Comic Con!
Jul. 23rd, 2006 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kippurbirdI went to the San Degio ComicCon yesterday. Which is where I spent almost the entire day. My friend dergerm and I went down there by train. We got in at Union Station and sat on the train for three hours. It was standing room only by the time we actually reached our destiantion. Apparently going by train wasn't only my brilliant idea, but other people's too. There were a lot of geeks around. I ended up getting in a discussion while waiting for the bathroom on the train about the up coming Ghostrider movie, staring Nicholas Cage.
When we got down there, we walked to the convention center, as the trolly was full. It wasn't a bad walk, except that it was extremely humid, which was just blecky. Once at the convention center we discovered that we had to wait in line to get our badges. It took about fourty five minutes to do that. Which was shorter than the people who were registering on site, as opposed to pregresistration, like we had. They had a long weaving line several people thick. Ours was mostly single file.
After getting our badges,dergerm and I decided to hit up some of the panels. We went to a panel on Urban Fantasy:
11:30-12:30 Urban Fantastic: Our World Made Less Mundane— The past decade has seen an explosion in urban fantasy, works set in the “real world” but with a twist. What is the appeal? And what are the rules? Discuss keeping the unreal real with these panelists: Women of the Otherworld author Kelley Armstrong (Broken), Renaissance writer Peter David (Fall of Knight), USA Today best-selling author Nancy Holder (Daughter of the Flames), Dark Shadows’ Angelique, actress Lara Parker (Dark Shadows: The Salem Branch), multimedia author John Ridley (What Fire Cannot Burn) and cross-genre romance author Samantha Sommersby (Forbidden: The Claim), under the supervision of moderator Maryelizabeth Hart.
While the names of most of the people on the panel didn't mean much to me, I did know Peter David. He is one of my all time favorite authors, and my favorite Star Trek author. I heard him speak before and just like last time, he was exceptionally humerous. Very quick with a witty quip. He mentioned Mary Sues at one point, which thrilled me to no end. I didn't think he would know about them. I didn't think anyone would know about them, really. Shows you how much I know. Though his definition of Mary Sue was too narrow in my mind, he only refered to them in regards to the Star Trek fandom. So I went up to him afterwards and talked to him briefly.
We had a short discussion.
I had a discssion with Peter David.
This was really the highlight of my day.
I Had A Discussion With Peter David.
Bask in my uber geeky fan glory.
When the panel was done, we hit the floor for a half hour and then went back up for another panel on the philosophy of comic books. I didn't like this panel so much as it didn't seem to go into the philsosphy so much as be a Hey Buy My Book sort of thing. R.C. Harvy (who I don't know who he is at all) had an intersting defintion of what comics were. Which was pretty similar to my own. Which is that they're a form where words and pictures are blended together in such a way that they tell a story, and that neither can be seperate from each other. There wasn't much philosophy in it at all though.
We hit the floor again afterwards. I talked to several editors at different compainies and gave out some proposals. We wandered around and around for a couple of hours. Saw Seth Green from Buffy. I bought a scoop of dice (but some how only managed to get one d4) and a t-shirt for Munckin. Which now means that I get to draw an extra treasure card when ever I kill a monster with one treasure (and I'm wearing it). Ah... the uber geekiness continues. I also bought a stuffed baby penguin.
Lunch cost seven dollars for a hot dog and a coke. Four dollars for the hotdog, three dollars for the coke. At least it was a big coke. I almost chocked on the hotdog, as I tried to swallow a bite a bit to big for me.
The last event we went to was the GLBT panel and mixer.dergerm met a budy of his from On-Line and they had never met before but talked and talked alot on line. He was really happy about that.
Weirdest thing I saw at the Con: Elvis the Storm Trooper.
Most Cosplayers: Stormtroopers. (Over thirty of them)
After the convention, we went back to the train station. The eight o'clock train hadn't left yet. We decided to wait for the nine fifteen one. Unfortunately the eight train broke down a little under half way to LA. So we had to wait about an hour and a half to resovle that difficulty. First we were going to push it, then we ended up pulling it. The passengers from the eight o'clock train ened up on our train. We didn't get into LA until about two fourty. I didn't get to bed until about three thirty, four in the morning. I passed out pretty quickly. Woke up at ten thirty though.
And that was my trip to comic con.
