Full convention appearance information, updates, and "after-action reports"
can be found on this section of the AvengersAssemble! Message Board.

General Convention appearance info:

ARCHON 2006
A last-minute addition, but a worthy one!  St. Louis's own SF/fantasy/comics con had me serving on numerous panels, as well as hosting Marvel vs DC Jeopardy.  A great convention!

HEROES CON 2006
A number of AvengersAssemble! associated folks made the scene at HeroesCon in Charlotte this year. 
George Perez was also be in attendance, as well as a ton of other comics luminaries.  The con was June 30- July 2, 2006.

TRINOC-CON 2006
Served on panels and hosted Marvel vs DC Jeopardy again on July 21-23, 2006 in Raleigh, NC.

DRAGON*CON 2006
Hosted Marvel vs DC Jeopardy again on Labor Day Weekend, 2006, in Atlanta.   Also served as a moderator or panelist on a number of related panels/discussions. 

Previous convention activities:

DRAGON*CON 2005
Thanks to George Kopec for his assistance again this year with Marvel Jeopardy.  What a huge turnout we had!  And more than twenty would-be contestants battled for the right to compete in the finals. Van also co-hosted a couple of comics discussion panels, as well as some non-comics panels.

TRINOC-CON 2005 in Durham, NC
This marked the first appearance of AvengersAssemble! as guests of Trinoc-Con in Durham, NC.  What a great bunch of folks.  A good time was had by all.

DRAGON*CON 2004
	Van hosted Marvel Jeopardy and moderated assorted panels in the Comics and Classic SF tracks.  There's George Kopec in the front row of a Marvel discussion panel we did, helping out again in '04.

DRAGON*CON 2003
Van hosted Marvel Jeopardy and moderated assorted panels in the Comics track.

DRAGON*CON 2002
Van hosted Marvel Jeopardy and moderated assorted panels in the Comics track.

DRAGON*CON 2001
	Van hosted Marvel Jeopardy and moderated assorted panels in the Comics track and the Babylon 5 track.  Inker extraordinaire Bob Almond was a Jeopardy contestant.

HEROES CON 2001 in Charlotte, NC
	The AvengersAssemble! Website's staff were guests of HeroesCon 2001 in Charlotte, NC-- they even made the convention's main theme "The Avengers:  Earth's Mightiest Heroes!"   The Con's entirely Avengers-themed program art can be viewed here.

DRAGON*CON 2000
	This was our largest Avengers-themed event to date, including the Third Annual Avengers Dinner, with guest Keith R. A. DeCandido.  Marvel Jeopardy and Marvel InQuizition were big hits.

DRAGON*CON 1999
	This year's festivities included the Second Annual Avengers Dinner, plus two official, Avengers-related panels: a discussion with legendary artist George Perez (the room was full and massively overflowing with fans!) and an AVENGERS Jeopardy trivia tournament.

DRAGON*CON 1998

Atlanta's Dragon*Con 1998 was the first-ever official gathering of the AvengersAssemble! Website staff, members of the Avengers Mailing List, and other Avengers fans from around the world.  The Guest of Honor was none other than Kurt Busiek (with Van, left), who (along with George Perez and Tom Brevoort) received custom-designed plaques commemorating their fabulous work in "Restoring the Avengers to their Rightful Glory."  The Inaugural Avengers Dinner and the first Avengers Jeopardy Tournament were other highlights of the convention.

The AvengersAssemble! Web site has won a number of awards over the years.  Over time, however, some of the sites and organizations that bestowed these awards have gone out of business or otherwise vanished from the Web.  The decision has thus been made to cease the announcing and posting of awards the site has won, and to take down all of the old ones.  That's not why we're here, anyway.  This section will come down eventually, but I will leave this one review quote, going all the way back to 1998, nearly three years after this site was born (and when it was still really in its infancy). We've come a long way!  --Van 

"A gem of a site for Avengers fans of all ages. There are reviews, FAQs,
character profiles and so much more. It provides a nice blend of text and
graphics so you don't get bored waiting for pages to load. This is run by
people who love their subject matter and can produce an excellent site.
They are only fans, but this is on a par with some major net players."

Rating: 9/10
From Comics International #93, April 1998

From 1996 through 2000, members of the original Avengers Mailing List annually bestowed the coveted Jarvis-Head Awards upon the best in comics of that year.  The Awards were not held the past couple of years, but will return soon, so watch this space!

Jarvis-Head Awards for 1999 Comics

Jarvis-Head Awards for 1998 Comics
     

Featured Cover of the Month:
A classic (and perhaps underappreciated) cover from a past issue of AVENGERS or an Avengers-related comic. Thanks to David Wright for running this section.
     

The Old Order Changeth!
A Periodical Column by the Avengers Assemble! Website's Van Plexico, or by a featured guest-columnist, on the Avengers and other matters in the world of comics.