I just did something substantially geeky…

I just completed my registration for the San Diego Comic-Con to be held this weekend. I’m actually only going one day, Saturday, but I’m going by myself –sans Sam and Ger as was agreed upon last month as a belated Father’s Day gift.

I know what you’re thinking: “NNNNEEEERRRDDSS!” You’re probably screaming it while standing on top of the cafeteria lunch table and doing your best Ogre impresination. And I probably deserve part of that, despite the fact that I haven’t bought a comic book in 10 years outside of the occasional graphic novel. But on the other hand, while comics is the beefy main dish of this particular feast, it’s also surrounded by many side dishes related to other areas of popular culture.

For example, there’s a panel on Saturday afternoon where Matt Groening, Al Jean, and others involved in The Simpsons television show talk about the upcoming 17th season. There’s also a premeir of the upcoming Family Guy feature-length movie, which should be awesome. And while I couldn’t care less about some presentation on what Superman is going to be up to in the coming months, there are a bunch of interesting, higher-level symposiums and round tables like how to write for comics, how to write for video games, voice acting for cartoons, and the like. Add in the people watching from the exhibit hall and it shuld tally up to a worthwhile day.

Nerds.

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4 thoughts on “I just did something substantially geeky…

  1. Sounds like fun. I watched an episode of the Family Guy the other day. I remember that you mentioned it was pretty good. When it first came out, I could not get over the father and the balls he had for his chin. So I never watched an episode. I really liked it. The sisters voice was bugging me. I could not place her and had to go to their site to see who she was. I like her. I also noticed that Seth Green did one of the voices. I like him too.

  2. Yep, second-for-second I think FG is the funniest thing on TV right now. Meg is indeed voiced by Mila Kunis, who plays Jackie Burkhart on That 70s Show. It often grates on me, too, as she pretty much uses the exact same voice. On the FG DVD set there are a few audio commentaries with Kunis on them, apparently done when she was still like 17 years old and with all the other writers/actors getting embarassed for being so crude around her.

  3. And to think…you are probably raising a nerd too. Just last night Emma asked to watch a show about “BRIDGES.” Go figure what that TiVo will record!

  4. Sam is totally a nerd in training. 😉
    Went Saturday and had a good time, though I think one day of this is enough for me. Maybe because I don’t read comic books so the comics stuff didn’t grab me and the video games stuff paled next to E3. But I said hello to the four people working in the industry who I’ve met in person and know well enough to say hello to. The onlything I bought was a Skull (from pvponline.com) plushie. I attended 2 and a half panels.
    The first one was basically “what’s going on with Marvel comics in the next year” and I decided to poke my head in. There was a panel of editors and writers getting all excited about the same stuff that caused me to quit buying comics in disgust about 10 years ago –multi-title crossovers, variant covers, spinoff titles, big summer events that “change the Marvel universe forever” and the like. So halfway through I gave them a silent “screw you guys” and left.
    The Family Guy panel was hilarious, if for only how bad it was. They showed the first 5 minutes of the FG straight-to-DVD movie, which was friggin awesome. Unfortunately the whole panel was hamstrung by technical problems that made it so the panelists couldn’t understand the audience’s questions because of some kind of reverb or echo. So half of their answers consisted of “Huh? I couldn’t hear that.” In the other half they were kind of dicks, but in a pretty funny way. The problem with the audience Q&A format is that nobody in the audience has any good questions, though, so that part was only good for the panel making fun of the questions. (Q: “Where do you get your ideas?” A: “We have writers.” Next Q: “Where do you get your ideas for the flashbacks?” A: “Didn’t we just do the where do you get your ideas question?”)
    The Simpsons panel was similar, though those guys had more fun with it. They showed the intro to next season’s Treehouse of Horror episode, which was great. Again, audience Q&A was cringingly awful, but at least the panelests here made jokes.

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