We started off Wednesday night with preview night, and even though we got there three hours before the hall opened, we weren’t very close to the front of the line. Next year we will have to leave earlier. Once we got inside, however, there was the usual spectacle of booths, displays and freebies. I even got my picture taken lifting a car! It wasn’t a real car(obviously), but you actually had to lift it, and it was pretty heavy, which might have been why they made us sign a liability waiver 
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Comic con is getting so big these days that it is spilling out into the area around the convention center. Across the street there are huge ads as well as more booths and giveaways. Inside the Marriott hotel, adjacent to the con, there was a booth set up for a new TV network called the hub. Here you could spin a wheel to win a prize as well as pose for some photo opportunities.
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On Monday I will post about some of the panels we went to, as well as some of the awesome webcomic artist who were there promoting their work who I was fortunate enough to meet.
With everything going on last week, I forgot to update the vote incentive, but this week
is a nice one. I painted up that sketched of Momo that was up a few weeks ago.
Well, I am in San Diego, but the comic is still updating thanks to the magic of wordpress. This year I plan to try to learn as much as possible, meet some of my favorite artists, and failing that, at least get some cool swag.
The schedule is online for San Diego Comic Con and I’ve been going over it. There are several webcomic panels that I think I will try to go to, seeing as how they are personally relevant to me now. I have also noticed on the websites of several other webcomics that I read that their creators will be there so hopefully I can get some signed books, sketches and other goodies. To prepare for the con, today I am going to wear my Dalek t-shirt, while listening to Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, while writing computer code, while thinking about webcomics. In that way perhaps I can prepare for the full blown sensory overload of geekiness that is San Diego Comic Con. I’m excited!
The vote incentive is a sketch of a weird little horse creature.
Today is “Embrace Your Geekness Day”, which is apparently another one of those silly, useless holidays people make up. Anyways, I was happy to oblige by wearing my Batman shirt to work today. Actually I didn’t even know “Embrace Your Geekness Day” existed until I got to work and saw this article. I just wore my Batman shirt to work because I like my Batman shirt a lot. No doubt my geekness is fatigued from being embraced to tightly and so often.
You know how sometimes you hear the same thing from everyone, but you decide to go against all wisdom and advice because you are determined to make your own mistakes, and then you do, and it turns out that everyone was right? Seeing The Last Airbender was kind of like that. All the reviews were bad, all my friends warned me, but I went anyway, and guess what? Surprise, surprise, it was bad. But hanging out with my friend was still fun and at least I watched the cartoon recently so its awesomeness is still fresh in my memory.
San Diego Comic Con is only three weeks away and I’m starting to get really excited. They posted the comic con exclusive merch on the website and hopefully soon they will post the schedule so that I can meticulously plan each minute of fun.
The vote incentive for this week is a cute baby dinosaur done in pencils and markers.
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