Our friend Medivaldragon over at
Blizzplanet brings word that the mind and man behind Warcraft himself, Chris Metzen, will be live at the
New York Comic Con in just under a month. The con takes place in New York over February 6-8, 2009, and Mr. Metzen,
the creative director and central creative force behind all of Blizzard's modern universes, will be signing books at both the DC Comics and Pocket Star Books booths (apparently for the promotion of
WoW's comic books and novels). As Turpster is often inclined to say (along with many other Blizzard fans), "Chris Metzen is a god," so here's your chance to meet the deity himself.
There'll be some other expanded universe notables there as well, including Jim Lee (who'll no doubt be promoting
DC Universe Online as well) and Walter Simonson will be there, and there will likely be some other familiar faces, either signing books or just stopping by. Those of you in New York who are free, consider yourselves lucky and head on over there. And bring a camera -- if you can capture the elusive Metzen on film (
random adventurers are always freeing him),
send us the pics.
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Jan 17th 2009 at 6:00PM 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Omacron Jan 17th 2009 6:21PM
Hello! I'm Omacron of Scrollsoflore.com and together with Medievaldragon, I will be interviewing Mr. Metzen about the lore of all three major Blizzard IPs. If you have any questions for him, I advise you to check out the following thread at scrollsoflore.
http://www.scrollsoflore.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4128
Plan Jan 17th 2009 6:48PM
He reminds me of a guy from college, who would pride himself on the assumption that he was "cooler" than the other nerds he hung out with. You can tell Christ Metzen is one of those guys, particularly with the sunglasses indoors thing.
Personally, I respect his work, his contributions to some of the best games of the last decade or so, and his detailed (if highly derivative) lore, but I cringe when I see people falling all over themselves to fellate him.
Eversor Jan 17th 2009 7:32PM
"Christ" Metzen? Hehe, a single typo sure made your text a bit more... silly, talking about cringing when people fall all over themselves to fellate him :D
lovecrafter Jan 17th 2009 10:40PM
Meh, Chris drinks more than a dehydrated fish. I just hope he kicked his coke habbit.
Trust me, the man has many demons.
Aphiliange Jan 17th 2009 7:11PM
He's done a great job at what he does, but he looks like a total douche pickle.
usagizero Jan 17th 2009 7:13PM
I gotta know, what the hell is a "douche pickle"?
Komjos Jan 17th 2009 7:53PM
I would give someone every penny I had if they would get some reindeer dust and throw it on him if they seen him there.
Omacron Jan 17th 2009 8:12PM
Tell me where to find Reindeer dust and I'll sprinkle like there's no tomorrow.
sgeek Jan 17th 2009 10:29PM
I thought Comic Con was held in San Francisco? When did it move to the East Coast?
dreadpiraterose Jan 17th 2009 10:32PM
Its not associated with San Diego Comic Con
- Kelly
The Convention Fans Blog
http://conventionfans.today.com
Blendless Jan 18th 2009 3:53AM
oh the reindeer is here
SaintStryfe Jan 18th 2009 3:54AM
I'll be attending as a professional (60$ ticket? HA! Librarian here, give me my 10$ ticket!)
InfoMofo Feb 2nd 2009 12:29AM
Why is the announced blizzard/warcraft presence at NY Comiccon so low?
Look at this panel they have on MMOs:
http://nycc09.mapyourshow.com/2_1/sessions/session.cfm?ScheduledSessionID=124
It has "Developers from Mythic, Cartoon Network, 38 Studios, Cryptic Studios, and Sony ". Uhhh... Oversight?