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Scenes From New York Comic Con 2024: Day One Part Two

October 19, 2024 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

So as previously mentioned in my Day One, Part One post, the New York Comic Con for 2024 had taken over what appeared to be the entire Javits Center. Now this is usually the case with this convention but with the expansion of the space a few years ago it just seems even more massive. I’m going to continue along with the day to day observations both visually and with the occasional editorial and if this interests you I’d suggest that you first click NYCC 2024 to launch a brand-new browser tab in order to see all of the New York Comic Con posts from this year in one handy space. My Day One adventuring continues along with a game about Boba. I’m not too up on this outside of Boba Tea but this looked cute.

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Features, PiercingMetal Says

The Ultraman Universe Takes Over NYC During New York Comic Con 2024

October 9, 2024 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

The Press Release:
Ultraman fans, get ready to take your fandom to a new level! Today, Tsuburaya Productions announced that Japan’s most iconic superhero Ultraman is taking over New York Comic Con like never before. Throughout the weekend, fans of the pop culture franchise will have access to Ultraman content at the Jacob Javits Center and across the New York area from must-attend panels, collectible merch, a live stage show, and more!

comic book art, ultraman, ultraman comic book art, marvel comics, marvel entertainment — Ultraman artwork by Ed McGuinness and Matthew Wilson

The Ultraman universe first debuted in 1966 in the television series Ultra Q and over the last 58+ years, the Ultraman franchise has spawned a record number of television series, films, video games, and more. The presence of Ultraman at New York Comic Con comes at a time of major growth and increased brand awareness of the Ultraman franchise, sparked by the recent hit-maker Ultraman: Rising, which landed on Netflix in June and has become a fan-favorite and critical darling.
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Features, Interviews

Artist Interviews from New York Comic Con 2023 @ Javits Center – Part Two

November 20, 2023 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

Back in October, PiercingMetal was in attendance at the 2023 edition of the famed New York Comic Con which took over the Javits Center for four days. During the course of our media coverage of the event, a series of artist interviews were done by site founder Ken Pierce. While all of these videos are resident on the Official PiercingMetal YouTube Channel, several have been collected into this post to expand the coverage that gets featured on the website. This is the second in a series of installments that will run until all the videos from NYCC 2023 have all been featured.

Exploring The NECA Booth

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Pop Culture, Toys and Collectibles

Checking Out Playmates Toys and Bandai @ Toy Insider’s “Sweet Suite” 2023

July 13, 2023 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

It was that time of the year again for the always amazing “Sweet Suite” event that comes care of the fine folks at the Toy Insider. According to my notes, I’ve been attending Toy Insider happenings since 2016 and I look forward to it each and every time. This year I’ve decided to post the coverage a little differently since while some things are best served up here on PiercingMetal, there are also a number of amazing products that I can feature over on “The Chronicles of Piercing Ken”. Let’s start off with some visuals from the Playmates Toys booth.

I’ll begin with what they had from their “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” line. Some of you might have already seen a couple of these items from “The Play Date” event where I did a product overview video with them but some items are new for the season. I love the smaller figures and plan on getting myself a set soon. I still have the original action figures from long, long ago in a box somewhere.

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Events, Reviews

Scenes From Anime NYC 2022: Day One (Part 1)

November 19, 2022 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

Hello again my friends and welcome back to another bit of convention coverage and photo presenting from the 5th Annual Anime NYC. I’ve been attending this one since it began and for those new to the event and these kinds of proceedings, its a creation of the fine folks at Leftfield Media and is presented by Crunchyroll. Now as I’ve probably mentioned somewhere else, I am not the biggest study in the world of Anime despite my deep appreciation for all things comic books and those films that relate to the characters that I grew up with. With all that being said we are back at the Javits Center almost a month after the famed New York Comic Con and were very excited to see what was going on in this always fun time. Once I secured my press badge, I poked around and learned that there would be no proper opening ceremonies and I learned it was in the interest of continued COVID-19 protection. This surprised me since so many events had moved past this by this time but thanks to a report from our former idiot Mayor DiBlasio last year, he alarmed the city with reports that a spreader event had happened here. It did not but I digress. Before the adventuring began I’ve taken a page out of my NYCC posts and did a short clip for the three networks and share the one from our Official YouTube here.

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