I played a lot of HeroClix in 11 days. I want to write about it all but it’s too much. Still, watch this space for a bunch of battle reports including:

 

THE ROAD TO DRAGONCON

Training, training, and more training with Planetary/Authority

 

FLASHBACK TO MOMOCON 2018

Legion vs. Starfleet

 

BATTLES OF DRAGONCON

Phoenix Fight: Jeans Grey vs. Cyclopses

Bat-Fam vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Planetary/Authority vs. Starfleet

Challenge of the X-Men/Titans

Duel of the Faves 2018 Edition

 

But what’s fresher on my mind and memory was the trip to HeroClix World Championship at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee.

Upon learning that Worlds would be a mere six hours away by car this year, I decided to cross off an item on my bucket list and attend, if even only for a day trip. Heroclixin’ Board Member Taylor vowed to come with. (Sceritz is too busy promoting his promising new comic Scorpio to be able to afford the trip.)

Fortunately, longtime clix buddy Brian R. had the idea and foresight to suggest staying overnight for a special package that included a pair of convention exclusive LEs — each of which represented a must-have for Taylor and I. So the three of us piled into my car and headed west.

Once there, we picked up some convention exclusives on our wishlists and then dove into multiple battle royals using the soon-to-release X-Men The Animated Series: The Dark Phoenix Saga set.

We had a grand time at Worlds, where 14-year-old HeroClix prodigy Isaac Arnold-Berkovits won the world championship (after taking the U.S. National title in 2018 and the ROC World Cup even earlier in 2015). It was a bucket list item for me, but the three of us all started making plans to try attending in 2020 if it were to be held at Graceland again — and to perhaps make a longer trip of it.