SAN DIEGO: THE LAST WORD
I know San Diego ended a few weeks ago but the last three weeks have flown by. Every year I put up huge posts on Comic-Con but this year I thought I might do it a little bit differently. 2010 is the twelth year in a row that I have been there, first just as a fan and then as a journalist. In the middle of this decade, it was fantastic as I would go there, do lots of interviews and then sell them to magazines in the UK. But things have changed over the last two or three years: San Diego Comic-con is now such a well-established show that the publications who used to rely on journalists like myself to provide them with copy are now sending their own editorial staff to cover it themselves. So while this year, I did get to do interviews with people like Frank Darabont (Walking Dead), Zach Snyder (Sucker Punch) and Mark Verheiden (Falling Skies), the outlets I would have sold them too already had people there. So San Diego Comic-Con 2010 may be the last one I attend for a while, unless we can get increased investment for TRIPWIRE so that I attend it to cover just for ourselves. The show has gotten far too unwieldy for one person to cover now anyway as each year that I go, the size of the floor increases and the amount of TV and Film content continues to grow. I am not knocking it as a show as, if you're a fan of genre on the big and the small screen, there are few events like Comic-Con, attracting people like Kenneth Branagh, Harrison Ford, Ryan Reynolds, Jon Favreau and scores of others. So here's a few photos I took at the show of various people in costume and the hall itself. I've broken it up into two posts just because of the sheer number of photographs…