So this weekend I had the pleasure of attending both days of the Baltimore Comic Con 2012, and I had a blast! Great vendors, lots of top talent from the comic-verse, a plethora of costumed attendees and great weather; plus the added bonus that it expanded a few more rows of display booths from years past. A nerd could not have asked for more (except for an Amazing Spiderman issue #1 signed by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, of course)!

Saturday was packed! I don’t know what the gate is year to year, but it felt to me as though the crowds have increased exponentially. Which is awesome for a few reasons. Obviously, it is good to see the support for the show increasing because that means that Baltimore Comic Con will continue to happen (and as a local guy, not having to travel to get my geek on is a huge deal) but more importantly the bigger the show means the more people are fans enough of the genre to want to take a weekend to express their love of the medium. To me, that is huge! The comic book industry, like many other print mediums in this digital age, has been suffering a recession of sorts while it changes its business model to adapt. The more people outwardly showing their appreciation, for not only the books (and the people who created them) they loved in their youth but the new material being put out weekly by both the major companies and the independents, the better!

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