2009 Comicon
Fannish repleted with every fan node frizzled and strained. Stained. Happy. Satisfied.
How not. I went to panel upon panel. Oh, sure I missed a few. Because I can't clone myself! And about that. You'd think at several days of sci fi, I could get some sort of clone. But no. I just got free posters and buttons and the graphics novels that I bought. And a space girl shirt. And the memories. Oh, the happy, happy memories.
We actually went down for the whole week, so we were there Wed-Sunday.
Thursday panels:
Science fiction that will Change Your Life - Basically suggested reading
Wonder Women: Female Power Icons in Pop Culture - Sigorny Weaver, Elizabeth Mitchell, Zoe Saldana (the new Uhura and who I totally want to IMDB stalk now for being insanely awesome and honest), and Eliza Dushku, talk about being women in Hollywood. Kicking ass. Taking names. The struggles to do same.
Myth and Superhero - three academic presentations around the theme of comics as folklore. The best one was the third, which made a really interesting point about a shift in the Superman story between the initial telling (craft only has room for one, parents send child) and the later retellings (spacecraft has room for 2, but mom opts to die with hubby and sends child off alone - shortly thereafter, kryptonite enters the comic)
Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus - Terry G. on crack. Looks insanely awesome.
Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog - We did both the musical and the commentary musical. The duet was simply awesome. Although, I was afraid we were going to break to break the floor during the bad horse bits. A thousand people jumping up and down is possibly not a good idea.
Friday
Stargate Universe - Looks cool. And character focused. We'll see. One of the actors (the one playing a raging geek) is a raging geek, so the panel was nice as he lept in and answered half the questions.
24 - sort of accidental to get into the room
Bones - cute. I mean really, what do you say. There's oozing. There's tension.
Dollhouse - they showed Epitaph, which was insanely awesome and clearly originally intended as a finale for the show. Wow! Seriously, if that's where they are headed this is one of Joss' most audacious and innovative works. Free will. Identity. Zombies. Well, maybe not zombies. Well, maybe zombies. Perception. What is in a name? Written and carved and what? There was the after panel. The crowd sent love up. The panel sent love back. Love. Love. Love.
Dc Universe, Green Lantern First Flight and Superman/Batman: Public Enemies - They both look awesome. The best bit was when Andrea Romano the casting/dialog director commented on getting to spend her days with cute boys and Kevin Conroy responded by (in Batman voice) saying her name and grunting meaningfully. I thought the panelists were all going to die laughing. And we saw clips. And they were great. And it was great. And they seem to be speeding up, which is great.
Then we ate at Cafe Dieum - SyFy (sigh) redid a local cafe. Not bad food, and it was pretty cool inside.
Saturday
Chuck - Great fun. The entire cast was there, which opened with a short video of the producers talking about how they had no ideas for next season, so they called on Jeffster to stall, which then came out on stage and sang "Big Bottom Woman" in true rock band style and the crowd went nuts. As is always the case with good panels, they sent the love to us and we sent it right back.
Becoming Batman and Batman Becoming - 2 more academic panels. Both quite interesting. One about the physical requirements of being Batman, the other examining Joker as a post structuralist example of unreason versus Batman's constant attempts to define patterns
Monster panel - okay that wasn't it's name, but I'm not finding it. Basically, a discussion of monsters. Heroes. Villains. Monsters.
Sunday
Smallville - Looks pretty good. They seem to be moving forward in a useful directions. The questions to the panel were... oh, Smallville fans. Painful, painful questions. Very pretty pretty panel though.
Supernatural - Awesome. Simply awesome. All the questions to the panel were thoughtful and interesting. The direction they're going looks incredible. I'm really excited by some of the ideas brought up. And the blooper real. Great stuff.
Being Human - Never seen the show. Now I think I will. Great panel. And the guy playing the werewolf had us do a wave for him.
Torchwood - Ah, we'd downloaded the series so we could go to the panel, which was great. Um... so was Children of Earth, which completely blew all of us away. The questions were good. The panel was interesting and John Barrowman was John Barrowman. Really, he played us. We played up to him. It was great.
Between all of this was walking the ginormous dealers room, running into cool people doing cool things (oh, you know, the cast of Chuck playing lego Guitar Band), etc. and standing in line. Lots of standing in line.
Now I'm back and I'm tired and I suppose I should go to bed, because I need to go to work tomorrow.
Smiling, because I have my tickets for next year.
And now some pictures
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