San Diego Comic Con 2008

[Geekyfanboy]

Here are a few pixs from comic con

[Geekyfanboy]

Here's a few more...

[Rico]

Awesome pictures!  Kenny, I may swipe that last one and put it up in the Star Trek Daily Pic tomorrow or very soon.  I'll make sure to credit you - if that's ok.  Great costumes!  Love the Wonder woman! 

[wso32]

Very cool pix Kenny.  I'm jealous.  Looks like a lot of fun.

[jedijeff]

Great Pictures Kenny, I like that one of the guys dressed up like Sisko and Picard

[moyer777]

awesome pics!

[Geekyfanboy]

Here's a few more...

[moyer777]

Very fun!

[Geekyfanboy]

Comic-Con: And the Winner Is ...

Monday, Jul. 28, 2008 By REBECCA WINTERS KEEGAN

Comic-Con, that pop-culture marathon run by 125,000 die-hards, ended Sunday evening in San Diego. TIME.com singles out some of the event's best performances, worst omissions and hardiest fans. Don't get your cape caught in the door on the way out.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Hugh Jackman, who made a surprise appearance to promote next year's X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He understands what Keanu Reeves, Benicio del Toro and other actors who ascended the stage of the San Diego Convention Center's cavernous Hall H do not: Comic-Con is itself a performance. Jackman leaped off the stage, ran across the floor to shake the hand of Wolverine's creator and thanked the crowd of 6,500, saying, "Without you guys, I wouldn't have a career." That's the special blend of humility and showmanship you can only learn by hosting the Tonys three years in a row.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: Carla Gugino. Actresses are so marginalized at Comic-Con, there's no point in having a lead category. Their job is to show up, look hot and perhaps answer a vaguely provocative question about weapons training. But Gugino contributed actual information at the Watchmen panel, discussing Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre's tragic character arc. "You see the glint of light in her eyes, who she could have been," Gugino said of a scene played at the panel. While atypical for the Con, Gugino's seriousness was an indication that Watchmen is no ordinary superhero movie.

Best Vehicle: Attack-mode KITT. Competition was stiff in this category, what with Nite Owl's ship, Bond's Aston Martin and some sort of GI Joe digging device on the floor. But this Mustang on steroids designed for NBC's new Knight Rider boasts Lamborghini doors, a top speed of 377 m.p.h. and, most importantly, turbo-boost. All that vehicular decadence helps us forget about $4/gal. gas.

Most Popular Costume: The Joker. If Oscar ballots were tallied in San Diego, Heath Ledger's posthumous Best Actor statuette would be a lock. Guys with red lipstick-smeared smiles and purple dinner jackets were as plentiful at Comic-Con this year as those perennials, the Storm Troopers. A few Jokers said their costumes were an homage to Ledger; one confessed it's just more breathable than a Batsuit.

Most Enthusiastic Fans: The Twihards, devout readers of Stephenie Meyer's series of vampire books, Twilight, were the loudest and proudest in Hall H, starting a Twilight chant while they waited, shrieking anytime a cast member, Meyer or director Catherine Hardwicke said anything, and asking lots of questions about vampire hotness. After the panel was over, so many Twihards rushed the movie's booth that fire marshals briefly closed it down. Fanboys, don't look back. The fangirls are gaining on you fast.

Best Gimmick: City of Ember train. It's easy to get lost in the shuffle at Comic-Con if you're not one of the handful of movies or shows with a built-in fanbase. The folks at Fox Walden found a way around the competition while promoting City of Ember, a family fantasy based on a book and starring Bill Murray and Saoirse Ronan. They chartered a train from L.A. to San Diego and packed it with journalists and bloggers who got a look at some footage, cool props and art, and lots of one-on-one time with director Gil Kenan and the rest of the filmmakers.

Panel Most Likely to Yield a Drinking Game: Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The folks at Lucasfilm showed clips from the animated movie opening Aug. 15 and animated show airing on the Cartoon Network and TNT this fall. The footage looked cool enough, but the moderator's and panelists' constant references to George Lucas' brilliance — I stopped counting at 22 — inspired eye-rolling and forced Gatorade sipping from fans. We get it, George is God. Now on with the clones.

