Saturday at the New York Comic Con brought the people out in droves, and a lot of big panels — Venture Bros., Robot Chicken, Cup O’ Joe, just to name a few — in the late afternoon caused crowd control issues that caused staff to close down the entrance to the panels area. Newsarama’s Vaneta Rogers spoke to Sandy Bouchahine, a New York Comic Con staff member, about the overcrowding.
“We’re just letting people in in waves and shifts so we don’t surpass our capacity,” Bouchahine explained, adding that it had nothing to do with one particular panel, but was instead a problem of several very popular panels happening at the same time. “It was just a crowd control issue. There were just a lot of panels that everyone wanted to see. We’re just having loads of crowds that wanted to see things like the Venture Brothers.”
Ah, of course … if I were there, I’d be rushing to the Venture Bros. panel as well, where a teaser video for season three was shown. Someone in the crowd taped it, and you can watch it here until Cartoon Network’s lawyers find out about it.
Other teasers, previews and trailers were shown Saturday afternoon, for films like The Spirit, Incredible Hulk (which also included footage of Robert Downey Jr. guest-starring as Tony Stark) and an early release of the next Dark Knight trailer. Unfortunately that video hasn’t hit the web yet (or I haven’t found it yet, anyway) but I’m sure it will soon.
Besides the Hollywood stuff, two other stories popped up about companies looking for new graphic novels. First, Vertigo is looking to “acquire” some original graphic novels, and has two editors on the hunt. And bloggers Chris Butcher and Brigid Alverson reported Viz was also accepting submissions. Creators, get those pitches ready.
And finally, as the artwork below proves, Joe Quesada wasn’t kidding about Marvel Apes.
More coverage of New York Comic Con:
Panels
Grant Morrison spotlight (Newsarama)
Cup O’ Joe (Newsarama)
DCU: Countdown to Crisis (Newsarama)
Incredible Hulk movie panel (Newsarama)
Hellboy 2 movie panel (Newsarama)
Mike Mignola Spotlight (Newsarama)
Stan on Stan (Newsarama)
Dark Horse Comics (Comic Book Resources)
Ralph Bakshi (Toon Zone)
Mattel DC figures panel (Action Figure Insider)
VIZ Media (giapet)
Del Ray Manga (giapet)
Yen Pres (giapet)
CMX (giapet)
Digital Manga Publishing (giapet)
The Venture Bros. Take Manhattan (IGN)
Steve Gerber memorial (Wizard)
Interviews/Articles
Dan DiDio on Final Crisis tie-ins (Newsarama)
Gail Simone on bringing back the Secret Six (Newsarama)
Marvel to adapt Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (Newsarama)
Robert Kirkman on Destroyer (Newsarama)
Wildstorm: Worlds End (Newsarama)
Dan Brereton returns to Nocturnals (Comic Book Resources)
Gregg Hurwitz, Duane Swierzynski and Victor Gischler take on the Punisher (CBR)
Rachel Pollack and Paul Lee discuss Buffy Tarot (CBR)
Tim Seeley and Emily Stone (Comic Book Resources)
Interview With Douglas Rushkoff and Scott McCloud (The Daily Cross Hatch)
Mark Stern on Battlestar Galactica (Wired)
TokyoPop to debut color graphic novels (Publisher’s Weekly)
Matt Fraction on Secret Invasion: Thor (CBR)
Additional Coverage
Day one overview (Publisher’s Weekly) (The Beat)
Day two overview (Pop Candy)
Wanted Comic Con poster (Cinematical)
Photo galleries (Marvel.com) (Occasional Superheroine) (ComicMix)
Brian Hibbs dreams about being in New York (Savage Critics)
April 20th, 2008 at 3:33 am
I just can’t believe the Marvel Apes thing. When DC used this stunt it was a quirky homage to their more carefree Silver Age days, but for Marvel it seems just wrong. So either this is another “ingenious” Marvel Boy type of hoax or Marvel is literally reusing all of DC’s gimmicks from the 90s.
April 20th, 2008 at 5:09 am
There was zero effort made to discourage people from taping at the Venture panel, so hopefully that Season 3 vid will live a little longer. There were big NO TAPING signs outside the IGN theater, where the Dark Knight, Hulk and Iron Man stuff screened, but surely signs are no match for cellphones.
April 20th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I’m interested in seeing the new trailer for “The Dark Knight.” However, even if it does surface online, I’ll wait until Warner Bros. releases it officially so I can see it with better sound and picture quality.