Having had two babysitters bail but not wanting to miss the show, my long suffering wife and two wonderful kids made the trip with me.

My con weekend actually started on Thursday night. Jim Hanley's Universe in Manhattan was host to a large creator signing including Jonathan Hickman, Gabrille Del Otto and CB Cebulski. I've recently become a fan of Jonathan's from his spectacular "The Nightly News" and think his newest Marvel work "Secret Warriors" is pretty great. I can safely say Jonathan seems as nice as he is talented. I only talked to him for a minute but he was super friendly and seemed happy to talk with fans.

First actual stop at the con was the Warner Brothers movie panel presentation. IGN is knocking themselves out with their movie panels each con and boy did they deliver this year. Dave Gibbons, artist on Watchmen, debuted the first 18 minutes of the film along with a later scene and wow was it impressive. I have yet to read the actual comic and have decided to wait until after I see the movie to read it. But I can safely say that I found the footage to be jaw dropping. Between the opening action scene and the absolutely brilliant title sequence this has "box office smash" written all over it.

Next up was director McG and a look at Terminator Salvation. I'm a huge Christian Bale fan so I was pretty pumped for this. After warming up the crowd and calling Bale's home(we got to cheer for Mrs. Bale)we got to see about ten minutes of footage in various states of completion.

The film stock itself is pretty amazing. It's got a washed out color palette and has a metallic type of sheen. It's a great look. The movie looks like a blast. Bale kicks all kinds of terminator ass and we get to see tons of new terminators including the hydrobot and the mototerminators along with some footage of Sam Worthington as Marcus Wright.

This is probably the movie I am most looking forward to and the footage sealed the deal for me. Bale looks to have another hit franchise on his hands.

The day ended for me with getting the chance to finally meet author Dave Williams face to face. Dave is as nice as can be. He had a nice showing for the Bantam signing for his first novel "The Mirrored Heavens". We chatted for a bit and I hope we run into each other again.

All in all it was a great con weekend. I am thrilled that New York is getting it's own version of eight hundred pound gorilla SDCC. In it's fourth year it looks like the con is starting to seriously deliver the goods.