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This weekend’s Emerald City Comicon seems to have been a raging success, if only from the amount of “highly refreshed” tweets we saw all weekend. The Seattle Times has a preview which notes that some 25,000 people were expected.

Based on the number of pictures like this one from @alisonst showing packed crowds, it would seem that the first year going from a two- to a three-day show was a raging success.

There were a few bits of news: Guy Davis is leaving BPRD after seven years — that seems like a decentish run.

This year’s It-boy Nick Spencer is now exclusive at Marvel but is free to work on as much creator-owned stuff at Image as he pleases.

There were Marvel and DC panels, but as one participant put it, “We’re trying to be cagey” and they succeeded.

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Boilerplate, the mechanical marvel, was represented at the show, and was photographed with a kindred soul.

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Local real-life superhero Phoenix Jones also made the scene, here with Kirby Krackle bandmember Kyle Stevens.

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  1. I met Matthew Soutworth, artist for Stumptown. Such a nice guy. It’s really great meeting people whom work you admire; especially when they are amicable =). Yay Emerald City Comicon. PS the after party’s were memorable =)

  2. I met Matthew Southworth, artist for Stumptown. Such a nice guy. It’s really great meeting people whom work you admire; especially when they are amicable =). Yay Emerald City Comicon. PS the after party’s were memorable =)

  3. I was there on Saturday and the crowds were huge! It took me almost an hour to stop feeling overwhelmed and get acclimated. I can’t believe how much the show’s grown.