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Labor Day Weekend is a circled on the calendar of free-spirits of all shapes and species, as WorldCon, Burning Man, Dragon*Con and PAX are all on the schedule -- no matter what you like to dress up as, there's definitely a place to parade around and search for someone else dressed up for the ultimate fantasy.

Marvel's best characters (minus Ursa Major) have been assembled into a team for a series of bizarre webisodes online, for poorly-defined reasons which seem to amount to WELL WHY NOT?

The Comic Con International: San Diego holds a Talkback Panel every year to try and figure out what went right and what went wrong. The format of the Talkback Panel does not lend itself to formation of easy narrative. One representative from CCI sits behind a desk and answers questions from the line of convention attendees, taking down notes and suggestions, and responding when necessary. This year, the task fell to John Rogers, President of Comic Con International’s Board of Directors, to moderate the panel.

Check out Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward signing comics for the kiddies at San Diego Comic Con

Phil Jimenez saw something cool today. So he took a photo of it, as Phil Jimenez is wont to do.

We're not quite sure who this nutter is, but he knows his Batman. In this video, he's taken to the streets of Birmingham, UK to comfort those who have walked in the valley of the shadow of Arkham. It definitely makes sense, once you put it all together.

Washington has stolen our buzzwords! And we won't take it lying down!

The Bonfire Agency came on the scene a year ago with some great ideas for giving all levels of the comics industry more information; this month they are spotlighting one of the best, FanPan, a consumer input panel of 500 pop culture users and influencers. It's free to join FanPan, but brands and products can then avail themselves of FanPan input to test how their products will be received by the highly vocal and internet-savvy early adopters.

Via Omg Dj Judy and Agent M. Did she say yes? Unknown.

Yahoo Answers....the raw id of our unknowledge....the cry for help in a darkling plain of the unknown. Some lass named Jann wandered in there and asked:

We knew there was a Big Apple/New York Comic Market Con this weekend at the Penn Plaza Hotel...but we did not realize it was the LAST show to be put on by Mike Carbonaro. But it is. Carbonaro, an inescapable figure on the NY comics scene, has some 40 years of selling comics behind him (he started as ateen like so many of us) but really got on the NYC map with the famed "Church Con" of '96 or so when a planned major convention at the Coliseum (now torn down) was canceled at the last minute when the organizers failed to talk to/pay off the fire marshals. Carbonaro and pals like Vincent Zurzulo stepped in to throw a last-minute show in the basement of a church and a kind of tradition was born again...the kind of grimy, fan-focused shows that New York City fandom was founded on.

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