Wizard World Texas

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The announcement over on the Wizard World site is correct: I’ll be attending the Wizard World Convention in Texas this November.

Basically, it was real simple. They contacted me some weeks ago and asked me if I’d go. I said that as long as they were planning an Atlanta show opposite Heroes Con, I could not in good conscience accept their offer. I also said that, if and when the Atlanta show went away, I’d come to Texas. They subsequently pulled out, so I’m keeping my word. And no, this is not a case of post hoc ergo propter hoc. I’m reasonably sure they were going to pull out in response to the negative publicity, my attending Texas or no not withstanding. Me, I’m just pleasantly surprised. This is the first Wizard con they’ve approached me about…this century, I think.

Also, FYI, they’re doing a lengthy article about my work in issue #169 of Wizard, coming out late in September. Hunh. Maybe if you hang around long enough you get popular again. I will say this: The Wizard Fan Award statue I have for “Hulk: The End” is definitely the coolest looking trophy I have.

PAD

34 comments on “Wizard World Texas”

  3. Another reason PAD rocks: He can work in the title of an episode of The West Wing.

    (Yes I know the Latin is more than that, but hey, I can’t remember the translation but I do remember the scene in The West Wing.)

    Count me in as one who’d love to see you at WWBoston as well.

  4. Congratulations on getting some “dap” from Wizard (both the current ackowledgement and the cool trophy for a cool story). You’re writing a Spider-Man book and an X book, had a well-publicized return to The Incredible Hulk – and have Fallen Angel and several other projects going in the field, although I don’t know whether the Wizard people would value these as highly – at any rate, clearly you’re quite qualified to be featured by Wizard, in person and in their mag.

  5. Peter, glad to hear the pendulum is swinging in your direction again. It was also good news indeed to hear that WW Atlanta got shelved at least for the time being, and that the reason was directly linked to the number of fans and professionals stepping up and saying they wouldn’t go. Thank goodness people can still affect change if they get a bit of motivation.

  6. Texas, huh? Planning to swing by Crawford while you’re at it? 🙂

    Seriously, sounds like fun.

    TWL

  7. Mr. David, is there any chance you might be swinging by any Florida conventions anytime soon? I too have an Imzadi hardcover! 🙂

  8. Hunh. Maybe if you hang around long enough you get popular again.

    You’re also writing the best stuff you’ve done in years, but I’m sure that has nothing to do with it.

  9. PAD’s coming to Texas! – and not 10 minutes from the office!

    Considering I work in a high-geek population center (computer networking support), I wonder if there’s such a thing as PAD-flu….

  10. It was also good news indeed to hear that WW Atlanta got shelved at least for the time being, and that the reason was directly linked to the number of fans and professionals stepping up and saying they wouldn’t go.

    Can anybody inform the slightly more ignorant, such as myself?

    I see on the Wizard website that the only have like 5 of these cons (without Atlanta). I’m guessing it’s a matter of having too many cons, or scheduling against other cons that’s at issue?

  11. Craig, without going into too much detail, Wizard World announced their Atlanta con in direct competition with another, long established area convention. Once the news got out, a large number of industry professionals began making it clear that they would be attending the long-established convention rather than WW Atlanta. If you want all the gruesome details, go back a few weeks for some of the older posts on http://www.newsarama.com or http://www.comicbookresources.com to name a few.

  12. THANK YOU!!!!
    Best news I’ve had in a long time. Last time I saw you in Dallas was way back at the Dallas Fantasy Fair and I think you were writing Spectacular Spider-man at the time and early in your Hulk run.

  14. That’s great news for the folks in Texas. Let me second Jason’s question: will you be at Wizard World Boston as well? New England is lovely in the fall. 🙂

  15. Man, that’s awesome. Same as Eric, I was able to see PAD in 93-94, back when Bulldog Prod. was still holding Dallas Fantasy Faire, and it as a great experience. I look forward to the Wizard event.

  16. Come to Boston……come to Boston……meetup with some Browncoats for Serenity opening night…….

    Is this working? 🙂

    -hey

  17. Have you been replaced on Hulk permenantly, or will you return after this Captain Universe stuff???
    Surely Marvel can’t be that short sighted to remove you after only a short while???

    Ian

  18. Polls and lists don’t really matter, but I’ve always hated that you were not in the Top 10 writers list in the back of their magazine. Once you took on the Hulk again that should of been enough right there. A new Spider title should do the trick…and if it doesn’t I’ll be writing them some letters.

  19. Peter, I don’t usually buy Wizard, so could you remind us the day or week that it comes out, so I can remember to get it? Thanks. 🙂

  20. Well, Texas is all well and good, but we need to get you back to good ol’ Philly again.

    WW DOES have a con here every year, and of course, you are always welcome at Philcon in December.

    Just a thought…

  22. I was flip-flopping in my decision on whether to go to this or not, but this seals it for me. I’m there. I look forward to meeting you.

