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Comic Con: Still no Luggage

July 24, 2008

Daniel Craig wasn't there, but James Bond's car was

I arrived in San Diego late Tuesday night, but my luggage did not.  So my first day at Comic Con was spent in day old clothes.  Ewww.  I did shower though, so that's something anyway.

Since no one is allowed in the convention until 6 p.m., I breezed in on the coat tails of Sherrilyn Kenyon.  She got me an exhibition badge that allowed me into the ginormous hall before the masses decended.  In exchange, I ran errands and helped  set up.  But, I did get to check out some the amazing displays as they were being set up.


Well, after several calls with the airline and hotel arguing over who had my suitcase, it finally arrived in my room.  (I would never last on Survivor wearing the same thing for 31 days)  
   

Sammie works at the Con, but I managed to get her to start reading romance.  I think we have another convert!

Now, in a lovely new outfit, I headed back to the convention center and met up with fellow PW blogger Heidi Betts who writes The Beat, anything and everything you could possibly want to know about the amazing world of comic books and more.  She invited me to an editorial meeting she was having with her staff of crack reporters.  I want to come to more of these meetings.  It was held at Roy's Hawaiian Tropical Bar.   I asked for a fruity drink (nonalcoholic because I'm even more hyper with it) with an umbrella.  They give me a pina colata, with an orange slice.  I'm sorry, but it just doesn't taste as good without the umbrella.  (You can follow Heidi's take on Comic Con here)


  

Some of the displays and Comic Con fans

Once the doors opened officially for the special preview event, it was utter chaos, but in a good way.  Although, I heard there was an incident at the Fox booth where they were giving away some great bags of goodies and the crowd got so out of hand they were threating to stop the giveaway.  But no one was hurt and I'm going to head over there today.


I didn't see anyone famous yet, but today I'm doing a Red Carpet event and I'm hoping to snag Nicolas Cage.  Keep your fingers crossed and I'll keep my Flip video handy.

Not sure what this is, but it had something growing out of it's chest.  Kind of Jabba the Hut meets Alien

For my Drive By Video, I managed to sweet talk the Hot Wheels people into letting crawl into their roped off display, so I hope you enjoy it.


Bottom Line:  I'm off to the salon now to try to get my hair fixed, so who knows what I'll look like in the next video. 

On the Batcycle!

Posted by Barbara Vey on July 24, 2008 | Comments (15)