Live from Ballroom H
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe’re sitting through the CHUCK panel right now. These TV casts are so funny and banter-y. Someone just asked if the two male leads would demonstrate a position between 68 and 70. They declined. We have never watched CHUCK and this panel will not persuade us to do so, but the [...]
Continue ReadingThe REAL Masters of Comic-Con
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAnne Thompson covers the Webmasters panel: When asked how Latinoreview got its hands on so many early scripts six months before they go into production, Kellvin Chavez said: “We clean your offices.” Today, these once unassuming fanboys are courted by studio flacks and granted early access to set visits, star interviews and marketing [...]
Continue ReadingPLUTO! URASAWA!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet More here. BTW, Viz has broken the comics industry wide open, debuting their incredible YELLOW BAGS at this show. Demand is high.
Continue ReadingKochman gets imprint at Abrams
Share this link on Facebook!TweetPW has the deets on Charlie Kochman’s new imprint at Abrams, Abrams ComicArts, which will publish a variety of comics and comics-related books: Kochman will direct the new imprint, which will launch with four new titles: The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics by Denis Kitchen and Paul Buhle; [...]
Continue ReadingCON CRUD HITS B.L.A.R.D!!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDamn, it had to happen. We’ve been having so much good luck — great hotel rooms, fast cabs, money on the floor — that something bad was bound to happen and for the first time in our 20+ years of con going, we’ve caught con crud, a sore throat severely hampering [...]
Continue ReadingKeeping up with con: Butcher
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Have we linked to Chris Butcher’s Flickr Photostream yet? Well, now we have. Check often!
Continue ReadingKing goes Video with Marvel
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe Wall Street Journal joins the parade of Comic-Con exclusives with Stephen King’s latest foray with Marvel: In a promotion expected to be announced Friday at Comic-Con, the big comic-book convention in San Diego, a previously unpublished story by Mr. King has been transformed by Marvel Comics into an animated video. The [...]
Continue ReadingYou people are not sending nearly enough stuff to SAN DIEGO DREAMING
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Continue ReadingHALL H A CARNAGE OF TWISTED METAL!!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Okay, so it was just the pipe and drape collapsing. Still…CONMAGEDDON LOOMS.
Continue ReadingOfficial: Comic-Con jumps the shark
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Over at THR, Borys Kit notes rampant shark jumping with a piece called Comic-Con’s geek chic fading? as he notes vacant socialite P**** H***** and starlet Kim Kardashian, who is known apparently just for having a big-ass ass, will be bringing their own special brand of magic to the show: There is [...]
Continue ReadingLive from B.L.A.R.D.
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe’re finally ensconced here at the Beat Local Action Rapid Deployment HQ, aka B.L.A.R.D., aka the Horton Grand. We’ve even managed to score a room with a balcony, excitingly enough. We were all set to enjoy a steaming cup of Vietnamese coffee out there when we realized the room comes with [...]
Continue ReadingHit of the show
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The WB booth has a life-sized model of the Owlship from WATCHMEN. This is a pretty shitty picture but the model is cooler than dirt. Man, these iPhones really do have lame cameras. Could only snap this surreal composite. Better photos later.
Continue Reading"A Mysterious Galaxy Ten Miles Away…"
Share this link on Facebook!TweetYay, back on the Wi-Fi grid. Saddened to report that the Omni lobby no longer has free Wi-Fi , making the former blogger’s paradise a wasteland, albeit one with much better food. After a decade of vowing never to return on a Tuesday, we now find it the most pleasant and relaxing [...]
Continue ReadingReminder: Rory Root Tribute
Share this link on Facebook!TweetJust as a reminder, this panel on Friday is a must attend: Remembering Rory: The Rory Root Tribute – 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Room 22 When Comic Relief owner Rory Root passed away in May, a huge void was left in the comics’ world. Please join us as we pay tribute to [...]
Continue ReadingWe'll pass on SEX DRIVE, thanks
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Well, as you may have noticed, there’s a little Hollywood shindig coming up in a few days. Whereas once, San Diego prep — with the accompanying anxiety, dashed hopes and teeth gnashing — was exclusively the provenance of the comics industry, now, the entire entertainment industry is in full throttle PR [...]
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