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[kar3ning]

I tried to get amped for Comic-Con this year, but I'm just not feeling the geek love. Let me tell about last year.

The crowds. Oh dear god the crowds. It was oversold, and took a full hour to shuffle your way from one end of the convention to the other. Not walk. Shuffle. If that. I literally could not move, there were so many people. I got

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[wrongdimension]

I used to go to San Diego Comic Con every year until 2002 or 2003 (forgot which). That was the year my friend Ed and I went down for the day, spent 4 and a half hours in traffic, couldn't find ANY parking anywhere in downtown San Diego (not even the $50 lots!) and saw that the line to get in was over a mile long. We had to turn around and drive home.

I vowed NEVER to go back.

Since my primary reason for going to the con was for comics (which have definitely taken a back seat to movie and TV hype), I'm very happy to steer clear of this nightmare of crowded geekstink and just do Wizard World Los Angeles in the Spring.

[mycroftca]

I've never been, but based on reports like yours, I haven't the desire. If I were to go, there's a grand total of two comics I'm looking for; the rest would be wasted on me.

[yourmuse]

Yeah. Just reading this and thinking about the crowds and the hype and the smells and the price tags has exhausted me. Yuck.

[darqleo]

I went in 2002, 2003 and 2004 and I actually liked that it was becoming a bit more multi-media, but I also noticed how it was starting to get too big for it's britches, to the point of annoyance. From living vicariously through the internet, it seems a million times worse now

[styggian]

I've been hearing all negative reviews of comic con so far and it makes me glad I wasn't able to go and that this wasn't my first one.
From how crowded last year was, I probably would have gone ape shit eventually and just started pushing people to get some air.
That's what almost happened the time I went to Bootie with Justi et al the first time they moved back to the original location.