{"id":683,"date":"2004-07-27T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/683"},"modified":"2004-07-27T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-27T15:58:00","slug":"san-diego-comic-con-tales-or-an-annotated-geekery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/683","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Comic Con Tales (or, an Annotated Geekery)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cool folkses I met:<\/b>
\nNYC Godfather of Graffiti SEEN<\/a>, and his lady Sally with their fantastic Bronx accents; comic artists Scott Morse<\/a>, Jeff Smith<\/a> (who just completed his 9 volume Bone series!) and thanks to , Chynna Clugston-Major<\/a>; Disney animator Joe Haidar<\/a> shared seafood with RVL, JVL, Robert and I; Dreamwave<\/a> mastermind Pat Lee and his crew, esp. Candace and Doc (we parked at their booth all weekend, and sold Transformers comics); the top 3 Diamond execs<\/a>, incl. Steve Geppi and his family (really nice folks); ate a delicious and posh dinner with JVL, Rainbow,<\/a> Rainbow’s sister Cree<\/a> and her partner Jeff (y’all better start watching “Stargate: Atlantis”<\/a> and Cree’s new show “Drawn Together”<\/a> this season! or else!)<\/p>\n

Cool folks I saw at a distance:<\/b>
\nJOSS WHEDON AND THE ENTIRE CAST OF FIREFLY (I was humming with joy, until someone went up to the mike and pronounced his name “Josh”); Sarah Michelle Gellar (her new movie “The Grudge” looks very very scary); Jude Law and the “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow” creators; Simon Pegg from British sitcom “Spaced”<\/a> and “Shaun of the Dead”<\/a> (totally hilarious)<\/p>\n

Exclusive toys I ran my ass off to acquire for the Silver Snail:<\/b>
\nMattel She-Ra and Batman unmasked variants; Hasbro “Silver Saga Edition” Star Wars sandtroopers (by the armful); Neca Quentin Tarantino Crazy 88 figure, Spidey Bust, Freddy Krueger action figure (didn’t manage to get a MOTU Hordak bust); Mezco Hellboy and Living Dead Doll exclusives; Gentle Giant Star Wars crystal bust-ups (but not the Luke bust, although I think Ciaran got one); Happy Tree Friends 6-figure set and Flippy “Carve Your Heart Out” figure<\/p>\n

Exclusive toys I didn’t run my ass off for, but we got anyway:<\/b>
\nPalisades Exploded Inspector Clouseau, Adventure Kermit in Indiana Jones gear, all the Sideshow, Diamond, Art Asylum<\/a>… I don’t even remember the rest<\/p>\n

So, yeah. It was a major geek-out session. But at least I didn’t dress up in any sort of jedi\/anime\/Marvel\/DC costume. Or rather, there’s no proof<\/i> that I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cool folkses I met: NYC Godfather of Graffiti SEEN, and his lady Sally with their fantastic Bronx accents; comic artists Scott Morse, Jeff Smith (who just completed his 9 volume Bone series!) and thanks to , Chynna Clugston-Major; Disney animator Joe Haidar shared seafood with RVL, JVL, Robert and I; Dreamwave mastermind Pat Lee and […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}