Late Friday night and I am exhausted. Comic-Con gets more insanely crowded every year. I didn't get into half the panels I wanted to, but there was still plenty to keep me occupied. Anyway, here's the skinny.
Favorite costumes (above): Not sure why these guys picked the 8th, 6th, 4th and 1st Doctor, tho'.
Most Pointless (if impressive) Costume: A guy done up exactly like Bob's Big Boy, right down to the plate with plastic cheeseburger. Who's really that big a fan of kitchy diner food?
Best Giveaway: an actual flash drive with episode's of Adam de la Pena's new web series ON THE BUBBLE.
The One Piece of Merch I Will Have to Buy: This year's Alex Ross shirt is of Obama-as-Clark Kent, opening his shirt to display a red and blue "O" superhero emblem.
Least Interesting Panel Revelations: The cast of the BIG BANG THEORY really get along well.
(Oh, and less uninteresting, Sara Gilbert will come back next season as that nerd who has that loathing-bordering-on-sexual-attraction thing going with Sheldon.) Actually, it was nice to see this show, which started out not sure if its über-nerd characters should be objects of derision or sympathy, to come out firmly on the side of the freaks.
Panel Revelations (interesting) from "Art of Adapting Comics to the Screen"
Zak Penn is writing the AVENGERS movie and trying to make sure the next four movies fit within the continuity set up by IRON MAN and THE INCREDIBLE HULK. I know a lot of people have damned Penn's INCREDIBLE HULK movie with faint praise. I liked it, but got the sense that a lot of the character moments of Bruce (Ed Norton) learning to accept the Hulk as part of who he is instead of fighting against it were cut. The absence of these moments left the film kind of flat, and the ending inexplicable. (He's driven into a Hulk rage by a bout of intense meditation?!) Zak Penn confirmed that's pretty much what happened when the studio edited the film.
EW's Showrunner Panel. Both Josh Schwartz and Bryan Fuller said that due to the long, writers' strike-induced hiatus, their networks are treating the first episodes of season 2 of CHUCK and PUSHING DAISIES as "second pilots" with full promotional pushes, although with DAISIES, I doubt this means Barry Sonnenfeld will be invited back to go massively over-budget, as happened with PUSHING DAISIES first pilot.
Great panel on WRITING GENRE TV. Too bad 90% of the audience was there just to be sure they'd have a seat for a panel on the following panel concerning Online Anime Fans.
In the evening, another great edition of Jerry Beck's WORST CARTOONS EVER, including SUPER PRESIDENT, a superhero who will blow his secret identity if he ever tells anyone his superhero name, and with a sidekick oddly resembling Karl Rove. No good clips on the net, although YouTube has this crappy recording...
Then, Spike and Mike's Animation Festival, which I have to say: What the hell happened? The show has been a high point in Comic-Con's past, but this year was just relentlessly awful. Are they losing good animators who now just post online. Luckily, it was slightly redeemed by ending with a new Dr. Tran video.
What I love about all these videos (made by Lone Sausage) is if you try to explain them to someone, they sound incredibly stupid, but watch them and they're hilarious. The new video had a weird old guy giving Dr. Tran advice on his 100% Ice stand and ended with an ad for a store called TITS.
Okay, that's it for me. Wish me luck for tomorrow.
--Andy
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