Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Farewell Comic-Con 2010 - Final Photo Phunnies
Here are the final pics from Sunday, followed in reverse order by Saturday thru Thursday ----- see you in 2011!
Jawa Youth!
C’mon, man, you just KNOW the dork with the Batman halloween mask crashed this pic without being asked, just to screw it up!
Booba Fett?
Cupid of my dreams!
I know I should be talking about the spray paint costume, but I can’t take my eyes off the effen insane backdrop painting, apparently depicting some sort of pedophilia theme park!
C'mon, how does a Judo tunic count as a costume?
Who knew they made Huggies for stormtroopers?
Somebody MUST be PAYING people to wear those outfits ---
I don't like the way Michael Moore is eyeing those ladies from the sidelines...
Gotta admit, the high heels on the stormtrooper outfit are tres awesome!
“We don’t need no steekin’ secret identities!”
What is it about Vendetta face that makes bystanders scratch their butts and noses??
This Jules Verne diving outfit is my favorite 2010 costume!
More excellent costumes!
Hard to pull off the tough-guy kick-Asgaard look with chicken feathers in your helmet, dude.
No so much a cape as it is a backwards leather dickie ----
The backdrop sign reads "Paul Conroy Isn't Ready To Die" --- I can see why!
Weird, my girlfriend doesn't read comics, but she has the exact same outfit...
Man, those are some Harry Leggos ----
If nautical nonsense be something you wish….
DAY THREE
Hahaha, the sign is in Klingon! A quick look at the Klingon dictionary indicates it says something like “Parking violations will be punished by disembowelment.”
Green Lantern is the only Justice Leaguer who stuck to his diet...
Outta tea, the party's over.
Either Manga Teen Titans or a Sisters of Mercy reunion...
Is there a Ghandi VS Karate Kid comic???
Uh - Jessica Rabbit and her pimp?
I betcha all three were hall monitors in high school!
“I just flew in from Hawkworld, and boy are my wings tired….”
This model comes with nipple to nipple carpeting!
Hmmmm - Sick Houseplant Woman?
“You BETTER not tell me to get to the back of the bus!”
Geez, if it's that bad, just give the Joker a breath mint.
Ha, at first I thought it said "giant back fat."
Watch, Men!
"What happens in the Shire, STAYS in the shire!"
"Mine's bigger...."
Michaels was having a sale on spandex.
Iron Man's younger brother, Cardboard Man.
You've heard of a butter face? This one's a Basher Face.
Doormen at the Bombay Playboy Club.
"Convention? What convention?"
Action figures never sit down...
Nexus and son?
San Diego cops must LOVE costumes that come with assault rifles...
"Beam me up, Hans."
Titanic twins atwitter --
These next few shots are part of a series we’ll call “When underachievers go costuming….”
Finally, here’s photog Soo Hom –
Okay, we’ll upload a few final shots from Sunday ASAP ------ stay comical!
JAS
There’s a Cousin It movie in the works?!
Gumby is such an effin pimp! Imagine all the pickup lines - "Hey girls, wanna meet Pokey?" "You should see what Gumby can do toDAY!" "If you've got a heart, then Gumby can be PART of you!" "I can make it GROW, ya know!"
Hey, who cut one?
The League of Extraordinarily Lonely Women
Uh….Fell Down Drunk In Wet Toilet Paper Man??
Okay, sing-along time again – “Trojan maaaan, TRO-jan maaaaaan!”
You do NOT wanna be wearing this when your monthly visitor arrives…or when you’re eating at the Spaggetti Factory!
Now that the Star Wars universe has legalized gay marraige...
So THAT's what happened to Amelia Earhart!
I do NOT wanna know where that guy's hand has been.
The Martian Rainbow Coalition.
Robert Downey gives an acting class --
Tron Guy has waited all his life for this....
"Don't worry, I'll put a helmet on it..."
Bad Acid Trip Man
“Awww, man, the snack bar doesn’t serve bloody marys…”
I though Emo was dead?
Wow, Meatloaf is really tanned!
No rabbit hole jokes, please.
"I can see my PT Cruiser from here!"
The Les Girls booth???
Somuch for my nurse fantasy....
In some parts of town, that could pass as a prom dress.
These aren’t costumes – there was a fight to get into the Tron 2 lineup!
I feel something growing...
"Look, I still fit in my old hootchie clothes!~"
Finally, a gold bikini!! Last year, there were a dozen of ‘em….
Accessories, accessories....
Psssst….your vine is showing…..
Security is serious this year about cracking down on shoplifters...
The family that geeks together...
Dunno who they're supposed to be, but I think the blue one needs to loosen the costume...
Our photog Soo Hom....
...and his daughter Mari ----
DAY ONE
"Have your badges ready - or else!"
