The Chickens are in the Hayloft.

With all of the swooning over certain British actors, I seemed to have forgotten to talk about the actual Comics aspect at Comic Con this year. In some ways it's somewhat easy to forget though. Over the past few years the studios have taken over Comic Con in a huge way. There is still a comics presence there (as crimsonquills and my bank account will confirm), but it tends to get overshadowed by the 'Big Announcement' of the year. Whether that's a sneak peek at LOST or Heroes or an announced upcoming guest star on SPN...Okay, I admit that I'm more than a little excited about that one.

I'm not exactly *complaining* about the media influence because I know that there are some really good things that come out of it. It just makes me a little nostalgic for when it was 10 guys with a bunch of boxes of comics and fewer than 5,000 people showing up back in the early 80's. (I was young. Very young. Shut up.) There weren't people lining up overnight to make sure they got a seat in a 6,000 seat room for a one hour panel. I'm still kind of WTFing on that one Twilight fans.

One of the best parts of having crimsonquills and aureliapriscus go this year was the fact that they're both comics girls too. Even though we read different titles (and even publishers at the moment) we still got the allure of that part.

One of my favorite parts of the weekend was on Sunday. They had a Live Art Jam where comic book artists sat and did their stuff on an overhead for everyone to watch. The really coolest part was watching Jim Lee do the inking and shading on a Batman sketch with a tampon, a hotel room key, ink and some white out. Seriously. It was awesome.

A little bit later I got to sit and listen to a couple who I've pretty much idolized since I was a pre-teen. Richard and Wendy Pini. They are completely amazing in so many ways. They gave me characters that I fell deeply in love with and never fell out in all that time. They also gave me my first glimpse into a world that wasn't as rigid and uptight as mine. I'm pretty sure my family can blame them for me going semi-hippy in my later years. *g*

I'm encouraged after listening to them and Rawson Thurber(Director/Writer) talk about the ElfQuest movie project. Rawson became a fan of the books at 11 and had a similar experience to mine when I started reading them. He got to the end of the 3rd book (would have been about Issue 15 or so) which ends on a cliff-hanger and his sister didn't have the fourth book. He ended up semi-accosting a girl down the street from his grandmother's when he found out she had it. He begged her to let him read it. I know the feeling man. I had to wait 3 long freakin' months between issue 10 and 11. Ugh.

Anyhoo, I'll go back to squeeing about Torchwood any second, but I wanted to put a plug in for the lovely comic book as well. I'm happy to pimp at any point and time. :)