Back From the Dead...

[Chuck Oberleitner]

Back From the Dead…Or, In this Case, Comic-Con

By C. W. Oberleitner
(with a tip of the hat to Herb)
August 5, 2008

Comic-Con, that annual pilgrimage of the pop culture faithful to Nerdvana, was a “moving” experience for our man in Hollywood. It moved him from San Diego into his bed for nearly a week, where he occupied himself by alternately “sweating out a head cold and bouts of hacking up a lung.”

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[AliKzam]

Thank goodness! I thought I was the only person who had a bad experience at Comic-Con. I thought maybe I did it wrong. I just don't see the fun in being pushy to take part in the things I want to do. That's too much like real life! Thank you for that article.

[shagadelic]

I don't have bad experiences at Comic-Con. Maybe because I've been going since the 90s and adjusted to the huge growth.

This statement in bold:

If you arrived at Hall H at say 10:00 a.m., planning on securing a good seat for Lost at noon, you were in for a big surprise.
According to media reports, audiences for Saturday’s Comic-Con Hall H presentations began queuing up at 1:00 a.m. By ten in the morning, there was a six-switchback, zigzagging line a block long outside of Hall H. It snaked its way behind the convention center and ran the length of the facility. Only those in line as far back as the first fifth of the convention center made it inside for the first program.

is wrong, as I was in line for the Heroes program specifically so I could see the Lost program. I got in line at around 8am, as is stretched behind the convention center to Seaport Village. (The line then turned around and came BACK to the convention center.) I was well past the convention center but I did get in, to find that only 1/2 of the room was full at that point. When lining up, people are really stretched out. MANY people left after Heroes, opening up the room for many more to enter for Lost.

See "Media Reports" are often wrong.