To boldly advertise where no advertisers have advertised before.
"Uh, mom, where'd you go?"
Is that a Duff in his side pocket, or does he have one effed-up anatomy?
And what are YOU hawking?
Nice shiner - what comic are you from, Revenge of the Battered Wife?
"In the brightest day or blackest night
Everyone in the room is checking out your tights..."
Wow, CGI gets more realistic looking all the time!
Gawd, I hope he isn't going commando under there....
Let's hope the carpet DOESN'T match the drapes...
|
"Why is everyone staring at our butts???"
|
Two and a half Wonder Women.
Double your pleasure, double your glum...
And yet they still have to wear their Con badges?!
You don't see many short stormtroopers.
Hey, on your hip - nice Tatooine!
Mari on deck --
Nice Tuts!
Carrot Top brought the mean girl from Little House on the Prairie.
"Fork off, dude."
Wow, all those hot girls are giving that guy such blue balls that it reached his hands!
For all you Green Ho Nuts!
She divorced Ernie the garbage can grouch, but got to keep the house.
"Hey babe, wanna spoon?"
If it weren't for the Con badge, I woulda mistaken her for a Hard Rock Hotel maid...
(Photos courtesy Soo Hom) ************************************************
The Twilight Zone made it's TV debut 50 years ago, on 10-2-59 - we asked local musicos to tell us their own favorite Zone episodes --- (more "What's Your Favorite Twilight Zone?" )
***********************************************
THE ROCKETEER AND OTHER FAMOUS '80S COMICS BEGAN RIGHT HERE IN SAN DIEGO - Here's a detailed history of local Pacific Comics, who recruited comic superstars like Jack Kirby to create one of the first successful indie comic book lines. Pioneers in the fight for comic creators' rights and royalties, former employees and operators reveal how they did it, and what went so terribly wrong...
THE KOMPLETE KISS KOMIX KRONICLES - Comprehensive collection of stuff I’ve done about working with Kiss on a comic book series in San Diego, along with a bunch of never-before-seen artifacts from the Kiss Komix archives AND an article by Kiss comic author Spike Steffenhagen, offering his own very-different take, ala Rashomon, on the same events I describe in my essay...
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2007/sep/12/komplete-kiss-komix-kronicles
ROCK 'N' ROLL COMICS: THE INSIDE STORY - In 1989, San Diego's Revolutionary Comics ("Unauthorized And Proud Of It") launched Rock 'N' Roll Comics, featuring unlicensed biographies of rock stars, most of which I wrote. Some performers, like Frank Zappa and Kiss, were supportive, while others like New Kids On The Block considered our comics akin to bootlegs and sued. In June 1992, publisher Todd Loren was found dead in his San Diego condo, brutally murdered...
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2007/sep/12/rock-n-roll-comics-the-inside-story
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK VS REVOLUTIONARY COMICS - The inside story of how a hugely successful boy band tried to sue local-based Rock 'N' Roll Comics over an unauthorized biography of the group, sparking a court case that established, for the very first time, first amendment rights for comic books. Illustrated by comic superstar Stuart Immonen (Superman, etc.)...
OVER A MILLION CARNAL COMICS ARE IN PRINT - Here's how and why we made some of the top-selling erotic comics of all time, right here in San Diego, including what Gene Simmons has to do with it all, backstage tales of porn stars, and more confessions of a comic pornographer...
COMICS AND CENSORSHIP - DON'T BE AFRAID, IT'S ONLY A COMIC BOOK - A local-centric history of comic book censorship, and the fight for the rights of comic creators...
TWILIGHT ZONE AND STAR TREK WRITER GEORGE CLAYTON JOHNSON PRESENTS - The inside story of a local horror comic book series featuring Robert Bloch, author of Psycho, plus sci-fi king Larry Niven, Zap Comix co-founder Spain Rodriguez, Matthew Alice artist Rick Geary, Vampire Lestat painter Daerick Gross, yours truly JAS, and many more...
THE BIRTH OF IMAGE COMICS: INSIDE STORY OF A LOCAL PUBLISHING POWERHOUSE - Illustrated tale revealing how Spawn creator Todd McFarlane and local comic artist Jim Lee (the Punisher, etc.) conspired to create the ultimate creator-owned comic books...
Down the Slippery Slope - Arrested For the Crime of Viewing Manga
On March 30, 2004, when Dwight Whorley found the Japanese website of Fractal Underground Studio via Yahoo and clicked on a couple of the thumbnail images... ( http://comipress.com/special/miscellaneous/down-the-slippery-slope-the-crime-of-viewing-manga )
Here's something you might be interested in.
