This is Comic Geek Speak, special pre-heroesCon convention coverage.

Welcome to Comic Geek Speak. I'm Brian Deamer.

I'm Peter Rios.

And this is a special episode where we're going to talk to Shelton Drum, the organizer for HeroesCon, and get the scoop on the convention and all of its workings.

Because it's only one week away.

One week away. week away definitely this special

friday episode for you guys that's right don't say we never gave you nothing all right so

here we go hello shelton yes hey there you are how you doing i'm great how we doing pretty good

welcome to the show.

Thank you.

So we're talking about HeroesCon. This is a week away, and you're pretty much in the thick of things, correct?

Well, we are. All the deadlines are right now, you know, all the print deadlines, and all the details at the convention center and hotel details and flight stuff, it's all right now.

Well, this has been an incredible journey from last year to this year.

The list of creators is just amazing.

I'm surprised you found room for them all.

Do you have any idea, like, what's the increase of creator percentage wise or even advanced

tickets from last year's convention well the advanced tickets are more than double of that

last year's advanced tickets i don't know how it's going to translate to overall sales but i think

it's a pretty good indicator that it's going to be very strong. Creator-wise, I guess, close to double on that, too.

A real big increase besides the big-name pros are, you know, small press and independent press.

We sold a ton of those spaces.

So it's going to be a huge independent crowd there.

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