Comic-Con International 2008 - San Diego, CA

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Time to play catch-up.

Thursday was a great day. Got up, went to the Tiny Toons and Freakazoid panel, then went to the autograph singing at the WB booth. Toured the floor for a bit, went to the spotlight on Steve Purcell show. Did some more touring waited and waited and waited in line for the Street Fighter 4 panel, I did eventually get in but had to sit near the back. Then when that was over sauntered over to the Pitching Hour panel where I was on the verge of falling asleep in my chair not because it was boring, just because I was exhausted as hell and just wanted to lie down, so I abandoned my plans and went back to the hotel.

Friday started out great, went to the Marvel: Your Universe Panel at ten, followed by Foster's/PPG at quarter past eleven, took a lunch break with Sparky GM and Cass shortly after. I left the group early to catch the Ghostbusters Panel, and it was there where I suffered my first disappointment of the con, the panel was canceled. So with nothing to do for a few hours I headed back to the floor to waste some time before the evening panels, thankfully it turned out the time there was anything but a waste as I was able to snag a few autographs. The first signing happened almost by accident, I was out the Shout! Factory to pick up another DVD when at the same time there was a Mystery Science Theater 3000 signing going on, I was just about to move on as the event was about to end and I didn't think they didn't would take anymore people, but all of the sudden one of the guys at the booth asked me if I wanted to get some stuff signed, I not being the one to turn down free famous people ink, gladly accepted the offer and got the autographs of Bill Corbett (Crow T. Robot, Brain Guy, Various), Kevin Murphy (Tom Servo, Bobo, Various) Bridgett Nelson (various) and Mary Jo Phel (Pearl Forrester, various). Tooled around for a bit more, met up with One Radical Dude and BluebottleFlyer at the Cartoon Network Booth. Where once more the the pens of people I admire touched down to make their lasting impression on a sheet of paper. In this case it was Craig, Lauren, Tom Kenny, Tom Kane (Who was a last minuet surprise guest at the Foster's/PPG panel) Tara Strong and of course last but certainly not least Keith Ferguson.

After the signing I made my way upstairs to partake in the nights programming, it was there where I encountered a huuuuuuuuuuge problem people and lots of them. You see I had the brilliant idea to attend a panel for the Venture Bros, followed by one for Robot Chicken and lastly one for Mystery Science Theater 3000 (As they were going to be held in the same room and I enjoy all three shows very much). But the problem with having a brilliant idea is that there going to be a some copycats and in this case there were at least over a thousand copycats. Who were already waiting in line before me and after being told numerous times there would be no chance of getting in for "any" of the panels I gave up hope. I headed over for the 24 panel (It was in a bigger room, so I had a faint hope of making it in for that.) but that particular room also was going to be the site of a Prison Break panel and an Avatar: The Last Airbender panel, so saying that things were a bit crowded would be the understatement of the decade. So there I waited in line for over an hour (Reuniting with Sparky and GM, who also couldn't get into MST3K et al and decided to head to the Prison Break/Avatar panels because they were going to be held in the same room as Worst Cartoon's Ever.) So we got in (though I missed the 24 panel...boooooo) caught the Prison Break/Avatar panels. Which were okay (I don't hate the shows, but I don't watch them either. So I was kind of lost when people were yelling and screaming at almost every little thing they showed.)

And after that was WCE, and I think there was a question relating to that, so lets go to it now.

Originally Posted by Ccook50

And if anybody was at Jerry Beck's Worst Cartoons Ever show last night, please let me know what was shown.

If I remember correctly they showed the usual WCE crowd favorites. Mighty Mister Titan, Super President, Spunky and Tadpole and Johnny Cypher, along with Sam Basset: Hound for Hire (which debuted last year.) Paddy The Pelican (Which debuted back in 06...I think.) and Sinbad. Jr the cartoon they were going to show last year but got bumped for more Rocket Robin Hood. (Sadly, RRH was not shown.) and for the first time ever they showed some vintage commercials from the 50's and 60's, including a promotional short for the Moon Mullens cartoon they showed last year.

And that was Friday.

As for today, I got up early and headed over to the conventional hall at about 8:30 to wait in line for the Futurama/Simpsons panel at 10, and it's a good thing I did because once more the line was huuuuuuuuge. (Yeesh you'd think there was convention going on or something. )
Though this time I was able to brave the long lines and get in for the show. After that was a panel of Cartoon voice actors which contained some names you may heard off, such as Wally Wingart, Alicyn Packard, Chuck McCann and of course the ever popular Phil LaMarr (Yes ladies, he did do the voice of Wilt), the panel was also to have contained Tom Kenny and Jason Marsden but as showtime neared those two were not on stage and the crew took down their nametags, meaning that either were not going to appear at the panel. (The reason they gave was they flu. Poor guy hope he didn't get it from one of us. ) However they did have some replacements lined up, one which was planned "Gregg Berger" and the other which almost literally came of the blue or should we say "Bloo". You see right before the panel, Keith dropped by to say hello to Phil and Alicyn and just as he was about to leave the room, the panel moderator manged to get Keith to stay and fill the empty seat and thus the panel was once more whole.

Great panel too, they did the usual "Who do you voice?, How did you get started?" stuff and followed that up with the actors reading from an old Superman radio script. (Wally's interpretation of Jimmy Olson has to be heard to be believed and Keith does a great Latino accent. In fact there were so many highlights I just can't print them all with out )

After that it was back to the old Hotel for some rest and relaxation before heading out for a night at the theater.

So that's all the news from me, from the great city of San Diego and with that I bid you adieu.