Previous article
At 4pm, this Farmer's Table restaurant in Chula Vista becomes Acqua e Farina
Brunch restaurant by day, Roman style trattoria by night
Farewell Comic-Con 2010 - Final Photo Phunnies
Here are the final pics from Sunday, followed in reverse order by Saturday thru Thursday ----- see you in 2011!
Jawa Youth!
C’mon, man, you just KNOW the dork with the Batman halloween mask crashed this pic without being asked, just to screw it up!
Booba Fett?
Cupid of my dreams!
I know I should be talking about the spray paint costume, but I can’t take my eyes off the effen insane backdrop painting, apparently depicting some sort of pedophilia theme park!
C'mon, how does a Judo tunic count as a costume?
Who knew they made Huggies for stormtroopers?
Somebody MUST be PAYING people to wear those outfits ---
I don't like the way Michael Moore is eyeing those ladies from the sidelines...
Gotta admit, the high heels on the stormtrooper outfit are tres awesome!
“We don’t need no steekin’ secret identities!”
What is it about Vendetta face that makes bystanders scratch their butts and noses??
This Jules Verne diving outfit is my favorite 2010 costume!
More excellent costumes!
Hard to pull off the tough-guy kick-Asgaard look with chicken feathers in your helmet, dude.
No so much a cape as it is a backwards leather dickie ----
The backdrop sign reads "Paul Conroy Isn't Ready To Die" --- I can see why!
Weird, my girlfriend doesn't read comics, but she has the exact same outfit...
Man, those are some Harry Leggos ----
If nautical nonsense be something you wish….
DAY THREE
Hahaha, the sign is in Klingon! A quick look at the Klingon dictionary indicates it says something like “Parking violations will be punished by disembowelment.”
Green Lantern is the only Justice Leaguer who stuck to his diet...
Outta tea, the party's over.
Either Manga Teen Titans or a Sisters of Mercy reunion...
Is there a Ghandi VS Karate Kid comic???
Uh - Jessica Rabbit and her pimp?
I betcha all three were hall monitors in high school!
“I just flew in from Hawkworld, and boy are my wings tired….”
This model comes with nipple to nipple carpeting!
Hmmmm - Sick Houseplant Woman?
“You BETTER not tell me to get to the back of the bus!”
Geez, if it's that bad, just give the Joker a breath mint.
Ha, at first I thought it said "giant back fat."
Watch, Men!
"What happens in the Shire, STAYS in the shire!"
"Mine's bigger...."
Michaels was having a sale on spandex.
Iron Man's younger brother, Cardboard Man.
You've heard of a butter face? This one's a Basher Face.
Doormen at the Bombay Playboy Club.
"Convention? What convention?"
Action figures never sit down...
Nexus and son?
San Diego cops must LOVE costumes that come with assault rifles...
"Beam me up, Hans."
Titanic twins atwitter --
These next few shots are part of a series we’ll call “When underachievers go costuming….”
Finally, here’s photog Soo Hom –
Okay, we’ll upload a few final shots from Sunday ASAP ------ stay comical!
JAS
There’s a Cousin It movie in the works?!
Gumby is such an effin pimp! Imagine all the pickup lines - "Hey girls, wanna meet Pokey?" "You should see what Gumby can do toDAY!" "If you've got a heart, then Gumby can be PART of you!" "I can make it GROW, ya know!"
Hey, who cut one?
The League of Extraordinarily Lonely Women
Uh….Fell Down Drunk In Wet Toilet Paper Man??
Okay, sing-along time again – “Trojan maaaan, TRO-jan maaaaaan!”
You do NOT wanna be wearing this when your monthly visitor arrives…or when you’re eating at the Spaggetti Factory!
Now that the Star Wars universe has legalized gay marraige...
So THAT's what happened to Amelia Earhart!
I do NOT wanna know where that guy's hand has been.
The Martian Rainbow Coalition.
Robert Downey gives an acting class --
Tron Guy has waited all his life for this....
"Don't worry, I'll put a helmet on it..."
Bad Acid Trip Man
“Awww, man, the snack bar doesn’t serve bloody marys…”
I though Emo was dead?
Wow, Meatloaf is really tanned!
No rabbit hole jokes, please.
"I can see my PT Cruiser from here!"
The Les Girls booth???
Somuch for my nurse fantasy....
In some parts of town, that could pass as a prom dress.
These aren’t costumes – there was a fight to get into the Tron 2 lineup!
I feel something growing...
"Look, I still fit in my old hootchie clothes!~"
Finally, a gold bikini!! Last year, there were a dozen of ‘em….
Accessories, accessories....
Psssst….your vine is showing…..
Security is serious this year about cracking down on shoplifters...
The family that geeks together...
Dunno who they're supposed to be, but I think the blue one needs to loosen the costume...
