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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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[darknessorlight]

I'm still trying to figure out how comic conventions got so big.

I remember going to Cons all the time as a kid, and it was just usually people buying and selling comics, maybe a few writers/artists signing some autographs, and maybe they'd show a movie.

So when I see this stuff on the news about a comic convention, I'm just floored what it's become.

[coppertopp]

My #1 biggest peeve, though, was the marketing, and the way the con seems to have been taken over by huge media companies.
Oh yeah. It's really annoying reading all of the ComicCon coverage in the trades. Like the marketing exec they interviewed talking about how they were pushing some film that they knew didn't reallly belong there, but they thought that they could use the Con to "draw in more of that demographic." That and the not-so-cleverly concealed condescension towards the "geeks". Dude, if you are referring to the people at the Con as a demographic, you don't belong there. Get your non-geek ass the fuck out of our event.

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[archimedes6]

Sunday was a bit less crowded - although it was very busy and a lot of families. I spent 6 hours just walking and looking and talking to people on the floor. I didn't bother with any panels. Overall interesting, but not mind-blowing.