First Impression of Comic Con? Fun!
Second Impression of Comic Con? Massive sensory overload.
Third Impression of Comic Con? Oh-my-freaking-gods, the crowds. There are people everywhere. And the lines.
My first day at Comic Con was awesome and a huge learning experience. I learned that you've gotta have strategy to navigate this behemoth Con successfully - the lines for Hall H and Ballroom 20 could easily suck up hours of your day and that was on Thursday! The least crowded day of the Con!
I got my badge (quick and easy, it was running smooth when I was there) and immediately went to the Exhibition Hall to gawk.
I meant to go to a Stan Lee panel (with Mark Hamil, y'all!), but ended up in 6A rather than 6BCF and what should I find instead? A panel on the upcoming Dreamworks/Cartoon Network weekly cartoon series Dragons: Riders of Berk which follows Hiccup, Toothless and their cohorts as the dragons and their riders learn how to live in harmony. The first two seasons of this show will apparently flow smoothly into the second How to Train Your Dragon movie. Cool beans, huh? They got a lot of the same actors to do voices as well as adding some new talent (America Ferrera as Astrid, Mark Hamil as a villain, and Tim Conway (!!!!) as comic relief).
After that, I grabbed some lunch and got in line for the Tim Burton/Sam Raimi/John C. Reilly panel (or as everyone called it "the Disney panel" since they were doing Frankenweenie, Wreck It Ralph & Oz. I was lucky to be next to some fantastically awesome people in line, so fun was had by all, but we didn't get into the panel... after over an hour of waiting. (Ugh.) I did however learn, while chatting with some guys from Warner Brothers who shall remain nameless that they canNOT (wink wink) confirm that they are positioning themselves with the new Superman for a new Justice League franchise. HOW COOL WOULD THAT BE??? I just need a second to geek out. (Except for the fact that they would all be from the UK. Seriously, what is with all the superheroes turning British? Batman, Superman, Spiderman... at least they can all fake American.)
Because I'm an academic nerd, next I went to a panel on The Future of Superhero Studies in academia. It was interesting and I have some thoughts of validity of pop culture, the cultural studies approach, and the adaptation and iterations of comic franchises... but that's too much for this lil update. A blog for another day.
After that it was back in line, this time for Dexter and this time I did get in! We got an EXCLUSIVE SNEAK PEEK at the first two minutes of next season and OMG I can't wait for September! Then two of the executive producers and three cast members (Michael C Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, and... drumroll please, this season's guest star, Yvonne Strahovsky from Chuck fame! who sounds so different with her natural accent...) chatted about the show and answered questions.
I hurried from there off to another panel about composing music for video games - particularly video games based on film franchises with distinctive film scores (Star Wars, Harry Potter, Dark Knight, etc.). It was seriously cool listening to these five composers talk about their work - even though they weren't allowed to say much about upcoming projects.
By then it was getting late and even though there was a Dr. Horrible Sing-A-Long coming up, I was running on empty and admitted defeat. Hopefully tonight I'll have more stamina.
Today involved the dreaded choice between waiting in the ungodly line for The Big Bang Theory or waiting in the ungodly line for Firefly. Normally, I'd go with Firefly (because my epic love of it knows no bounds), but if I don't go to Big Bang Theory, I might not get into Game of Thrones (because they don't clear the room between panels). It's all about the strategy. Wish me luck and much geeking out! Until the next update... don't cross the streams!
Second Impression of Comic Con? Massive sensory overload.
Third Impression of Comic Con? Oh-my-freaking-gods, the crowds. There are people everywhere. And the lines.
I got my badge (quick and easy, it was running smooth when I was there) and immediately went to the Exhibition Hall to gawk.
After that, I grabbed some lunch and got in line for the Tim Burton/Sam Raimi/John C. Reilly panel (or as everyone called it "the Disney panel" since they were doing Frankenweenie, Wreck It Ralph & Oz. I was lucky to be next to some fantastically awesome people in line, so fun was had by all, but we didn't get into the panel... after over an hour of waiting. (Ugh.) I did however learn, while chatting with some guys from Warner Brothers who shall remain nameless that they canNOT (wink wink) confirm that they are positioning themselves with the new Superman for a new Justice League franchise. HOW COOL WOULD THAT BE??? I just need a second to geek out. (Except for the fact that they would all be from the UK. Seriously, what is with all the superheroes turning British? Batman, Superman, Spiderman... at least they can all fake American.)
Because I'm an academic nerd, next I went to a panel on The Future of Superhero Studies in academia. It was interesting and I have some thoughts of validity of pop culture, the cultural studies approach, and the adaptation and iterations of comic franchises... but that's too much for this lil update. A blog for another day.
After that it was back in line, this time for Dexter and this time I did get in! We got an EXCLUSIVE SNEAK PEEK at the first two minutes of next season and OMG I can't wait for September! Then two of the executive producers and three cast members (Michael C Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, and... drumroll please, this season's guest star, Yvonne Strahovsky from Chuck fame! who sounds so different with her natural accent...) chatted about the show and answered questions.
I hurried from there off to another panel about composing music for video games - particularly video games based on film franchises with distinctive film scores (Star Wars, Harry Potter, Dark Knight, etc.). It was seriously cool listening to these five composers talk about their work - even though they weren't allowed to say much about upcoming projects.
By then it was getting late and even though there was a Dr. Horrible Sing-A-Long coming up, I was running on empty and admitted defeat. Hopefully tonight I'll have more stamina.
Today involved the dreaded choice between waiting in the ungodly line for The Big Bang Theory or waiting in the ungodly line for Firefly. Normally, I'd go with Firefly (because my epic love of it knows no bounds), but if I don't go to Big Bang Theory, I might not get into Game of Thrones (because they don't clear the room between panels). It's all about the strategy. Wish me luck and much geeking out! Until the next update... don't cross the streams!
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Wow, sounds like you're in nerdvana. Enjoy!
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