Our photog Soo Hom....
...and his daughter Mari ----
DAY ONE
"Have your badges ready - or else!"
To boldly advertise where no advertisers have advertised before.
"Uh, mom, where'd you go?"
Is that a Duff in his side pocket, or does he have one effed-up anatomy?
And what are YOU hawking?
Nice shiner - what comic are you from, Revenge of the Battered Wife?
"In the brightest day or blackest night
Everyone in the room is checking out your tights..."
Wow, CGI gets more realistic looking all the time!
Gawd, I hope he isn't going commando under there....
Let's hope the carpet DOESN'T match the drapes...
|
"Why is everyone staring at our butts???"
|
Two and a half Wonder Women.
Double your pleasure, double your glum...
And yet they still have to wear their Con badges?!
You don't see many short stormtroopers.
Hey, on your hip - nice Tatooine!
Mari on deck --
Nice Tuts!
Carrot Top brought the mean girl from Little House on the Prairie.
"Fork off, dude."
Wow, all those hot girls are giving that guy such blue balls that it reached his hands!
For all you Green Ho Nuts!
She divorced Ernie the garbage can grouch, but got to keep the house.
"Hey babe, wanna spoon?"
If it weren't for the Con badge, I woulda mistaken her for a Hard Rock Hotel maid...
(Photos courtesy Soo Hom) ************************************************
The Twilight Zone made it's TV debut 50 years ago, on 10-2-59 - we asked local musicos to tell us their own favorite Zone episodes --- (more "What's Your Favorite Twilight Zone?" )
***********************************************
THE ROCKETEER AND OTHER FAMOUS '80S COMICS BEGAN RIGHT HERE IN SAN DIEGO - Here's a detailed history of local Pacific Comics, who recruited comic superstars like Jack Kirby to create one of the first successful indie comic book lines. Pioneers in the fight for comic creators' rights and royalties, former employees and operators reveal how they did it, and what went so terribly wrong...
THE KOMPLETE KISS KOMIX KRONICLES - Comprehensive collection of stuff I’ve done about working with Kiss on a comic book series in San Diego, along with a bunch of never-before-seen artifacts from the Kiss Komix archives AND an article by Kiss comic author Spike Steffenhagen, offering his own very-different take, ala Rashomon, on the same events I describe in my essay...
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2007/sep/12/komplete-kiss-komix-kronicles
ROCK 'N' ROLL COMICS: THE INSIDE STORY - In 1989, San Diego's Revolutionary Comics ("Unauthorized And Proud Of It") launched Rock 'N' Roll Comics, featuring unlicensed biographies of rock stars, most of which I wrote. Some performers, like Frank Zappa and Kiss, were supportive, while others like New Kids On The Block considered our comics akin to bootlegs and sued. In June 1992, publisher Todd Loren was found dead in his San Diego condo, brutally murdered...
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2007/sep/12/rock-n-roll-comics-the-inside-story
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK VS REVOLUTIONARY COMICS - The inside story of how a hugely successful boy band tried to sue local-based Rock 'N' Roll Comics over an unauthorized biography of the group, sparking a court case that established, for the very first time, first amendment rights for comic books. Illustrated by comic superstar Stuart Immonen (Superman, etc.)...
OVER A MILLION CARNAL COMICS ARE IN PRINT - Here's how and why we made some of the top-selling erotic comics of all time, right here in San Diego, including what Gene Simmons has to do with it all, backstage tales of porn stars, and more confessions of a comic pornographer...
COMICS AND CENSORSHIP - DON'T BE AFRAID, IT'S ONLY A COMIC BOOK - A local-centric history of comic book censorship, and the fight for the rights of comic creators...
TWILIGHT ZONE AND STAR TREK WRITER GEORGE CLAYTON JOHNSON PRESENTS - The inside story of a local horror comic book series featuring Robert Bloch, author of Psycho, plus sci-fi king Larry Niven, Zap Comix co-founder Spain Rodriguez, Matthew Alice artist Rick Geary, Vampire Lestat painter Daerick Gross, yours truly JAS, and many more...
THE BIRTH OF IMAGE COMICS: INSIDE STORY OF A LOCAL PUBLISHING POWERHOUSE - Illustrated tale revealing how Spawn creator Todd McFarlane and local comic artist Jim Lee (the Punisher, etc.) conspired to create the ultimate creator-owned comic books...
Down the Slippery Slope - Arrested For the Crime of Viewing Manga
On March 30, 2004, when Dwight Whorley found the Japanese website of Fractal Underground Studio via Yahoo and clicked on a couple of the thumbnail images... ( http://comipress.com/special/miscellaneous/down-the-slippery-slope-the-crime-of-viewing-manga )
Sponsored
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Close