As Day One of Comic-Con winds down, the big story is shaping up to be the crowds.
Saturday, three-day and four-day passes were sold out even before the doors opened yesterday evening for a typically laid-back Preview Night. Of course, the packed floor and frenzied pace were anything but typical. Apparently, they were a sign of things to come, as late today, convention organizers announced that Friday is sold out, too.
Of course, attendance is hardly the only news coming out of Day One.
On the publishing front, cartoonist Darwyn Cooke revealed that he and inker J. Bone will leave DC’s critically acclaimed The Spirit with Issue 12.
Marvel, meanwhile, announced that Iron Man director Jon Favreau will team up with artist Andi Granov for Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas, a four-issue miniseries set to debut around the time the film is released in May 2008. (The San Diego-exclusive Iron Man trailer seemed to create a buzz, too.)
More Comic-Con coverage:
CREATOR INTERVIEWS/PUBLISHING ANNOUNCEMENTS
Newsarama: Favreau and Granov team for Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas
Wizard: Granov and Brevoort talk Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas
Newsarama: JMS and Weston’s The Twelve finally revealed
CBR: Brevoort talks about The Twelve
CBR: Weston talks about The Twelve
Newsarama: Jeff Smith talks RASL
Newsarama: Matt Wagner to write Madame Xanadu for Vertigo
Newsarama: C.B. Cebulski talks “ChesterQuest,” Compass
CBR: Preview of Northlanders, by Wood and Gianfelice
Newsarama: Brian Reed on Captain Marvel miniseries
Newsarama: Josh Dysart talks Hellboy, BPRD
Newsarama: IDW’s Star Trek: TNG: Intelligence Gathering
PANEL REPORTS
Newsarama: DC’s “Group Therapy”
Newsarama: DC’s “Countdown … to the End?”
CBR: DC’s “Countdown … to the End?”
Wizard: DC’s “Countdown … to the End?”
Pulse: DC’s “Countdown … to the End?”
MangaCast: “Viz Media Manga and Anime”
Toon Zone: “Viz Media Manga and Anime”
Pulse: “Spotlight on Adam Hughes”
Newsarama: “Spotlight on Matt Wagner”
Comics Alliance: “Spotlight on Matt Wagner”
IGN: “Writing with Mark Verheiden”
SuperHeroHype: Iron Man, from Paramount Pictures panel
PHOTO GALLERIES
San Diego Union-Tribune/Street
BLOG@NEWSARAMA’S EARLIER COVERAGE
SDCC: If this was just a preview …
Guy Ritchie to direct The Gamekeeper
SDCC: Carey to write The Stranded for Sci Fi/Virgin
Heroes graphic novel, and info about Season 2
SDCC, Day 0: Wait, this is only the preview?
First look at Heroes: The Mobile Game
SDCC: DreamWorks grabs Oni’s Crumrin, Damned
SDCC, Day 1: Marshal Law, and other notes
SDCC: Zachary Quinto confirmed as Spock
SDCC: National Public Radio on the Eisner Awards
Note: I’ll update as more panel reports and interviews are filed.
