COMIC CON 2018!!! IN FOR THE LONG HAUL!!!

TWO!!!  TWO WEEKS!!!  AH HA HA!!!  Excitement is reaching a fever pitch CRAZIES!!!  We are nearly in the home stretch here as Comic Con 2024 rapidly approaches!  It's busy times here at the CRAZYVERSE, so why don't we cut the small talk and shoot right into the main pitch!

We have passed through the Time Tunnel and landed in the year 2018!  The music's playing and the lights are lit!  The CRAZY Comic Con Countdown is on!  Enjoy...

My niece Kristen proudly hamming it up with Bananaman in her watermelon armor!

If you make a left at the Fork In The Road, you'll be right at the Convention Center!

Disco Darth thinks these Harry Potter cosplayers are pretty wizard!

The SyFy Fandom Crew!  How I miss the presence SyFy Channel used to have at SDCC.  They brought so much energy to the show.  They made the outside of the con more fun than anything that was going on indoors!

In hindsight, naming these guys the Jizz-Wailers may not have been so wise!

2018 saw a very significant addition to the Offsite offerings at SDCC.  It was the debut of the legendary Dragonball Experience! Easily one of the best, and most accessible, offsites at the show every year!  And it's officially coming back this year!

So... Sal and Jackie?!?

Walter certainly abides!

Petco Park itself isn't used much for offsites anymore, but occasionally stuff still happens there.  Not exactly sure what this was though.

My Little Pony and Inspector Gadget...  When 80's icons collide!

South Park took over Comedy Central's booth in 2018 where people lined up for hours on end so they could get the chance to have Randy Marsh projectile vomit onto them.  I only wish I was making that up!

No matter the year, Hall H is always a downer for many!

If there is one thing I have always said that Comic Con needs more of, it's more rabbits.  Really fat rabbits at that!

We'll end things this week as Doug and Judy Funny hang out with the Wonka Kids while sharing Honker Burgers and Wonka Bars!

And that was Comic Con 2018!  It's wild how it really wasn't that long ago and yet so much of it really is just a blur now.  Don't get old if you can help it kids.  Still, I remember it being a fun show that left my feet needing a vacation by the time it was done!

That's all for now folks, but the Countdown keeps on rolling next week as we inch ever so closer to the big day!  So be sure to come back and check it all out!  Until next time, take care, stay safe and I'll catch y'all later!

COMIC CON AND COSPLAY... AN AMERICAN INSTITUTION!!!

Welcome to July CRAZIES!!!  We've made it!  Comic Con 2024 is here!!!  In three weeks!  I know, I know, bad blogger, bad!  But we really are that close to the big week, and since I'm insanely busy right now, let's just get right to it, shall we?

We've set the Wayback machine to 2017 and are already passing through space and time as the San Diego Convention Center appears through the clearing fog.  Hold on to your Batman Underoos because the CRAZY Comic Con Countdown is a go!  Enjoy...

The White Spy enjoys himself the obscure wonders that Shout Factory always delivers!

The Watchmen are on the hunt for Zack Snyder!

Nerdist followed up their insanely awesome 2016 offering at Petco Park with a very subdued downgrade to the back of the Marriott Marquis in 2017.  Not gonna lie folks, this one was a huge disappointment.

A great year for the Petco Park Interactive Zone that saw live interviews with celebrities, the addition of food trucks to the area and some really cool immersive activations, including a full-service Jack In The Box!  Of course, the real highlight was the Pepsi Food Truck that forgot to get a food handlers permit and thus were only allowed to serve ice cream floats and already-baked Wookie Cookies.  It was a bummer for sure.  I actually wanted to try a ramen taco!

Damn Guile, quit skipping arm day bro!

For those in need of some nightmare fuel...

I only vaguely remember passing by this offsite that seemed to be somewhere on either Island or J St and have no idea what it was.  I'll have to see if any of the SDCC Blog or Parks and Cons crew remembers what this was?

It's no secret that religious zealots always show up to SDCC and try to kill everybody's buzz, but this particular year saw a pretty classic moment.  As they were standing there threatening the masses with eternal damnation, the Hiphop Stormtrooper showed up with his boombox and just started blasting some jams as this girl started dancing!  I kid you not when I say that seconds after I took the above pic, the dude holding the sign dropped it and started dancing with her!  The laughs and cheers were deafening!  See?  We're all sinners in the end!

Ghost In The Shell cosplay is certainly a nice break from the usual anime cosplay fare of Gokus, Rukias and Narutos that always roam the exhibit hall.

Found him!

Just another face in a red jumpsuit...

The Adult Swim Carnival!  It was years before I could finally get in as my nephew and niece weren't old enough to enter, but the wait was worth it!  Just a bummer this weird toy horse thingy wasn't there anymore by the time 2019 rolled around!

