Day 3

A crap load of Stormtroopers... and Luigi

Thursday, Day 3 for us, was the official first day of the convention.  We once again started the day wondering the exhibition hall.  Seriously, this place was just huge.  You could walk around for hours seeing new things and new people.

Batman and Bat-Rosie

An awesome Alien made from what appeared to be household objects (and me being scared)

And while I remember it, notice the Batman shirt I'm wearing.  Considering this was Comic-Con, the land of nerd, I got WAY too much attention for wearing this shirt.  On multiple occasions people referred to me as "Batman".  Now, I can understand if this was anywhere else, but most often there was someone about five feet away actually DRESSED AS BATMAN.  Oh well, just thought I'd mention that.

The Man, The Myth, The Maddox... eating a chip

Mmmm... lunch

Basically, cheap food at the convention center was hard to come by.  Good thing there was a Ralph's (grocery store chain in California) near by.  That became our usual lunch routine everyday, a nice little jaunt to Ralph's for deli sandwiches and what not.  There was also a nice outdoor shopping mall a little further away that served well for dinner.  Outdoor shopping malls... only in California I tell yah!

From the left, Joe Quesada, Jerk in a brown shirt, Paul Jenkins, J. Michael Straczynski, Frank Cho (I think...)

The first panel we went to at the Con was the Marvel: Civil War panel.  Basically if you haven't heard, Civil War is a big Marvel event going on right now, it's all the rage.  Anyways, it was pretty cool just seeing the people who actually make the comics in person.  The only annoying part was this guy who moderated the panel in a brown shirt.  He just carried himself and spoke in a way that was annoying and he had nothing to do with anything.  Other than him, it was cool as we got some sneak peaks at what was coming up as well as a huge Q&A session.

In general, it was just an awesome area to be in

Some more Stormtroopers and a pretty authentic Vader

Some more Sideshow Collectibles stuffs

The funny thing about that picture above is I only intended to get Rosie with C3PO and R2D2, but this Stormtrooper guy just waltzed into the picture anyways from the side.  Hey, it works.

Rosie: fully pose-able

That evening we went to a Star Wars Fan Film awards show.  The line to this thing wrapped around the entire upstairs and we almost thought we wouldn't get in, but it seems they know pretty well how big they need the rooms to be for these things and it wasn't a problem finding a seat.  I don't have any pictures of this, as for the most part pictures weren't allowed, but it was fun.  The fan films were way too good, as the graphics in some of them were better than the original trilogy by far.  Overall a very entertaining day.

Even more in Day 4 >>

Jaybird currently resides in Seattle where he reads comics, works in a library, and writes for this site.  He has also been known to blow your mind, rock your world, and eat pizza.