    What is this Captain Universe stuff anyway?

    Brad

  23. I will be the first to admit that I had no idea what post hoc ergo propter hoc meant.

    So for the sake of others that are latin adverse:

    Definition:
    The name in Latin means “after this therefore because of this”.

    This describes the fallacy. An author commits the fallacy when it is assumed that because one thing follows another that the one thing was caused by the other.

    I learned something new today. Thanks PAD.

    Regards:
    Warren S. Jones III

  24. Wow. I went to WW Texas a year or so back and had pretty much sworn off the WW cons. I may actually go again now. It’ll be good to see you, Mr. David.

    Like some folks above, the last time I saw you at a show was the old Dallas Fantasy Faire. Those were cool shows. Eisner, Kurtzman, Kirby, Stan, and the seemingly ever-present Gary Groth and Bob Burden made those a lot of fun.

    I’m not a Wizard fan at all, but at least they are bringing good folks back to the area.

    Randy Sims

  25. Y’know, after attending WizardWorld Texas two years ago (to see George & Kurt during JLA/Avengers), I realized I’d been spoiled by attending San Diego, and promised that it would take someone whose work I REALLY enjoy to get me out to another WizardWorld Texas.

    That said…see ya in November. 😀

  26. “This is the first Wizard con they’ve approached me about…this century, I think.”

    Not to be contrary, but I seem to recall seeing you at Wizard World Phialdelphia in… I think it was 2002. Or did you approach them about that one?

  27. “Not to be contrary, but I seem to recall seeing you at Wizard World Phialdelphia in… I think it was 2002. Or did you approach them about that one?”

    I approached them. I wanted to go for several reasons, and so called them up and asked if they had a spare hotel room available, in exchange for which I’d work the convention. Which they agreed to. But that’s why I phrased the statement the way I did.

    PAD

  28. PAD,
    “Maybe if you hang around long enough you get popular again.”

    Well, with the quality of most of your work, I think you have been doing more than hanging around.
    But I am happy this is happening. Once you got back on Hulk and were doing X- and Spider-projects again, I felt like it would.
    I seriously felt that the projects you have been tackling since you left Hulk, while allowing you more creative freedom than you would have with “icons”, have all been so low profile that there are plenty of readers out there who simply don’t know who you are.
    Or how good you are.
    As Chris Claremont said upon returning to X-Men, “I heard this kid say he was interested in reading this new writer, Chris Claremont. You always have the opportunity to be new to someone.”

  29. PAD,
    Oh, and let me also say I think it is cool that you would have the courage of your convictions and be willing to pass up the opportunity to be at Wizard Dallas if they did not back down in Atlanta. While my position on the matter is neutral, I feel it is neat that you felt about the matter that strongly.

  30. Man, I’m gettin’ nostalgic for the ol’ Dallas Fantasy Fairs, too. (And, that’s a scary thought.)

    Of course, DFF’s and PAD always “click” in my mind. My very first con was a DFF, back in ’85. PAD was there, if I recall correctly, still working for Marvel’s sales department, although the issue of “The Death of Jean DeWolff” with Spidey instinctively dodging a shotgun blast, resulting in an onlooker getting hit was in the Marvel preview slideshow he did. Anyway…what makes it such a strong memory (and I’m sure PAD’s long-since forgotten it) was a group of about a dozen of us goofy teenagers having a ton of questions for him after the preview’s allotted time. So, he found us all an area in the lobby, and we sat and all just talked comics for a good hour or two.

    So, Peter, a (long) belated “Many thanks!” for your gracious donation of your time. I’d never heard of that “Peter David” guy before that day…but I’ve been a lifelong fan ever since. And I haven’t regretted a moment of it.

  31. I had gone to the last two cons, the first one because well it was the first one in my backyard (or rather, my town), and the second one because ASL interpreters had been lined up by the con organizers without me hassling them (I had hassled them for the first con). I guess I’ll go to the third one if WWTx secures interpreters because I’ve never been able to have a PAD panel interpreted for me.

    …. You’ll be doing a panel, right?

  32. PAD..be careful..this could be a far right plot to get you in range!

    Ian: PAD wasn’t “removed” from Hulk..he left. He’s writing a Spider-Title, an X-Title, Fallen Angel, I assume still Soul Searchers, not to mention assorted novels and potential tv series…
    Plus, the man’s got a daughter in potty training! (though, given how Hulk has at times mirrored things happening in PAD’s life….you have to wonder what stories might have been)..

  33. Hey there… wasn’t sure which thread to comment in, but I just wanted to say I’m really digging The Hulk House of M. arc.

  34. The fact he left ( if that’s how it happened ) doesn’t make it any better. Now we get somebody new to screw up Hulk and disregard continuity like the last 3 did. I say give the job to Jerry Ordway, I liked the issues he wrote!!

    Ian

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