February 2011
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August 2010
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Gabrielle Bell on San Diego Comic-Con
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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.”
SD10 the wrap-up: Eating Scraps →
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.
July 2010
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Matt Fraction: The Batmans Dreams of Hieronymus... →
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...
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“That’s how I ended up writing Thor. I’d call the Thor editor and...”
– Matt Fraction, who was wearing the same yellow trainers that Bruce Lee wore in Game of Death.
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“People keep asking me ‘who are you?’ and I’m like,...”
– Woman dressed as The Dark Crystal’s Kira, overheard.
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WatchSeen next to the Star Wars booth yesterday.
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“I’d only do it if i could call it ‘The Mother Effing X Men’.”
– Gerard Way
Notable quotables from Grant Morrison's spotlight...
On being greeted with a thunderous standing ovation:
“I can’t express what that means to me in words, so I’ll do it in the form of dance.” (He then proceeded to do a strange wriggly dance vaguely reminiscent of something out of The Invisibles.)
On realism in fiction:
“Why would you want fiction to be like the real world, because we’ve GOT the real...
“My first real interview for a real job was Buffy, and Joss is a bigger woman...”
– Marti Noxon
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“You killed him knowing full well that someone’s going to bring him back....”
– Grant Morrison on killing off J’onn J’onnz, and the nature of comics deaths in general.
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“Why’s she getting in line again for another t-shirt she doesn’t...”
– Overheard outside the Scott Pilgrim Experience
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“My prewriting ritual is called sleep.”
– Grant Morrison
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“A pagan technological sci-fi Jesus.”
– Grant Morrison sums up his concept behind his version of Superman in All-Star Superman.
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In the audience Q&A with Grant Morrison, every questioner seem determined to wave his nerd wang by mentioning how many obscure Grant titles they’ve read. At least the questions are unusually good.
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Assorted notes: Day One and other things.
Today I’m going to a handful of different panels and am currently waiting for the Spotlight on Grant Morrison panel to start. Husband scored a Lego Cube Dude Star Wars set (we had to stand in line for the opportunity to draw a ticket that entitled us to buy the set).
Lots of Scott Pilgrim costumes this year; Ramona is especially popular with the girls. There’s a few Doctor...
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“Do you think Sylvester Stallone kissed any members of The Expendables? No. I...”
– Edgar Wright, on kissing Kieron Culkin as an icebreaker during the filming of Scott Pilgrim.
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From the Scott Pilgrim Q&A
Audience member: I'm the kind of guy who likes to see every detail from the comic in the film, so I have to ask--Alison, Ellen, do we get to see you two make out?
Alison Pill: Like, in the film or now?
Edgar Wright: This is not the MTV music awards! (Beat.) All right, make out.
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“We’re all white men, which is no more a representation of the British...”
– China Miéville neatly calls out the elephant in the room with the SFX British Invasion panel.
Miéville was superb at every turn in this panel, and I wish I’d managed to get down everything he had to say.
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“I had to talk about Kenickie a lot less.”
– Kieron Gillen on how writing Thor is different from writing Phonogram.
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J. J. Abrams: When I went off to college my father said, go learn what to make movies about, not how to make movies, and that was the best advice he ever gave me.
Joss Whedon: Where did you get a father like that?
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J. J. Abrams: You don't do second drafts?
Joss Whedon: No.
J. J. Abrams: ...bastard!
Joss Whedon: And in at least six episodes it shows.
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“Have you seen that show ‘Hoarders’? Holy shit! How can that be a...”
– J. J. Abrams
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“It’s not every day you get to throw one of the most iconic action heroes...”
– Karl Urban on fighting with Bruce Willis in Red.
Urban also delighted his estrogen brigade with an “Are you out of your Vulcan mind?” when he came out on stage.
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Overheard between panels in Hall H
She: I want a photograph of me kissing the Blarney Stone.
He: Is there one here?
She: No, in Ireland.
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“There’s a lot of time sitting in a movie, so you have time to do things...”
– Mary Louise Parker at the Red panel
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“That sounds like the most sinister thing I’ve ever heard in my life! I don’t...”
– Patton Oswalt on the “Comic-Con Fulfillment Room”
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“What, you mean like get raped and get an Oscar?”
– Michelle Rodriguez, after being asked by an audience member if she ever wanted to do any “lighter”, less action-heroine roles.
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On "Salt"
Audience question: What firearms were used in this film?
Angelina Jolie: I think it was just about everything by the end of it. I even got to use a fire extinguisher in a way I'd never used it before.
Liev Schreiber: My favorite was the Super-Soaker.
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On the upcoming Haunted Mansion film
Guillermo del Toro: If you take the children, they will scream.
Patton Oswalt: It's good for them.
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“By the way, everyone outside this hall right now is terrified.”
– Patton Oswalt, after five minutes of the audience recording crowd noises for Tron.
They actually had follow-the-bouncing-ball cue cards (with snarky commentary) for everyone to read from, and Skywalker Sound techs to record the audience stomping rhythmically and shouting things like “DE-REZ!...
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“We are not returning Eddie Murphy’s calls … and we are not making it...”
– Guillermo del Toro on his announced-moments-ago Haunted Mansion film.
Now there’s a Disney property that needed the touch of a good director to make it not suck. Del Toro is a self-professed giant fan of the Haunted Mansion ride, and he really sounds enthusiastic. This could be great.
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“Whoever I ‘met’ at the hotel last night, you left your Admiral Ackbar outfit in...”
– Tina Fey, after being introduced at the Megamind panel.
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“I’ve always wanted to do this.”
– Tina Fey, stroking a cardboard cutout of Brad Pitt during the Megamind panel.
Am not a huge fan of any of Dreamworks animated features, but this one actually looks funny. However, based on this panel, Jonah Hill is not nearly as funny as he clearly thinks he is.
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