Books: Comic-Con: Comic-Con, Day 0: Apo-Comic-Con Now
“No!” the cabbie shouts at my friend Vlada Gelman (of TV Line) and me. “We are not going downtown! There is too much traffic! It is too crowded! I am not taking you down there!” He sounds like he’s...
View ArticleBooks: Comic-Con: Comic-Con, Day 1: Portrait of the artist as a young fan
It was a girl named Katy who turned me onto The X-Files. She had a dry, raspy voice, and she was a cool kid from another town who was nice enough to let 14-year-old me call her my girlfriend because...
View ArticleBooks: Comic-Con: Comic-Con, Day 2: Pop culture summer camp
For a lot of people, Comic-Con is completely incidental to why they come to Comic-Con. As a for instance, I ran into a guy while I was grabbing lunch today, and he and his friends had driven down from...
View ArticleBooks: Comic-Con: Comic-Con, Day 3: San Diego vs. Comic-Con
Every year at Comic-Con, my friends Luke and Clara make the trek down from their house—less than two miles from the convention center—to have dinner with me, and every year, I wonder if they’re the...
View ArticleBooks: Comic-Con: Comic-Con, Day 4: So long, Comic-Con
I think I’m done with Comic-Con. Let me stress something here: If you’ve ever thought you should maybe go to Comic-Con, even if you’ve had that thought for only a fleeting moment before thinking the...
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