A thing I learned today at Gallifrey One: Peter Davison did a guest spot on Magnum P.I. back on the day.
Tip o’ the hat to rocketsandrayguns for googling up the photographic proof.
Creator’s-eye view of San Diego Comic-Con—it’s definitely a different experience than that of those of us who are just there for fun. I like Bell’s work best when she’s got her ironic sense of humor turned on, and these strips are great.
“Tom, our goal for this week is to eat one hundred dollars worth of food per day.”
Heidi MacDonald at the Beat offers a cogent State of SDCC round-up, including links and quotes from other postmortems from around the internet. Highly recommended.
And yeah, I have my own wrap-up to post. Working on it.
Via Warren Ellis, Matt Fraction’s brilliant bit of … let’s call it spoken-word, but it’s much better than that turgid hyphenated phrases makes it sound. It’s about comics, art, hospitals, traumatic brain injury, Batman, and dicking around on the Internet. Sound quality is kind of boomy and iffy, but it’s worth it. Watch and learn, kids.
This is his w00tstock performance; I saw him do it on Sunday afternoon at SDCC. That day, it was followed by Fraction and SNL comedian Bill Hader riffing on everything under the sun (and heckling the people who left early) for 20 minutes. It was great.
At Hooters in the Gaslamp district.
Also happening in San Diego. Al Gore, Dee Dee Myers, and Newt Gingrich were speakers, and there were sessions like “Leadership ‘Machinery’ for Transitions-in-Care at Penn Medicine”.
Ornament coming soon from Hallmark.
Iron Man at the Stan Winston booth.
Yes, you’ve seen this before, but now it’s got Matt Fraction’s autograph on it too. I caught up with him before his Sunday panel, “The Batman Dreams of Hieronymus Machines” while he was riffing on the fight in Hall H yesterday. “Anyone who’s been going to Hall H for the last few years knew it was only going to be a matter of time before somebody got stabbed.”
