New Comic Blog

Just a quick thought:

Check out Shelly’s Comic Book Shelf at http://shellyscomics.blogspot.com/. I love reading intelligent female commentary on comics! (I like the look too.)

Girls Read Comics

Girls Read Comics (And They're Pissed)

Okay - this is one of the best (if not the best) feminist responses to comics I have ever read. Check out this Blog! Most of the nonsense I've read about comics from feminists repeatedly fails to note that women actually read and love comics. (I would know - I'm one of the fangirls!) Rather, they treat them as a punching bag for all the problems that often come part and parcel with the medium without bothering to note the great stuff that comes with it.

Anyway, if you love comics or well written feminist rhetoric - Read this blog!

San Diego Comicon

So, I spent the last several days in San Diego attending the world's largest comicon. It was truely awe inspiring! Bigger than anything I could possibly imagined only days before. San Diego (what little I saw outside of the Convention Center), is a beautiful, clean city that I plan to see in more detail some time in the future.

The San Diego Comicon is huge. Bigger than huge. I can't come up with the words to talk about how big this thing is. I saw more people in one place than lived in the entire town I grew up in. (No, I am not exaggerating - it was that big!) I could blog for pages about my life and times at the con, but if you are really interested in the con, there are plenty of others already doing it better than I could ever hope to.

So, I'll keep it short.

Best Costume: The really, really tall guy dressed as Supergirl.

Celeb I most wanted to meet: Gail Simone. (Thanks for signing my Birds of Prey comics!)

Celeb I most wanted to see and didn't: Kevin Smith. (We waited in line for an hour, then waited in the hall for another 2 hours, only to find out that he was stuck in traffic. Rosario Dawson is really cool though!)

Moment I most enjoyed: Watching my husband geek out after getting a photo with John Romita. (He was very friendly and gracious.)

Most painful Lesson Learned: Do not go into the Vender Hall on Saturday - it isn't worth life and limb!

Will we go again? You Bet!