On Saturday my Sister-in-law, Elizabeth, and I went down to the Comic Book Convention in San Diego. We had a really good time and saw some cool stuff. It was super crowded and the place is so huge and packed with so much stuff that its nearly impossible to see everything in just one day, but I think I was able to take in a good deal of stuff.

There is so much cool stuff there its hard not to spend a ton of money and go into debt! I was good though and only bought a few things. One of the coolest things I saw were a bunch of figurines of the crazy little characters from the Heironymus Bosch painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. This is one of my favorite paintings so I was really excited about these things (unfortunately I didn’t think to take a picture of them!). They were really detailed and looked exactly like the painting. I think that was a really cool idea to do that. They also had a figurine of one of my favorite Dali paintings too! I am going to try to find the place online and order some. They’re from Denmark or something like that. Other than that there was a lot of really amazing artwork and toys there, and of course there were a few comic books there too.

There were a lot of people dressed up, as usual. I think my favorite costume of the entire day had to be the dude that was dressed up as an Elvis Stormtrooper! He had a Stormtrooper costume on from Star Wars but he didn’t have his helmet on. Instead he had an elvis wig (with sideburns of course) and sunglasses and he wore an Elvis cape. It was pretty sweet.

Here are some pictures.

A bunch of different artists painted Darth Vader busts. I think this was for some charity and for the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars.

I thought this one was the best!

A really crappy photo of some really cool looking World of Warcraft statuettes that will be coming out later this year!

another crappy photo. It’s really hard to take good pictures because of the insane crowd of people!

Very cool sculpture of that devil dude from the movie Legend. I love the character design of this guy. amazing! Never seen the movie though.

NOSFERATU!!!

I want!

This statuette of Voldemort was absolutely amazing! It was so realistic!

This was a very well done costume. I don’t know how these people do it. It would drive me crazy to have all that make-up and stuff on.

Last weekend, while I was out running some errands, I decided to stop by Barnes & Noble and use up a $20 gift certificate that my wife had given me. I had intended to pick up The Ruins, but I couldn’t find that anywhere…and of course I couldn’t leave a bookstore with just one book! So, here is what I ended up buying and plan on reading this summer:

• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
• The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
• The Terror by Dan Simmons
• Bringing Up Boys by Dr. James Dobson

As you can see by the first 2 books listed there, I’ve been really interested in Astronomy and physics lately, specifically String Theory, for some reason. I’m really looking forward to reading those.