Comic Book Conventions - Do you go? Why/why not?

[riverand]

So I'm getting ready for NYCC in a couple of weeks and just finished writing a blog post about why I think everyone should go, at least once, to check out the scene and I was wondering what everyone's reasons were for going to Cons or not going.

If you do go - what's your #1 reason?
If you don't, what's yours?

Just a question of curiosity, I guess, more than anything, but something I've never really sat down and asked anyone.

Just wondering...
~Nicole
http://www.riverarunsthroughit.com/2011/09/why-everyone-should-check-out-new-york.html

 

[TheIronRuler]

These days, Comic Books are a niche. When I was younger, it was a niche that I never knew existed. When I grew older I became familiar with it second hand.
Never have I held a comic book.
I have read a few of them as a digital copy, but here there is no real market for such a thing.
Here's your answer.

 

[ikyda1]

i just go to see all the comic books available to buy and meet one or two writers if there present at the event plus a few of them have video games on display so i check out any future releases when am there