If you’re 21 and older, here’s your chance to hobnob with some pros:

Mark Waid, EiC of BOOM! Studios, is inviting all comic con attendees to celebrate the company’s fourth anniversary by hosting the BOOM! Studios Drink Up.

According to the BOOM! blog:

For those not in the know, a “Drink Up” is just like a “Meet Up” but with people drinking. This will be a gathering of friends and fans, so make plans to stop by see what’s happening!

The event needs no tickets or RSVPs, and will take place from 9pm until the wee hours of the morning at the Manchester Hyatt Grand Lobby Bar.

Mattel posted this news and video today over on their MattyCollector.com site:

San Diego Comic-Con is just about here, and man, do I have an early show-stopper toy for you! You already know our DC Universe Classics Wonder Twins figure set includes Zan, Jayna, an eagle, and a water bucket with the face of Zan. Sweet, but that’s not what I’m talking about… it’s the AMAZING package that features lights and sounds you gotta see to believe!

DCUC Wonder Twins packaging w/lights and sound

Remember, the set that includes Gleek will only be available at SDCC while supplies last. If you don’t make it to SDCC, you can still get the Wonder Twins — but without Gleek — here at MattyCollector.com on Monday, August 3rd at 12:00 Noon!

For more information on Mattel’s Comic Con Exclusives and panels click here.

Do you have a fever, and the only prescription is more Green Lantern?

Well, DC Direct is offering not one, but five chances to get your Hal Jordan fix at the San Diego Comic Con!

In keeping with the lead-up to Blackest Night, there will be a Green Lantern, Orange Lantern, Blue Lantern, Red Lantern, and Sinestro Corps version of Jordan, available to con attendees only.

According to IGN, there will be only 1,500 of the variants, and 3,000 of the Green Lantern version. Yet it’s a bit more complicated than this: attendees will only be able to buy two figures at a time, meaning that you’ll have to check out DC’s booth every day, from Wednesday through Sunday, to get the entire one-man Corps. Here’s a break-down of the schedule:

Wednesday (Preview Night) – July 22 – 6:00 pm Hal Jordan: Green Lantern – 3,000 pieces available

Thursday, July 23 – 10:00 am
Hal Jordan: Yellow Lantern – 1,500 pieces available

Friday, July 24 – 10:00 am
Hal Jordan: Blue Lantern – 1,500 pieces available

Saturday, July 25 – 10:00 am
Hal Jordan: Orange Lantern – 1,500 pieces available

Sunday, July 26 – 10:00 am
Hal Jordan: Red Lantern – 1,500 pieces available

What say you, Lantern fans? If the numbers (and fan tendencies) are any indication, getting a full set will certainly be some fierce competition.

Digital comics purveyor Uclick just announced the release of a free Eisner Awards app for iPhone and IPod Touch. In addition go giving a brief background of the Eisner awards and their namesake Will Eisner, it also gives information and images of each of the nominated works in the 26 awards categories.

No doubt journalists like me will be using this app while sitting in on the awards ceremony itself on July 24th at Comic-Con International: San Diego. Uclick promises to update the app with the winners shortly after the ceremony.

Enough jabber — here’s the link which will launch your iTunes program.

There’ve been some downright baffling displays of sexism in the geek world lately. First, there was IGN’s boys-only contest, blowing the minds of both males and females across the globe. Then the LA Times posted a “Girls’ Guide to Comic Con” with such gems as this:

‘Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’

Women will be rushing the stage, offering to do star Jake Gyllenhaal’s laundry on those washboard abs that he acquired for the film, since he spends much of it fighting, shirtless or both. Jake, we don’t want to know how to quit you.

Well, not surprisingly, the internet started to light up about that one, and several of my geeky girl friends on Twitter immediately got more than a bit upset at these ridiculous stereotypes. Then one in particular, the popular Geek Girl Diva, decided to let the LA Times know what was what on her Blog, attached to popular toy site Entertainment Earth with “An Open Letter to the L.A. Times from a Geek Girl:”

Girls have been going to SDCC for YEARS. They go because they like *gasp* comics? They go because they want to hear about the latest news from Joss Whedon, or for the BSG panel, or to watch Kevin Smith talk about…heck, anything. They are Browncoats, Cosplay fans, Gamers, Geeks, Nerds, Dorks, Comic fans, movie fanatics, book lovers and for loads of other reasons.

Read on at the link above for the full well-expressed rant, and follow her on Twitter by clicking her name, cause she’s full of gems (and toy pimping) from a genuine geek girl.