Enjoyed Boston's "Wicked Comic-Con"

 Boston's Annual "Wicked Comic Con" was held in a hotel on the Boston Seaport on April 19th and I got to attend for the 2nd year in a row. I enjoyed the con with 2 good friends and found some awesome comics from the 1970s and 1980s that I needed for my collections, after a crazy parking misadventure.

(Pic: L to R: Michael, Rob, Dave) 

My friends Dave and Michael met me in the lobby. They each live in different areas of Massachusetts, so it was much faster for them to get there than it was for me coming from Maine. 

"FRAZZLED" PARKING ADVENTURE - Coming from north of Boston, I drove to the Wonderland MBTA (subway) station parking garage. Unfortunately, there are no operational pay-parking ticket machines anymore. Instead they use "phone apps" for parking. That means downloading ANOTHER ridiculous app, putting in your address, phone, email, and credit card info ( which I don't like doing ) just to park the vehicle for several hours. - My energy seems to frazzle any electronics, and that happened again. 

                                         (Pic: Blue Line MBTA Train from Wonderland Station)

It took 15 minutes to download the app, find the location number of the garage, input all the stuff, only to see the App say "credit card not accepted" - so I put in another card I had. Rejected. Debit card input- "rejected." ARRGH.  I called the "help" phone number on the inactive kiosk to get a recording that hangs up on you. I deleted the app, re-uploaded it.... re-input everything and it finally worked. I miss people working at parking garages.

THE COMIC CON- This year's comic con was half the size of last year's event. There were still a lot of comic book sellers, and a lot of artists, writers, toys, posters, jewelry, tee shirts, etc. on sale. 

(Photo: Dave and Michael checking out hot sauce products from a vendor at the comic con. I bought one for Tom...hopefully it will be good)

Dave was on a quest for old Spiderman comics for his son, Michael is into the Hanna-Barbera cartoon comics, and I was looking for comics that included: Ghosts, Rawhide Kid, Wonder Woman, Superman, Jimmy Olsen and others. I did manage to find about 15 comics at a decent, affordable price (since I'm retired)... and it was fun spending time with Dave and Michael. If you've never been to a comic con, check them out!

(Photo: Michael runs into some attendees in animal costumes)