Category: comics

WonderCon 2010

Packed show floor image – WonderCon 2010 draws in S.F. (photos) – CNET News

Well, I’m not in SF at WonderCon this weekend. Maybe next year.

Nor did I buy an iPad today, though I did go to the Apple Store with a friend when he picked up his. I’ve almost justified getting myself an iPad, under the theory that attending WonderCon would have cost much more than an iPad, between the plane fare and the hotel, so I can spend some of the money I would otherwise have spent on WonderCon on an iPad. Yeah, I know the logic doesn’t quite hold up.

post-SDCC wrap-up

CBR has a nice post-con wrap-up article, interviewing David Glanzer. It’s hard to imagine how much work goes into Comic-Con. I’m still reading articles on io9, CBR, and elsewhere, catching up on stuff from the con. (Imagine how far behind I’d be on con news if I’d actually *gone* to the con?)

comic-con panels

I spent some time this afternoon watching bits and pieces of Comic-Con panels on YouTube. I found a funny bit from a Torchwood / Doctor Who thing here. And a great bit from the Chuck panel here. And a page of embedded clips from Kevin Smith’s panel. And a page of clips from Joss Whedon’s panel. Not quite as good as actually being there, but the lines are shorter, the seats are more comfortable, and the coffee’s cheaper!

stuff at San Diego I’m missing

I’ve been surfing the web, browsing through a lot of the San Diego news. Here’s some stuff I’m missing:

  1. Mark Evanier’s panels
  2. SyFy morphing an actual cafe in San Diego into Cafe Diem
  3. The crazy line for Hall H
  4. Much more!

Next year, for sure.

skipping San Diego

Hotel reservations for San Diego Comic-Con opened up today. I briefly tried getting on the reservation site from work, but I couldn’t get through, and gave up. I just checked from home, and the only hotel they have left is about 7 miles from the convention center. So, I think, between that, and not being about to get a four-day pass, I’m going to skip the con this year. It’ll be weird, not being there. And I’m definitely going to have to come up with some other plan for a summer vacation, otherwise I think I’ll probably crack by August.

San Diego four-day passes sold out

I saw this mentioned on a couple of blogs today. San Diego four-day passes are already sold out! I was thinking about buying one a couple of weeks ago, but I figured I didn’t need to be in a hurry or anything. It’s the hotel rooms that are usually the big problem, so I was going to wait until I’d figured that out before I bought my pass. Oops. I can still buy four individual one-day passes, but now I’m wondering if I should even go. Without the four-day pass, I can’t get into preview night, so that’s one thing already shot down. And I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to pick up the passes on Wednesday night, so I’d be stuck in the general chaos on Thursday morning, waiting in an undoubtedly long line. (And I’m assuming that I could pick up all four passes on Thursday, but I’m not sure about that.)

Hotel reservations open up next week, and, by the look of things, it’s probably unlikely that I’d get a decent room anywhere close to the convention center. I was hoping that the recession might put a dent in the ballooning of SDCC, at least to the extent that I could buy a four-day pass in late March, and get a hotel room at, say, the Embassy Suites, for a decent price, but it’s not looking like that’s going to happen.

Well, I’ve been going to the con for ten years now, so maybe it’s time to take a year off. I’m not sure what else I’d want to do for a summer vacation though. Maybe Tech Ed? What’s Los Angeles like in May? And does a programming conference count as a vacation?

WonderCon and Comic-Con

I won’t be going to WonderCon this year, but it looks like it’ll be a lot of fun. Drats. Hopefully, I’ll be able to go next year.

Meanwhile, I am hoping to go to San Diego Comic-Con again this year. Hotel reservations open up on March 19, which is about a month later than last year. I’m not sure why. The hotel situation last year was crazy. I’m hoping things will be a little easier to deal with this year, due to the recession. Not that I’m in any way happy about that, but if nothing else good comes out of all this economic turmoil, maybe, at least, it’ll be a little easier to get a hotel room in San Diego! Honestly, if the hotel situation is out of control, and I can’t get a good room at a decent rate, I might have to skip San Diego. I’ve been going for more than ten years now, but if I have to miss it, oh well.