EPIC SAN DIEGO COMIC CON PHOTO POST

Finally: many, many pictures I took of the insanity that was San Diego Comic Com 2010!

Domo!

Steampunk Batman and Poison Ivy

In background: various Stan Winston Studios creations

"Bloom County" creator Berkeley Breathed

Author Keith R. A. DeCandido (kradical) Keith, at one of my default "go here when you need to see a friendly face" places during this insanity.

Choose Your Own Batman Villain... THREE different Jokers -- Jokers were plentiful -- plus Harley Quinn, Catwoman and Poison Ivy.

Voltron

Shawshank Redemption/The Walking Dead director Frank Darabont; some lucky fanboy; poster artist Drew Struzan Darabont and Struzan were signing posters for The Walking Dead in a set built to look like a zombie-overrun house. Over Darabont's shoulder is a fake corpse.

For The Walking Dead: a corpse

Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News at the "Walking Dead" booth Here's a wider shot of the Walking Dead booth. Video screens were rigged up behind the windows showing footage of shuffling zombies. Harry Knowles is giving an interview.

The "Alien" booth Promoting the Blu Ray set of the Alien films are Weylamd-Yutani hibernation booths, like those from the original 1979 film. People could lie down in the four booths. I wanted to, but the line was massively long each time I tried.

Brent Spiner of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" I didn't say hi to Spiner. I should have, as well as tell him about the really fun July 4th weekend screening of Independence Day (the film where he's used as a speaker phone) that Portland had; he would've appreciated it. Over his shoulder are his Star Trek co-stars Marina Sirtis and Michael Dorn.

Fandoms in the night...exchanging glances... A Jack Sparrow cosplayer at least seemingly reasonably approves of Alice in Wonderland cosplayers.

A tall glass of water

I've decided that a group of Jack Sparrow cosplayers is a "rum."

The League of S.T.E.A.M.! The Supernatural and Troublesome Ectoplasmic Apparition Management, a SoCal performance troupe. All hail steampunk. Also all hail recycling, which is sort of steampunk but sort of not.

More of the crowd.

Cancelled television gets some props. I've contributed to a campaign like that before, for the late-Nineties series Cupid.

Peter David, Writer of Stuff

An emphatic moment from Peter David Peter David, signing at the Boom! Studios booth, commiserates with a fellow parent. (The parent had had a small toy Gumby. Peter pointed out that it's a hazardous toy to have around kids. "I wouldn't want anything to happen to my kids!" he was saying when I took this shot.)

And this was only PART of the crowd.

Yes. There's a bunny. At least it's not Frank.

My crowd!

L.L. Cool J of "NCIS: Los Angeles" at the CBS booth

Later at the same booth: Pauley Perrette of "NCIS"

Pauley Perrette ("NCIS") with another fan

Actor Ron Perlman briefly rests his eyes.

Is any caption necessary?

View of the convention center and my hotel I stayed in Marriott's south tower. Next door: the San Diego Convention Center. Beyond is the Hilton (with a Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World ad on its side) and the Coronado Bridge. I shot this from the 44th floor of the Hyatt.

One of the few bits of swag I got: an "Alien" facehugger

This shirt amuses me. That is all.

Odin's throne from the upcoming Marvel Studios film version of "Thor" I wasn't there when it happened, but among the people who sat in the throne was Isaiah Mustafa, the Old Spice Guy.

See what they're holding?

OK, what's funnier: Darth Mack and Boba Pimp or Darth Pimp and Boba Mack?

If you have to ask, DON'T. You don't want to know.