Some Final Notes on SD 2007

Well, now that the dust has settled over San Diego Comic Con Int'l 2007, I had a few brief (and final) comments on the whole rigamaroll – namely, how the whole thing felt like a carbon copy of the previous year’s con, and even more unsettling, seems more and more driven as a Hollywood marketing blitz for upcoming movies, TV series, and direct-to-DVD efforts.

Both comics, and the creators behind them, were clearly marginalized this year by Hollywood’s massive marketing collective which thinks nothing of pouring hoards of cash into (for example) hawking a new NBC series starring Heather Graham only to yank the plug on the whole thing in two weeks if the Biblically-sized ratings some moronic studio exec in LA had expected to show within the series’ first two airings didn’t pan out.

I have no problem with Hollywood playing a part at the Con; it just seems that the industry is taking over the entire show like a creeping plague, in which case I won’t bother showing up year after year to join the mass of idiots willing to throw themselves in front of babies to obtain cheap, promotional crap before the next guy does.