John's Favorite Denver Comic Con Memories - Part II

The best part of a convention are the unexpected surprises.  It can be something as simple as say, finding a perfect collectible in the Dealer's Room, or perhaps seeing an old friend.  But once in a while, the convention itself manages to completely blow you away and that happened to me last year at Denver Comic Con and it is to date, the other half of my favorite DCC memory.  

The other day I took a moment to tell all of you how Comic Book Classroom left me in awe and that it just happened to tie into today and well...this moment is one that I always think of when it comes to Denver Comic Con.

See late last year at the con, near the end of it on Sunday, I was summoned to the Comic Book Classroom Corral with the simple instruction that something important was about to happen and I needed to find a spot with my camera. Well naturally, my mind went racing, what could DCC have planned and well...after a few agonizing moments of waiting, something incredible happened.  

The crowd of volunteers guarding the stage parted and there he was, William Shatner himself.  With a smile on his face he took the stage and spoke to the kids, and then the magic happened, he read "Where the Wild Things Are" to the audience of children.  It was...amazing.  

After all, here was William Shatner.  A legend of Science Fiction, a man that I idolized as a child growing up, and I still do to this day, was reading to kids in the CBC Corral.  It took every ounce of effort to not let my jaw drop, simply because I had never seen or heard of anything like this at a convention.  Two things that I hold near and dear, reading and Star Trek were coming to life before my very eyes and it left a smile on my face and tears in my eyes for the rest of the con.  I'm glad they did it near the end of the con, simply because, how does one top that?  That was the big one for me, the moment that will always speak to how important CBC is to DCC and because it really was something else.  

Yet I feel as though I am doing you a disservice.  Despite my gushing over this event, I'm not sure there are ever going to be the right words to convey just how special that moment was.  So instead, let's just share that moment again one more time before we all settle in for Denver Comic Con 2014. 

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