Comic-Con International 2010 - San Diego, CA

[narfcake]

Survived a half-day of room #20 (Chuck/Family Guy/The Cleveland Show/Futurama/The Simpsons), and then downstairs, ran into Maurice LaMarche (or vice versa, actually). A quick reminisce of the 15 years ... he's still got it.

I'll try for [Adult Swim] a little later, then Mythbusters ...

[Ccook50]

Originally Posted by BluebottleFlyer

Paddy, that was it, lol. They started with Mr Titan, there was also Johnny Sypher, Sam Bassett, Harry Happy, Bat Beagle (I think I heard that right), some "experimental film" with a really creepy looking stop-motion animated monkey, and the afore-mentioned two. Not sure if I missed any, I think that about covers it.

No Spunky & Tadpole, eh? Jerry would have screened episode six of "Message To Marcia."

[BluebottleFlyer]

Originally Posted by Ccook50

No Spunky & Tadpole, eh? Jerry would have screened episode six of "Message To Marcia."

Nope, didn't show that. Would've liked to see it myself.

[Cassini90125]

Howard and I looked at the line for tickets to the Masquerade, wisely said the hell with it, and wandered off to find lunch. Much to our surprise, we found that La Strata had reopened. Still one of the city's best restaurants. Afterwards we poked around in the Exhibition Hall for awhile, at least until the noise and my dislike of crowds finally caught up to me and I had to get out. Not a happy moment. On the bright side I got the autographs my sister-in-law wanted and took a lot of pics, one of which really blew me away. Eventually we had dinner at a Mexican place and decided to call it a day. I've got a bit of a headache but on balance it was a pretty good day.

[Sparky]

Random request for a friend: any photos of Adam Savage in Batman armor. Just throwing that out there.

[BluebottleFlyer]

Now I can say that I waited in a queue for almost the best part of an hour for no reason at all...that's what myself and ORD did, we were in the massive line for the Futurama panel, but I changed my mind and went off to do my own thing instead. Yesterday, I saw there was a booth selling the comic series "Bone", which I'd heard about but never read, so I decided to buy a big book of the whole Bone comic, plus a separate new one. $51, but hopefully it'll be worth it.
It turned out that Bone's creator, Jeff Smith, was there doing autographs, so I went for it, and he signed both the books I'd bought and my autograph book, very cool indeed.
Popped out to Hot Topic to buy myself a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shirt. The inner geek in me pretty much took over me today, lol.
After that, met up with ORD again for the Cartoon Voices I panel, which featured a group of well-known voice actors, including April Winchell, Gregg Berger and Chuck McCann. I remember the Cartoon Voices panels in '08, and they were brilliant. This one was too, they did a cold reading of a Cinderella script, and the voices they were letting rip with were just priceless. There were also special guest appearances by Bill Farmer (best known as the voice of Goofy) and Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, the duo behind the Ruby-Spears animation company. After the panel I got Gregg Berger's autograph, too.
Last time I was in SD, ORD cosplayed as Bloo from "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends", and he brought the costume this year, too, so for a good hour or so we both hung around the Convention Centre, with loads of people taking pictures and posing with "Bloo". I sort of cosplayed as well, with the Adventure Time hat I got, but ORD was way better at it. :nod: Also, we both ran into Maurice LaMarche and Billy West, brief but very cool.
Having so much fun here, I really don't want it to end.

[One Radical Dude]

Anyway, Saturday, I ran into Maurice LaMarche when I was getting some stuff from Starbucks at the Marriott Hotel & Marina. It was a brief visit. I did get in line to see Futurama. Later on, I changed my mind and tried to search for a few friends I haven't seen yet at the Con. Later on, I went to the Cartoon Voices I event, which included Gregg Berger, James Marsden, Candi Milo, Tom Kane, April Winchell, Chuck McCann, and others. Joe Ruby and Ken Spears made late appearances at the end. I was not successful at getting a photo with Candi at that panel, so I ended up catching the last bit of the Fanboy and Chum Chum panel and I did succeed in getting a pic with her (didn't do that the last time I met her). Around 5:30, I wore the Bloo costume. It was still a hit. I went through Hall B through E, and then I went up to Sails Pavilion. Once I was heading back to my hotel room, I saw Maurice again, and I finally met Billy West. For the first time in four years, I received a ticket to the masquerade (I didn't even have to wait in line to get it, I guess the line died down quickly). So I did that, even though there were not quite as many entries this year, I thought the costumes were better this year for a good part. I went to eat pizza at Ciro's on Market St. Over there, the store location has Cartoon Network on the signs with the current logo and some of it's current characters, mostly Finn and Jake from Adventure time and clips of CN programming. It was kinda neat. The pizza is actually not bad; at least I didn't think so. Not a bad Saturday.

[narfcake]

Overall, I was 5 for 6 yesterday. #6 was MB ... so sorry, Sparky - no pics.

I'm at Cartoon Voices II right now ... and then, who knows.

[Cassini90125]

Darth Vader:

http://vejur.deviantart.com/#/d2ut4yy

You cannot have a Comic-Con without a Darth Vader cosplayer.

No immediate plans for today, other than dinner.

[Sparky]

I don't suppose its possible for anyone to pick up the Darkwing Duck comics for GM and I? (Just one set for us to share, there should be two issues.) I didn't know they were there until last night, I think they are at BOOM.