Dragon*Con Highlights
September 6th, 2004In no particular order:
Adult Swim panel. Clunky Robot, along with a group of misfits ranging from mcchris (very funny) to Billy West (possibly psychotic). Maybe I’m a simple man, but I had a great time simply watching the Adult Swim promos in a huge room with a few hundred other fans, laughing and hooting along with them. The panel discussed some of the future development and programming plans. Worth noting: Read or Die (the series) coming this fall!
I was delighted to unexpectedly encounter George Lowe, the voice of Space Ghost (in his Coast to Coast reincarnation). The voiceover god and all-around funny man was eating a turkey sandwich and signed two Space Ghost pictures for me (one for work, one for home). Not one to simply scribble his signature, he took a few minutes (between bites of his sandwich) to talk with me and a friend and wrote and drew all over the pictures to ensure I had a very unique souvenir of the experience. This made me extremely happy.
Warren Ellis.
I got to see Bernie Wrightson a few times. He’s the co-creator of Swamp Thing, and he also did some well-known illustratons for Frankenstein and Stephen King’s The Stand.
Warren Ellis.
Three costumes of note: A man soaking up attention as Doc Ock, a man dressed as The Tick, and a combination Elvis-Stormtrooper getup. As for the other costumes… well, I’ll quote Warren Ellis: “Klingons are not on Atkins. And neither are Stormtroopers. There are an alarming amount of very thin young girls wearing elf ears.” [Update: See Lady Crumpet for some pictures!]
All in all I enjoyed the time I was there, even though most of it was not to my taste. I’ll definitely go again, though I’ll probably just get a day pass.