Adventures at Comic Con 2003

This place is goddamn huge.

Brak fans will remember his mentioning of the "ACME Animation Archives" booth that would be at Comic Con. I found the booth and took pictures:

And Also Adult Swim got a full-page ad in the schedule guide:

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I found this in a Wizard Magazine:

Could it possibly be a supar secrat hint at a LIVE ACTION SPACE GHOST MOVIE?!?!

Then on Thursday night I went to the Star Wars Fan Film Awards (). But before that I had like an hour and a half to kill so I went to the anime showings ( ). It was so amazingly boring. They played the animes in Japanese with subtitles. What nerds.

The Star Wars Fan Film Awards was supar fun. The guy who played Boba Fett was host. The films were mostly funny. Then after the awards part they played the stage production of Star Wars Trilogy in 30 Minutes. It was fucking awesome. If anyone ever can possibly see it, you better cause it rules. They said that no flash photography was allowed so I didn't get any pictures because I didn't want to get sued by Lucas.

DAY 2: Friday.

Me and Carl.

The View Askew/Graffiti Designs booth. I don't think you can see them here but both Brian Lynch and Walt Flanagan are in this picture.

Look what I bought.

Then later on Friday I went to the Trailer Park panel, where they play a bunch of movie trailers. It was actually real boring, they just played a bunch of movie trailers that I already saw. They played the trailer for Bad Boys 2. Why would a bunch of comic book nerds be sitting in there for an hour to see the trailer for Bad Boys 2? Some trailers were cool though.

This is Naomi something, star of 28 Days Later. She was there after the Trailer Park panel. I DON'T LIKE HORROR MOVIES I DIDN'T KNOW WHO SHE WAS.

After that was the Haunted Mansion panel:

You can't see anything here because I haven't figured out how to take pictures by this time. The panel was a'ight, I actually didn't want to see the Haunted Mansion before I saw that panel. Later at the Haunted Mansion panel they brought out a special celebrity guest. You want to know who it is? It's one of the stars of the movie...

ZOMBIE!!!

Then I met Kenny Baker

Then at night I went to the Star Wars Clone Wars panel. It's made by Genndy Tartakovsky, and I liked just about everything he's ever done, so I went to see it. It was really awesome. The animation was great, and what they showed was really interesting with lotsa action. I am very much looking forward to this. Here's the panel:

From left to right, someone who's name wasn't in the schedule guide, Genndy Tartakovsky (creator of Dexter's Lab, Samurai Jack, also he worked on other shows), Paul Rudish, Scott Wills, and the two at the end are brothers but I forgot their names.

Here's a close up of Genndy and the guy whose name I don't know.

Then they gave out these booklets with preliminary sketches of the cartoon:

Then I was going to see Mark Hammill's Comic Book: The Movie, but it was so crowded and people were standing against the wall breaking fire codes. So I went downstairs to the Bongo booth (Bongo is the company that makes Simpsons and Futurama comics):

And while I was down there, I met one of my all-time heroes:

ME AND MATT GROENING Yes, Matt Groening, you should know who he is. He wouldn't autograph anything because he didn't want to get mobbed. You had to get a Bart buck if you wanted his autograph but they ran out before I got one

OK THAT'S ALL FOR FRIDAY.

THEN IT WAS SATURDAY:

SATURDAY WAS A SUNNY DAY. ALSO IT WAS CROWDED AS FUCK. ALSO IT WAS ADULT SWIM DAY. I don't know who those three guys with their backs to the camera are.

On Saturday Angelina Jolie was giving autographs but there were seriously at least 800 people in line, so I left. Then I was going to go to the Warner Bros. panel because Halle Berry was there, but it was so crowded as hell with lines going halfway around the goddamn world.

So instead I went to the Game Over panel.

Game Over is a CGI animated sitcom that's going to be on UPN in the winter. It's about a family that lives in a video game world, it was actually pretty funny and had some clever jokes.

The chick on the left is E.G. Daily, who is a voice actor and a secks.

Then after that, it was time for the Futurama panel. Here are the panelists from left to right:

Matt Groening, creator, David X. Cohen, executive producer, and Rich Moore, director.

Rich Moore (WHOOPS I TOOK HIM TWICE), Claudia Katz, director and animator, and Bill Odenkirk, Mr. Show brother. Patric Verrone was there but I forgot to get his picture.

And here's the voice actors, Maurice LaMarche (who plays Calculon, Morbo, about a billion other voices on a billion shows), John DiMaggio (Bender, Sal, others), and Billy West (Fry, Farnsworth, Zoidberg, tons of other voices).

For the Futurama panel they played an episode Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television. It was a great episode, one of the best of the series I thought. Also they did lots of voices and stuff, Billy West sang Walking on Sunshine as Fry. John DiMaggio is a really nice guy, he was signing later and he would hang out with everyone and do all the voices they wanted and stuff, he's a cool guy.

Then I went downstairs back to the View Askew booth and I got to meet Brian Lynch, writer of Monkey Man. He's also a really nice guy. I got lots of autographs from him and some of the artists of comics he writes

THEN, IT WAS 1:00. The Adult Swim signings started.

Here's Adam Reed, co-creator-writer-director-producer of Sealab 2021, and Brett Butler, voice of Quinn. The lines weren't that long at the time they were signing so I got to talk to them for a little bit. I told them that the Fusebox episode ruled.

