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Tuesday, July 19, 2005

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# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 7/19/2005 04:39:00 PM

As the end of a long day approaches, i sit quietly at my desk and wander the internet. Today's theme was the bigest event in comics every year, the San Diego Comic Con. the biggest problem with the show every year is that its the biggest event in san diego of all and the whole city has a massive influx of nerds. this year the padres happen to have a home stand over the weekend so the city was at max capacity for 5 days. hundreds of fat guys dressed as stormtroopers present thier own unique types of problems.

each year the show loses a little grond to movies and television. this there was a ton of really famous people there who are working on comic book movies. some how the strange worlds of comic book people and hollywood people have merged. Models dating artists, actors getting writing jobs, and creators pitching thier ideas to everyone. the wojekowskis' (the matrix guys) are adapting V For Vendeta as a movie. the script has leaked to nerd culture and it got really bad reviews. now they're changing the movie. i'm always amazed at how people who have no influance over anything, as a group, can change the fate of a project. when people start find out about projects at the earliest stages, and complaining, things get fixed. catwoman was a great example of how this didn't happen. there was no comic book referenced in that movie and no one went to see it because it was trash. forever doomed to be known as a studio looking to make a quick buck by exploiting a well known character.

i'm rambling. i ment to talk baseball. go yanks. 1/2 game up. please don't blow it tonight.

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Quotes from Con-goers to backup my lack of point:

Jimmy Palmiotti on con farters:

Ok, the people were in abundance and thought it was a given to stand around and release gas into crowds … but it is a Comic Con, and we have grown to expect that from time to time. A friend from outside the business asked me if farting was a ritual with the con, and I told him to go to a ball game when it’s letting out and try to tell me it’s any better. Stupid me … I’m defending people’s right to fart. Someone has to I guess.

Kevin Smith on star power:

Smoking on the Green Room porch, I’m thrown by how star-studded the San Diego ComiCon has become. Back in ’95, the first time I ever attended, the biggest non-comics name in attendance was maybe Bruce Campbell. Now, it’s like ShoWest Junior there. No less than three of the most recent Academy Award winners for Best Actor and Actress (Adrien Brody, Charlize Theron, and Jamie Foxx) were whoring their latest projects (“Kong”, “Aeon Flux”, and “Stealth”) to the Con crowds. It’s nuts how much power the geek audience now wields, whereas we could never even so much as get a handjob back in the day.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, July 20, 2005 2:31:00 PM  

about the back up of san diego traffic de to the padres game.

http://www.comicon.com/thebeat/archives/2005/07/san_diego_maybe.html

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, July 20, 2005 2:48:00 PM  

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