Orlando is quickly becoming a hub for quality scifi and comic conventions. One of the city’s best is scheduled to take place this coming weekend, when MegaCon 2007 rolls into the Orange County Convention Center starting Friday, Feb 16 through Sunday, Feb 18.

The event combines celebrity guests from film and tv with comic/graphic novel guests in a weekend sure to make any fanboy/girl happy. This year’s celebrity guests include Sean Astin (”Sam” from the Lord of the Rings movies), Kevin Sorbo (”Hercules,” “Andromeda”), Mary McDonnell and Jamie Bamber (”President Laura Roslin” and “Commander Lee ‘Apollo’ Adama” from “Battlestar Galactica”), Efren Ramirez (”Pedro” from Napolean Dynamite), and castmembers from “Lexx” and “Farscape,” among many others. These guests will be signing autographs daily (for a fee) and most will also be appearing in panels scheduled throughout the weekend.

For the comic/graphic novel fans, MegaCon has lined up such talent as Dick Giordano (”Batman: Hollywood Knight,” “Watchman”), Adam Kubert (”Ultimate X-Men,” “The Incredible Hulk”), JG Jones (”Wonder Woman,” “Black Widow”), George Pérez (”JLA Avengers,” “The Return of Donna Troy”), Brian Pulido (”Lady Death”) and over 100 more artists and writers. Even better, there are panels running throughout all three days addressing topics of interest not just to fans, but aspiring comic/graphic novel artists & writers.

To top it off, there are dealer booths throughout the venue to blow plenty of your hard earned cash on.

Admission is $48 for a pass that gets you into all three days of events or $22 for a daily pass if you can’t spare the whole weekend.

MegaCon starts Friday at 1pm (with early admission at noon for those with a 3-day pass) and runs to 7pm. Saturday’s hours are 10am-6pm and Sunday’s are 10am-5pm. There are several tracks of programming that run later than these times, so please check the online schedule. There are also two offsite events: a party Friday at Coliseum of Comics on O.B.T. and a “MegaCon Bowl-a-thon” Saturday that will benefit The Hero Initiative, a charity that helps out comic book veterans in times of need.

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