experienced this pandemonium first hand and am surprised that the local media
isn’t covering it.
The Comic-Con Exclusive of the Blackest Night Hal Jordon
action figures have caused such a ruckus at the Con that not even the lines at
Hall H come close to. For three days, Hal Jordon figures dressed as the Green,
Yellow and Blue Lanterns have been one of the main must haves of the Con. The
green figure had only 3000 available, yellow and blue had 1500 each, each day,
the line for the figures has grown as the amount available has shrunk.
People that I have meet in lines waiting to hear where the
ticket drawing will be, people being pushed around by over confident security
guards and staff, people that have been trampled and fallen just don’t
understand how the same problems have remained as the staff prepares day after
day for the same drawing.
Today for the Blue Hal Jordon, the Hope Lantern ironically,
a few people had been in line since 7:30 a.m. Friday, we arrived at 8 a.m. and
had a good spot in the “unofficial” line, thirty minutes later, and the woman
in charge broke us up, fire hazard being the reason. I guess when too many
vendors tell too many people to line up on the same floor, fire marshal codes
need to be enforced.
Fans waiting in line for the Hal Jordon ticket drawing. (Photo by Sylvia Quintanilla)
After two hours of false alarms of where the line for the
ticket drawing for a chance to buy a maximum of two action figures, at least a
couple hundred people where neatly in line, just like the lovely staff had
instructed us, the woman in charge vanished and a swarm of people followed her
outside the Salis Pavlion to a patio, they changed the
location, everyone who was in the neat line ran outside. I later learned a man
fell on the way out the door fell and hurt his knee. After the yelling and
threats died down, it was clear that the staff was making a point, this drawing
wasn’t for the fans, it was an opportunity to prove they control us. Later at
the Graffiti Designs booth, the vendor selling the figures said they weren’t
the ones who decided to make the tickets a raffle, the staff did and the
vendors dislike it too. Nice to know someone is on our side.
Three major panels were nearly back to back, first up was
Marvel: X-Men, hosted by X-Men group editor, Axel Alonso. Writer, Matt
Fraction, Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia, said the ending for Utopia is
something readers won’t see coming.
Daniel Way,
Deadpool, said the next challenge for Wade Wilson will be to try and be a good
guy by joining the X-Men and joked, it “doesn’t go well.” Way said this asks
the question, “Can he be a hero at this point” or is there “too much bad
history?”
For Dark Wolverine, writer Marjorie Liu said Wolverine’s son
Daken learns that the “hero business isn’t as easy as he thought.” Daken will
be “taken down a notch” and his reaction will be interesting.
One of the biggest announcements of the panel was the return
of Magneto to the X-Men. September 2009, fans will learn where he as been and
what’s up his sleeve as Nation X begins in Uncanny X-Men.
Magneto is back. (Photo By Sylvia Quintanilla)
Two months later in October, Necrosha, an X-Force, New
Mutants and X-Men Legacy cross over begins that might rival DC’s Blackest
Night, 16 million mutants will return. “Wow” was heard from the audience, to
which on the panelist replied, “Suck it Blackest Night!” Alonso said, “Cheer
louder, (Geoff) Johns isn’t here.”
Necrosha (Photo by Sylvia Quintanilla)
Following the X-Men panel was DC: Batman: New Dynamic,
hosted by Ian Sattler. The identity of the new Batgirl was kept under wraps,
though jokingly panelist including Greg Rucka, Michael Marts, Paul Dini and
Dustin Nguyen “confirmed” that Bruce Wayne, the Joker and possibly even Anne
Hathaway could be suiting up in the new sexy Batgirl suit. Tony Daniels, Battle for
the Cowl, was
announced to becoming back to Batman for a few issues. “Substantial changes for
Gotham” have occurred in the last year said
Sattler, but they are so much more than Bruce Wayne no longer being Batman.
Dan DiDio at the DC Nation panel wearing the Red Lantern shirt. (Photo by Sylvia Quintanilla)
Dan DiDio, Senior VP/Executive Editor of DC Comics was the host for the DC Nation panel. DiDio had on all the lantern shirts, red for rage, yellow for fear, blue for hope, orange for avarice, violet for love, green for will and indigo for compassion. DiDio handed the shirt right off to the panel guest will the best reason for the
emotion. The best reasons included rage for the long lines at the Con, hope
(this answer really should have won) that Twilight never comes back to
Comic-Con again and love for DiDio, a man kissed the editor’s head. DiDio, as
well as Geoff Johns yesterday, mention his excitement of seeing people wearing
the different colored lantern shirts at the Con, the idea is “catching
on.”
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