Comic-con Sunday

Sunday morning, I drove down to San Diego for the last day of Comic-con.  Unfortunately, it turns out this is about the least interesting day to go.  Most of the panels I’d have wanted to see had already taken place on other days, so I spent most of the time checking out the gigantic room with all the booths.  It was absolutely mad.  If you don’t like crowds, this is not the place to be.  It was cool to check out all the merchandise, though, and there were some fun things, like a life-size Batman and Indiana Jones made of Legos, and the big studios had booths pimping their upcoming films/shows, and some of those were sort of flashy and fun.  EA Games had a booth where I got to play the Wii version of the upcoming Harry Potter game.  It was sort of fun, but a lot of the innovation is lost without the Wii remote.

I did try to go to one panel (there were two others I was going to try to hit, but I missed one and I completely forgot about the other).  It was running late, apparently, because when we got into the ballroom, a panel for the upcoming film Hamlet 2 was there, so we had to sit through that (saw enough to decide I probably won’t be seeing that movie), then the people came out for the panel we had come to see.  It was the one for the new Harold and Kumar movie.  Now, I haven’t seen the first one, so I didn’t really care too much about the movie, but Neil Patrick Harris was supposed to be on the panel, and since I’d missed the Joss Whedon/Dr. Horrible panel, I figured it was the next best thing.  But then when they came out, they said he was in London, so I was like, “Psh, forget that” and left.  Though later someone gave me a “WWNPHD” bracelet that they got somewhere, which I found quite amusing.

I decided to dress up a bit, just for kicks, so I dyed my hair pink and went as Tonks.  There were some people who really went all out with the costumes.  I saw one guy just as I was walking past him who had a great Nightcrawler costume, and there were some pretty great anime outfits, as well.

I met up with some ladies from an online fanclub there, all super nice and fun, and hung out with them a little.  After the con closed, we went to dinner at a place that I think was just called Studio Diner and had some good food.  Then it was a three or so hour drive back home.  Quick trip, but it was fun.  I think next year I may try to make the whole thing.

(I know this is an especially brief and uninteresting blog, but I’m afraid I just don’t have the time or inclination to put the effort into it that I usually would, so I figured this was better than nothing.)