San Diego Comic Con 2007 wrap-up.

August 1st, 2007 by Jim Clark

I’m back from another trip to Comic Con. What a great show!

We made a lot of sales of our comic books this year and had a great time. It was good to see all our friends and fans from online and elsewhere. And all the weirdos. They were everywhere.

The most notable highlights for me were:

A few celebrities stopped by the booth and hung out with us briefly. That’s always fun.

A zombie army marched on the downtown area on the first or second night of the show, I forget which. There were about 25 or so people made up to look like the walking dead.

I liked their shtick. The leader would shout, “WHAT DO WE WANT?”
“BRAAAAAINS.”
“WHEN DO WE WANT ‘EM?”
“MUUHHHHH…”

On the last day of the show, a young guy was holding up a sign that read: “I WILL SELL MY SOUL FOR $10″. So I gave him ten bucks and asked for his soul. He was a bit unsure how to transfer it to me, so I said “just put it in your hand and give it to me” and he promptly did so. I put it in my pocket and walked off, promising to take good care of it. At first I wasn’t sure what to do with it, but then someone told me that he put the sign back up as soon as I was gone so I took the soul out of my pocket and ate it.

Apparently the hotels nearby do not have mirrors. That’s the only explanation I have for the way some people were dressed. Seeing a 300-pound Wonder Woman is never a pretty sight.

I played ukulele for the crowd almost the entire time, just like I do every year. A few people stopped to comment on my playing, a few of them actually bought books, and there were a couple musicians who brought their own instruments by and jammed with me.

(They were pretty good, too.)