Pictures from Wizard World Chicago '08:

(Some are a little fuzzy, but it's a lot easier carrying a cameraphone than a real camera.

A brilliant Anna Mercury. This lady showed up at the Avatar panel at New York ComicCon, and the Avatar folks liked her so much that they paid for her to come to Chicago and hang out around the booth.

Warren Ellis signing at the Avatar booth.

More Warren Ellis signing at the Avatar booth. He saw me taking a picture, and smiled and thumbs-upped for me, but my picture of that clicked just before the thumbs-up, when he's looking like I'm just about to assassinate him.

Warren reading from his book A Crooked Little Vein, at the late night Ellis panel.

I saw this last year by accident -- it turns out that it's just off the train stop, within a few blocks of Brainstorm Comics.

Flat Ass Spiderman

Granny Goodness

Granny Goodness (with some sweet backlighting)

The Littlest Avenger

And the Award for The World's Most Impractical Convention Costume goes to... Mojo! Good luck hunting through the comic bins in that outfit, Mojo. Or even sitting down.

I don't know what this is, but I'm pretty sure Grant Morrison sees it on a daily basis.

Peter David signing.

A small Spiral, from the Mojoverse.

Tranny Supergirl. (As if I needed to tell you that.)

Wolverine and a slightly pudgy X23.