After the Sealab signing it was time for the Birdman signing. Harvey is gay, but the guy signing was Maurice LaMarche, and he's cool.

HERE HE IS. On Birdman he plays Blue Falcone, Fred Flinstone, tons of others, and he also does the voice of the Brain (of Pinky and the Brain), and a billion other voices. He is cool even though Birdman sucks.

And then... TIME FOR THE ATHF SIGNINGS.

Here are two more of my all-time heroes, Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro. Dave did some Meatwad and Carl for me, and also later that day I got him to say "Is this heaven, or am I in television?" in the Baffler Shake voice. Also Matthew Jenkins, character designer, was signing but I didn't get any pictures of him.

And FUCKING FINALLY, time for the Brak Show/Space Ghost Coast to Coast signings.

Two more of my all-time heroes, Andy Merrill and C. Martin Croker. There was seriously like an hour fifteen minute wait for them.

AND THEN, time for the Adult Swim panel:

Shitty picture. From left to right: Mike Lazzo, Adam Reed, Brett Butler, C. Martin Croker, Andy Merrill, Brendon Small, Maurice LaMarche and Dave Willis.

Another shitty picture. I actually took lots of pictures but those were the only ones that were even remotely decent.

The panel was OMFG so great. They didn't play any full episodes of Adult Swim shows but they did play clips of just about everything. They played the whole thing as one long "Brak doing the news" and it was actually funny. Brak started off saying "COMIC CON" and then he said something like "thanks for coming to the Adult Swim panel instead of the Matrix panel next door" and he started ripping on the Matrix. It was great.

The first clip was from the Brak Show, they played a clip of Zorak being Mom's husband. Then Brak made a cartoon about Zorak killing Dad and marrying mom. Then Zorak and Brak fought with lightsabers, but Brak had a mullet with a lightsaber for a ponytail. This doesn't sound funny but it really is, you just have to see it. Plus they mentioned that the new Braks start October 5 (I think).

Then they played a clip of ATHF. Master Shake didn't pay the electricity or the water bills, so he moved to Carl's house without asking Carl. Carl threatened to shoot Shake and ended up shooting himself in the foot. It was hysterical. New ATHFs start August 31.

Then they played a bunch of random clips of Home Movies. What happens is Coach McGuirk's car battery keeps breaking, and he has to drive Brendon to a movie premiere so he can review it for a website, and then his battery breaks so he calls a tow-truck operator and it's actually a porn star that he is a fan of. Quite rofl. I forgot when the new episodes of Home Movies start, I think it's October.

The next clip was of Sealab. The clip wasn't finished so it wasn't animated, they talked without their mouths moving, and a different guy did the voice of Murphy. The clip started with a parody of "cruise" and "tropical island" commercials for Sealab, and Murphy was trying to turn the place into a resort. It was kind of Loveboat-ish. I think new Sealabs start in October or November, I forgot.

Next a clip of Birdman. It was only storyboards because they are stupad. I remember that it had a character called Freezoid, I only remember that because Maurice LaMarche did his voice and he is cool.

Then they didn't have any new Space Ghost stuff to show so they played some clips of the William Shatner interview. It was hilarious. This episode is going to rule. New Space Ghosts start November 23.

Then after that they did the questions and answers panel. Some mentionworthy things:

Brendon Small is a fucking ass, in a good way. At the beginning, the first thing Brendon said was "This panel is the most boring thing I've ever done in my life. Then before they did the audience Q&A, Mike Lazzo asked questions to everyone in the panel and his question for Brendon was "What do you think about me?" and Brendon gave this huge long response like "I like the shirts you wear, I like your shoes, I think they're Berkinstocks" and he went on and on and on and he was really funny. Then one guy in the audience got up and asked Brendon a question and Brendon kept coughing really loudly into the microphone. The guy had to try asking like ten times, Brendon Small is my new hero.

Dave Willis mentioned an ATHF spinoff that would happen next year, a show about the Mooninites and the Plutonians, I think it's called "Spacecatraz". I hope he wasn't joking.

A couple douchebags asked about anime. I was seriously holding in my boos because I was afraid I'd get lynched by all the anime douchebags there. They mentioned some gay new anime that would start on August 25 (which is the day I start school) and they said something else. I don't remember. They also said that after August there won't be any more animes until spring 2004. Thank fucking God.

Andy Merrill said that they would make another Brak/Space Ghost CD called "Who farted?". I wonder if he was joking.

The funniest part of the whole panel was when some fat dumb bitch got up and said something like "I hate cartoons" and then she asked some stupid ass question. Then everyone made fun of her for being stupid and she got all pissy or something and she said to Brett Butler, "Are you supposed to be Vin Diesel's dorky cousin or something?" and then Brett got up and started playing the race card. He was all like "I've been sitting back here minding my own business not saying a damn thing, but just because I'm the only brother on stage I have to be Vin Diesel's dorky cousin?!?!" and he just went off like that and started screaming at her. I was laughing my ass off.

After the panel, I got to meet Brendon Small. He is a HODDIE.

Also they gave out free sampler DVDs.

And here's all the Adult Swim autographs I got:

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Comic Con was lots of fun. I'll probably go next year if I can. Next year some of you guys should go too and hang out with me. Or don't. Whatev!

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