This is the first in a (hopeful) series of blogs about Comic-Con 2008.
The plan was originally to get to San Diego early on Wednesday and pick up our badges during preview night, but then things changed. I needed to add a guest or two and that had to be done Thursday. So, we decided to leave Wednesday night and avoid traffic, sleeping a couple of hours before getting in line early the next morning.
Well, Allyson got booked for an acting gig on the new 90210 for Wednesday and her call time was 8:00pm. By the time she was wrapped an back to her condo, it was 4:00am Thursday morning. Several hours after we had hoped to leave. Liz still wasn't back from her trip to San Francisco, so she would have to meet us in San Diego as our plan was to now drive straight down to the convention center. We would get there around 8:00am... or so we thought.
There was a major accident on I-5 in the vicinity of Camp Pendleton. It was in an area where we couldn't reroute ourselves to an alternative freeway or take surface street, so we crept along for three hours down a five mile stretch of road. I heard on the radio that a big rig collided with a passenger vehicle and that it "would take a long time to clean up." When we finally passed, we saw the burnt out shells of both vehicles. Not sure if there were any fatalities. (Update: Found a news article and there were no fatalities. Read the article on 10news.com for more information.)
We finally arrived at the convention center and parked around 11:30. That's six hours after we left Burbank!
One of the first things we saw at Comic-Con were these signs (above, with Allyson) outside of every restroom. "For humans only" they declared, with an "X" through a funky drawing of an alien with antenna. I haven't checked it out yet, but the website for this ad is http://www.d-9.com/ (I'll hit it up later and post another giant ad we saw for it in the building).
It's now 9:15am on Thursday. Allyson and I are still at my grandma's condo. We caught up on our lack of sleep and (still) waiting for Liz to arrive (should be here momentarily). We don't see many panels we are interested in today, so we are planning to just roam the exhibit hall until this evening. We are planning a huge dinner tonight at Xavier's Bar and Grill, which should be fun.
Until later, this is Aaron Matthew Kaiser, reporting from Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center. Back to me.
Blogged from my iPhone 3G.
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