SD Con is just much, much bigger, and a large part of it is about promoting movies now -- most of them comic movies or fantasy or something under that broad umbrella. For the most part, I think that's cool. The booths for the heavy comics hitters (DC, Image, etc.) aren't booths at all anymore - they're environments four aisles square, towering constructions with lighting effects and stuff.
Because of the press of humanity, it takes a hell of a long time to navigate the exhibition hall. Actual comics sellers (muhahaha! *rubs hands*) are usually located at each end and around the sides, along with the T shirt sellers and the people who peddle painted unicorns and scrying balls and such. The only place where the choking throng thins up is Artist's Alley, which is so sad. :(
More than it was? Like, as in the year they drove a full-size Batmobile onto the dealer floor? My mind boggles.
Oh, yes. Much more of that kind of thing -- bigger! Wilder! Crazier! It's pretty fun, in its way, in terms of crass spectacle. :)
If only it weren't so crowded. There are lots of cool panels and sneak previews, but the lines are so long you either have to camp out for a big event and miss a bunch of other stuff, or wait at the end of a huge snaking line and maybe have the room fill before you get in.
(Props to the Buffy singalong people last year -- when they realized they had one third the space they needed for the crowd, they cajoled two more rooms, somehow found two more projectors, and managed to drive on.)
I'm hoping to see some Watchmen... something, but I can just imagine hgow mobbed that will be.
Oh, yeah, bring food -- granola bars or whatever. Keep them on your person. Really. ;)
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Date: 2008-07-20 05:03 pm (UTC)Because of the press of humanity, it takes a hell of a long time to navigate the exhibition hall. Actual comics sellers (muhahaha! *rubs hands*) are usually located at each end and around the sides, along with the T shirt sellers and the people who peddle painted unicorns and scrying balls and such. The only place where the choking throng thins up is Artist's Alley, which is so sad. :(
More than it was? Like, as in the year they drove a full-size Batmobile onto the dealer floor? My mind boggles.
Oh, yes. Much more of that kind of thing -- bigger! Wilder! Crazier! It's pretty fun, in its way, in terms of crass spectacle. :)
If only it weren't so crowded. There are lots of cool panels and sneak previews, but the lines are so long you either have to camp out for a big event and miss a bunch of other stuff, or wait at the end of a huge snaking line and maybe have the room fill before you get in.
(Props to the Buffy singalong people last year -- when they realized they had one third the space they needed for the crowd, they cajoled two more rooms, somehow found two more projectors, and managed to drive on.)
I'm hoping to see some Watchmen... something, but I can just imagine hgow mobbed that will be.
Oh, yeah, bring food -- granola bars or whatever. Keep them on your person. Really. ;)