Comic-Con is a squirrely beast.
Today was projected to be the biggest day of the show. The ticket sales for today sold out weeks ago. And, following the brilliant clear logic of Comic-Con, it was the slowest day so far.
There are lots of reasons why this could be. Maybe Comic-Con panicked and clamped down on Saturday, and as such there were actually less tickets sold. Or maybe since today was Big Media Day with the superstars, everyone camped upstairs in the panel rooms. Either way, the traffic at the show seemed to be down.
The panel things points out what I miss most about Comic-Con. Back in the Day, a scant ten years ago or so, I was the scout for my friends back in Ohio. I came to Con, saw the couple of Super Big Media Events and then came home and relayed everything to my friends around the campfire. Much the same way Threepio recapped the first two and a half Star Wars movies to the Ewoks.
Now, ten minutes after a panel ends, the interweb is afire with the news. A lot of the stories hit the web with video and pictures. Heck, with crowds the way they are, it’s actually easier to read it on the ‘net rather than actually attend the panel.
Still, I solid solidly and had a lot of people come over and rave about the book. One person in particular raved about the dialogue, and I enjoyed that, since I work so hard on it. I talked with a couple more companies. And I ran into Jenni Villarreal and some of the Hands-in-the-Air podcast group. So the show portion wasn’t too bad.
The after-show was pretty good, though, even if it ended earlier than any Comic-Con Saturday Night in recent memory. I went to the Animation Writer’s Caucus, which is always a treat. There are a fair number of writers who have come to know me, and one of these days that will pay off nicely.
I have to shout out to Geoffrey Thorne who, at a Comic-Con a couple years back, got me to start writing Star Trek short stories again. And now I have a co-writers credit on a Star Trek story, Hmmmm… connection maybe?
So, things continue to trend upward. Don’t expect an update tomorrow, though. I’ll be leaving the show at close and heading to an LA writers’ party and then to my new temporary base of operations, our swanky Sunset Boulevard hotel. Chances are it’ll be a late ‘un, and I actually have to do a cover for a paper tomorrow, so I can’t imagine I’ll log any computer time until sometime late on Monday.