Five Stories to Watch, CCI 2007

Okay, it looks like this is more like two and a half stories and a bunch of nonsense, despite my best efforts. It's not like there won't be stories coming out of the show, but there's nothing that occurs to me in the imminent or likely categories. Anyhow:

1. Full House -- the show is bursting at the seams based on pre-registration alone. There are many ways a stuffed-to-the-gills show can split and rupture a bit, all of which are a possibility. The most interesting thing to me is that CCI has at least five more years in this facility, with no cap on the attendance demands in sight. The other thing is that someone, somewhere in the main hall will get no foot traffic despite the entire population of Fort Wayne, Indiana being in the building.

2. Image Isn't Everything -- with the founders panel and then its own publishing announcements featuring a crew of creators that's beginning to approach critical mass in terms of making the company an every-week factor in most comic shops, Image could actually see a nice PR boost coming out of the show.

3. Video -- there should be hours and hours and hours of video coverage coming out of the show.

4. Marvel Has a Booth -- this is worth noting because it reminds us that Marvel went for years without a booth. Marvel not having a booth because for a few years they couldn't afford one is funny; Marvel blowing off getting one for several years just to be butts is funny.

5. Industry Talk, RIP -- correct me if I'm wrong, but they don't have macro-industry talking heads panels anymore, do they? Oh, well. I guess the other question is whether or not backseat driving companies to fantasy maximize their sales figures counts as industry discussion in the first place. Because if it doesn't, this may be dead everywhere, not just San Diego. I always think if the Marvel Jack Kirby Art thing broke out in today's comics scene, 10 percent of the people going to the resulting panel would be for Jack, 15 percent would be for Marvel, and 75 percent would be there to scope out seats for the next hour's Battlestar Galactica panel.

(Bonus) Everyone Younger Than 35 Is Boring -- now that the alt-comics generation is old enough they go to dinner and then go back to their hotel rooms and straight to bed and then lie the next day that they only intended to take an hour nap, those of us living vicariously through young people are still waiting for the under-35s in attendance to throw one of those parties in a big house where metal objects are routinely tossed through windows, underage locals are hitting on toy company spokespeople and Glenn Danzig shows up out front in the Son of Satan's chariot being pulled by hookers. Instead, they seem to really like hotel bars and the kind of "hey you, I know you" socializing that kicks off the first hour of a class reunion. Go figure.

A few last links: Shannon Wheeler, the U-T over-quotes an idiot, the collectors' view, Floyd Norman remembers, Sergio Aragones' famous convention poster.
 
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