Tour de Comic-Con 2008: Thursday

Last year, Thursday offered a slight sanctuary from the crowds; this year, the same is not true. littlestar and I headed first towards Hall H to catch the Keanu-Connelly-Wahlberg panel, officially known as "The Day The Earth Stood Still" and "Max Payne" panels. There was an accident in Hall H, which halted the line. During the line, littlestar commented that an indicator that comic-con has finally hit the mass market was the male-to-female ratio, which was almost one-to-one in the Hall H line. At the end of the panel, Hugh Jackman dashed onto the stage to shake the hand of the creator of Wolverine, and to preview the trailer of the Wolverine movie. We realized after the panel ended that the reason for the high female ratio in Hall H was the preview of Twilight, a moody vampire book series turned film for targeted to teenage girls. As Dakota Fanning turned into a no-show as a result of a big rig overturning on the 5 creating a huge delay, we left the panel, but as I attempted to go into panels, they were eerily packed, even on a Thursday... I did manage to make it into Red Sonja, and as there is very little there other than concept art, it is too hard to see if the movie will be any good. I attempted to go into the Wizard's First Rule Panel, but as the line stretched outside the building, I decided to forgo the panels and instead hit the exhibit floor, before finishing up the day at Bill Plympton's panel. offtopicartisan arrived as a reinforcement in the afternoon, and bleusky joined us later that evening. In preparation for the Avatar panel on Friday, we watched the episodes up to the last two parts of the finale after leaving the convention.