Comic Con 2009was a blast and a half! Seriously. Best ComicCon I've been to.For a convention with over a hundreded thousand people it was weird how many times throughout the weekend at elevators and panels, I'd run into RT folks. The timing was always crazy perfect. I'd barely stepped off the plane before I ran into Gus and Joel. I got to swing by their hotel where, to my surprise, appeared Finch. Felt surreal to see the dude after coming from T.O, which was the last place I had seen him just about exactly a year ago. What better a way to start off a con than by getting tanked. Not that kind-  (awesome costume, Moe!) this kind  No bottle of alcohol was safe that night, in apparently the first (and last) recording with drinking.  San Diego is like a ghost town before the event! I was quick to root out where they were selling some of these:  RocketWhore owns the first figure sold. Always a happy crowd around the RT booth. Great idea to have looped projects playing. I never got tired of seeing the Animated video. I hope they bring back the Grifball seating format at PAX where they have more room to do so.  Thoughts: Avatar Sensational. The room freaked when Cameron announced he had over 25 minutes to show off where the last "15 years of my life" have been. It's like a futuristic reinterpretation of Pocahontas. In outer space. If Directed by Miyazaki. You remember that movie FernGully? Think live action but x1000 more eye-popping and with a kickass lead in Sam Worthington. The organic fluidity of the 3D makes me yearn for the free 15 minute screenings they're holding worldwide on August 21st. See it! District 9 MooCow and I attended arguably the best premiere that weekend. Not only was this much better than I expected, it is one of the best movies of the year. I lauded it by dissing two of this summers blockbusters in this interview. The comments make me lol. Disney Projects Pixar rules. They hired back all the 2D animators after the merge! They've got a nice slate lined up. I'm digging how Toy Story 3 and The Frog Prince are coming along; style, humour, singing, it's all there.  Cameron and Jackson dropped some cool ponderings about the state of their industry (things are timid... but we're pushing on) and what might be ahead, how acting unions should start re-writing their guidelines to include photorealistic portrayals (Will Smith at 70 acting as he looks now?) before companies start doing weird things like reanimating Marilyn Monroe. Didn't know there was a quiet push in certain areas to get Andy Serkis nominated for Gollum. Among many other things, Cameron outlined a convincing way of upgrading theatres to better resolution and Jackson pimped Vancouver for doing VFX on D9.  (Major Nelson, heads of L4D2, Mass Effect, Halo ODST and GoW2) There's a million more footnotes I wish I could include. Like how cool it was to attend Comic Book Law School, Adapting Comics to Film, Da Jammies, XBOX panel, Solomon Kane... the list goes on. There's just not enough time and space. In the span of one escalator ride you'll pass within arms length of Danny Devito, a family of Boba Fett's, a troupe of Steampunkers, Ron Jeremy, a ghostly ninja pirate, pedobear, Louis, Zoey, Bill, Francis, Stan Lee and... yeah, damn, there's too much. I'll finish by saying how great it was to see many people again and many for the first time. Thanks to you for the awesome advice, stories and thoughts. And good luck to all the folks going back to work right now. Hope to see you next year! LINKED MEDIA
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