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Game of Thrones Religious Protesters on Flickr.
Religious protesters have been showing up at Comic-Con lately, apparently under the impression that having fun with something out of a book is the same as worshiping it. Con-goers have responded with parodies.
Beric Dondarrion and Catelyn Stark on Flickr.
More Game of Thrones cosplay. (Thursday at Comic-Con 2013)
Intense stress, doing the impossible, meeting artists, keeping a toddler entertained, chaos good and bad, and a genuine medical emergency.
All this, and I still managed to finish my convention write-up on time. (How did that happen?)
And this year, that’s saying something. (I’ll get into that later.)
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You don't expect to find peanuts in coffee, but two sips were enough to put me in an ambulance and wipe out an entire afternoon of Comic-Con.
This is shaping up to be a vastly different Comic-Con experience than usual.
The last time I went to a comic con in costume, I went as Jay Garrick, the original Flash. I ran into someone else with the same idea. On a related note, I’ve brought @SpeedForceOrg to Instagram for Flashy photos. #ThrowbackThursday #theflash #cosplay #jaygarrick
I’ve done Amtrak from LA a couple of times, and it’s a nice way to cut down on the driving stress. Driving 2.5-3 hours twice daily is grueling, especially when it overlaps with rush hour. Plus you have time to read your new comics on the way home!
But it does lock down your schedule a bit on the days you take it, and the line to get on the last northbound train of the evening is…actually not too much worse than some other comic-con lines, now that I think about it.
Downtown San Diego’s nighttime skyline, seen from Harbor Island across the bay to the west. You can see the light trails from a couple of boats. The yellowish sky is the reflection of street lights on low-lying clouds. I have a wider shot that shows how much darker the sky is away from the city.
This was taken during last year’s Comic-Con. I figured I’d post it this week because the first round of hotel rooms go on sale this Wednesday. These are non-refundable, outside of downtown, and in some cases specific packages with minimum stays, but if you already have tickets and want to avoid the “Hoteloween” rush when the rest of the rooms go on sale, it might be worth taking a look.
Either way, you might be interested in my collection of Tips for Comic-Con.
Long Beach Comic Con announces new dates for next year…chosen in part because Comikaze took their old dates. LBCC proposes an organization where con show runners can coordinate to minimize conflicts.
On the way out of San Diego, we stumbled on Better Buzz Coffee. They make their signature iced coffee drinks in cocktail shakers. Imagine a mint iced coffee made with fresh muddled mint leaves.
“Why should Comic Con be an exclusive comics-only club? What is wrong with welcoming all things geeky? For four days, the spotlight is on the things we love. Isn’t that a good thing?”
EXACTLY.
I do not understand why people who have traditionally been excluded from the cool kids’ hangout are so determined to turn around and exclude someone else.
I was looking at the program grid this weekend. Events are color-coded for comics, movies, TV, gaming, sci-fi/fantasy, and “everything else.” The majority of the events were comics-related. Comics aren’t missing from comic-con. They’re the nucleus around which everything else is built.
An interesting perspective on what conferences and festivals have in common with each other, and how they’re different from everyday life.
Committed: The Altered State of Comic-Con – Comics Should Be Good
The words “Comic-Con” and “Hotel” shouldn’t cause this much anxiety when used together.
The new system for San Diego Comic Con & WonderCon registration is live. Tickets aren’t on sale yet, but you’ll want to get an account ready before they launch (whenever that ends up being).
Not that I was planning to go this year (with Long Beach just a month later, and Comikaze just a week after that), but it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in the WW cons. The next time I do plan on going to a Wizard show, I’m definitely not getting advance tickets.
Sequential Awesome: An Open Letter To DC Creative, RE: Wally West
An Open Letter to DC Creative, RE: Wally West,
I’d like this to be professional and not bring emotion into it, but, well, I can’t do that. You’re effectively brushing a character that’s shown more growth and publishing success than his replacement (and predecessor). Your flippant dismissal of…
For the techies: TicketLeap dissects the bottleneck that led to Saturday’s Comic-Con ticket sales meltdown. (TLDR version: Hostname lookups were turned on in the database, and it was blocking on DNS.)
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Epic Fail: Comic-Con registration closes down again due to technical glitches
I can’t believe I didn’t think of this pun when Comic-Con’s registration crashed and burned again.
