I had a very fun full day at Comic-Con! I was able to make it to most of the panels that I wanted to except for the first one, on Escapist Fantasy because the line to pick up badges was massive. So I was bummed to miss a few authors, but I slipped into the Astroboy panel instead. This was cool for two reasons. One, I used to live in Japan where Astroboy was all kinds of popular. (well it's where he came from!) and two--Kristen Bell was on the panel. Sadly, Kristen didn't have any fresh original ideas for getting that Veronica Mars movie made, but she is more than willing to do it --I hope we get to see it made! They showed us some clips and the trailer and it looks like a cool movie. If you like that kind of stuff. :)
I sat in on three other panels...one to make sure I had a seat for the next panel which I was really interested in. Entertainment Weekly: Wonder Women: Female Power Icons in Pop Culture I was really interested in this panel because I loved the topic and also because I love the character of Juliet on LOST and Elizabeth Mitchell was on the panel! It was an excellent excellent panel and I hope to write more thoughts about it later. But who knows.
The fourth panel I attended was the Evolution of Fantasy with several of today's fantasy authors, including the very popular Patrick Rothfuss and Jacqueline Carey. This panel was very interesting and I jotted down quite a few notes...I feel it will be the inspiration for a few opinion posts in the future.
Anyway, just wanted to check in...hope you are all having great weeks!!
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Day One at Comic-Con
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Good to hear, you had a fun time!
My weeks is going fine, preparing to go an a vacation YAY!
Those panels sound fascinating. I hope you will find the time to give us more in depth recaps of them!
Between your tweets, Amanda Palmer's and Neil Gaiman's, I spent the whole day wishing I was at comic con! I hope you're having a wonderful time :D And I really look forward to hearing more about it!
Wish I didn't reside on the wrong coast! You are going to have so much fun. A good friend who went last year raved about the panels, and I would've killed to sit in on the Mystery Science Theater panel.
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I saw Comic Con advertised on TV the other day, and it looked like so much fun! I was thinking about you! I'll be looking forward to more reports...and pictures!
JEALOUS!!! looking forward to your next report.
If you happen to run into Whitney from PopCandy, tell her I say that I love her blog. :) What a fun event to be able to attend. Enjoy!
Sounds like you had a successful full day. I'm interested to see what inspiration sitting in on the day's panels brings to your future postings. They're gonna be awesome :)
Sounds like so much fun! Your tweets have been enjoyable, too!
Sounds like you are having a blast. Be sure to take some pics!
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