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So, I tried to get up earlier on Friday to get my badge sooner and see more shit.  I grabbed my $8 coffee and Rick & I got in line.

The line was still from hell.

These people were awesome:

I attended a few panels – the Neil Gaiman Coraline one was pretty amazing.  I believe the big spoiler was that Henry Selick told Neil Gaiman that he wanted to do Sandman as stop motion.  SWEET!

Caught a bitchin’ panel on underground comix, Denis Kitchen was there and Lee Marrs told me she liked my hat!  I got a card that will get me a limited edition Pudge Girl Blimp drawing when I email her my address.

Since I have no idea where my old autographed Pinhead photo disappeared to, I went ahead and picked up a new one… and had my picture taken with Doug Bradley.  Awwwwwww, me and Pinhead!

Fat Momma from Who Wants to be a Superhero was in the booth next to him.

Then I went to the Amanda Palmer drawing thing.  I am totally scared of her fans.  They’re rabid like Tori Amos fans.  (Bad experience with a little entitlement whore putting on a very affected speech pattern and trying to cut in line.  I had to do a little Schruting.)  Ugh.

Once I got in, it was all good.  Miss Palmer did some kick ass poses & the panel drew her.  I honestly did more source photo shit than drawing.  I just used my sketchpad to get down little details like the way her boots laced, since I wasn’t sure I’d get that kinda stuff with the photos from where I was sitting.

AFP poses:

Then I think I just farted around looking at shit & collecting free garbage I’m just going to throw out (Except the giant Watchmen bag!  Unf!) until it was time for the fearnet panel that was supposed to have Clive Barker in it.  Well… Clive got caught in traffic from L.A. so all we had to start was Robert Englund.  That’s cool.

The panel had that one scary guy & the pretty girl from the Halloween remake.

WOOT!  Then Clive showed up!

OMG – the CUTEST thing in the whole world – Robert Englund & Clive Barker together!

Caught up with Rick after that & thought about trying to get across downtown to the Brain Posehn show, but were lazy & went to the movie room to watch the movie Push instead.  That was a really cool little flick – if you haven’t seen it, do so.

Then it was back to the hotel & chips + m&ms in the con suite.  NERD FOOD!  Went to bed early-ish because tomorrow was the big day – the day I would try to meet Clive Barker.

Weirdos:

What is the movie Snake Eyes made of?  Why FAIL, of course!

Yes – that’s a FUCKING MOUTH!  What a suckfest.

Okay, that’s enough bloggy for tonight…  maybe tomorrow I’ll recap my Saturday.  You know, the day that David Tennant tells me things in the elevator.

Comic-Con is complete:

Yeah, I know it’s a shitty picture, but it’ll do.

Stan Lee KISSED me!

I just met Clive Barker.  And started crying.

Yeah, it’s as lame as hell, but that man was a huge fucking part of my formative years.  I think his work, Grendel & Elfquest (stop laughing fuckers) created the written part of who I am today.  We won’t go into the soundtrack.

Thinking of some analogy to describe what it meant to me & the only thing I can come up with is: It would be like a christian getting to meet Jesus.

I mean, it’s an imperfect analogy because the man is not my god, but it’s the best I can think of.  He transported me to world I had only imagined where the monsters were the heroes and the “good guys” did NOT always win in the end. Hell, most of the time the “good guys” weren’t all that good. There is really no strict division between good and evil in a Clive Barker world.  There are just things that are the way they are.

So, I started crying & then tried to get my emotions under control & told him that my best friend in college bought me that copy of Imajica he was signing back in 1991 and it was my most favorite book. But, of course, since I was all blubbery & shit, I forgot to ask him about his parrots.  Lamer.

Made my con, it did.

Okay, I have to get back to Line-a-con & stand in more lines, so the standing next to David Tennant in the elevator story will have to wait.   Just had to get that out.

Well.. day travel & day one of Comic-Con, actually.

Rick and I go to the airport.

and he sleeps on the flight while I fuck with my netbook.

