Comic-Con International Sets New Record For Badge Sales



Proving once again that there's no lack of interest from fans to attend Comic-Con International in San Diego, the show garnered the usual interested blog posts and regional media coverage for its near-instantaneous selling out of badges the Saturday just past. The term "SDCC" also trended for most of the day near or at the top of Twitter.

There are no doubt a lot of people deeply upset about how difficult it can be to get a couple of badges as there are likely people that are delighted as to how things turned out for them. The regional media article linked-to above notes that some people are just going to head for San Diego anyway, whether nor not they have a badge to do anything official. This is a worrisome set of circumstances for the convention. They have almost no control over the events outside of the buildings they're making use of, but will shoulder the blame if anything goes wrong. I've come to value SDCC/CCI as a valuable work weekend where a bunch of major comics players are assembled in a nice bunch of places at the most opportune time for the year for several days of meeting and disseminating information to an attentive world. The spectacle of it, though, the fan experience, I don't really have a relationship to that anymore, even though I consume a lot of media. It does make for an interesting show, with passions on high, and one I'll continue to attend.
 
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