Ah comic con...starts tomorrow

[nadinbrzezinski]

We will cover it, alas we are not interested in the headliners..why should we? TMZ will do that, as well as Entertainment tonight.

We are interested in the far less high profile panels and other events.

And of course any crazee (it's comic con I know) event that happens and we can get to.

Anyhoo, if you are in San Diego for this...take the trolley. We got our five day passes today. Parking downtown...what a nice joke

[longship]

1. But a bunch of the skeptic crowd will be there, too.

Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer, posted hisComicCon schedule today.

There will lots of other geek goodness there, no doubt.

If you attend, Nadin, have fun.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Yup, we will geek out

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. I haz been posting some photos on my twitter feed

Go geek out.

https://twitter.com/nadinbrzezinski

Taking a lot more with the actual dslr.

[Apophis]

4. I wish I could be there!

Phil Plait will be there. Felicia Day will be there as well. She's my nerd crush.

I'm jealous. Have fun!

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Well, sent the first radio segment to the radio last night

We are doing a lot more with indie producers and lining up an interview with somebody really important.

As I told longship, will be posting some photos to my twitter feed.

Sunday...it will be day of the living dead

[Aerows]

10. I'm totally jealous

It sounds like a great assignment to cover .

[Aerows]

6. That's awesome!

I wish I could go.

[el_bryanto]

7. Watch out for those fake geek girls - apparently they are a real problem.

Particularly if you are in the he-man woman haters club. Frankly you should probably be suspicious of women in general.

Bryant

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. I hope you forgot the sarcasm here

[Aerows]

9. I'd love to see the Game of Thrones panel

I also love Once Upon a Time, but without Lana Parrilla it's useless. Gennifer Godwin and Jennifer Morrison irritate the shit out of me.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. I am betting you'd prefer the Lewis panel

Yup, that Congressman

[Aerows]

12. The reference is totally lost on me

unfortunately. I'm not always completely plugged in to everything LOL. Who is Lewis the Congressman?

[pinboy3niner]

18. I knew who, but not why, so I looked it up...

Rep. John Lewis To Visit BEA, San Diego Comic-Con To Promote ‘March’

By Calvin Reid | Feb 04, 2013

Announced last summer for publication in August 2013 by Top Shelf Productions, March is a three volume graphic autobiography of longtime Congressman and legendary Civil Rights veteran John Lewis, that will be co-produced by Andrew Aydin, Lewis’ co-writer, and award-winning cartoonist Nate Powell. In a phone call from his Congressional office in Washington, D.C., Lewis discussed his interest in comics, his desire to reach a new generation of young people with his story and plans to visit the San Diego Comic-Con to promote the work of nonfiction comics.

Lewis and his new graphic autobiography March will be featured at a Book and Author Breakfast at this year’s BookExpo America and Lewis will appear at the American Library Association convention and the San Diego Comic-Con this summer. Considered a key member of the Civil Rights leadership of the 1960s along with such historic figures as Martin Luther King, Whitney Young and Roy Wilkins, John Lewis is a Civil Rights legend. Lewis was a key organizer and leader during the Civil Rights Movement and as at the core of many of the most famous, important and often deadly violent protest marches, fighting to register black voters in the face of violent and hostile racist mobs, mobs supported and unrestrained by the local police.

...


http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/55804-rep-john-lewis-to-visit-bea-san-diego-comic-con-to-promote-march.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. Posting from my phone sucks

Thanks

[pinboy3niner]

27. I figured you'd be tied up with a few thousand of your caped crusader friends :)

I got John Lewis' autograph at a March we did in Ohio in '04. He led a march to SoS Ken Blackwell's office protesting voter suppression. If I'd been a little smarter, I would have given Rep. Lewis something smaller than a 3' x 4' placard to sign...

[Aerows]

13. I have no idea what you are talking about

but I dislike those two because they make anti-gay statements every chance they get. Jennifer Morrison is a fundie and is appalled that Swan/Queen has taken off (female/female relationship between the two) in fan fiction. Gennifer Goodwin has been less tactful. That's why I don't like them - they are both homophobic.

[msanthrope]

25. Well, not to be too technical on this, but isn't Swan/Queen a grandaughter/step-grandmother ship? I

think the incest aspect of it is a big turn-off.

Swan/Ruby I could see, however.....

[Aerows]

26. Oh my word

I think I need to take a tylenol and go to bed. I had to go to the eye doctor today because I have a scratch on my cornea. I'm going to pretend that's why I'm seeing things that don't make sense.

[msanthrope]

28. 'Sense' is pretty relative in this, don't you think? I mean, I think bringing up imaginary

characters as 'evidence' that someone is homophobic doesn't make much sense, but to each their own.

[Apophis]

14. I would love to see the GoT panel, as well as The Walking Dead and Arrow panels.

Ugh. Next year I'll go! (I keep saying that)

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Get your tickets now

[Dreamer Tatum]

16. Comic Con is on fire, or a storm is bearing down on it? nt

[HappyMe]

20. There may be a trash can fire

caused by a faulty light saber.

[olddots]

17. whats comic con ?

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. The honest truth what you want to make of it

It started as a comics convention, in one room at El Cortez...these days it takes the San Diego convention and overflows it.

It is still comics, but also the largest media event for Hollywood. Me, I like the panels on some popular culture, writing fiction and the history of the comic code. Last year we learned a lot about steam punk

And attendees do an incredible job with costumes. Follow my twitter feed, have been posting some for that aspect.

Of course, since we "pray" to the false gods like Aquaman...I wish I were kidding, we have now a regular presence of Jesus freaks trying to save our souls.

[Luminous Animal]

19. Stop by "Last Gasp" booth #1616

Here's a link to their signing schedule:

http://www.lastgasp.com/blog/2013/07/08/last-gasp-hi-fructose-comic-con-signing-schedule-2013/

[Gidney N Cloyd]

22. I was in town for an overlapping convention last year. What I was able to see of it was really cool.

The cos play ladies were

[AsahinaKimi]

23. Enjoy it...

I bet it will be fun!

[Half-Century Man]

29. Having a sad

The is no comic con in wisCONsin. In fact I might have the largest collection of anime and manga in the state, it's larger that the library in two cities (Beloit and Janesville).

Have fun. Am jealous. Take pictures.