This is Comic Geeks Speak, episode 1217, the 2012 C2E2 tapes.

Welcome to the show. I'm Brian Christman, and I was out in Chicago this past weekend for the third annual Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, better known as C2E2.

I was set up an artist's alley with our CGS booth and managed to get away to do a few

interviews and actually had some few folks stopped by the booth for some interviews, so you've got to hear that coming up.

But first, a word from our sponsor, the Super Wild Pig Show.

Speaking of conventions, happening May 5th and May 6th at the Embassy Suites in Piscataway, New Jersey.

And you can go to wild pigcomics.com to pre-order your tickets.

They recently updated their raffle items for the weekend.

They actually have three free raffles over the course of the weekend at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Saturday and 1 p.m. on Sunday.

If you purchase a one-day admission for Saturday or Sunday, you receive one raffle ticket.

If you purchase a weekend pass, you get two raffle tickets.

And if you pre-order a weekend admission, you receive three raffle tickets.

And you can also buy additional tickets for $1 each with no limit.

And some of the free items are amazing.

They're giving away omnibuses, some collected additions, hard covers, absolutes, just some amazing stuff.

But what I wanted to mention are the bonus raffle items.

There is a bonus raffle held at 3.30 p.m. on Sunday, and tickets for this will be $1 each.

They will have several items where you can choose which one you'd like to win and put your tickets in for that.

These items are, right now, there could be some more, but right now it's a Batman Year 1 DVD maquette,

a John Ramita Amazing Spider-Man Artist Edition hardcover, a Thor statue from Bowen Designs,

a Hawkeye statue from Bowen Designs, and a complete set

of all the number one issues in near-mint-to-mint condition of DC's the new 52. But what was

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