• That Shelley Drum, and her Staff of Registration Booth Awesomeness featuring Jenny Bement, provided the perfect first impression to all of our Artists and Patrons
• That The Heroes Booth once again was the best at the Con. Seth Peagler and Phil Southern outdid themselves yet again!
• That Ben Towle and Craig Fischer are amazing!  Moebius and Blueberry Cake–genius!
• That  C.J. and Justin deserve special kudos for holding down the fort whilst the rest of us drank up all the weekend’s profits.
• That Steve Saffel, Dana Hayward and Dr.Scott Valeri are ROCKS who kept me (sorta) sane
• That we all owe the Lord Above a major solid for shifting the winds around for us on Sunday night
• That along with the aforementioned deity, I owe a major solid to Jimmy Aquino, Chad Bowers, Adam Daughhetee (OK, a few more than one solid!), Doug Merkle, Brandon Padgett, Shawn Daughhetee, Matthew Knapik, Chris Schweizer, Winslow Drum, DC’s Eddie Berganza, Vy Tran and Dustin Harbin! And Rico for all his fabulous ideas.Thanks guys’n’ gal.
• That Richard Thompson and Roger Langridge helped to make this one of the best weekends of my life!
• That The Comic Strip was an Awesome idea; I could have spent every moment of the Con roaming around there!  Let’s do it again next year!
• That after all those Subs, Calzones and Chick-Fil-A, I really need to eat a green vegetable–STAT
• That our stalwart Information Booth anchored by the always fabulous Charles Foesch and his partner, HeroesCon In-house Counsel, Heather McKinney is the place to be for fun and focus all weekend long.
• That each one of us contemplated–at least for a few moments– abandoning our current lives and joining Rusty Baily in Hawaii. ALOHA!
• That it should be said again and again, that the Art Auction Duo of Michaele Autry and Trey Alexander are the reigning MVPs of HeroesCon
• That Izzy Renzi is our new BFF and a whiz with the hole-punch.
• That every year, the Quick Draw remains the most delightful and (sometimes) heart-wrenching event at HeroesCon.  Don’t believe it?  Come by next year and see.
• That in addition to being the next up-and-coming Panel Moderator Extraordinaire, Doug “Rain Man” Merkle remains an excellent driver
• That Heidi MacDonald from The Beat rocks!  Thank you so much for all your effort and advice!  God bless ya!
• That I was proven correct by the Saturday morning panel discussion– Wednesday Comics was the most exciting publication of last year
• That Chris (Cinderella) Roberson speaks as cleverly and as wittily as he writes–and that is saying something!
• That collectively all of Charlotte will shed a tear or two when Chrissie Zullo departs for NYC

photo by Vy Tran

• That Darwyn Cooke is one of the most engaging conversationalists in the industry and
• That everyone who has not read The Hunter or The Outfit are doing themselves a major disservice
• That I will always have an extra special place in my pure fan-boy heart for Jim Scancarelli, Marcus Hamilton, Joe Staton, Mike Rhode, John Read, Irwin Hasen, Nick Cardy and Alex Saviuk.
• That I owe all the success of this years panels to my Dream Team– the multi-hued, multi-talented Karla Marsh, the always vivacious Pants (yaaaay!), the always colorful Val Staples and our tireless and brilliant friends–the crew from the DollarBin— Adam Daughhetee and his not so evil minions Devin and that Ted Tarver person
• That HeroesCon remains THE best and most family friendly Comic convention in the US today
• That everyone I’ve forgotten will please forgive me, I am still a tad shredded by all the weekend’s activity!
• That Rico Renzi is a beacon of calm leadership and innovative thinking in the midst of mounting (albeit controlled) chaos. Well Done sir!  Outstanding!!!

and finally

• That in the pantheon of the all-time Great Conventioneers, Store Owners and Comic Collectors, Shelton Drum’s place must be listed simply as “none higher “

See you in 385