SDCC 2013 Odds And Sods, Part One: DC’s Meet The Publishers Panel
We are coming up on the final bits and pieces of coverage we took from this year’s San Diego Comic-Con – yes, I know the convention ended eight days ago, but it turns out we had a lot of video […] ↓...
View ArticleSDCC 2013 Odds And Sods, Part 2: The Avengers, X-Men, Dr. Strange and Sgt....
And finally, here is the last of it. The last panel we attended at San Diego Comic-Con on Sunday, July 21st, before the convention-closing screening of Buffy The Vampire Slayer‘s musical episode, Once...
View ArticleSafe To Travel: San Diego Comic-Con Preregistration Not In November
For people who attended San Diego Comic-Con this year and have been waiting for word on when the pre-registration for next year’s SDCC would be coming off, all we’ve known since about August is that it...
View ArticleDelayed And Limited Gratification: SDCC 2014 Pre-Registration Delayed Until...
Very little time here at the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Home Office today. I am here alone with Parker, a cat who was neutered earlier today. And Parker is treating me in exactly the manner one would...
View ArticleTwo Hours In The Tank: San Diego Comic-Con 2014 Pre-Reg Is Over
Pre-registration for the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con started at noon Eastern Time today for those who attended last year’s convention. It used a pretty radically different methodology to handle the sale...
View ArticleIt’s All Over Bar The Shouting: San Diego Comic-Con 2014 Registration Over;...
So public registration for this year’s San Diego Comic-Con occurred today, and luckily, we did not need to be a part of it. As attendees last year, we were eligible for the pre-registration that took...
View ArticleFighting Until The Big Sleep: SDCC 2104 Hotel Reservations This Tuesday
San Diego Comic-Con has a weird system of guaranteeing admittance, if you think about it. First it puts you through up to two different nervewracking and emotionally draining online sales just to...
View ArticleCrisis On Infinite Midlives Podcast Episode 11: The Golden Shakeoff Caper
Yeah, I know that we mentioned the other day that we had subjects that we wanted to talk about in a podcast, but I also know that you didn’t even remotely think that we’d actually, you know, do one....
View ArticleLove’s Labour Lost: No Badge Resale For San Diego Comic-Con 2014
We’ve written more than once about the Herculean, if not Sisyphean, effort it takes to attend San Diego Comic-Con these days. The Hercules metaphor is probably more accurate, since between...
View ArticleCrisis On Infinite Midlives Podcast Episode 18: P. S. Balls, Sweet Valley High
It is Sunday, which means another episode of the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Podcast! This one recorded after the depths of a sugar coma! In this episode, we discuss: The recent Slate article by Ruth...
View ArticlePlaying With Adults: This Week’s Cosplay Riots
If you’re not old enough to have seen Star Wars in its original 1977 theatrical release, you are not a true Star Wars fan, and arguably not even truly a human being. If the first time you saw Star Wars...
View ArticleDigital Rioting: San Diego Comic-Con 2013 Tickets On Sale February 16th
As we speak, we are watching the Super Bowl, taking place at the Super Dome in New Orleans and packed with people who spent a great deal of money and endured extreme personal hardship to attend in...
View ArticleBodies On The Road To San Diego: SDCC 2013 Tickets Sell Out In About 90 Minutes
So, you thinking about going to San Diego Comic-Con this year? Yeah, well, you can stop. Because it’s sold out. Tickets went on sale via a specific Comic-Con Web site that they only publicized to those...
View ArticleOne-Two Punch: SDCC Hotels On Sale 2/26
Now that was fast: just a few days after selling out passes to San Diego Comic-Con 2013, the convention has announced that hotels in the downtown area will be going on sale Tuesday, February 26th at...
View Article150 Seconds of Pant-Crapping Terror: SDCC Hotel Registration Is Complete
Our apologies for the dearth of content today, but is has been a busy one here at the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Home Office, between significant personal business, day job obligations… and, of...
View ArticleLast Chance Pass: Single-Day Tickets For San Diego Comic-Con 2013 Going Up...
Yesterday, we here at the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Home Office were out celebrating a birthday – not that I could testify in court that that’s actually what happened, except for the evidence of the...
