The pre-San Diego Comic-Con hype machine has been turned off, replaced with the actual con news explosion, which in turn has morphed into the post-San Diego report hangover. Don’t worry; Wizard World Chicago is coming up, so the cycle can begin again.
Anyway, lots of links and comments are out there from and about the con …
–If you missed the Image Founders panel, fear not … you can check it out on YouTube. I think it would be awesome if the folks at the SDCC made all of the panels available online after the show. (Via)
–Speaking of which, Adam Hughes talks about the Mary Jane statue during a panel here.
–Both Dirk and Heidi reported on this yesterday … according to the site pinkraygun.com, the mayor of San Diego went on the radio and said, “We’ve put up the superheroes and now we’re on to the people with actual talent.” Pinkraygun.com goes on to say:
John swears he heard Sanders say, “We got rid of the superheroes,” but whether he said “got rid of” or “put up” or “put away”, the impression is that the mayor of San Diego barely tolerates our presence during Comicon weekend. 140,000 people spending money in his city is nothing to scoff at, despite the inconvenience of gridlock in front of the convention center and people walking around the Gaslamp in costume.
Dunno what the context was; I’d like to think he was being sarcastic, especially if he’s ever seen American Idol and its audition shows. Do you really want to argue that William Hung or that lady in the Big Bird costume has more talent than Neil Gaiman or Joss Whedon or Henry Rollins or Andre 3000, just to name a few, Mr. Mayor?
You can contact the mayor here.
–An LA Times reporter was apparently attacked during Comic-Con:
I (literally) bumped into a young guy walking with three friends in the Gaslamp Quarter. They were tattooed and wearing the street uniform of baggy pants, white T-shirts and shaved heads. The guy started mad-dogging me, rasping threats. I told him I was just walking by, no offense meant. He got in my face, and I told him it would be stupid for us to make something out of nothing.
“You calling me stupid?” “No, I’m not.” Then I stopped talking, because my mouth was bleeding. One of his buddies, standing off to my side, cold-cocked me, and the ring on his fist took a chunk out of my face. I never saw it coming. I was at the emergency room until dawn.
They stitched up the triangular gash on my face and put staples in my scalp for the nasty cut on the back of my head left when I hit the curb. The cops at the scene said this sort of incident isn’t that rare, and the ER folks said I was lucky the guys didn’t kick me, which might have happened if the street hadn’t been packed with closing-time crowds headed home.
(Via)
–Brian Wood shares a little more about his new Minx book, The New York Four, over on his blog:
So The New York Four… no doubt there will be press and interviews about this book going up soon, so just a few bits of info: Shelly approached me about 18 months ago and asked for a pitch, based on the strength of Demo and Local. I had heard of Minx through the grapevine already, and it seemed like it would be an interesting move for me… I’ve done YA comics already, if accidentally, with Demo and Local, and the thought of a stand-alone OGN that would have bookstores as its primary focus definitely appealed to me. As we developed the idea and Shelly began to refer to it as her “insider’s guide to New York City”, I wanted Ryan to work on it. We have the real-life location thing down to a science, and Lucifer was ending and he’d be looking to replace that work. Worked perfectly.
I’ve posted before how I’ve written New York City in a wide variety of ways, from wartorn to dystopian to lawless action to ultra grim and gritty… but this New York in The New York Four is as real as I have ever done, and probably the closest to my own personal experience in this city.
Jennifer de Guzman talks about her Friends of Lulu award and a scary story involving Roman Dirge:
Dirge got electrocuted by his microphone during his panel when he was telling a story about peeing. I didn’t see it, but I have heard about it from several sources, Christopher among them because he was so awesome as to attend the Lulu awards ceremony. Dirge is all right. Just another bizarre misfortune. Most of those involve registration problems in our premier comics for the Con, so I guess Dirge is lucky his magenta didn’t get all out of line with his yellow and cyan and black. If you know what I mean.
More stuff:
–Marvel’s complete round-up
–Marvel vs. DC softball game write-up at Marvel.com
–Tim Leong’s Comic-Con, A-Z.
–TV Squad has a report from the Smallville panel
–Action Figure Insider has a ton of photos of action figures from the con
–Tom Spurgeon’s report and his Collective Memory post
–Tom McLean’s wrap-up report
–Bully buys Starman original artwork
–Javier Grillo-Marxuach’s report and video
–Peter David’s report
–Neil Gaiman’s Eisner kiss
–Poster for Sweeney Todd, starring Johnny Depp
–Carla has more to say about her trip over on her personal blog. So does Tom.
–IGN’s end of con report
–Marc Bernardin’s things I learned in San Diego
–Sean Galloway talks about the animated Spider-Man panel
–Brett Warnock at Top Shelf
–Jeff Lemire shows off the cool Marvel paintings he sold at the show
–Becky Cloonan
–Mark Evanier’s report
–Steven Grant’s report
–Jason Aaron’s report
–Jason Rodriguez’s report
–Stan Sakai
–Queerty’s report
–Steve Lieber’s report
–Darwyn Cooke
–Ben Templesmith
–Greg Rucka’s report
–Chris Butcher leaves the con early for Vegas
–joystiq talks about video games at the con
–Russ Manning award winner David Petersen’s report
–David Gallaher was heckled at a Marvel panel by other fans for asking if the company was going green. Read his full con report here.
–The Christian Science Monitor says a San Diego In-N-Out Burger was short help at the counter because everyone wanted to go to Comic-Con. Now things ahve really gone too far …
–The Legion Omnicom’s report
–Jeff Parker’s report–Comic-Con 2008, coming July 24-27.
(If I missed your report, feel free to email me).
August 2nd, 2007 at 11:16 am
To give some context to the Mayor of San Diego’s commentary: A DJ from the “Cantore in the Morning” show on 91x was at the scene where loads of American Idol wannabes were queuing up. This DJ is the Mayor’s neighbor (according to the DJ). The DJ said something along the lines of “What a great weekend for San Diego - Comicon this weekend, now American Idol…” It is at this point that the Mayor made his statement. There was no sarcasm or sarcastic tone that I could hear. The Mayor also spent a bit of his on-air time trying to sound by talking of his love of The Shins, and some other bands.
From what I understand, the Mayor later warbled “Lady Marmalade” for the Idol judges.
Pink Raygun has left multiple messages with 91x and the producer of “Cantore in the Morning” to get either a transcript of the on-air interview, or an MP3 of the thing. If anyone else has access and wants to try as well, the quote from the Mayor occurred between 8:05 and 8:20 am on Monday, July 30.
Also, his Deputy Press Secretary has issued a statement (http://blogs.amctv.com/scifiscanner/2007/07/mayor-of-san-di.html) in which he talks about all the wonderful support for Comicon by the Mayor. My perception, however, is that the Mayor felt it would play better to the “cool seats” if he disparaged the geeks. I don’t imagine that he thought this statement out, so caught up was he in Idol Fever.
August 2nd, 2007 at 11:18 am
ummm…”trying to sound…” should read “trying to sound cool”
August 3rd, 2007 at 8:56 pm
That idea about the Con providing video of the panels to YouTube is an amazing idea. Delete projected filmed material, of course, but show the panelists talking. It’s an amazing sight and should be kept as a matter of public record of our hobby and times. Imagine if we had films of Kirby talking on panels!