We don’t go to ComicCon anymore — too crowded, no fun…
Most painful irony: By winning, nerd culture has lost. When I was a kid the fact that comics and games and fantasy and whatever were awesome was a secret, and people gave me a hard time about it. Now suddenly everyone’s all, hey, no, this stuff is great, Iron Man, woo! Which means instead of being our little secret, now it’s all about big corporations selling nerd culture to as many Joe Douchebags as it can pack into the multiplex. And where am I in that transaction? I don’t want to be anywhere near it.
Best sign: There was a guy crashed out on the carpet on Sunday afternoon. Before he passed out he had managed to scrawl on a piece of cardboard: TWILIGHT RUINED COMIC-CON.
via The Best of San Diego Comic-Con, and Goodbye to All That – Nerd World – TIME.com.
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I always seem to be grousing, and I don’t really mean to. I was not a fan of comics when I was a kid. As an adult, I see them as amateurish drawing and writing. When you make a person with superpowers your protagonist, you have to include a vulnerability, and then every story, to have a story, ends up being, in essence, about that vulnerability (usually including an evil genius who has an angle for exposing that vulnerability and a laughable personal agenda. The things become a “one trick pony” sort of affair.
Worst part, maybe, is the execrable genre of films based on comics. When you rub too much money up against too little plot, the result has little chance of being anything but a triumph of special effects, it seems to me.
On the other hand, they say San Diego has the finest climate in the nation!