I went to the New York Comic Con this past weekend and it was so good. Got some autographs, shook some hands, took a picture in front of the Black Beauty from the upcoming Green Hornet flick with some hotties, grabbed a couple bags full of comics and had a grand old time. It was way better than most of the trade shows I’ve gone to in the past. Yeah, some of those late 90s Internet shows and Mac shows were pretty sweet. I seem to remember some bungie jumping in Boston, but that was so long ago.

Most of the shows I went to back in the day were in and around home building, automation and high-end home theater. There was some fun stuff to see there, too, though I was working at those shows. One of the most impressive shows was one the National Association of Home Builders did. There were companies that would actually go to the hall and build houses. At one show somebody even built a replica of the Simpsons house. It was pretty wild.

So that got me thinking. Maybe DC comics should have taken a page from the NAHB show. They could have checked out some steel buildings, found something ultra cool and appropriate and erected it in the middle of the Javits Center. Then they just need a guy in a red cape to call it home for the weekend and they’ve got the best booth at the show…the Booth of Steel!