View ArticleFinding Your Line: San Diego Comic-Con Releases Floor Map
The San Diego Comic-Con is coming up quick; it’s in about three weeks (which means I just had my fourteenth panic moment in a series of several hundred when I compulsively check my flight and hotel...
View ArticleDecisions, Decisions: Thursday and Friday San Diego Comic-Con Panel Schedules...
We are in the middle of a heat wave here in Boston; temperatures have been above 90 degrees outside with extremely high humidity… and until about 90 minutes ago, temperatures inside the Crisis On...
View ArticleRising Conflict: San Diego Comic-Con 2013 Saturday and Sunday Panel Schedules...
San Diego Comic-Con is many things to many people: a giant excuse to get drunk in a setting where you can strike up a conversation about Batman with whoever happens to be sitting next to you at the...
View ArticleHow To Survive Comic-Con Without Really Trying: 2013 Edition
We are in the final throes of preparation for heading to San Diego for Comic-Con 2013, which means we don’t have a lot of time today, but it does mean that we’re in the process of putting into place a...
View ArticleBoots On The Ground, Brainstem In The Gutter: Arrival At San Diego Comic-Con...
Editor’s Note: The following post was written from an outdoor patio, soon after arriving in San Diego, while we had no hotel room yet, nor Internet access from which to upload it. It is probably being...
View ArticleCalm Before The Geekstorm
You cannot find a Dunkin’ Donuts in San Diego. This is more dire than it first might sound. We take our Dunkin’ Donuts coffee seriously in New England. There isn’t a highway offramp between Providence...
View ArticleHitting The Floor: SDCC 2013 Preview Night
One of the biggest problems wth Preview Night at San Diego Comic-Con is that it happens at night. It’s not the biggest problem, but it’s up there. Here’s how Wednesday at SDCC works for your typical...
View ArticleWe’ve Always Got Room For A…: The Goon Movie Panel, SDCC 2013
Editor’s Note: This article was written last night at around midnight Pacific time. It is only being uploaded now because the Internet access I paid my hotel $14 for was unable to keep a connection,...
View ArticleSpandex Is The Fabric Of The Future: DC’s SDCC 2013 Trinity War Panel
I have been hearing about DC Comics’s The Trinity War crossover for what feels like every week since DC launched the New 52 Reboot. God knows that DC wanted to tease the Goddamned thing right out of...
View ArticleJoe’s Comics. And Joe’s Movies. And Joe’s TV Shows: SDCC 2013′s Spotlight On...
We attended several panels yesterday, and will be writing up more extensive write-ups of at least one of them later or tomorrow (Robert Kirkman’s Skybound panel in particular was interesting), but in...
View ArticleWe Have Walked Through The Fire
The annual goodbye party for the San Diego Comic-Con – a screening of Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s season six musical episode, Once More With Feeling – concluded about an hour and a half ago. And, as...
View ArticleOn The Road Again
Comic-Con is well and truly over now, and we are packed and preparing to flee the city before the workmen pull down the Comic-Con trade dress from the convention center, thus exposing San Diego for...
View ArticleConvalescence
San Diego Comic-Con is a hell of a thing. It is something that any genre geek working a job that coughs up two weeks vacation and pays enough to allow you to drink anything higher-end than Country Club...
View ArticleIt’s The End Of The World As We Know It: Marvel’s SDCC 2013 Ultimate Universe...
So yes: the Marvel Ultimate Universe panel, held on Friday, July 19th at the San Diego Comic-Con. I’ve mentioned it a few times over the past few days, not because there were any Earth-shattering...
View ArticleNo Extinction: Avatar Press SDCC 2013 Panel
And here we are: our final article covering San Diego Comic-Con 2013 (except for a bunch of video that my high-toned, dedicated video camera seems to have mangled, unless my actual computer here at the...
View ArticleLast Gasps From SDCC 2013 – Best Of Cosplay From Comic-Con Video
The Crisis On Infinite Midlives Home Office received a giant package via UPS yesterday containing all the books, action figures, t-shirts, games, and other assorted loot we acquired at this year’s San...
