Thursday Morning at Comic-Con

Photo by Bruce Guthrie

In many ways, this feels like any Comic-Con of the last few years — so many of the same exhibitors in the same places and only the prices have changed. And yet, the fact that it's #50 is already making things feel special, even for folks who missed the first 49.

I'd elaborate that but I have a breakfast meeting and then a panel and then another panel and then an interview about it being Comic-Con #50 and then a lunch meeting and then a business meeting and then another panel…and that's the kind of day it's going to be and it might be a good idea if I get dressed before embarking on it.

I will be doing all this with a bit of a handicap. Last night, I took my friend Jewel Shepard to the big gala party at the new Comic-Con Museum celebrating its impending opening and the induction of Batman into some sort of Hall of Heroes I don't quite understand. If you live within the continental United States or Mexico, you probably heard it. At one point, I used this app to measure the decibel level and it gave me back a reading of "What? I can't hear you over the noise!" After a fitful night of sleep with the "Batman" theme still pounding in my brain, I'm still hearing it. I love the museum but come on, disc jockeys of the world. Some of us might have to hear again…

That's my one complaint so far. Everything else is peachy here at Comic-Con, U.S.A.