Danny Miki (signature, top left) was incredibly talkative and friendly. He was quick with jokes, and expressed desire for further communication and following of his work through his myspace page. He is inking everywhere in the most popular marvel titles for the last three years. He even had a special thanks to him back in Cable #1. Rob Liefeld is an artist known for creation of Cable, one of the most popular marvel characters to come out of the nineties. Miki told of his story of Liefeld helping him get oriented into the comics scene at the time, later to return to Marvel as one of the most prolific inkers. I’m hoping next time he comes to commission him to ink a drawing of my own (unless he’d like to do so for free). He is very talented, but I would like to learn more about the extent of his work in how and where it is used in the process.

By the time I had arrived for Matt Fraction’s signing, everyone had already cleared out. I was a bit shocked, since the comic books of mine which he wrote are incredibly popular and very well written. The night before arriving at Black Cat, I read my first issue of Iron Fist; one he wrote. It contained a dialogue between the previous Fist, and the up-and-coming one. Between the writing and the artist’s depiction of the dialogue, as well as the seriousness discussion and content, the issue was phenomenal. I was then reminded that he did one of my favorite dialogues ever, read only months ago in the first three issues of Punisher War Journal. This was the confrontation and history between Steve Rogers and Frank Castle (Capt. America and The Punisher). Both are soldiers bred for war, but both have become entirely different sides of the same coin. They are finally put on the same side, in Marvel’s Civil War, in the same room where Captain America has been offered the chance to accept the aid of known criminal super-villains (killers) in order to win the war. Punisher makes an entrance into the room filled with “New Avengers” and takes the temptation from “Cap” riddling the villains with flurry of lead, covering the heroes in brains and blood. The writing that follows is to die for…written by the highly prolific Matt Fraction. Since the signing I have picked up every punisher issue he has done, as well as the “Thor: Ages of Thunder” one-shot, which was also amazing.

Thanks again to Matt, Miki, and Greg.