"Komikon 2007 Whooh Yeah!" or "My Happiness Depends on Material Objects, woot!"

Just went to Komikon 2007 and had fun. Yeah, baby, yeah! I know, I’m such a geek, but I’m a happy geek. Well I could be happier if I received my paycheck last Friday but nonetheless, I’m happy. Or happy-ish. Whatever. If I get into the definition of happiness and stuff, I’ll bog myself down with pseudo-intellectual philosophical bullcrap.

Now since I went to this year’s Komikon with money, unlike last year, I got to go home with a bigger goody bag. Yays! So what did I come home with?

1.) One Night in Purgatory by Carlo Vergara, creator of ZsaZsa Zaturnnah.

Nice, sweet, and cute story of two best buddies. And I also had it autographed! Yays!

2.) Elmer #3 by Gerry Alanguilan

Part three of four of Gerry Alanguilan’s Elmer series. What if Chickens gain sentience? What would YOU do?

3.) Angel Ace, Again 1-4 by Marc Dimaano

I’ve been seeing the Angel Ace comics in stores ever since I was a kid. I figured I should buy them since they were now only for P25 each. It’s cute and funny, but I think I need to read the rest of them to understand some parts.

4.) Pasig #16 by Melvin “Taga-Ilog” Calingo

Pasig was one of the stories featured in the now-dead Culture Crash Comics. The issue wraps up the first Volume of the story, but it still leaves us at an open-ended sort-of cliffhanger.

5.) Askals #2 by Dodo Dayao and Bong Leal

I liked the art detail of Askals ever since Madz showed me the first issue. I needed to re-read them quite a few times to understand what was going on.

6.) Tabloid Komiks #5

It was P10. It said, “Weird Stories by Weird People”. It was a fun read.

7.) Catwoman #55

8.) Shade, The Changing Man #40

9.) Tales from the Outer Borroughs #1

10.) Geobreeders #1

These 4, I bought during the convention’s closing time. Comic Odyssey suddenly propped up the sign, “P20 Buy one, take one.” How could I resist? But then, not knowing much about Comics and stuff, I just got what looked interesting and stuff.

11.) Making Up Words by Josel Nicolas

12.) I am Lost in Salasco by Josel Nicolas

13.) Danak by Angelo Tobias

These last three were indies (independent comics) available at the indie tiangge. I decided to buy a few indies after I splurged on the known stores. It was part interest, part charity, and part self-insurance. The self-insurance part was so that I hope people will buy my indies (if ever I get around to creating even just one) when I try to sell them.

I would’ve splurged a lot more if I just received my paycheck last Friday. If I did, I probably would have bought more indies, another copy of ZsaZsa Zaturnnah (a friend lost my copy), The third Kikomachine compilation along with the T-Shirt, a Pugad Baboy compilation (and would have had it signed by Pol Medina Jr. himself), The two Captain Barangay Captain DVDs, and a whole lot of other stuff, like a sketch or caricature of me done by a Komiks artist.

But then, “He works in mysterious ways.” or “The Wheel weaves, as the Wheel wills.” or “It is all part of the Pattern” or “I am one with the Universe.” or *insert saying regarding fate and whatever here* so maybe it was a good thing I didn’t get to burn a lot more money than I did yesterday.