July 26, 2009

• Comic Con 2009

  We survived our first visit to Comic Con and the girl’s first real “geek” convention. They both enjoyed it, collected all sorts of cool freebies and posters and bought all sorta of manga and anime type of goodies.

  From my own perspective, the sheer number of people amazed me, despite having done some really big sci fi/fantasy conventions in the past, such as World Con and DragonCon. This was also much more main stream in some ways, with the heavy presence of movie and TV studios as well as toy and computer game manufactures. I think it loses fun when it takes ages and ages to accomplish simple thing, such as walking from one booth to another, due to the mobs of people.

  At one point we were sort of trapped in the triangle of hell. One corner had the cast of Big Bang Theory signing autographs, with hordes of people trying to get close, take pictures or just breath in that general direction. Corner two had the folks from the TV series 24 doing autographs, and another mob of insane folks. Finally, corner 3 was G4, a cable game station, doing a live feed of the convention from a two story booth with live cameras on the top floor and TV people encouraging the crowd to flock around to be on TV and cheer for the cameras.

  We couldn’t go any direction and the press of people got to a point where I was frightened and trying to protect Becca from being crushed. (Joe and Megan were back in the hotel at this time.) I now totally understand how people can be crushed to death in a frenzied crowd. Not fun.

  On happier notes, I did enjoy a lot and especially enjoyed how much fun Becca and Megan were having. I learned the 1960′s British TV show “The Prisoner” is being re-done as a mini series by BBC. That should be very cool. They were making photo ID cards for people and assigning them their numbers, then welcoming them to the village. I am not sure how many people “got it”, since even the people promoting the show were far too young to have ever seen the show.

  We also learned they will be re-making the show V, about the “visitors” from outer space, from the 1980s. Again though, I felt very old, as the people promoting it, had not been alive when it was first shown on TV! LOL!

  Steam punk has become very popular and I saw a lot more than I had seen in the past, which I thought was fun.

  Oh and I saw a comic book publisher trying to do the Robert Jordan “Wheel of Time” series in comic book form. That should only take about a million issues to fully illustrate!

  And then there was the scary long-haired guy who was naked except for a strategically placed soda can on a rope. What the heck was up with that? He was certainly getting attention. Becca declared him “wrong on so many levels!” I had to agree and was glad she was not there alone!

  We only went the one day, so I can’t really report on panels or movie or TV premiers. To even see things like the pimping of Iron Man 2, or Avatar, you had to wait in lines for hours and hours, just to get a seat. I just don’t care enough anymore to get into doing that outdoors in 85+ heat with mega humidity. I can wait and read about it in the paper the next day!

  Over all, it was a fun trip and we all had a good time. And both girls would like to attend again next year, but for the full 4 days! Can you buy energy drinks by the case? *grin*

  

  

  

  

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