Category: SDCC

I haven’t been to San Diego Comic-Con since 2008. I was thinking about it, and I may not have even left the NY/NJ area since then. I’m going this year though! I had to buy four single-day tickets, since they were sold out of the full four-day passes by the time I got to the head of the “line”, so no preview night.

And I booked a hotel in Mission Valley, so no walking back and forth to the convention center. We’ll see how the convention shuttle situation works out. I remember it being a bit of an issue in 2008. It’s always inconvenient to stay far enough away that you can’t go back to your hotel mid-day to drop stuff off.

But hey, it’s Comic-Con! How could it *not* be fun?

I haven’t posted much about Comic-Con this weekend, but I’ve been watching the news a bit, with some interest. Not much came out of it that I’m terribly excited about, but here are links to some sites with good SDCC coverage:

• io9
• Bleeding Cool
• The Beat

There’s already some interesting stuff showing up under SDCC on Twitter. And a few photos are popping up on Flickr already too. Not quite as good as being there though!

For the second year in a row, I’ll be skipping SDCC. It’s been a weird year so far for me, but hopefully things are settling down enough that I’ll be able to go next year. I think maybe I’ll try to catch up on some comic book reading at home while the con is going on. Despite the fact that I haven’t bought a single comic book this year, I still have a huge backlog of stuff to read. I just started reading Desolation Jones this week, which started in July 2005, so that’s been sitting in the pile for a good solid five years.

Since I didn’t get to Comic-Con this year, I bought an events guide and souvenir book from someone on eBay. The package showed up today, and I just finished going through the events guide. Reading through it was strangely relaxing. Not quite as good as actually *going to* the con, but, with a little imagination, it felt a little like I was in my hotel room on Wednesday night, after getting back from Preview Night, planning out the rest of the weekend.