This year was my first year attending Big Apple Comic Con (BACC), and I honestly had no idea what to expect. After looking over the guest list the fangirl inside got pretty excited! A few of the stars from Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek caught my eye, and I planned out to make sure to at least go by them in the autograph area if I couldn’t make the panels.

As per usual for me, my first day at the con was on Saturday, and man was it busy. Getting in to the con seemed a bit disorganized as you had to enter one building to get to registration, then exit and go over to another for the main floor with a bare minimum of signs, but I made it in and began to roam the main floor. One of the first areas I saw was the massive booth that Nintendo had. They had Wii Sports resort, Wii Fit, a new Zelda game for the DS and stations with the upcoming Super Mario Brothers game set up. I checked out the new Mario game, and I have to say it was quite fun to play! Due to lines I only got to play one level, but from what I saw it was real fun and I’ll probably pick it up when it’s released.

After that I wound up browsing through what seemed like miles of comics and graphic novels from dealers. I of course forgot my list of things I want to buy so I mainly just perused to see what was available and try to make a mental note in case I saw something I wanted to pick up on Sunday. I wound up finding a couple of new graphic novels I wanted to check out when I wound up chatting with the guys at the PCB Production booth. They were showing off their latest titles Ascend, Dead Speed and Infex. The artwork is dark, yet really beautiful, and the storyline for Ascend really caught my eye. Always great to find cool new graphic novels to read!

I wound up meeting up with some friends and we continued to walk around the con, admiring the Batmobile (from the Adam West days), various weaponry for cosplay, and someone’s recreation of the Delorean among many things. Sadly I didn’t see too many people in costume and was quite disappointed by that. It was also at this point that I made my way to the celebrity autograph stand area. They had quite a list of people there that made it impressive. Among the many there, I wound up talking with Neil Kaplan (voice of Tychus Findlay in Starcraft II) for a little as well as Luciana Carro (Kat from Battlestar Galactica). I then wound up talking with Michael Hogan (Colonel Saul Tigh from BSG) who wound up being very nice and who I got a great picture with! In general the celebs there giving autographs seemed pretty nice and very willing to talk with you even if you weren’t buying an autograph or photo op. I think that was probably my highlight of the weekend.

Sunday was a lot more low key and a lot less people. There weren’t too many deals on comics either, so I wound up passing on those. BACC was pretty fun and I did enjoy myself, though I do wish it could have been in a bit of a better location than a pier on the west side. I will definitely want to attend again next year especially if they have the same caliber of guests, and I’ll make sure to bring my list o comics that I want to grab this time around!