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Super-Con
San Jose 2008:
Photos From The Floor
"Are
you someone famous?" the girl asked as I sat at the
Moron Life booth, where Lon Lopez had graciously allowed
me to park my stuff. I smiled and said, "not yet, but
you never know..."
Her
confusion was understandable, not because of anything I've
done, but because I sat between Steve Oliffe, one of comics'
greatest colorists, and Terry Moore, the creator of Strangers
in Paradise, the current Echo and about to relaunch Marvel's
Runaways. To me, those guys were famous, but we still weren't
Jorge Garcia or even unexpected man-crush Wil Wheaton.
Yes,
Super-Con 2008 had hit San Jose, and it was hot inside that
convention tent. Steve Wyatt gathered an eclectic group
of guests that really did provide something for everyone
-- if everyone had come. Maybe it was the economy, maybe
it was the heat, but the show didn't seem quite as full
this year, and that was a shame, because in addition to
Lost's Hurley and blog-darling Wheaton, you could have been
served cake by Jane Wiedlin. And I mean that literally.
Thanks
to Steve Wyatt for letting Fanboy Planet cover the event
(we've got interviews coming in conjunction with Moronlife.com),
and thanks to the Moron Life crew for letting me hang around.
In the last words of Captain Kirk, "...it was ...fun."
All
photos by the kind Clay Robeson, no relation to the fictional
Kenneth Robeson.
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Wisely,
Super-Con put some talent right upfront this year,
as well as a room for panels...
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We
sat next to Terry Moore. A great creator, a great
guy and ...no. We didn't interview him.
Perhaps it was because we were morons. That's all
I can think.
But I did recommend a good taqueria to him.
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In
space, no one can hear you
watch a Public Access cable sketch comedy show.
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A high point for me...interviewing Ernie Fosselius,
the creator of Hardware Wars...
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Go
ahead. Say this is how the Clone Saga ended. No
one really remembers anyway.
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Speed
Racer is not a man to let box office results get
him down.
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used to dream about a Go-Go serving me cake... |
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