Comicon 08

This shall be an all iPhone pictures entry.

Izzie loves the new iPhone. I find it amazingly glitchy.

Survived takeoff.

Survived landing.

Booth looks better than last year.

Bloody Teaser! Later I met Doug and Jason. Jason works for LG. Doug works for self. They are the geniuses behind the above poster. Doug was also behind the brilliant poster for Messengers. You know the brilliant poster they didn’t use. The one with the baby sleeping in the crib with the crows lined on the bed’s railing. Creepiest poster ever but not one was ever printed. The pic only exists on the net. Anyway, they were great. More on that party later.

The Mighty Bradstreet was set up in the RAW booth this year. Artist Alley took another heavy hit. Artists are now forced to share a table for the same price. Ladies and Gentlemen…they are squeezing the comic book buys out of comicon. Imagine that. Soon there will only be room for the movies based on the creations of the comic book guys who will no longer be allowed at comicon.

Mark stopped by the RAW booth.

Preparing for the Lions Gate party.

Tim and Tim. Bradstreet you know. The other Tim is co-head of marketing at LG. I really liked him. The man is a genius. I’ve already made my love of Sarah co-head of marketing known. Ran into both while Tim was signing Punisher posters with Ray (pics coming later as those are on my actual camera and I didn’t bring the firewire with me). If you need proof of their genius, see poster above. But it was here that I met the actual poster creators, Doug and Jason. Sarah also introduced me to Feltheimer, LG CEO. Nice guy.

Tim introduced me to Ray. Now you gotta remember that Bradstreet does not nor will he ever play the Hollywood game. So rather than blow me off after introducing me, Bradstreet then began laying out the life and times and great accomplishments of Todd Farmer to Titus Pullo. Bradstreet. Gotta love him.
Not pictured by choice was the following Darabont dinner. Same crowd for the most part as last year. Tom from Sideshow and his wife, the Wrightsons, Niles and Sarah, Robert Rodriguez and Rose McGowan, Tom, Bradstreet, Bill Stout and his son, Mike Mignola and his wife and half a dozen others who I either didn’t meet or slip my mind.
Just before Frank left I told him I’d recently read his version of Indiana Jones. He was quick to toss out the disclaimer that the draft that hit the net had been re-typed. Most likely to conceal the watermark. Frank takes punctuation and spelling very seriously so the state of the script bugged him. But otherwise it was his script and let me tell you ladies and gentleman, it is the movie alot of people thought they were going to see. It just worked. And no Mutt. Sorry Shia.

Tom prepares Raw Shirts the following day.

Got an email from Peter Bracke and replied by attaching a pic of a booth selling his book. Actually saw his book at many different booths.

Full size R2 from Sideshow. Unbelievable. I’m sorry but Sideshow blows the competition out of the water.

Later in the eve the RAW crew met at the Red Pearl again.

In the back room again.

The joint is amazingly too loud. But the food is wonderful. And the saki is dreamy.

Some quick pics on the street…

Then it was off to the US Grant for the RAW Party.

Liz and Bernie were there. They have a great booth this year by the way.

Bernie and Tim. Sexy as ever.

Will from Eastern Tennessee with his thick accent and his Southern charm is a close friend of John Carpenter’s and nearly got the gig writing the comic version of Psychopath.

I made it a pretty early night. By midnight I was grabbing a venti iced chai and strolling back to the Omni.
More to come.