Comic Con attendees love Joss Whedon. They love Supernatural, but it’s not like it’s the biggest rated show outside of the Comic Con crowd.

It surprised me to see which panels did have some long lines this year though. I tried to get into the “Unlocking Arkham Asylum” panel line an hour before it started, they had already marked the end of the line and weren’t allowing anyone else to join the line.

On the other hand, it was way too easy to get into the Focus On… panels that featured comic book greats like Gene Colan, Mike Allred, and Bill Sienkiewicz.

I really wonder if the Comic Con went back to just being about comic books, fantasy, cosplay and anime, whether it could actually go back to operating out of the El Cortez Center.

Heroes was in the Indigo Ballroom at the Hilton, a space that I’d say was comparable in size to the one for Dollhouse. There was no long line of people left outside waiting to get into Heroes. I was mailed a ticket by Universal that allowed me, as press, to automatically get into the Heroes panel. About fifteen minutes before the Heroes panel, the ballroom was packed but I did not see a long line of people left out of the show. I stood in line for Dollhouse about an hour before the show and found myself in the middle of quite a long line when it was announced they had reached capacity.

It made me think of how a whole lot of money has helped, and maybe sometimes hindered, a show like Heroes that began so quirky and fresh. Maybe it is finding its way back or maybe it’s just a credible mainstream creation. Dollhouse may prove to be a more unified vision coming from Joss Whedon as opposed to the muddled attempts by Tim Kring and company.

At least, try to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges. You compared the “Dollhouse” panels to the “Heroes” promotional booth area — which aren’t comparable.

From past attendance at SDCC and from the current reporting at other websites, the majority of panels probably had long lines.

Plus, from the YouTube vids I saw, there were at least as many Buffy or Firefly questions asked at the Dollhouse panels. Maybe (and this is only a suggestion) it’s Whedon himself who draws people to his panels?