He-Man Battling Princess Leia Hundreds have come to San Jose's Big Wow Comics Festival seeing their favorite artists and buying vintage comic books & collectibles. Many are attending drawing and storytelling workshops, communing together in fantasy of the imagination. They are pondering the future comics is in same sinkhole with newspapers, magazines and books, print media losing to the Internet. But this is a happy crowd fans have come dressed as their favorite superhero or villain there were four Wonder Women, two Lara Crofts, a Jack Sparrow, a Thor, one Alien monster, a Batman, and a squadron of Star Wars storm troopers. Now action in the aisles Five-year old Hannah Paquiz is locking her sword with He-Man played by Matt Helm of San Jose. He-Man with blonde flock of hair, gold-chained breastplate, bear-skin around his waist & ankles, known as "Most Powerful Man in the Universe". His black Power Sword aimed at Hannah's eyes, but she's not at all intimidated, having learned a trick or two from Obi-Wan Kenobi Just look at those eyes so focused parrying him off. This Jedi-knight will win wielding her lightsaber because she has on her Princess Leia dress. Peter Y. Chou Mountain View, 5-20-2014 |