Sunday, July 26, 2009

Scooby-dooby-doo!

The Scooby Doo live action prequel was delightful. Yay!

Lack of Sleep

It is difficult to do important things like eating and sleeping during Comic Con. Matt joined our group on Friday and last night, after he supplied the room with an ample amount of beer, we stayed up telling stories and being silly.

I succeeded in meeting Randy, Jeph and Aeire (pronounced Eye-ree I learned) just a few moments ago, though my mind has reached a critical loss of functionality. Difficult to type. Difficult to remember questions I wanted to ask them, forgot to take Jeph's picture but I got Randy trying to eat Aeire's brains and I got signed drawings or purchased something from everyone. Kit bought me coffee. Delicious coffee.

We went to dinner last night at a place called "Cafe Diem" which was really a small Hard Rock cafe in the Gaslamp district that they covered all the walls with Syfy (HATE THAT NEW NAME) swag. It was pretty neat, and I had the best ham & swiss sandwich of my life.



Now it's time to watch Scooby Doo!

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Webcomicsing at Comic Con!

After the Meet the Guild Panel yesterday, I did my rounds at Webcomics Alley. I met Jennie Breeden - Devil's Panties, Lar DeSouza - the artist for Least I Could Do and Looking for Group, and my favorite: Richard Stevens of Diesel Sweeties. He was every bit as funny and smart as his comic makes him seem (plus he's a cat person!). We chatted for a while about Ohio, Amtrak and traveling the country and he was kind enough to sign my book and draw me a picture.



The other artists I wanted to see (Jeph of Questionable Content, Randy of Something Positive and Aeire of Punch n' Pie) were not at the booths (like they have to eat or use the restrooms? *please*)

Kit and I sat in on the Syfy panel in the evening and saw the next episodes of Warehouse 13 and Eureka as well as some promos for Ghost Hunters and I don't remember what else. Eureka seems like a fun show, I may have to watch it. Maybe it's on Hulu?

This morning, I met Ryan Sohmer, the writer for LICD/LFG, who was also pretty awesome.



The panels have all been pretty packed and we've not had a lot of luck. We couldn't get into the Futurama Panel, but we lucked out on the Ray Bradbury panel, for which I am waiting right now (inside the room). Apparently the Green Lantern panel before it wasn't very popular, and there were a lot of seats open.

Now I'm going to eat my granola bars. I'm hungry, and I'm glad Kit advised me to bring snacks to the con.

Friday, July 24, 2009

San Diego Comic Con! Day 1

After a somewhat-comedy-of-errors experience, I am finally inside the vast halls of the San Diego Convention Center!

I arrived at the San Jose airport yesterday afternoon to the devastating news that the flight had been overbooked and that I did not have a seat. Luckily, somebody that had checked in online never actually showed up, so I ended up with a seat after all! Plus, it was in the front row.

Due to my lack of being able to understand the concept of time and directions, I ended up getting in line for registration just moments too late. I'm not ashamed to admit that I cried. Okay, I am ashamed to admit it. Now the internets know.

After complaining to my mom and the boyfriend, I discovered a friendly-looking wine bar across the street from the convention center - The San Diego Wine & Culinary Center. For $7, you could taste 3 local wines, and the portions seemed generous enough to me. Shortly, I was joined by my friends (Kit & Chris) and we entertained ourselves by reading through Kingdom of Loathing's Choose Your Own Adventure novel.

Now, I am in line for the Meet the Guild Panel so that I may meet my favorite actress, the very lovely, smart and funny Felicia Day.