Sunday, 12 May 2019

Oldham Comic Con '19

After the success of last year's Oldham Comic Con, the event was upgraded from Oldham Library to The much larger Queen Elizabeth Hall. I dropped in on Saturday 11th.

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The Aliens and Aliens versus Predator graphic novels were bought; the rest were free comics given on entry.

Although the event was bigger than last year's, there really wasn't as much on offer: last year saw the now-deceased Carlos Ezquerra, creator of Judge Dredd, as well as Anthony Johnson, creator of Atomic Blonde, which was adapted for the screen and released around that time. This year I didn't recognise any people or their creations.

The con included a few stage discussions and workshops in side rooms- 'Tell Us a Story' sounded an interesting talk- but these were an hour long, way longer than I was hoping. Apparently you needed at least an hour to learn anything. I passed.

Not as good as good as last year's. Third time lucky?

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