Tumble to heaven

Isn’t it strange that I’m here in San Diego for Comic Con since almost a week and I haven’t managed to write a single line on my own blog. I did two articles over at San Diego Comic-Con blog, but otherwise I was lazy like that.

Update: I’m even more lazy, I haven’t managed to bring this post to an end while in San Diego. Now I’m already 3 days back in LA. Mentions of “yesterday” suddenly feel awkwardly wrong.

There is one sad part about this Con that bugs me the most. Yesterday on my way home I forgot to grab my original art of one of the GWS strips by Danielle Corsetto. I will go back there to see if someone found it and left it at the bar. Hope dies last. And yes, I shouldn’t have drank that third drink and shouldn’t have told the bartender to make my drinks a bit stronger. Well, that’s life.

Update: Jessica of The Marble Room found it and I got it back with no harm at all. Not even one footprint, scratch or kink on it. Amazing. The Marble Room in San Diego is the best place ever. Go there and tell them Lydia sent you. :)

On the positive side there is one thing that shines out. Which I have to admit is maybe kinda creepy … probably … well … for sure. Because I met Brett Register for the first time at the Elfquest panel Friday night. It took us two years to get there (more time than the Elfquest Fan Trailer took to be made). It will take us another two years to eventually see each other again or more or it won’t happen at all, and that’s why this moment is so special to me. You never know when the name Brett Register is involved. Anyway. I took a photo of him with Maxwell Glick and Charlie Bodin in it, and I promised to not post it, because Charlie is kinda shy (but he is totally cute in this photo, as Maxwell and Brett are).

The End.

Okay, okay, okay, I will tell you a bit more about the Con this year. It was great in some kind of way and not so great in another. The townhouse I rented for the Guildies is phenomenal. The place rocks on two floors plus a patio. I will try to secure it for next year again, but we will see if it works out. Let’s keep our hopes high for that. The Guildies were all outstanding, every one of them. I love them so much. Without them it wouldn’t be the same experience. The hassle with the con itself is on the other hand so annoying that I wonder why anyone is going through this at all. To secure a day pass for next years Con you had to get in line very, very early each day and they sold out every day at around 10am. If I weren’t a pro and wouldn’t get my tickets on an easier way, I would most definitely not be coming to SDCC anymore. Let’s see, I have to re-Register (see what I did!?) next year.

I’ve managed to see a few panels of shows I’m really fond of, like Psych (I even skipped Felicia’s Dragon Age and the Geek Girls panel for that), Community, The Guild, Doctor Who. The latter was a bit of a vabanque game, because I was on the BBC-America guest list, but I wasn’t sure how this works. So I had to pull a few strings to find out about it and almost didn’t get in on time. Anywho, it worked out and I was happy in the end.

In addition I saw a panel with Frank Miller who I passed the next day on the street, and I’ve seen the mandatory Joss Whedon SDCC Q&A panel, which was pretty epic.

I didn’t get a chance to see Glee (this year in Hall H, and not as interesting to me as last year) nor The Big Bang Theory (the line to Ballroom 20 was at 8:30 in the morning already filled with over 8000 people).

On Saturday I won an VIP invite over Twitter to a party organized by the Rock Jock Movie guys. I went with Laurie Records (@laurierecords, who I haven’t mentioned yet, but she managed despite her workload to come to San Diego and hang out with me/us at Comic Con. It was her first time and I was so happy that she made it.) and at the entrance to the party we ran into Dough Jones who to my surprise recognized me immediately, after we have only met and talked briefly on The Guild set in May. He’s nice. A bunch of Guild cast members and crew were there, too. And we saw the first Rock Jocks trailer, which was pretty amazing.

What else. I don’t know. The Elfquest panel was outstanding and I met and talked with Richard Pini (He and Wendy Pini created the Elfquest world). But he talked to me only because he saw that I filmed the whole panel and asked if I send him the link as soon as it is on YouTube. I still haven’t had the time to edit and upload it, it’s a tragedy. The funny thing was, that I ran into him on the main floor the next day again. Millions of people and we pass each other, recognize, stop, turn around and talk a bit more about the upload and how I can contact him. He still doesn’t know who I am and that I was a bit involved in the funding of the Elfquest trailer and own a small comic publishing company in Germany. :D (BTW, have you watched the Elfquest trailer yet? Please do! Shamless plug.)

I think that was pretty much it. I won’t gossip around, because there would be way more to tell in detail than the big picture shows I already gave you.

It was fun. And I’m looking forward to next years SDCC. If you want to see pictures, you have to either search for my name on FaceBook (I’m in a bunch of pictures of other guildies) or head over to my Google+ account. Some of them might be even on twitpic, but not that many.