View ArticleEpisode 23: Her THAC0 Is Ridiculous
There has been another creative team change on Batgirl, by all reports due to editorial edict. So Amanda and I talk not only about the proposed new direction for the character, but we about the...
View ArticleEpisode 24: You Have Nice Line Work
Since we are less than 36 hours away from leaving for San Diego Comic-Con 2014, and therefore are fully engaged in preparing for the trip, we are a little fried today. So this is a shorter than usual...
View ArticleEpisode 25: Batman Doesn’t Use Axe Body Spray
We are on the ground at SDCC 2014! We have completed our first full day at the show, bought some stuff, seen some panels, and have a few things to talk about, including: How the convention looks a...
View ArticleEpisode 26: Pool Floaties
We are still in the thick of SDCC 2014, somehow alive after two full days. And today, we are joined by Los Angeles comedian Gariana Abeyta, who is not only a longtime friend of Amanda’s and mine from...
View ArticleEpisode 27: Fatigue Hysteria
It is the last day of San Diego Comic-Con 2014, and Amanda and I took a break from the floor to record a short show. It was short because we are exhausted. So we spent this truncated show ruminating...
View ArticleEpisode 28: Interstellar Cockfight
We have safely returned from San Diego Comic-Con 2014, so Amanda and I do a final postmortem of the experience… as we prepare to turn right back around to attend and cover Boston Comic Con next...
View ArticleComedy Of Errors – You May Ask Yourself: Where Is That GD Podcast?
Of all the weeks to be running into issues every time Rob and I want to sit down and try to bang out the damn podcast. So, you may have noticed for the last couple nights we’ve thrown up a […] ↓ Read...
View ArticleEpisode 41: SDCC 2015: The Struggle Is Real
Pre-registration for San Diego Comic-Con 2015, for people who attended SDCC in 2014, came and went yesterday, and it marked the first disappointment for would-be attendees who didn’t manage to snag...
View ArticleEpisode 56: SDCC 2015 – Joyless Blue Glory Hole
It has been another apocalyptic week at the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Home Office. Continued terrible weather in Boston has led to water pouring into our walls, eliminating our Internet connectivity...
View ArticleEpisode 61: With Princess Leia Muffins On The Side
It’s a somewhat truncated show this week, as Rob has been battling a bug for the past couple of days. However, The Show Must Go On, particularly when you do a show about superhero comics during a week...
View ArticleEpisode 74: Like Billy Batson At A Pharma Party
We are back, after a week spent upgrading various parts of our online infrastructure! Which was exactly as exciting as it sounds! Provided you are Lex from Jurassic Park and know Unix! Unlike us! And...
View ArticleEpisode 78: Hotboxing Hall H
San Diego Comic-Con was this week, and for the first time in nine years, we were not there. And not being at SDCC is a weird experience for us, so we spend a little time talking about how technology...
View ArticleEpisode 98: The Wang Splash
A long time ago, when we barely had the equipment to record people who weren’t in the same room with us, we interviewed a couple of comic creators who were on the cusp of releasing their first print...
View ArticleEpisode 104: Not Without My Wally
Open registration for San Diego Comic-Con 2016 came to us on Saturday… and it left us in less than an hour. As has become the norm, the convention completely sold out in less than an hour, and, like...
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Episode 148: Home Movies in the Man Cave, or: Neglecting the Button
As we ease into convention season, the comics news starts to slow down so publishers have something to discuss in panels. You know, other than garbage news items about the dangers of trying to be funny...
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Episode 155: Unicorn Dingleberries
We are mere days away from San Diego Comic-Con 2017, which will be the first we’ve attended and covered in the past three years. To say we’re excited would be a massive understatement, and we’re...
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Episode 157: SDCC 2017 Part 1, or: Live Your Truth, Just Not on My Pants
The first official day of San Diego Comic-Con 2017 was yesterday, and we are doing shows live (to tape) from the belly of the beast. Being our first day back to SDCC in three years, we discuss what’s...
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Episode 158: SDCC 2017 Wrap-Up, or: Hall H Can Smell Your Fear
We are back and recovered from San Diego Comic Con 2017. SDCC is a show we’ve attended more than almost any other, and yet this year it seemed, I don’t know… bigger. More oppressive. More willing to...
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