Biggest Omission: Star Trek. Director J.J. Abrams and writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman all made the journey to San Diego for their new ABC show Fringe, and Abrams said he has footage of Star Trek ready to show, so how come the only thing fans got was a poster? Paramount, the studio releasing Star Trek next May, was a no-show in the panels. A studio staffer told me months ago he thought Comic-Con had "jumped the shark." How 'bout a little Vulcan logic, Paramount? It's hard to imagine a crowd better suited for starting the buzz wave on Abrams' rebooted Trek than Comic-Con's 125,000 faithful.

Most Tenuous Link to Comic Books: The Office. Each year Comic-Con gets further from its roots, as Hollywood brings more product for fans' appraisal. This year NBC had a panel and booth for The Office, which, while certainly a show with an alpha fan base, isn't really genre fare. Maybe Dunder Mifflin paper was used to print the X-Men?

Best Party: EW (which, like TIME, is a division of TIME Warner) and the Sci Fi Channel's Saturday night bash on the roof of the Hotel Solamar. Sure, there were cast members from Heroes, Twilight, Lost and Battlestar Galactica, but any party where J.J. Abrams and Joss Whedon are the guys holding court is a geek's dream night out.

Most Missed: Alan Moore. The Hollywood-averse Watchmen creator wants no part of Zack Snyder's big-screen adaptation of his graphic novel, but the movie's building buzz has won Moore lots of new fans. Opening night of the Con, comic-book vendors had stacks of the book on their tables. By Saturday, there wasn't a copy of Watchmen to be found. And a new generation of fanboys and -girls was being minted page by page.

[Geekyfanboy]

Comic-Con Fans Pay Tribute to "Battlestar Galactica" Cast - Plus "Heroes," "Smallville, " "Supernatural" and "Torchwood" at Comic-Con

Published: July 28, 2008 at 10:48 PM GMT
Last Updated: July 28, 2008 at 10:48 PM GMT

By Ed Martin

There is no denying it: Comic-Con has become the place to break news and make news about broadcast and cable programming. Here's a download including news on the Battlestar Galactica finale and the thunderous ovation fans gave the cast at their Comic-Con session.

Heroes

NBC really made clear the importance of Comic-Con on Saturday when, during a session for Season 3 of Heroes, it screened the first half of the show's two-hour season premiere in the giant-sized Hall H at the San Diego Convention Center. I'm told the hall has 6,500 seats, meaning it holds more people than Radio City Music Hall - and almost everyone in the room instantly spread word about what they had seen via text, Twitter or social network. (For Heroes spoilers, go here.)

From their homes across the country, members of the Television Critics Association began buzzing in outrage. TCA had ended its Summer 2008 tour with a day devoted to NBC programming just five days before the Heroes mega-event at ComicCon and had not been offered so much as a clip. Surely, NBC was aware of the fireworks near the end of the Summer 2007 tour, when ABC Entertainment president Steve McPherson was attacked onstage for allowing the producers of Lost to break news about their show that very same day at ComicCon. (The two events overlapped last year.) As it happened, the "big news" that day was that Harold Perrineau (the actor who portrayed Michael) would be returning to the show this past season after being off it for one year. In hindsight: Big deal.

Last year's Lost reveal was chump change compared to NBC's dramatic Heroes stunt this weekend at the Con. Certainly, I get why NBC wanted to create a sensation here: There is no better place to start a tsunami of support for a show, especially a geek fave like Heroes. But I don't think it would have taken the edge off the Con job had NBC screened the same hour for 200-plus critics on closed-circuit a few days earlier at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Doctor Who and Torchwood

There were many other news-making sneak-peaks and previews throughout the Con. On the opening morning, BBC America presented a first-look at this year's eagerly anticipated Doctor Who Christmas special featuring the return of the Cybermen. And in the session that followed, the network announced that it had picked up domestic rights for Season 3 of the sexually super-charged science-fiction adventure Torchwood, a spin-off of Doctor Who. (How sexy is Torchwood, you ask? As they took the stage, series leads John Barrowman, Gareth David-Lloyd and Naoko Mori made clear that anything goes on that show. The thousands of fans in attendance went wild.)

