San Diego Comic Con

Anyone who knows me, knows I’m a geek, a collector and comic book buff. One of these days I am going to make to the biggest comic book convention on the planet, the San Diego Comic Con. Of course it’s not merely a comic book convention anymore, as many new films are debuted or pumped up here, as well as TV shows like Lost, or the new Heroes show coming out on NBC. Heck, I think they even had panels on Spiderman 3, which doesn’t come out until next year.

What is really cool nowadays, is that on the cable station G4, they have had shows talking about what is going on during the con, they are even filming the shows at the con, with the fans standing around and watching. This is really cool, as San Diego is a long ways away from me, and will require a big outlay of cash just to get there and stay, let alone go and buy the stuff I’ll be looking for.

If you need more in depth coverage, because, let face it, how many lame jokes can you put up with from the hosts of the G4 show, and how many times do we have to hear the guy hit on the girl in some sort of geekish way? I think I would much rather have a couple “real” geeks simply talk about the show and show some of the sites from the con instead of a couple who are only interested because they are on a TV show. Anyway, if you need more coverage, visit Newsarama, the premiere site on the web for comics and comics related stuff. One story that stands out right now is the story about how Marvel is putting together the lost Fantastic four episode that never got completely published by Lee and Kirby. Apparently, they just used some of the panels as part of a story that was never told before in issue #108, so we are actually going to get to see the completed story, once Lee scripts it and, hopefully, Joe Sinnott will be available to ink it. I can’t wait to see it. Maybe they should let Joe ink it and then get someone like Scott Williams to ink a copy and see what he could do with it.

Posted by Jimmy Daniels July 2006

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