OK! OK! I'll talk about Comic Con

I really must say that I liked the convention center design a lot. This shot I took coming down the elevators is so sci-fi!

Honestly I think I'll break up my "coverage" a bit since it would be an unnecessarily long post. I don't have as many pictures as I thought I did. I'm pretty sure it's because my camera sucks. It has this problem reading the memory card. Talk about a MAJOR flaw.

Comic Con grew on me. Let's just say that early on the first day I could hardly wait to go home, and by the end of Saturday I was almost wishing that I had booked another night. Next year I'm sure.

I didn't know what to expect from Comic Con. Last year I went to AnimeExpo in LA and felt really really out of place, but I'm guessing it was mostly because I don't know Anime. I'm at least conversant in Superheroes. There weren't as many costumes as I was expecting. I was told that in previous years there were more, but that's cool. I don't need to see too many out of shape people in spandex anyway.

This guy was freaking cool though!



The "Floor", where all the booths are, was HUUUGE! And crowded. Waaay too crowded for the likes of me. The side of the hall that had all the major media players was of course more crowded than the other end of the hall because that's where all the cool stuff was. I did manage to accidentally catch a glimpse of the True Blood cast as I was walking by the WB booth. I like the show a lot, but I'm not about to stand in line for a couple of hours or more to get them to sign a shirt. Ugh. In fact I refused to stand in any line, which meant that I didn't get much swag, but I'd throw most of it away anyway.

I spent more of my time upstairs in the conference rooms listening to random panels. I got to listen to Charlaine Harris (Author of the Sookie Stackhouse Series, aka True Blood). She was pretty awesome if I do say so myself. And I attended a watercolor Master Session with Jill Thompson (my pictures of which are gone. &*$%# camera).

What I found most interesting was just observing the crowd and the different types of people. I really liked going to panels where I knew none of the "famous" people and just trying to see what the difference in attitude and purpose between them and their fans.

Fandom confuses me. How do fans see the object of their obsession and how does the receiving end see their work? What is it that allows one person to become successful in their chosen medium and another a wanna be? As someone in the middle with the potential to either fall back into wanna-be land or over to the blessed few succeed and shape culture it fascinates me. I just want to be able to understand both sides. I guess it's the writer in me.

Enough for now. Tomorrow I'll talk about how awesome it is to know Goofy. :P