Category: comics

comic con day two

I had a pretty light day today. I gave blood in the morning, then went into the con and saw Paul Dini’s panel. Then, I wandered the floor a bit. Later, I went to Neil Gaiman’s panel. I was tired after that, and things were getting crowded, so I gave up and went back to the hotel, stopping for a burger at the Hard Rock. I was going to go back to the con for some of the evening stuff, but I’m just too beat right now, so I’m hanging out in the hotel room watching Torchwood. I guess the blood donation took more out of me than usual.

comic-con, day one

The first day of comic-con was pretty cool. I didn’t spend a lot of money, but I went to some interesting panels, and generally had a good time.

I went to the Torchwood panel. They showed a long clip from the first episode. I think I was the only person in the room who hadn’t seen the entire series already. It looks interesting, but I don’t get BBC America on my cable system, so I’ll have to wait for the DVDs, or maybe just watch it the way everyone else apparently has — good old BitTorrent. I loved the Q&A session. A lot of people who’d clearly seen season one wanted to ask questions about season two, but obviously didn’t want to admit that they’d watched season one via pirated DivX files or whatever. They all pulled out the “I’ve got a friend in England and he sent me the DVDs” line. (OK, maybe a couple of them really *did* have friends in the UK.)

I also saw The Pixar Story, Leslie Iwerks’ documentary about Pixar. Really good, fascinating, stuff. I’ll have to see it again when/if it gets a theatrical release. If not, I’m sure it’ll be on DVD at some point.

Later at night, I went to Ric Meyer’s Kung-Fu clip show thing, which I’ve done every year since he started doing it. I only stayed for the first half-hour. It started at 9pm, later than usual, and I was getting pretty tired by then. (I’m still mostly on east coast time.) He concentrated on TV shows rather than movies this time, and I have to admit I wasn’t that interested in the stuff he was showing. I guess that’s partially because I was sort of worn out by then, but also I’m just not that enthusiastic about the TV stuff.

my robot brain needs beer.

At work today, I got rather overwhelmed at one point, and the phrase “my robot brain needs beer” just popped into my head unbidden. Checking the internet (of course), I see that it is a phrase uttered by Machine Man (aka Aaron Stack) in Warren Ellis’ excellent Nextwave series. Googling that phrase returns a whole barrel full o’ hits. Apparently, the phrase has become a bit of an internet meme or something. Looking through the first few pages of hits, I couldn’t find a scan of a panel with Aaron actually *saying* the phrase though. Disappointing. I was hoping to find something to use as my wallpaper. If you look through the various entries that come back on that search, however, you will find a bunch of interesting stuff. For instance, Adam Warren’s DeviantArt page!