proof glass cage of Arkham Asylum.) I also posed with a Harley Quinn who looked the part and even had a little Harley Quinn red sports car. Saturday night we made our way to
Artist Shelby Robertson. (Eric Wenzel Photo)
stated, it was a rushed ordeal, we did actually meet Dick and I got my hand shaken. I wanted to say so much to him, but didn’t know where to even start, but Eric did his Navy coin presentation and one of Dick’s han- dlers started to take it and put it away for him, Eric spoke up, “We want you to hold it in the picture.” So, he did, with a huge Dick Van Dyke smile. I will never forget that moment in time.
Just before meeting Dick, I received a text that my true musical hero, Gregg Allman had died.
The rest of the afternoon was spent
kind of in a haze, looking around at the hun- dreds of dealer tables sand taking photos with cos players including a pretty decent Gene Simmons, a short Darth Vader and his son, a Star Fleet officer; the full-size Vader from the Zahn stunt; and an absolutely beautiful Cat- woman (who posed with me behind the bullet
Casino Arizona in Scottsdale for a concert by Led Zep Again. Before the concert. We dined at Cholla inside the casino, a very nice restau- rant for high-rollers. (see review this issue) After a protein-heavy dinner, Eric and I made our way to the concert hall for the Led Zeppe- lin tribute band. Now, honestly, the words “tribute band” make me nervous. I have seen some really bad ones, but when I was out here two years ago we saw Fan Halen, a very im- pressive David Lee Roth era Van Halen trib- ute. Tonight was equally enjoyable, if not more so. The Scotsman who portrays Robert Plant looked like him, stood like him, and amazingly sounded like him. The Jimmy Page impersonator was quite impressive, as was the whole band. While they performed many of Zep’s “hits,” they shook it up by playing many excellent album tracks. I was thrilled to hear my all-time favorite Zeppelin tunes, “Kashmir” and “Ramble On.” Oddly enough they didn’t do “Stairway to Heaven.” Eric has seen them a few times and told me that they play different songs on different shows, which is brilliant, and a good way to bring in repeat customers. Great show. Sunday at Comicon marked the final
day of the event, and found us running virtu- ally all day long from one photo opportunity to another. First up was Neal McDonough, star of many movies and TV shows including Captain America, Arrowand Star Trek: First Contact. We hustled out of that line and into the
one for Anthony Michael Hall, where we stood for about 30 minutes before someone came and told us his photo op had been rescheduled. Ugh. We dashed over and got in line for Danny Trejo. This guy is such a cool cat. He plays some of the baddest bad asses ever, yet the man himself is the complete op-
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