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Oh Wow! Yates at Comic Con!!!
08/01/09 at 8:06pm
 
My kids were pretty stoked!
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Reply #1 - 08/06/09 at 8:39am
 
thanks for the tour Chris! Smiley

just curious..
what is "Twilight" and how did it ruin comic con?

Im quite out of touch with the "comics scene" these days..
I was a heavy collector back in college though!
and through my mid-20's..
I still have about 3 long boxes full..
I have every Sandman, every original Tick, all the Milk & Cheese! every Tank Girl.. a whole bunch of original Elfquests..Appleseed and random late 80's manga..
all kinds of cool stuff..
but I havent set foot in a comic book store since about 1995..  Sad
I should check things out again..see what is interesting out these these days..

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Reply #2 - 09/05/09 at 3:11am
 
Comic Con is not just only about comics; it is also about movies and TV shows and other things that want nerds to love them. Twilight is a horrible series of horrible books that is also a horrible series of horrible movies. There are also calendars and soundtracks and hats and shirts and, I suspect, a breakfast cereal and mobile homes and deeley bobbers and diet rhinoceros chow... why not?

I have not personally read the series or seen the movies and I'm sure someone will tell me they are not horrible. They look pretty horrible to me, though, but as I said I am not an expert. It's a teen vampire romance series. For some reason, it has a polarizing effect on the general public: some folks absolutely LUV it; some wish it would die a horrible painful death.

I was not at Comic Con and so can not explain how it ruined Comic Con.
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Reply #3 - 09/29/09 at 8:34pm
 
Hey guys!  Sorry I haven't been around the forum lately!!  I have been busy and mostly been using Twitter to talk to folks.

dunnright - that picture is full of magic and glowiness!!  A++  It was sweet to meet you and your awesome kids at San Diego!

scotsman - oh man I have never been that in touch with the regular "comics scene" either.  I have some Chris Ware, Dave McKean, Berke Breathed books but nothing in the way of normal comic book store fare.  Well, maybe a few Milk & Cheeses Smiley

But the alt and web people such as myself have done pretty well lately in infiltrating that staid print comic culture.  Dr. McNinja is the new Superman, xkcd is the new Dilbert, etc.

Yanichka is pretty much about ComicCon, it's not just cartoonists and comic retailers, it's just about every media company you can think of that caters to nerd/geek/videogame/toy/scifi/fantasy/anime/cosplay culture.  The exhibition floor (the entire main floor of the San Diego Convention Center) is the size of 8 football fields, for crying out loud.  125,000 attendees, and who knows how many exhibitors, staff, and guests.  It's fucking nuts.

But yeah, I could give two shits about Twilight, but it was a running con joke that "Twilight ruined ComicCon".  There was a panel with all the stars from that movie on Friday or Saturday, and a dearth of manic female tweens and their moms camped out the panel lines and Hall H starting Wednesday night (the biggest of the panel rooms upstairs) to attempt to get into the Twilight panel.

This made it difficult or impossible for fans of other things to get into any popular panels they wanted to see in Hall H for a couple days.  
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Reply #4 - 09/30/09 at 12:20pm
 
Oh hey, people posting here!

I tried watching Twilight, with the expectation that I'd laugh the whole way through because of its ... uniqueness.  I don't believe I got more than 10 minutes in before turning it off and going to eat some ice cream to freeze it out of my brain.
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Reply #5 - 11/09/09 at 2:09pm
 
I believe ice cream is the standard antidote for bad movies.
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Reply #7 - 05/22/10 at 1:03am
 
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