Yep you go them al right, the darth vader is Paolo Villanelli.
I was trying to get a sketch from Peach Momoko but she was probably the most popular artist all weekend.
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Which is crazy. I recall going in 2019 and you could literally walk up to her table without any lines for the most partâŠ
Yeah. I think if you bought one comic at the midtown booth she would sign up to 5. But Iâm not sure if they charged for all five sigs. I probably have a few books for the PC that arenât worth more than cover that would have been cool to get her signature on (not graded).
So was Dan Mora who is too busy to do cons. He tells me he is heading straight back home due to his workload.
Meanwhile this time exhibitors/scalpers/influences literally started a fight in her artist alley line which led to her cancelling most of her signings that day
I would have canceled as well. When people behave badly, they donât earn anything!
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She posted an apology on her IG, but didnât go in to specifics.
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I got one of these from a whatnot seller. Were these even being sold on the floor? One with Flairâs signature sold for $900.
Thatâs sad if sheâs apologizing for others behavior. She owes us nothing! But just goes to show the type of person she is. Now I like her even more in how sheâs handling it.
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Regarding Peach Momoko signing Exhibitors had access to the floor before the NYCC opened and there was long line before the con opened on Saturday. Once the con opened they allowed VIP ticket holders 1st shot at a remarks and signatures which caused lots of screaming and shouting among exhibitors. At one point Peach was in tears because of the commotion. She was one of the few artist who was signing for free.
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Exhibitors should be exhibiting, not there to act like fans⊠This is why I stated from my past experience, there should be no exchange of goods until after the actual convention opens. Last time in NYCC when you show up at the publisher booth and are the first one there to discover all the âexclusivesâ are sold out cause some âexhibitorâ bought them all before the con floor opened⊠was just complete and utter bullshit. Then you see which ones bought them cause they have them for sale at their own booths at eBay pricesâŠ
Defeats the whole purpose of even going to the convention when the exhibitors there are â â â â â â â the rest of usâŠ
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Completely agree with your point on exhibitors. Most of the fans had to wait on the line after the exhibitors. first time in my life did i see almost a riot break out for some sketches and signatures. it was a crazy scene but lots of respect to Peach, who then proceeded to sign for the next couple of hours.
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If I was a publisher or vendor with exclusives, I would only sell to those with regular badges. My rule would be, whatever is left at the end of the convention, maybe on Sunday then exhibitors can purchase. Itâs about the fans and should be about the fans, not greedy retailers taking advantage of having floor access before the fans.
With the press badges, you normally didnât qualify for exclusive events that gave out prizes or gave you dibs on better line positions to purchase stuff. They could easily do this for exhibitors if they really wanted.
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Itâs getting worse now as WhatNot has sponsored some of these âinfluencersâ to be at the show to sell these exclusives on the show floor as the con is happening. They gobble up all the exclusives and sketches and sell them at inflated prices live.
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Well then⊠sadly that just gives me zero incentive to go to future ones.
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Lots of conventions and larger booths (for example Hasbro, Mattel, Lego, and Namco Bandai at SDCC) have had rules like that in place for years. And even with such big companies and such widely known rules, every year I worked at SDCC I would see dozens of people with exhibitor badges kind of circling the booths âpretendingâ to work on things or be going to the bathroom and then rush for the popular booths when the doors opened. And most of the time they would be told by staff exhibitor sales donât start until X time, and youâd end up with a person in their 40s yelling at a 20 year old who is probably working the booth for a part time weekend gig about how they canât do that and itâs BS. Thereâs something that happens with some people when they pay for or have an exhibitor badge and they feel like they should be treated as special guests no matter the circumstance.
I remember one year when Lionsgate was doing some event for the first Hunger Games movie which had been announced, having the cast signing, and giving away free signing tickets to the first maybe 100 people who came to the booth. And clearly stated only standard badges were applicable. There was a huge rush, their security/staff was kind of overwhelmed by it, and one of those guys who runs the booths that sell signed movie pictures was screaming into some young womanâs face about how he needs the ticket, he waited for it, and just being a huge ass. They were right across the aisle from where we set our game up (in the Funimation booth) so I stepped over and asked if she needed help, asked the guy to leave, etc. And being a very large man myself, he backed down and went away. But the poor lady was almost crying from how much he was screaming at her and Iâm sure didnât expect that kind of reaction when her job was to give people tickets to get things signed. About an hour later the head security guard for their booth came over to thank me for helping because they didnât expect that kind of rush, and gave me a ticket for the signing. (Fun fact, I still have that signed promo in a frame in our movie room at home, and that security guard became a good friend who let me meet so many cool people over the years.)
In recent years with the explosion of âcomic exclusive retailersâ and influencers who do nothing but create and sell exclusives and pump variants, itâs gotten even worse especially when it comes to comics and comic creators. So many of them (influencers/exclusives retailers) think theyâre a critically important figure who the rules shouldnât apply to, and with the echo chambers they curate they donât handle being told no well, especially in public. Peach said no exhibitors for getting sketches/signatures? That doesnât apply to THEM, because they helped sell comics she made! And they personally take it as an insult if a creator doesnât go out of their way to give them things that they can then flip for profit, as if the creator themself is just part of the process by which the exclusives retailer/influencer makes money and theyâre hurting their livelihood by not giving them cool things to sell at huge mark ups.
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Disgraceful behavior
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Was this at her booth, or at a shopâs booth.
When the doors opened Friday morning she was set up to sign at Midtown Comics, and there was already a long line down the alley. But everyone was civilized. They then announced sheâd sign up to 5 signaturesâŠ
I thought to myself I donât care if itâs free, Iâm not spending hours standing in a line when there was so much else to do.
Of course I probably spent 2 hours trying to find the DC ashcans books people seemed to think were being handed out. 
She then was signing at her table later in artist alleyâŠI think for freeâŠanother long line.
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Sounds like they were civilized on Friday however the incident I referenced happened on Saturday morning before NYCC opened.