{"id":102,"date":"2008-07-27T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/tales-from-comic-con-day-1-thursday-kind-of-familiar.html"},"modified":"2010-03-20T17:09:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T23:09:15","slug":"tales-from-comic-con-day-1-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/tales-from-comic-con-day-1-thursday.html","title":{"rendered":"Tales from Comic-Con, Day 1 (Thursday): Kind of Familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much like my 2006 trip to Comic-Con, I started out by getting lost trying to find the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mission_Valley_Center_(San_Diego_Trolley_station)\">Mission Valley trolley station<\/a>. I got to the convention center a little late, just before noon. Unlike my last visit I decided to skip most of the panels. I go for information and that can be obtained from the internet from reporters and bloggers after-the-fact. Instead I spent my time in the exhibition hall photographing booths, many of which are in the same place as last time. There were some differences though: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.udoncomics.com\/\">Udon Comics<\/a> shrank considerably and got a section backed by the wall. <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.capcom.com\/servlet\/ControllerServlet?Action=DisplayHomePage&#038;SiteID=capcomus&#038;Locale=en_US&#038;Env=BASE\">Capcom<\/a> grew and had a multi-tiered setup. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marvel.com\/\">Marvel<\/a> actually had a recognizable booth instead of horning in on one of their subsidiaries. <\/p>\n<div class=\"blogpic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithcchan\/2700825192\/in\/set-72157606358110374\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/blog\/files\/pictures\/comiccon081.jpg\" alt=\"Link to Flickr: Crowd at Comic-Con '08.\"  \/><\/a><br \/>{The small press section is supposed to be one of the less-busy areas.}<\/div>\n<p>Later I wound up in the game room playing Rock Band. There was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashbros.com\/en_us\/\">Smash Bros<\/a>. tournament in the afternoon but it was a mess: people didn&#8217;t hear their name called, people kept sitting directly in front of the projector (didn&#8217;t they feel a circle of heat on their backs?). Then again running a convention program is no easy task, and the sponsor, <a href=\"http:\/\/sdtekken.com\/sdt\/san-diego-comic-con-2008\/\">sdtekken.com<\/a> did a good handling the crowd. I sat next to a mom cheering her son and we conversed about how troublesome the crowd was while they sorted out what the next match was going to be. I also didn&#8217;t like the format of the tournament, though it is standard for Smash Bros. Why only have one on one matches on the flattest stage when the game features 4-player battles on over twenty unique stages? It got kind of boring after a while and I skipped a lot, coming back to see the end.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogpic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithcchan\/2700811598\/in\/set-72157606358110374\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/blog\/files\/pictures\/comiccon082.jpg\" alt=\"Link to Flickr: Predator statuette.\"  \/><\/a><br \/>{A finely detailed Predator statue at the Sideshow Collectibles booth.}<\/div>\n<p>Also, 100th post, woot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much like my 2006 trip to Comic-Con, I started out by getting lost trying to find the Mission Valley trolley station. I got to the convention center a little late, just before noon. Unlike my last visit I decided to skip most of the panels. I go for information and&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/tales-from-comic-con-day-1-thursday.html\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Tales from Comic-Con, Day 1 (Thursday): Kind of Familiar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[18],"tags":[180,179],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-comics","tag-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}