The Real Effing Deal

Only Comic-Con, actually. Sharkatron3000 and I just got back from our first pilgrimage to the land of all things awesome, aka San Diego Comic-Con. Unfortunately — though I admit I’m very pleased with the fact that Sharkatron brought a car into this equation, enabling us to travel from KS all the way to SoCal — he also booked us a room right across from the convention center…for the FOLLOWING WEEK after the con!!

If you’ve ever been to Comic-Con, you realize how boned we were — there aren’t any available rooms for hundreds of miles in every direction. Luckily, after drinking about 8 sodas at Burger King, we ran into this rocking dude (calls himself THE FASSINATOR) all the way from Philly (East Coast in the house!) who used his, let’s just say, “skills” to work the wi-fi and eject some movie studio wank from a hotel room (word is the studios have every assistant in the building scarf up all the hotel rooms for the con so TRUE fans get the shaft) then he booked us into it.  And then we found out that he was visiting his cousins in Mission City during the “Incident.”  He was there, dudes!!!  We got ourselves an actual eyewitness to the biggest event to hit the U.S. of A. in, oh, forever.

So, naturally, recognizing his skillz and his talent for being in the right place at the right time, I immediately hired him onto the TRED staff. Check out his new bio in the Staff section for the 4-1-1 on The Fassinator.

Okay, so onto the con itself. This year did not disappoint! We saw hot girls in costumes, Battlestar stars (Katee Sackhoff I’m looking at you), hot girls NOT in costume and more top-shelf vinyl and classic books than you can shake a saber at.

And then there were the dope panels on Green Lantern (Corps in the house!), the Gene Rodenberry Legacy, Doctor Who, Halo, the Science Behind Science Fiction, Afro Samurai (The Fassinator’s favorite), and oh so much more! If you have the means, I highly recommend you go next year. All the geeks in the house say, Holla!!!

Ed Note: Unfortunately, for reasons not to be spoken of, all photos of this event have been unintentionally destroyed.

Comic-Con International

and word of advice, bring more than one camera….