Comic-Con turned 40 this year and its contract will be up in a few years with the San Diego Convention Center. Some people are worried that it will move to Anaheim or Las Vegas since there's no bigger space in San Diego. For years, it's already spilled over into the Marriot Hotel to the west. This year it took over a new Hilton just built to the east. I went to Showtime's Weeds panel there tonight and everything was very state-of-the-art. Every year I try to keep my eye out for what's new and I guess I succeeded in finding that. All I'd really planned for was my usual pass through the small press section to discover new artists and to watch a couple of movie premieres. I no longer care about panels with celebrities or the latest announcements. Most of that stuff gets reported in same time on the web. This year my main goal was just to find bootleg DVDs of old Spider-Man TV shows that will probably never be officially released. Between finding those and taking pictures of over 150 different costumes, I'd say the 40th Comic-Con was a good one for me, and not because everyone else says so too.
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