Aiden Searches For Super Heroes At Chicago Comic Con
Aiden had such a good time at C2E2 in April that I had planned to take him to Wizard World Chicago later. Wizard is a declining force in the comics industry (they were huge back in the 90′s), so they changed the name of the event back to “Chicago Comic Con” this year. This con was arguably bigger than C2E2, but the difference in bulk was made up by comic vendors. There were hundreds of crates of comics and no shortage of old fat guys to paw through them.
There were some good costumes, but I honestly expected to see more people dressed up. The place was crowded, but mainly with collectors, not cosplayers. Maybe because we showed up on Sunday morning? I later read that there were a lot more people in Star Trek garb on Saturday because Bill Shatner was there. We were busy on Saturday… Either way, Aiden had a good time. We did run into some people in costume, and Aiden took plenty of pictures with them.
We were happy to see that the 501st Imperial Garrison made an appearance. Aiden and I make it a point to find Stormtroopers. And the 501st guys are top notch. However, they only had a couple of troopers, a trio of Boba Fetts, and a decent-looking General Grievous. Even the Mandalorians were talking about their lack of a Darth Vader. How hard is it to get a Darth Vader to one of these things?
Aiden wanted to go home after about an hour, but I think that he was just hungry. It seemed like we were there much longer, but it hit me during lunch that we we only there for an hour. We had all-day passes, so I wanted to go back! However, we were already eating at the oasis over the tollway when bailer’s remorse set in. Oh, and Aiden loved the view from the restaurant!
Anyway, it would have been very difficult to turn around on the tollway, and then pay for parking again, just to wander around the convention floor for the hour or two before it closed. We’ll go back next year, only next time we’ll go on a Saturday and eat at the convention. It’s cheaper to eat at McDonalds, but it’s a lot harder to make your way back to the convention floor from there when your boy decides to see more heroes. And next year Aiden will go dressed as a Jedi!
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