SDCC 2008: Preview Night (Or: The Madness, It Begins)

8 Comments | Posted: July 24th, 2008 | Filed under: SDCC2008

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Arrived safe and sound, where I immediately shuttled to an In-n-Out Burger, a chain that simply will never come to the East Coast in an attempt to drive me stark raving mad. You may have heard of them before and thought their reputation was exaggerated; you would be wrong.

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I’ve not had a chance to hook the camera up to the computer, but will likely do that tonight or tomorrow. Took just a few photos of people. I think that’s what I’m more interested in: portraiture of people I know during Comic-Con, not Oh Hey There’s The Nite Owl’s Ship because, you know, there’s going to be quite enough of that.

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Preview Night crowds may be big, but they’re bearable. I have no idea how Saturday, with its estimated 125,000 people dressed like Naruto (seriously, how is that still a thing?,) is going to shake down unless there’s going to be swat teams and riot control police on site. I may just choose to hide under one of the multiple tables framing BOOM!’s booth and whimper on occasion.

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My purchases for the night were copies of the Scott Pilgrim color special, the New Love And Rockets Stories #1 and Tales Designed To Thrizzle #4. Jeff Lemire was kind enough to ensure I got a copy of the new Essex County Tales book, but I think that may be because I’m buying him lunch today.

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If I listed the freaks I’ve already seen, you wouldn’t believe me. The worst may have been the mentally-ill fellow working his way rapidly through the small-press section while rubbing his toy raccoon in a manner that I’ll say was sensual.

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I’m part of the CBR Live Blog for the event. I may well be uploading photos from the Blackberry to that along with pithy updates.

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8 Comments on “SDCC 2008: Preview Night (Or: The Madness, It Begins)”

  1. 1 Pedro Tejeda said at 10:21 am on July 24th, 2008:

    The closest thing we have to an In and Out burger on the East coast is Five Guys Burgers. You can go here to see if there is one near you.

  2. 2 Steven said at 10:34 am on July 24th, 2008:

    Good Burger here in New York is pretty In-And-Out like, but honestly, In-And-Out’s commitment to only using never-frozen meats and vegetables (and only from farms they know and trust) means that they are physically limited in how far from LA they can expand.

    I hear there’s one in the very southern tip of Utah.

  3. 3 Dorian said at 11:14 am on July 24th, 2008:

    In-N-Out…the burgers so good I don’t mind the wrappers preaching at me.

  4. 4 LurkerWithout said at 12:21 pm on July 24th, 2008:

    In-N-Out are indeed vastly overrated. Nothing like long lines for food that tastes almost identical to every other fast food place…

  5. 5 Rick said at 1:55 pm on July 24th, 2008:

    The question is, did you have a 4 x 4 or the Flying Dutchman @ In-N-Out?

  6. 6 Steven said at 4:02 pm on July 24th, 2008:

    The football team at my high school used to go out for 7x7s.

    But really, nothing beats Grilled Mustard.

  7. 7 James said at 8:25 pm on July 24th, 2008:

    The raccoon bit almost made me spit chips at the monitor.You should do a top 10 weirdos post when you get back.

  8. 8 Mike R said at 8:59 pm on July 24th, 2008:

    I have to agree with the Five Guys things, I think it might be BETTER than In-And-Out.