Tucson Arizonia! Tucson Comic-Con

We of course, as per tradition, went to Tucson for their Comic-con and had a great time! There was a lot of focus on Ninja Turtles because Kevin Eastman and the original actors who wore the turtle outfits were going to be there. One of them wasn’t able to make it and dropped out last minute. The line for Kevin was just too long, so I opted to not.

I did get a lot of photos though.

First thing I did, was get photos with a Taun-taun! This thing was life-size!

We helped pose our friend Allysen so she would look good in photos. She was a Kyoshi Warrior and got lots of compliments. Maybe we’ll do an Avatar cosplay next year to make it a group thing!

I got some photos with the non-star turtles and the Party Wagon/Turtle Assault Van

I picked up the glasses my buddy made for me, they match my tattoo!

The next day Jaime and I dressed up, sorta. She mostly did, I was pretty casual.

Here’s some random photos from that day

We finished the day going out for Ethiopian food, which is now one of our traditions of going to Tucson.

I did get to have a GI Joe Stand-off, Storm Shadow vs Sgt Slaughter!

Our last day was mostly shopping and painting. We painted some mini figures. I only took pictures of mine.

The last day, we checked out of the hotel. I ran into Kevin Eastman in the lobby. No phone on me, just told him I appreciated his work and have been buying his comics since the 80s. He shook my hand and thanked me.

We ran into him again as I loaded the car. He asked me about my lightsaber! LOL

We met up with our friend Sam from the Phoenix Ukulele Group, who moved to Tucson, its been our thing now to meet up with him and his wife.

After eating, we went to an antique store to check some stuff out. I found a cool turtle shell lute (lots about turtles this weekend) and no kidding, we ran into Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top, who we didn’t believe was actually him. No photos with him. Just kind of ignored him thinking it was a look alike. We heard some commotion and found out all the cashiers took a photo with him. It was actually him. Who runs into a famous rock star while Antiquing in Tucson on Labor day? We do!