The MLD Team spent the afternoon at the opening day of the 2010 Philadelphia Comic Con. The day mainly featured vendors and entertainment personalities vying for fan attention, and I don’t even know if there was a single panel held on the site. Our new Twitter feed was a big part of the action so come follow along tomorrow and Sunday.

A lot of costumed characters were running around including rival groups of “Jedi” from Pennsylvania and New York. Hopefully, things will remain civil. We even had some great lunchtime entertainment at the Reading Terminal Market from a guy playing video game themes on the piano. The highlight of day one was easily taking a spin with KevinMLD in the George Barris Batmobile.

The evening entertainment was provided by the PhilyZombieCrawl.com in the form of a zombie beach party at The Trocadero. The official opening night after party featured zombie face painting and music from Bauhaus, The Misfits and other death obsessed moaners. Just two blocks away from the Convention Center, The Troc will also host Kaiju Big Battel as part of the weekend activities tomorrow night.

Look for more detailed posts with more pictures over the next few days. Also check out our show preview if you haven’t yet. In the meantime, do your best Isaac!

Things have been very focused on comic books here this week and it’s about to get worse. The annual Philadelphia Comic-Con sponsored by Wizard Entertainment comes to town today and we’ll be all over it.

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Our discussion of the new Avengers titles launching as part of Marvel’s Heroic Age continues with Secret Avengers #1. This was a book both of us were looking forward to for different reasons that you’ll see below along with spoilers for the issue.

PTB: I liked this. It wasn’t what I was expecting, but to be honest I wouldn’t know how to describe what I was expecting.

Steve Rogers plan to eliminate threats that the world doesn’t or can’t know about could be a great spin on the character and the Marvel Universe. I was questioning whether this was something that made sense for the character, but the reference to Cap’s experiences in World War II and having just read The Marvels Project got me over that.

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After all of discussion of Thunderbolts earlier this week, PTB and I thought it might be fun to discuss all of Marvel’s Heroic Age launches beginning with the centerpiece book, Avengers #1. Spoilers ahead.

PTB: I enjoyed Avengers #1, primarily because of the inclusion of Kang the Conqueror. I don’t know what it is about that character, but I’m a fan.

KevinMLD: i don’t really know anything about Kang except that he’s a guy that you have some like nostalgic appreciation of… Oh and that he’s a time traveler of some sort.

PTB: He’s a time warrior!

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A co-worker could tell I needed an assist today and provided this fine cross-branded treat from Leigh Valley Dairy Farms (official milk sponsor of the Philadelphia Flyers): Power Play Breakaway Chocolate milk.

It was delicious.

Let’s go Flyers!