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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