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Above: Guinness book of World Records entry for longest line of virgins *ending with the person in front me

I got there at 9:30 and there was a huge line waiting outside. This was Sunday morning by the way, Feb. 25th, and I was standing there in the cold amongst, peppered throughout the line, people wearing metal plates on their heads (Naruto) and various Anime/Star Wars costumes. I’m sure a bunch of these people were socially-inept and watched lots of science fiction into the night thinking that THIS! was their time to shine - it probably was.

Above: There was this pretty hot looking (costume wearing) broad standing behind this guy but she came out all blurry.

This guy in costume was the welcoming committee. I mean, I can make all these jokes about how they’re all nerdy and geeky and weird and antisocial and virgins and have a lot of acne and are antisocial and like masturbating to anime porn but the people there were nice.

Above: Here’s the main entrance. I took this in the afternoon so you can see that it was pretty full by then. Notice those two guys? The ‘guy on the left’, that’s future ‘the guy on the right.’

Above: Here’s a pretty clean shot of the actual convention. There were all these companies catering to nerd society. I got all this schwag that I immediately threw away when I brought it home. Mostly it was just a lot of paper with colorful anime drawings on it, pins, magnets, fliers, magazines and business cards - like all the other conventions. A lot of people wanted to sign stuff and give it to me but I really didn’t want them to ruin it. Anyway, it’s all in the garbage. These nerds killed a lot of trees.

Like you would expect, there were a lot of guys in costumes. Some of them take themselves too seriously but I mean that was the day for THEM to be celebrities. Again, lots of fun, I have to admit.

Above: Adorable Marvel kids. I think Captain America, Thor, Iron-man and Gay Clark Kent (the guy standing to the right).

Above: Hayden Christensen has, since Star Wars, gained some weight eating Cheetos in front of his computer while playing World of Warcraft.

Above: Spider-woman was nice enough to pose. Yeah, everybody had their poses. It was great. They were SO serious when I asked if I could take a picture. I was like, “S’cuse me, would you mind if I took a picture?” (BOOM!, serious face, pose) Sometimes my camera wouldn’t take a picture for like 5 seconds and they were just patient enough to stand there. Later, when I used my pinhole camera, they just posed for literally 2 hours straight for 1 picture.

There were also some celebrities there. That girl from Heroes, Hayden Panettiere was there on Saturday but the real celebrity was Gary Coleman.

Above: It’s kind of weird to see him up close. He’s all wrinkly. Big star of the 80’s and 07 at Comic Con.

Above: This was my absolute favorite celebrity there. You may not recognize him at all but for those who are in the know will recognize him from this obscure Triumph the Insult Comic Dog sketch for the Conan O’Brian show when they went to a Star Wars Episode II premiere. He’s the guy who stepped up for his woman. Very nice guy - highlight of my day. Fuck Gary Coleman, this guy… I’m telling you, this guy… (check out the video: Triumph Youtube video).

Above: Love connection at first sight.

Above: Painted Car of all these cartoon characters at the entrance.

Above: 1 months salary for 1 light saber toy. 30 years old and still lives with parents.

Above: Toys everywhere. I don’t know what this was but I saw these guys carrying it everywhere. They were all rough-handling it but then they put that shit behind an acrylic case. I should’ve stole it.

Above: Pay tons of money to go to Comic Book Convention to play turn based card games. It’s like Las Vegas but everybody’s a loser.

Above: Here you have Thor’s head. I figure some rich comic book guy put a bounty on his head and Boba Fett with some laser shot him from afar and stuffed his head with used sperm tissues. I didn’t know sperm tissues preserved heads of Norse gods of thunder so well. Now I have given away too much information.

Above: Giant Anime Pokemon Dog Puppy type thing.

Above: See that girl in the middle? Actually, those two are twins. Funny story, well, there was a giveaway and these people were throwing stuffed animals and junk at the people. This older woman and that little girl both grabbed a stuffed dog and the older woman just wouldn’t let go and in fact was quite fervent about trying to pry it off that little girl until some guy was like, “Hey, let the little girl have the toy.” (slowly shaking my head)

Above: Killer 7 toys. Based on some video game that was not too successful. I never played the game but I read about it and it sounded interesting.

Finally, I just wanted to say that it was a very interesting experience considering it was the first time I’ve ever been to something like this. While I took a lot of pictures of people in their costumes, most people are in their everyday wear. There were a lot of great artists for those of you who enjoy reading comic books or even if you’re NOT into comic books. Eric Nakamura from Giant Robot (http://www.giantrobot.com - free plug) was there along with a lot of other hip industry people. I think I’ll go next year but I’ll probably not buy a ticket cause it seemed like they weren’t very tight with security.