BBCA will run Season 3 next spring, debuting episodes shortly after they premiere in the U.K. The deal, Con attendees were told, was completed only that morning.

Details of Torchwood's third season were also revealed: Apparently it will be one big story told over five episodes. "The Torchwood team has never been in this much jeopardy," executive producer Julie Gardner teased. "Very bad things happen!"

"I was shocked by it," added Barrowman. "It leaves you wanting more."

Smallville

During a cocktail party on the second floor of Warner Bros. massive Comic-Con display space, Justin Hartley told me that he was returning to Smallville this fall as "a series regular" and that he would be in the opening credits of the show. Fans heard all about plans for Hartley's character, the Green Arrow, at the show's session the following morning. They were also informed that a host of D.C. Comics characters that have appeared on the series in the past including Aquaman, Black Canary and Martian Manhunter would be returning and that the Legion of Super-Heroes would be introduced.

Supernatural

The Supernatural session that followed the one for Smallville was sensational. The thousands of fans around me screamed in delight when producer Eric Kripke presented the first five minutes from the Season 4 premiere. (The Supernatuaral Spoiler alert: Dean returns after spending four months in hell, digs his way out of his own grave and wanders around in the middle of nowhere. He breaks into a small general store, helps himself to food, water and a skin mag and is then attacked by a mysterious force.)

"The danger [for Dean and his brother Sam] gets worse next season," Kripke said. "There will be times when Dean looks back fondly at his time in hell."

The spirited session, featuring series leads Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, was interrupted by the Ghost Facers, the three reality show geeks from what may have been the most memorable episode of Season 3. Kripke announced that the Ghost Facers would be appearing "in a short-form alternative media spin-off."

Kripke also said that Mitch Pileggi (Skinner on The X-Files) would be seen on the show this season as Dean and Sam's grandfather.

Ghost Hunters International

Sci Fi Channel announced that it was picking up a second season of Ghost Hunters International, which thrilled the audience in the packed ballroom at the presentation for that franchise.

Battlestar Galactica

The one bit of huge news that was not made at Comic-Con was the identity of the final Cylon on Battlestar Galactica, which will be revealed at the end of the series' run next year.

When one person in the audience begged BSG executive producers David Eick and Ronald D. Moore to "give us a clue who the final Cylon is - just a clue," hundreds of fans in the room screamed, "No!" (Mercifully, not everyone finds the television viewing experience enhanced by spoilers.)

BSG star Jamie Bamber said, "The ending is an ending. It is utterly sublime. It's the perfect way to end the show. It does everyone and everything justice."

Since this would likely be the BSG cast's final appearance at Comic-Con, the crowd gave them a thunderous and oddly moving standing ovation at the end of the session.

Knight Rider

With Knight Rider star Justin Bruening and executive producer Gary Scott Thompson standing by, NBC unveiled the all new Attack KITT over by the Tin Fish Café, directly across the street from the Convention Center. Attack KITT, Thompson cautioned, should not be confused with Pursuit KITT.

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8

Joss Whedon made some news, too. At a packed-to-the- rafters session for Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (during which Felicia Day was caught Twittering under the table at which the panelists were seated), Whedon and company said there were plans for a fourth installment. (Earlier this month the first three parts debuted online.)

Whedon is now the undisputed King of Comic-Con, with three genre TV sensations behind him (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly) and one to come (Dollhouse, which had a Con session of its own), not to mention a feature film (Serenity), an online hit (Dr. Horrible) and a host of comic books (including Fray and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8). That allowed him to make Con news in more than one area. During the Dr. Horrible session, Whedon announced that Oz the Werewolf would be returning to the Buffy-verse in the Season 8 comic book.

Appropriately, Comic-Con closed on Sunday with a sing-along/talk back screening of Once More With Feeling, the legendary musical episode of Buffy.

[Bryancd]

Great cotumes this year! Very cool to see an Ashoka so early!

[Rico]

Some other cool pictures at this link from the show:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/lat-ent-bestworstcomiccon08-pg,0,704155.photogallery?index=1

Here's one of the best ones: