Some highlights from NY Comic-Con

I'm at Comic-Con for the Pirate Cinema tour. Here's some highlights from yesterday's brief excursion on the floor:

An Occupy Ankh-Morpork protester at Terry Pratchett's signing for Dodger.

Star Trek: TOS bathrobes! (Speaking as a serious loungewear enthusiast, I have this to say: PHWOAR). Available from Amazon and ThinkGeek.

Some folks from RedBubble were showing off this spiffy Alex DeOrange tee, designed by R-evolution GFX.

AMAZEBALLS! Daniel Kraus's stupendous graverobber novel Rotters is out in paperback!

The wonderful Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal folks were out in force, with individually wrapped lubricated monocles, sold in condom packages.

You can see all my pics from NYCC in my Flickr stream (I'll be adding more today and tomorrow). Today I'm doing Author Spotlight on the Unbound Stage at 12 o'clock, and then signing books at the Tor Booth (#920) at 3PM.

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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PrettyBoyTim

Not sure why you’d want your monocle lubricated. Wouldn’t it:
a) Fall out more easily
b) Be all smeary to look through?
- http://www.facebook.com/tomsissons Thomas Sissons
  
  And why are they selling them in condom packets? This whole idea is ridiculous!
  
  WHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSHHH
  - http://decayfilm.com ssam
    
    its a joke from a comic strip http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2255 (if you are new to SMBC, if you hover over the red dot you get an extra popup)
- bcsizemo
  
  It might be more of a saline solution like contact (the eye kind) cleaner.
  
  But I do say the condom style packaging is a little er, interesting.
Everett Anderson

Please grab a shot of any efforts there to save City of Heroes! (Might be #savecoh tags or flyers.)
neatorama

Star Trek Bath Robes are also available at the Boing Boing Shop: http://shop.boingboing.net/search?q=star+trek+bath+robe
- trackofalljades
  
  What no love for the Empire? I’m not making that up right, the black one to the left of the TOS robes in the article photo is the symbol of imperial forces in Star Wars?
Frank Diekman

New band name: Lubricated Monocle.
http://nelc.livejournal.com/ NelC

When was the picture of the queue for Sir Pterry taken? I only ask because he was supposed to be at the Cheltenham Literary Festival today, but he cancelled supposedly at the last minute, and the bookshop staff were talking up how on his last legs he was.
- Cory Doctorow
  
  Yesterday, early evening.
  - http://nelc.livejournal.com/ NelC
    
    Just a scheduling conflict, then, and not Pterry about to disintegrate. Glad to hear it. I suspect that young bookshop employee figures all us forty-plus-year-olds are at Death’s door.
http://twitter.com/TheRedMonk01 Red Monk

Havelock Vetinari has been in power too long, and needs to step down.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8211748 Brian Innis

They were UNlubricated monocles. I stopped at the same booth and thought it said lubricated but I was corrected.
http://www.facebook.com/littledeath303 Joy LadyChaos Swiontek

oh wow I had no idea that SMBC was at ROFLCONIII… thats where i got my monocle..