{"id":1035,"date":"2011-08-06T21:17:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T21:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2011-08-06T21:25:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T21:25:14","slug":"7-things-i-did-not-do-at-comicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/7-things-i-did-not-do-at-comicon\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Things I did not do at Comicon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Meet Bryan Lee O’Malley <\/strong>Out of all my ‘goals’ for Comicon this year, this was the only one that did not happen. I wanted to meet the creator of Scott Pilgrim, just say hi, and maybe buy some art. He did make an appearance at the con, he did bring art I wanted, and horrors, he was apparently the guy who picked up a Seth DPS that I was eyeing at the Beguiling art store. But I missed him by about an hour. Oh well, he stays in LA, so there’s a high likelihood I’ll bump into him some time. If all else fails, there’s always next year.<\/li>\n
  2. Attend the Locke and Key screening <\/strong>Locke and Key –\u00a0<\/em>which as I’ve mentioned before as a series that rocked my world – was recently\u00a0optioned as a TV series. But a few weeks before Comicon, it was announced that the series had not been picked up, unfortunately. (Which means it joins the likes of Global Frequency\u00a0<\/em>and David Goyer’s Wonder Woman <\/em>as aborted shows I would have liked to see)\u00a0The pilot was supposed to be screened at SDCC, and I was looking forward to watch it. Alas, it was all about the timing. People were queuing for it way before I reached the convention center, and I missed the evening show because I was attending the Eisners. \u00a0So, uh….\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Cosplay <\/strong>\u00a0A lot of people dressed up at Comicon. A LOT. <\/em>I was not one of them. I could probably argue that no, I was dressed up like that fellow Raj from The Big Bang Theory<\/em>, but I did not shut up in the presence of women, and I definitely did not have a dorky haircut. Also, comic art collectors probably would not take a cosplayer in their midst too seriously.<\/li>\n
  4. Give in to temptation (No, really) <\/strong>So I bought some pages for a bargain. I got offered twice my cost price for them the same day. I swallowed hard, punched myself in the face (mentally, of course), and refused. I loved those pages and sometimes, money isn’t everything.<\/li>\n
  5. Save on hotel bills <\/strong>Yes, I should have planned before, and would have saved a boatload of money on hotel bills, probably more than enough to cover the cost of another\u00a0Preacher<\/em> page. (Seriously, I am getting addicted to the idea of owning Preacher <\/em>pages. Preacher <\/em>is the new Hitman<\/em>, y’all). But I did not, and I paid 225$ per night for my hotel, for 4 nights. My middle-class Indian upbringing wants to choke me to death and kick me in the head for good measure.<\/li>\n
  6. Meet a TV cast <\/strong>I would have loved to meet the cast of Chuck<\/em>, and I would have even settled for The Big Bang Theory<\/em>. The closest I got to a TV cast was for Once Upon A Time<\/em>, which I did not enjoy as much, even with Robert Carlyle in it. Ah well, filed under “next time”.<\/li>\n
  7. Take More Pictures <\/strong>I took a lot of pictures, I swear I did, but sometimes you just gotta nut up, shut up and let your eyes do the recording. And that’s exactly what happened.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Meet Bryan Lee O’Malley Out of all my ‘goals’ for Comicon this year, this was the only one that did not happen. I wanted to meet the creator of Scott Pilgrim, just say hi, and maybe buy some art. He did make an appearance at the con, he did bring art I wanted, and horrors, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35],"tags":[212,213],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-life","tag-comicon","tag-san-diego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}