Comic Con 40th Anniversary

I am back from the 40th anniversary Comic Con. It feels like every year the show sells out earlier, the best panels get harder to gain entry to, the temperatures get hotter, certain fanboys smell stronger (you know who you are), and I make more deals for more money. This year saw the addition of some fans protesting that Twilight ruined Comic Con. Because, before Twilight, there were no over-sized movie studio booths taking over the place and no script writers like me going to the show just to get work. /sarcasm. A really nice aspect to this year’s show was the emphasis on the history of the show. The special 40th Anniversary Guests page on the site for the convention has really nice bios of a lot of the Secret Masters of Fandom who made the Comic Con possible. For bonus sexiness, my favorite bio on the page is the one for the most famous scream queen ever, who apparently was knocking them dead at the Comic Con as a teen: “Brinke Stevens (aka Charlene Brinkman) wowed audiences at the Masquerade in the 1970s with her choreographed dances. She served as Masquerade coordinator in 1976–1978. She is best known as a scream queen and has appeared in more than 100 films. “