![]() He couldn’t resist recording this shoulder tattoo below that captures the yin and yang aspects of the balance in the Force. Indeed, Dak too was ever on the lookout for a uniquely catching interview. Ubiquitous at the con was Comic Book Central’s producer and host Joe Stuber who did a recorded interview of Dickey and Dak plus other con guests for his podcast. Dak’s daughter Emily snapped evidence of Daniel and Dickey with Ada, Ohio, video-gamer Courtney Walland. ET isn’t the only one who can’t phone home. ![]() Note the land-line service adjacent to the Zone was little use to these two members of the Legion and 501 st. We three Fetts sat together in the Zone and were swamped by fans and innumerable Star Wars cosplayers. This year, he had worked with the 501 st to create a Star Wars Zone complete with a Dewback. The following year, Satterfield moved it to the Duke Center. His first Expo took place in the concourse of the Cintas Center at Xavier University. ![]() Lifelong Cincinnatian and comics collector Andrew Satterfield founded the con in 2010 and is its director. Outside the Duke Center, Downtown Cincinnati was in the midst of its Oktoberfest, and the nearby Fountain Square hosted a lot of Old World cosplay with Bavarian schuhplattler (slap dancing) and polka bands leading sing-a-longs of “Schnitzelbank.” Ja, a frothy gemütlichkeit was flowing through the Force. A welcoming spirit permeated the exhibit hall throughout the weekend. The highpoint was a rollicking Reunion Panel before a full house on day three of the con, captured by an Expo video that the organizers have just posted on YouTube.įollowers of Jedi News may have read Dak’s report of the panel highlight: Dickey Beer’s reveal that Princess Leia literally saved his life during shooting of Return of the Jedi’s Sarlacc Pit battle scene.Īttendees - and his fellow panelists - were stunned to hear that Slave Leia laid on him the kiss of life…for real.įeaturing a host of Star Wars fans, the Cincinnati event was one of the most hospitable we’ve encountered. This September's three-Fett reunion was during the 2014 Cincinnati Comic Expo at the Duke Energy Convention Center. Fans will recall the Fett tradition started at Celebration Europe II in Essen, Germany, that was capped by five Fett’s performing a Maori haka onstage with Warwick Davis before 7,000 ecstatic fans. Dak) most recently joined two other Fetts, Daniel Logan and Dickey Beer, for another billed Boba Fett Reunion. With her birthday coming up in a few weeks, which usually means a one-day road trip somewhere, we agreed this would count as her early celebration.īut first and foremost as usual: cosplay! Presenting a showcase of all the costumes we photographed during our hours walking through and around the exhibit hall on Friday and early Saturday.Bespin Boba reports back from the Cincinnati Comic Expo.īespin Boba (a.k.a. In addition to proximity and complete lack of schedule conflict with anything else we had going on, CCE’s guest list includes a pair of actors we missed at previous cons who represented glaring holes in one of her themed autograph collections. In the past she and I have talked about trying cons in other Midwest cities, but the Expo is our first time venturing out to Ohio for one. It’s convention time yet again! This weekend my wife Anne and I have driven two hours southeast of Indianapolis to attend a show we’ve never done before, the seventh annual Cincinnati Comic Expo. Gracing our presence on Saturday were Dick Tracy and Breathless Mahoney, from that one Warren Beatty film.
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