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Once a year when the sun it at its strongest, dedicated geeks nationwide (and in some cases, worldwide) make the long, arduous pilgrimage to the shores of California. The journey is long, but the benefits are many. Geeks are cured of their lousy-summer-blockbuster-ennui. Dedicated purveyors of nerdy tomes and playthings are rewarded with gold. And, after proper homage to the geek-gods has been rendered through endless hours of “programming” and toy and movie previews, the geeks celebrate with late-night boozefests and costume parties until the break of dawn.
This is San Diego Comic-Con. And it is good.
Daniel Davis: I’m there to meet folks, and show off our wares, so we spend 99.23% of the time behind our table. I did catch glimpse of folks waking by — like Danzig, Seth Green, and a bunch of comic elite like Stan Sakai, William Stout and guys like that. DD: Well, I know that Brendan’s people read this, so I’d rather not say anything bad about the guy. (His people have people, and those people have swords.) Let’s just say that he wasn’t at all what I hadexpected… and really tweakie. DD: Teen girls that try to convince me to give them free products by flickering their eyelashes. That’s crazy. If they were wearing centaur costumes, I just might do it. Otherwise, they have no power over me.
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