when I did get into some of the big panels, I was herded off to the side where the ASL interpreters sit (I have nothing against ASL interpreters, they rock! I’m hard of hearing and love learning the language. Matt even caught me eavesdropping on one). But when you’re trying to get photos for those who couldn’t be there, that makes it tough. I wound up spending most of my time on the floor, and I didn't even get drunk. So I left the convention, thoughts bittersweet in my head,
Discovered Jim Henson rose from the dead.
Back to Penn Station to find some grub,
Seems all of fandom followed me to the hub.
And for now I bid you farewell,
Til next year, another story to tell.
Your faithful correspondent, Nutmeg.
Proofs, co-edits & common sense provided by Sleazy G
