I’m in San Diego airport, a little too early for my (mercifully brief) flight back to San Francisco, and I should be writing. I have things to write. But my brain feels half-functional. And this blog needs a post, occasionally.

Comic-Con 2010. Woah.

I last hit Comic-Con in 2003, and every time this week that I said “I was last here seven years ago” I felt like it was a huge gulf. Not much has actually changed about Comic-Con in that time, to be honest; it’s still huge, and the same sort of stuff is still being shown. On the other hand, an awful lot has changed about me in seven years. I started to wonder what 2003 me would think of 2010 me. Y’know, if they could have a conversation. Considering the amount of sci-fi entertainment media on display at Comic-Con, and the amount of geeks willing crazy stuff into existence during the show, it doesn’t seem impossible.

What’s up, 2010?

Nothin’. Sitting in the airport, drinkin’ a… actually I’m not drinking. Just finished the Con. Heading home to San Francisco. I live there now. Well, near there anyway.

Wow! Really? That’s great. How was the Con? Cool, right?

Well yeah, it was cool – I spent it working, though.

Working?? What as? Doing what??

Manning part of the Marvel booth. Showing off a Marvel game I’m working on. I can’t tell you too much, it’ll cause a massive paradox. Suffice to say it’s pretty darn cool.

Okay, alright. But working at the Marvel booth? That must be amazing!

It is, especially considering that they make movies and stuff now. About half the booth, maybe more, was focused on their movies, and building hype for them -

Marvel makes movies???

Alright, let’s not talk too much about the spoilers. What else did you love about the 2003 con.

I got to spend a bunch of time talking to some artists. They didn’t seem to mind me talking to them. I got a few sketches done, too.

Yep, started off a rather ambitious sketchbook as I recall. Turns out sketches aren’t free… but still, that Brent Anderson one is a doozy, right?

Sure is. I loved hanging out with these guys though. I could watch them draw all day, frankly.

Some things never change. Did you enjoy the panels?

Some of ‘em, but some of ‘em, I was just watching them to get to the ‘real’ panels that I wanted to see later on, so…

Well, you won’t have to do that next time. Frankly you won’t have time to do it… you’ll still get to a couple of cool ones, though. Just not the big, crazy, media presentations. Frankly that’ll all be on the web a few minutes later anyway. Or Twitter.

Twitter?

You’ll see. It’ll change your life. Well, sort of.

Okay…

What about the night life? Good times?

Pretty good times. I only knew the guy I came with, so -

Well, that’ll change. You’ll get to hang out with work folk, which is fun, but also with artists and other creative types. It’ll be pretty cool. Although somehow you won’t get to see many of the ‘big’ parties. You could work on that, starting now. Er, then.

Oh alright. I kind of felt like I was tired at the end of every day, though -

Exactly, right? Too tired to party. Well, admittedly, that’s the years adding on…

… sounds like an excuse to me.

It is, kind of. Hey, you’ve got it easy – you can sit down any time you want, go back to the hotel – I’m on my feet all day and my hotel is a mile away!

Cry me a river, buddy. Working the Marvel booth. Living the geek dream.

Alright, okay. I shouldn’t complain.

Nope, you shouldn’t. Also, you shouldn’t blog about it. If you even keep a blog going in 2010.

Point noted. Points, in fact.