So at their CCI panel, Oni Press announced the fifth volume of the Scott Pilgrim series. It’s called Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe and is coming out February 4th in time for NYCC.
I guess I can wait 6 months for more awesomeness that is this series by Bryan Lee O’Malley.
Too help pass the time, here is the song by Plumtree that inspired Bryan to write the books.
So Marvel had a fashion show during CCI this year. Well fashion show in that it featured clothes based on their superheroes.
As you can see, it was more just models (eerily similar looking models) in tight skimpy costumes. Heck even Marvel’s own Director of Merchandising, Damon Nee, agreed that is was more about the girls than the clothes.
Traffic stopped all around the booth as fans craned their necks to take in the costumes… Well, the models in the costumes.
And I bet Marvel wonders why they can’t reach more female readers. Or maybe they just don’t care anymore.
Photos via io9.com
CCI at 2 AM Thursday morning outside Hall H (The H is for Hollywood. Well not really but it’s where all the Hollywood presentations are held) more than 7 hours before the hall opens and more than 9 hours before a panel starts in the hall.
Photo via CBR
So San Diego Comic Con 2008 is over, and I had a really good time.
It’s gotten so huge, and it is much more than just an average comic con. I can see why some comic fans can be resentful that comics are no longer the sole focus of the con anymore. They feel that what once was theirs is now gone. They feel that was once the pinnacle of comics fandom is now being overshadowed by other media. And the way the hall is sectioned even reinforces that with the right half of the hall being comics (publishers, dealers, creators) and the left half being other media/pop culture.