comic con 2007 News and Notes

Fans cheered the fashionably and deliberately late appearance of Lucy Lawless for the Saturday afternoon women of Battlestar Galactica panel. Continue reading »

If you'd asked me to guess which Comic-Con panel, for all four of my days here, would be the least packed, I never would have guessed that it would be Sunday afternoon's Jericho session. Where is the esprit de corps, people? Continue reading »

At last year's Comic-Con, fans seemed to be constantly demanding repeat viewings of various movie clips, roaring until the trailers or scenes from 300 or Spider-Man 3 or Grindhouse were relooped (the five minutes from 300 were played three times before the clamor abated). It took until Saturday (July 29) before I saw a single command encore this year. Continue reading »

While Resident Evil: Extinction looks like everything a Resident Evil movie fan could hope for from a Resident Evil sequel and 30 Days of Night looks downright terrifying, the most interesting parts of Sony's Saturday (July 28) Comic-Con panel had little to do with the promoed films. Continue reading »

I know this won't make me very popular, but I really kind of liked Ang Lee's 2003 Hulk. Continue reading »

For such a small town, Smallville sure gets a lot of action. At Saturday's Comic-Con panel for the upcoming seventh season of the superhero show, the show's cast and crew revealed who'll be dropping in on Smallville, how Supergirl is faring with her flying lessons and which billionaire playboy with a dark side will never, ever visit Clark's town. Continue reading »

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe made nearly $750 million at the worldwide box office. It won an Oscar and it stands at 76 percent "Fresh" over at RottenTomatoes. Odd, then, that the theme of Saturday's Comic-Con panel for its sequel was all about change. Continue reading »

Starting with a short behind-the-scenes documentary of season two's finale and a three-minute montage of the series, the Supernatural panel consisting of Co-Executive Producer/Writer Ben Edlund, Writer/Executive Story Editor Sera Gamble, Executive Producer/Writer/Creator Eric Kripke and star Jensen Ackles began... Continue reading »

In a matter of minutes, a disastrously dull Comic-Con panel for the ping pong epic Balls of Fury was reinvigorated by questions from Gold Bikini Princess Leia, Optimus Prime and Indian Superman Doing a Christopher Walken Impression. Continue reading »

"We used all of our mighty nerd powers to bring you back," declares a bespectacled alien attending the Package-Con event in Space Diego. Continue reading »