Having attended this Con for the last few years, i'd say i know what to expect. unlike a lot of comments i didnt have any issues with the queing and found that if you go to the autograph sessions later in the day most are open ques i didnt que any longer than 5 minutes to see both Jeri Ryan and Karl Urban which was great. For the first time however i was interested in some comic artists who do not have crew around to moniter or help out. saw all the Transformers artists really quickly all lovely, but the more popular Gary Frank was a bit of a nightmare. joined a que of about 40 people which wasnt too bad however i spent 20 minutes standing in the same spot with the que not moving. after a quivk investigation i found this was because he was sketching peoples requests which took 20 minutes a go and then there were also people taking stacks of 30- 40 comic to get signed. after 2 hours of waiting i was 6/7 people from the front and he started packing away and saying this was the last person he was going to sign for it was only 4pm and there was only about 10 more people in the que. Admittidly i did say rather loudly so ive been standing here for 2 hours and now im going to get nothing, which provoked him to say fine everyone can get one thing signed. I thijnk if i hadn't of said this he would have happily walked away. I think in future ot would be good to have someoene monitoring this and restricting the amount of things that people get signed, restricting the amount of sketches done to request or having specific sessions for this. having two ques one for people who want sketches onefor people whom just want signings. i think the more poular comic artist need this to save disappointment.
