Back from SDCC 2008 and San Francisco

So what can I say? Merchandise heavy, poorer, and fighting through panels. Exactly what I was expecting Comicon to be.

To start: Exhibition hall. BUSY.

Pros: Lots and lots of booths to go through. Distributors and sellers were out enforce to display their wares. It was great. Free swag everywhere!

Hot cosplay girls. :p

Cons:
This year they added a gaming section to the exhibit hall. As if it wasn't already crowded already with toy booths, comic booths, tv/movie promo booths the left side of the hall was dominated by the Street Fighter IV setup. I love SF and am looking forward to it but come on! Stupid booth took up a big chunk of the aisle.

Add in the fact Hasbro was doing a ticket lineup to get in the buy lineup was annoying as hell.

Stupid fat fans. Don't just stop and stare at something like a dumb deer. If you see something interesting move over to the side! Place is crowded enough as it is without your 300lb fat ass blocking the aisle.

Panels:

Pros: Pleasant surprise were the 24, BSG, Doll House and Avatar panel. Season 4 preview of 24 was so good I now want to watch the previous seasons to catch up. Damn you Comicon! BSG was funny with a large bunch of the cast there. Joss Whedon's Dollhouse was interesting. Avatar was nuts. Soooooo many Avatards. Chibi Momo was awesome. V should have been there. Also had a few panels I really wanted to go to such as the Venture Bros and Heroes.

Cons: Con organisers dropped the ball big time here. In 2006 there were so many interesting and varied panels that the problem people had were which panel to go to and which they would have to miss. This year the good panels were surrounded by SUCK panels so the lineup for the good panels were insane. Didn't get into the Venture Brothers panel since the lineup was huge. Heroes panel lineup started the PREVIOUS day at around 6pm for a 10:45am panel. So being a sucker I lined up at 4am the next morning to get in. As far as I'm concerned Season 3 Eps.1 is awesome. It's like the magic from the 2006 Heroes panel was back. Season 2 obviously sucked ass.

Swag:

Pros: Lots of swag to get. I got some. Royal and Ray got alot.
Super Pros: FREE SWAG. Lots and lots of free swag. Plus I got to see Tropic Thunder early! Awesome Awesome movie! Stiller is great, Black is great, Downey Jr is hilarious. Look for cameos. Alot of cameos. I didn't think that guy was Tom Cruise until he did that Tom Cruise-y type move at the end.

Talk about SF next post. Need food.