Sweet hotel room once in San diego – this is our view:

Nice pool.  Too bad chlorine sucks the color clean out muh hurr.

Early this morning I got in line to get my badge

What’s that look for?  Probably for this

And that was BEHIND the convention center – not even near the door.

Need to get the 4 day pass next time, this is gonna be REALLY annoying to do every day.

So I walk around & attend a few panels – yay.

I wanted to shoot Amanda Fucking Palmer’s ninja ukulele gig thingy, but I guess I missed a memo because I’m a bad twitwhore and ended up finding her just as she was done.  Dis.

But later I went to the booth she was at & asked her a special favor.  She was very kind and indulged me – even though I haven’t bought her book yet.

Hmmmm… I wonder what she’s writing.  Is that a “G” I see there?  What could it be?

OH!  I also found out that AFP’s favorite band is the Legendary Pink Dots!  (I was wearing my Dots shirt.)  How cool is that?

Then she nommed my face for a pic.

I really like her – I’m gonna go draw her tomorrow.

Probably won’t go to her show though… Clive Barker is doing a panel at the same time.  And, you know.  He even trumps the Brian Posehn show.

Speaking of…

This is Brian Posehn’s back:

Why just his back, you ask?  Because Lisa’s a big chicken and he was too big and too mean looking for me to say “Mr.Posehn, may I have my picture taken with you?”  Yep.  Despite my swagger I’m a bock bock chicken.

THE BRAD TARD IS HERE!  YAAAAAAY!

I Swear that picture is from today, too.  He just hasn’t aged AT ALL.

Hopefully gonna hook up wit him later/tomorrow & meet his girlfriend, eat babies, etc.

Oh.. so Rick and I are walking, talking about how we haven’t seen the Mile High Comics booth yet when Chuck Rozanski just walks by us.  It was way too funny.  I said “Hey, there’s Chuck” and his daughters heard me and made him stop to say hi.  So we got a picture and told him how much we enjoy his emails/mail order service.

Totally the sweetest guy in the world.

Here are some other cool things:

Some Cylons

Sweet ass Ghostbusters

Oh hay Jesse Custer

Life.Size. Dalek.

FUCKING LIFE SIZE DALEK!

You’d think this would be kinda awkward, wouldn’t you?

My favorite booth so far is the midget with the dirty comics.

<3

Damn it – I’ve been blogging too long – have more shit to do!  Okay, maybe I’m just gonna get more coffee & lay down.  Early day tomorrow.

I’m honestly not sure if I can do this bloggity blogging shit for all four days though, so the 2-4 days might have to be concatenated.

I really wish I would’ve gotten pictures of all the people in spandex who probably shouldn’t be in spandex, though.  Maybe I’ll try that tomorrow.

I miss my birdies something fierce.

Holy shit.  So close to time to go!

If anyone wants anything from Comic-Con, let me know and I’ll see what I can do.

Today was hurr did day again.

Robert is doing muh hurr:

Oh, I don’t think I showed off my bitchin’ Doc sandals yet:

Friday was Leonard Cohen tour shirt:

The facebook is kinda becoming my online “thing” now,  btw.

So… if you’re on the facebook, type my online name after the url and add me.

Oh, and though I was hoping to save space by going to smaller cell phone pictures -  it’s just annoying me.  So I set the camera phone back to the bigger size. Yay?

Pink Dots!

Getting excited now… Thurs + Fri schedule is up!

Okay, finally updated my wordpress.

Now I just have to update the whole site theme to include widget compatability. *sigh*

Did the SA goons have something to do – even minutely – with Palin resigning?

Something Awful photoshops contribute to Palin resignation
“much of it had to do with the kids seeing their baby brother Trig mocked by some pretty mean-spirited adults recently.”

There are some damn funny ones there, but I’m really pissed off that they closed the thread before I posted mine.

GRATS SA GOONS!

Oh, also: “the world needs more “Trigs”, not fewer.”
Wait. Did she just say we need more retarded kids in the world?  Because I swear that’s what she just said.

Sisters of Mercy shirt of the Friday: