Comic-Con Programming: July 26

COMMENTS (7)

• Lost, The Office, Dollhouse, Transformers and Termination Salvation all at basically the same time. What a joke!!! I think it confirms they have officially hit capacity in San Diego and have to overlap panels to control the rooms. Such a bummer.

  Comment by Steve Wells — Sunday July 13, 2008 @ 8:24am PDT  Reply to this post

• Can I also point out that, just as all of the big projects are being promoted, there is an entire Independent Film Festival also happening at Comic-Con? Details for this showcase for low-budget original genre shorts in Room 26AB can be found at http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_iff.shtml

  (and, totally shameless plug – check out my film, “5″, at 1:20PM on the 26th)

  Comment by Damon Young — Sunday July 13, 2008 @ 9:07am PDT  Reply to this post

• They might as well overlap, and that would be a good way of controlling crowd size. Last year was the first year I couldn’t leave one panel minutes before it ended to get to the next one for almost everything. If you weren’t in line at least half hour before many panels you could forget getting in. Hell, if you wanted to get into the Heroes panel last year you had to be in the hall for the first panel of the day, and sit through the next several just to get to the one you wanted to attend (says someone shut out from one of the intervening panels.) It may have gotten too big for San Diego, but where could they go?

  I was late to the party, I only got to Comic Con five years ago, and I miss how it was for the first years I attended. I can’t imagine how long time attendees feel about the Con, especially since I was probably part of the problem. I went for the genre television/movie/theatrical craft presentations.

  Not being a mogul, I won’t be there this year. And while I don’t miss the crowds, the expense or the problems getting around, I’m already missing meeting people with similar interests and getting excited by seeing something new, learning about some new technique or getting a question answered. That happened every year I attended, and I’m sure I’ll be in withdrawal starting July 24

  Comment by Pat — Sunday July 13, 2008 @ 12:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yeah, while San Diego is a great location, it would be better off in Las Vegas for convention center size and number of rooms.

  That being said, the people who run Comic Con will never move it.

  Not to be too critical of Comic Con, but it has been out of control for at least 3 years. It’s becoming the Sundance of Comic Book Conventions where the focus is more on celebrity (and slowly corporate marketing), and less on Comics, Films, Anime and other things.

  Of course, the leadership will deny that. They’ll even diss all the celebrities attending the convention to keep thier street cred with the hard core comic book fan. But, when I’ve been their with celebrities, the leaders are the ones fawning over them.

  Comment by chris — Sunday July 13, 2008 @ 5:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

• What I don’t understand is when Comic-Con became TV central? How did they allow that to happen.

  Sure I can understand certain TV shows who have comic books or are based off comic books to be there. Like Smallville/Superman

  Supernatural has a comic book out now, but they didn’t when the show first started.

  But someone please tell me what Lost, Dollhouse, Chuck, Pushing Daisies, Bones, and Knight Rider all have to do with Comic Con?

  Shouldn’t Comic Con be strictly for Comics hence the name? Color me confused.

  Comment by Enough — Sunday July 13, 2008 @ 10:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I can’t help but take issue with some of these comments. But that’s what I love about this site; There’s a wide array of opinions from so many points of view.

  All I can say is that we put on the type of show we, ourselves, would like to attend.

  Is it perfect? No.
  Are we flawless? Far from it.
  Are there things we wish were different? You betcha.

  Still, I hope most people enjoy themselves, learn something new and have a good time.

  Dave Glanzer
  Comic-Con

  Comment by David — Monday July 14, 2008 @ 12:30am PDT  Reply to this post

• I thought about going again this year but with the high gas prices and the possibility that many of the stars might not show up changed my mind. Also I went last year on Saturday and spent the day in Ballroom 20 watching the various TV panels that were there until 3. My only problem is that the Con has become so big that there is no breathing room. The crowds were basically wall to wall and I’m getting too old and cranky so I tend to grumble a lot more now. I used to be able to go 4 days but it just got to be too much so I picked Saturday as the main event day. But the last two years have basically been the same with me not being able to leave and get into any of the other presentations especially the movie stuff in Hall H. You have to line up for those at 7:00 AM and most of the 4 dayers get there first so I just stuck to the TV presentations. This year they sold out Saturday and Friday before the programming guide came out so I decided to just let it go for this year. I hope they don’t sell the single day tickets next year until after the programming guide comes out about two week before the Con starts. Ths year they started selling them 4 months ahead of time in March. A lot of us would like to wait and see what day our favorite shows are going to be presented before buying a ticket.

  Comment by Brian — Monday July 14, 2008 @ 8:06pm PDT  Reply to this post