Two weeks after it’s all over, what is there left to say about Comic-Con 2013? All the news, carefully orchestrated info teases and surprise slips alike, has been disseminated, analyzed, and reacted to by the Internet Machine. All of the loot has likewise been distributed …
Comic-Con Recap Part 2
And now for the finale of my Comic-Con adventure. There were ups and downs, and a proposed daily blog that became a two-post recap, but here we are regardless. So let’s wrap this up. Sunday Talk about a comeback. As enjoyable as the first four …
Comic-Con Recap Part 1
So updates got out of hand really quickly. I apologize. A combination of a packed schedule and spotty Internet made it very difficult to get anything up. So this post will cover Thursday’s, Friday’s, and Saturday’s various highs, lows, and everything in between while another …
Preview Night, Round 2
I agree with my compatriot that Preview Night demonstrates both the positives and negatives of Comic-Con. It’s heavily commercialized, overmarketed, overtargeted, and overcrowded–and yet the entire exercise arises from celebrating the creativity, imagination and skill of hundreds if not thousands of creators. So I stood …
It Begins… Preview Night!
Preview night… What is there to say, really? It’s everything that makes Comic-Con great and terrible. Lines all over the place, toy hunters elbowing fans aside to get the best exclusives, the emotional roller coaster of finding, losing, just missing, just earning the items you …