#SDCC: Overheard at San Diego Comic-Con, Day 2
He’s a comic character, right? It’s okay to cosplay him…
What are the other rumbles from the floors and halls…
@ALC111: i’m not sure what i think will happen first- pass out from the heat, dehydration, drunkeness or tiredness
Darick Robertson, after a staff announcement that the panel is being recorded and checking to see if there is anybody under 18 in the audience: “I can’t help but believe that if you’re in this room you’ve been offended by me already.”
Dwayne McDuffie: “I was once hired to write a Wu-Tang Clan vs Marilym Manson animated feature. And I wrote it. They ended up teaming up.”
In the hall by Entrance B: “I’m obsessed with trying to figure out how DC is going to collect Wednesday Comics.”
From @davemccullough: “MAN: What do you still have to do? WOMAN: I just need to shmooze me some f-ing nerds so I can work this year.”
From @scarymask: How many Eisners will “Nascar Heroes” win? The suspense is killing me!
If you’ve got things you’ve heard, send them to SDCC2009@tips.comicmix.com.
The 21st annual Eisner Awards, the “Oscars” of the comics industry, will be given out at a gala ceremony at a brand-new location: the Indigo Ballroom at the Hilton Bayfront. This year’s special them is “Comics and All That Jazz.” Scheduled presenters include writer/actors Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant (Reno 911, Balls of Fury), acclaimed comics creators Jeff Smith and Terry Moore, actor/comedian Patton Oswalt, actor/musician/writer Bill Mumy, actress/musician Jane Wiedlin, and G4’s Blair Butler, with many more to be announced. 
The third annual presentation of the 
Judging by the exhausted tweets and blog posts coming out of SDCC, it sounds like everyone there could use a Cup O’ Joe–which is good, because that’s what they’re getting as Joe Quesada, 
The streets have erupted in violence and the safe haven that mutants thought they’d found is in turmoil. The Dark Avengers have put Daken in Wolverine’s place, and there’s an all-out war tearing through space and time with a certain red-haired green-eyed girl at the center of it. In other words, it’s another Wednesday in the life of the X-Men.
This is the worst part about covering SDCC while not actually being there: you can get a pretty good sense of what a panel was like from a liveblog, but there’s just no replacement for seeing a singing, dancing Dark Knight, especially when Neil Patrick Harris is involved.
A reliable source just told me: “Warner Premiere has a great many DC graphic novels in production or pre-production with WB Animation, including The Killing Joke. Scheduling through 2018– including Superman projects.”