In Epilogue I ended up writing a short essay on Mary Sues to Peter David and sent it to him on his board. And I wrote an email to Phil Jemenze about how his lack of wanting Normalcy in the GLTB community. I doubt I'll get any responses though.
dergerm and I went down there by train. We got in at Union Station and sat on the train for three hours. It was standing room only by the time we actually reached our destiantion. Apparently going by train wasn't only my brilliant idea, but other people's too. There were a lot of geeks around. I ended up getting in a discussion while waiting for the bathroom on the train about the up coming Ghostrider movie, staring Nicholas Cage. When we got down there, we walked to the convention center, as the trolly was full. It wasn't a bad walk, except that it was extremely humid, which was just blecky. Once at the convention center we discovered that we had to wait in line to get our badges. It took about fourty five minutes to do that. Which was shorter than the people who were registering on site, as opposed to pregresistration, like we had. They had a long weaving line several people thick. Ours was mostly single file.
After getting our badges,
dergerm and I decided to hit up some of the panels. We went to a panel on Urban Fantasy:11:30-12:30 Urban Fantastic: Our World Made Less Mundane— The past decade has seen an explosion in urban fantasy, works set in the “real world” but with a twist. What is the appeal? And what are the rules? Discuss keeping the unreal real with these panelists: Women of the Otherworld author Kelley Armstrong (Broken), Renaissance writer Peter David (Fall of Knight), USA Today best-selling author Nancy Holder (Daughter of the Flames), Dark Shadows’ Angelique, actress Lara Parker (Dark Shadows: The Salem Branch), multimedia author John Ridley (What Fire Cannot Burn) and cross-genre romance author Samantha Sommersby (Forbidden: The Claim), under the supervision of moderator Maryelizabeth Hart.
While the names of most of the people on the panel didn't mean much to me, I did know Peter David. He is one of my all time favorite authors, and my favorite Star Trek author. I heard him speak before and just like last time, he was exceptionally humerous. Very quick with a witty quip. He mentioned Mary Sues at one point, which thrilled me to no end. I didn't think he would know about them. I didn't think anyone would know about them, really. Shows you how much I know. Though his definition of Mary Sue was too narrow in my mind, he only refered to them in regards to the Star Trek fandom. So I went up to him afterwards and talked to him briefly.
We had a short discussion.
I had a discssion with Peter David.
This was really the highlight of my day.
I Had A Discussion With Peter David.
Bask in my uber geeky fan glory.
When the panel was done, we hit the floor for a half hour and then went back up for another panel on the philosophy of comic books. I didn't like this panel so much as it didn't seem to go into the philsosphy so much as be a Hey Buy My Book sort of thing. R.C. Harvy (who I don't know who he is at all) had an intersting defintion of what comics were. Which was pretty similar to my own. Which is that they're a form where words and pictures are blended together in such a way that they tell a story, and that neither can be seperate from each other. There wasn't much philosophy in it at all though.
We hit the floor again afterwards. I talked to several editors at different compainies and gave out some proposals. We wandered around and around for a couple of hours. Saw Seth Green from Buffy. I bought a scoop of dice (but some how only managed to get one d4) and a t-shirt for Munckin. Which now means that I get to draw an extra treasure card when ever I kill a monster with one treasure (and I'm wearing it). Ah... the uber geekiness continues. I also bought a stuffed baby penguin.
Lunch cost seven dollars for a hot dog and a coke. Four dollars for the hotdog, three dollars for the coke. At least it was a big coke. I almost chocked on the hotdog, as I tried to swallow a bite a bit to big for me.
The last event we went to was the GLBT panel and mixer.
dergerm met a budy of his from On-Line and they had never met before but talked and talked alot on line. He was really happy about that. Weirdest thing I saw at the Con: Elvis the Storm Trooper.
Most Cosplayers: Stormtroopers. (Over thirty of them)
After the convention, we went back to the train station. The eight o'clock train hadn't left yet. We decided to wait for the nine fifteen one. Unfortunately the eight train broke down a little under half way to LA. So we had to wait about an hour and a half to resovle that difficulty. First we were going to push it, then we ended up pulling it. The passengers from the eight o'clock train ened up on our train. We didn't get into LA until about two fourty. I didn't get to bed until about three thirty, four in the morning. I passed out pretty quickly. Woke up at ten thirty though.
And that was my trip to comic con.
In Epilogue I ended up writing a short essay on Mary Sues to Peter David and sent it to him on his board. And I wrote an email to Phil Jemenze about how his lack of wanting Normalcy in the GLTB community. I doubt I'll get any responses though.
