Went to the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention on Sunday. I'd only been to one before, last June, and it was pretty pathetic. The dealer's room was sparse, and hardly anyone was in attendance. Or maybe they were all in the movie (IIRC it was a Wonder Woman fan film). All this seen through the context of my search for ( Read more... )

The cold that had been threatening me all last week finally hit on Friday morning, and I've spent the last four days in haze induced by a mixture of the cold and DayQuil. I actually went home early on Friday, dropped onto the couch, watched some Netflixed Justice League, and felt like I was staying up late when I went to bed at 9:00 or 9:30 ( Read more... )

I've been zombie-fied.

Comic-Con was fun, but exhausting. Add that to staying up too late last night and not being used to the heat...

You see, downtown San Diego was fairly nice all week. According to weather.com it only hit 83, which was uncomfortable when carrying a heavy backpack (or in alenxa's case, wearing a heavy pirate costume) in the sun, ( Read more... )

alenxa is in the other room, reading HBP and by turns squealing, shrieking, gasping, muttering, and occasionally cursing ( Read more... )

Well, two days down, two to go. Waay more crowded than last year. Last year it was (dare I say it) comfortable walking around the main floor on Friday. Today it was often hard to weave through crowds. Tomorrow? Likely to be worse. But we've got panels to attend. Serenity and such ( Read more... )

Fact #1: During my three-and-a-half days at Comic-Con last week I frequently thought how odd it was that, unlike past years, I no longer had a list of old comics I was trying to track down, and in some ways it was too bad that I didn't have a reason to trawl through the dealers' room ( Read more... )

There! Everything's set for Comic Con. I had been really annoyed with myself last month when I pulled out the pre-reg forms only to discover I had missed the deadline by two days, meaning we'd have to... STAND IN LIIIINE!!!! *cue scream ( Read more... )