Thursday, August 03, 2006
The 2006 San Diego Comic-Con - TOO successful?
The Onion A/V club posted a short article about the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con that gives only the slightest taste of the event. But the paragraph about Rosario Dawson's appearance was quite interesting.
I had friends that attended the Comic-Con this year and they all said the same thing- WAY TOO CROWDED! The con stopped selling tickets at noon on Saturday because they were afraid the Fire Marshall would shut the convention hall down for going over capacity. Luckily, that didn't happen. But everyone complained that almost every room was shoulder-to-shoulder and that almost every panel quickly filled up (some didn't even have standing room in the back or on the sides). One friend was glad that the con was so crowded because more people migrated to the less-crowded small press section, and as a result those vendors sold more material than ever before. Considering how expensive renting a table at the convention is, I'd say that was a VERY good thing.
Top Ten Reasons the San Diego Comic-Con Was Such A Huge Success
10) Only 7% of the show featured those bothersome comic books. The other 93% was about the cool stuff- video games, movies, DVDs, trading cards, and pogs.
9) The premiere screening of the preview for “The Mask 3: Second Cousin’s Great-Grandfather of the Mask” starring Pauly Shore.
8) Frank Miller confirmed rumors that with his next directorial effort, Will Eisner’s “The Spirit”, the main character will be completely CGI.
7) There were so many celebrities at the show that you couldn’t throw 12-sided dice without hitting one.
6) Stan Lee limited his panel appearances to 27.
5) Free balloons for the kids!
4) Everyone agreed not to mention a certain movie about a certain female in a certain liquid.
3) Violence curtailed: phasers and blasters had to be checked in at the door.
2) Where else were people in costumes going to go? Halloween isn’t for another three months!
1) Blow-up Jar Jar Binks Love Dolls – 3 for $1.
The Onion A/V club posted a short article about the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con that gives only the slightest taste of the event. But the paragraph about Rosario Dawson's appearance was quite interesting.
I had friends that attended the Comic-Con this year and they all said the same thing- WAY TOO CROWDED! The con stopped selling tickets at noon on Saturday because they were afraid the Fire Marshall would shut the convention hall down for going over capacity. Luckily, that didn't happen. But everyone complained that almost every room was shoulder-to-shoulder and that almost every panel quickly filled up (some didn't even have standing room in the back or on the sides). One friend was glad that the con was so crowded because more people migrated to the less-crowded small press section, and as a result those vendors sold more material than ever before. Considering how expensive renting a table at the convention is, I'd say that was a VERY good thing.
Top Ten Reasons the San Diego Comic-Con Was Such A Huge Success
10) Only 7% of the show featured those bothersome comic books. The other 93% was about the cool stuff- video games, movies, DVDs, trading cards, and pogs.
9) The premiere screening of the preview for “The Mask 3: Second Cousin’s Great-Grandfather of the Mask” starring Pauly Shore.
8) Frank Miller confirmed rumors that with his next directorial effort, Will Eisner’s “The Spirit”, the main character will be completely CGI.
7) There were so many celebrities at the show that you couldn’t throw 12-sided dice without hitting one.
6) Stan Lee limited his panel appearances to 27.
5) Free balloons for the kids!
4) Everyone agreed not to mention a certain movie about a certain female in a certain liquid.
3) Violence curtailed: phasers and blasters had to be checked in at the door.
2) Where else were people in costumes going to go? Halloween isn’t for another three months!
1) Blow-up Jar Jar Binks Love Dolls – 3 for $1.
# posted by Test_Pilot @ 11:38 AM 
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This brings up a very interesting question: Are ANY of us geeks if we are ALL geeks? My knowledge of comics, long my most embarassing trait (okay, my second most embarassing trait), has made me a kind of pop-culture information resource for friends who have never seen an issue of The Avengers. Part of me misses the days when my enthusiasm for muscular people in tights caused me to be hunted from village to village by peasants waving torches and pitchforks.
Thought of something else--for years I wanted to go to the SDCC, which I imagined as a paradise of old, heavy, bearded men selling rare Phantom Stranger back issues to the true believers who know, with every fiber of their being, how cool this stuff really is. If Comic Book Guy and his cohorts aren't welcome to the convention anymore, their places having been usurped by Jack Black and Charleeeez Thieron, then is the SDCC REALLY the SDCC? Are the old skool fanboys still having their con, just somewhere else where they don't have to dodge movie stars and the creeps that gawk at them?
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