Hello everyone, welcome to the Mattacritic. This is Matthew Hemenway. In this episode of the Mattacritic, I will be giving you my thoughts and analysis of the Hero Convention that was in Charlotte, NC and took place on June 20, 2025, to June 22, 2025. My brother and I went together to see it on June 22, 2025. The event was fun, and we met a lot of interesting people. The event had comic book vendors selling their wares. It also had people selling toys and other things. The event had books going for sale for current stuff such as all the current Spider-verse comics. It had the different versions of the spider-verse. There is a Jessica Drew Spider-Woman as well as Gwen Stacey being called Spider-Woman. Gwen Stacey is also called Ghost Spider. Cindy Moon becomes Silk. There is Miles Morales Spider-Man. One of the pictures you will see from one of the vendors had Miles Morales Spider-Man kissing the Gwen Stacey Spider-Woman or Ghost Spider. This is a given. I will do a slide show if you are watching the video, please go to my website and click on the article to view it, if you are listening to the audio version on Apple podcasts or Spotify. Thank you.
People did dress in costumes. The good thing about this event is that if you cannot afford to go to San Diego Comic Con, this gives you a chance to go in your area. Since I live in Charlotte, NC, this works out for me. A person I met on a train as I was going home from the event told me, there is one in Concord, NC. He also told me if you are not looking for a day that is not that crowded, you want to go on Sunday to the Hero convention that was held in Charlotte, NC.
The people I talked to at the event were very interesting. The first people I talked to be a woman which I will have a picture come in this slide show. She told me that her character was no one that people knew. I asked her, if she wanted to create a new character, she told me that she was not sure. That is cool, these events are meant to be fun and why not try something out for a costume. All I wore was a Star Wars shirt that had Rey on it. It was from the film, Star Wars: The Last Jedi. She was with her boyfriend. She told me that she likes DC, but she does not dislike Marvel. She said that Rocket was here favorite character in Marvel. I told her about James Gunn directing the new Superman and she said to me that sounds exciting.
After I talked to the woman and her boyfriend, I took a picture of a guy with a sword and as I told you before, if you want to view the pictures if listening to the podcast on Apple or Spotify, please go my website. Thank you.
The hero convention in Charlotte, NC has been going on since 1982. That meant since I was born in 1979; I was two years old going on three years old. My birthday was not until October. My brother would have been 4 at the time in 1982.
The pictures that I took of the banners show different years, I do not have all of them, but I have enough to give you an idea of how many of them that have happened. The feeling is that you need to get a feel for the event. I have a picture from 1994 to the more recent banner. The next hero convention in Charlotte, NC will be on June 12, 2026, to June 14, 2026. No one is paying me to say that. I am giving this information for free. It has a picture of Wonder Woman on that banner.
In fact, I have a picture of Wonder Woman, and I will show it to you now. She is with Sue Storm of the Fantastic Four who is the Invisible Woman. I asked them, if they would like to make the Invisible Woman and Wonder Woman black. They said, maybe, but they just wanted to dress as the characters. Both Wonder Woman and the Invisible Woman are cool characters.
There were comics of transformers being sold. I am sure there will be those who will say that transformers was a show based on a toy not a comic book. Yes, it is based off a toy, but to say that transformers was just a toy is not true. It had comic books back in the 1980’s. I will leave a picture of it in the article on my website. You can go to this link to check it out. Thank you.
I saw people dressed as Star Wars characters. I saw Darth Vader, Strom troopers. I saw tie fighter pilots and the person who runs the death star. That was cool. If you can imagine it, you would see anything.
There were people who dressed as the Moon knight character which I reviewed that series that came out in 2022.
I saw a person dressed as Captain Marvel as well as Moon Knight, Miss Marvel. It was interesting to see how much fun it was.
If you are wondering, is there something to eat. The answer is yes. They have concessions for to eat. If you did not eat lunch, then they had plenty of food for you to eat.
I have pictures of the Mystery Machine, the Ghostbuster car from the original 1980’s movies and a picture of a Toyota Prius from the more recent movies.
There were people who dressed as Darth Vader, one of the clone troopers and the stormtroopers from the original Star Wars. There was a person who dressed up as a jedi.
My brother and I talked to a guy who dressed up as Doctor Doom and said that is his favorite marvel character. It would make sense to me. He told me and my brother that his favorite DC character is the Swamp thing. I asked him, why the swamp thing. He said that it just is that Swamp thing is about dark justice. I asked him, like Deadpool. Not quite, since Deadpool is the merc with the mouth. I am not familiar with the Swamp thing, but maybe I could read about him and give you my thoughts about it. Personally, to me it doesn't matter what people like. If you it causes you to think, then that is why it is important to read. A good story should be that. Please read any book that you can. The more you read, the less likely you will be manipulated by others.
There were two women dressed as magicians and one of them is a DC character and her name is Zatanna who has been seen in the series called Young Justice.
My brother and I met people who wrote their graphic novels and comics. My brother bought several of their books.
I have a picture of a woman dressed as Supergirl with her friends and they were kind enough to let me take their picture.
I met a woman who dressed as She-Ra: The Princess of Power before I left. If you are wondering, did they sell He-Man comics, they do. She-Ra is the cousin of He-Man. She and I talked about how that Spider-Man, Superman and Batman did die in the comics. The Peter Parker Spider-Man did die in the comics, and he did die in the movie into the spider verse. The version that I can think of Batman dying is in the series called Gotham Knights, which I reviewed for this channel.
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