Finn Balor cosplay!  He initially won the Masquerade Ball, but the judges had to strip him of his title after he immediately injured himself while celebrating his win!

We'll end things with the Funko Conan O'Brien photo op!  It can't be overstated how much fun and energy his shows brought to SDCC, not to mention jobs to the hundreds of stagehands and hosts that made the shows happen.  It's grossly unfair that Conan ain't on TV anymore.

And that was Comic Con 2017!  Certainly an amazing year as far as panels and cosplay went, though some of the offsites were downgrades from the previous year.  It was my second year setting up the LED Wall for Lucasfilm which in and of itself was an adventure, but that's a tale for another day.  All in all, it was a fun show!

That's all for this week folks, but fear not!  We got more of the same coming next week as we delve into Comic Con 2018, so be sure to come back give it all a once over!  Until next time, take care, stay safe and please use caution this 4th of July week!  I know it's customary to celebrate the birth of our nation by blowing up a small chunk of it, but please leave that to the professionals!  I'll catch y'all later!

CLEARING THE JUNE GLOOM WITH THE CRAZY COMIC CON COUNTDOWN 2024!!!

Well, another month is about to fade into the past, but this time it's a welcome deal as it means we are THAT much closer to Comic Con 2024!  And since we are all getting more and more excited as we are now less than a month away, I won't dilly dally any further!  So hoist up them britches and chug your Red Bulls because this time we're heading back to the much more stable year of 2016 as the CRAZY COMIC CON COUNTDOWN plows on!  Enjoy...

If she knew then what she knows now, she would've gotten up much earlier for parking!

Okay, seriously now, who WOULDN'T trust this guy?

A glimpse of the former Tin Fish Square being set up for NBC's offsite activations as a Conan Trolley arrives at the station.  His shows were so damn funny.  The day David Zaslav gets fired will be a happy one for many.  And for those thinking that's bad taste, the man will never go without.  

The Dawn Of Justice Batmobile.  Although I do consider this one a step up from the Nolan Batmobile, it still doesn't beat Tim Burton's Batmobile.  That one's definitive in my book!

The ill-fated Entertainment Weekly ConX offsite.  Although it wasn't bad by any means, it was just too far away for most con goers to walk to.  Oddly enough though, their nighttime crowds were pretty impressive.  Perhaps that's how they should have marketed it?

There's big trouble in the little Pork Chop Express!

The Petco Park Interactive Zone as it's being built on preview night.  Note the arrival of the "Not-promoting-Mr. Robot-but-totally-is-promoting-Mr. Robot" Ferris Wheel.  People still hold a grudge over that thing!

Photo ops at the FX Experience never disappoint!  Even if the shows sometimes do!

Cartoon Network's inability to properly inflate this Power Puff Girl should've been the first red flag that the reboot series was doomed!

Nighttime fun at the Adult Swim Carnival!  So glad they finally came back last year.  Mechanical Hot Dog Riding is quickly becoming a tradition at SDCC!

The Suicide Squad offsite.  Didn't get a chance to do it, so I honestly don't know how cool it was.  If it was anything like the movie, might be wise that I skipped it!

Ghost with the most babe!

Say it with me: ROO-FEE-OOOOOOOOOOOH!!!

And finally, we'll end on the Silver Surfer.  If you got the bod, you might as well rock it!

And that was SDCC 2016!  Another fun year and another one where my niece and nephew just ran me ragged!  Still, we had so much fun at this one.  It's one of my all-time favorite years at the show.  My lasting memory will always be all these people wanting pictures with me just because I had a funny shirt on at Preview Night! Sometimes the truth is stranger than the fiction!

Well, that's a wrap on the month of June, but we're keeping the party going and just in time for the 4th of July!  So be sure to come back next week as celebrate the birth of our could-be-worse nation with more past fun in the CRAZY COMIC CON COUNTDOWN!!!  Until then, take care, stay safe and I'll catch y'all later!

HEY HEY HEY!!! IT'S THE CRAAAAAAAAZY COMIC CON COUNTDOWN!!!

 

WE ARE BACK CRAZIES!!!  We are just a little over a month away from that glorious weekend that is Comic Con!  Of course, that's still a ways away, but never fear!  The whole reason you're here is to relive past SDCC fun, and I am fully prepared to deliver!  So sit back, put down your Sailer Moon figurines and hold on tight as we head back to 2015 and the wackiness that is the CRAZY COMIC CON COUNTDOWN!!!  Enjoy...

Do you think he's ready to rock?!?

After years of taking up a back corner at the Petco Park Interactive Zone, Adult Swim decided to go all-in and created their own offsite on the lawn behind the Convention Center!  It truly is a lot of fun and among the few offsites that do nighttime programming!

Lydia Deitz has been ready for a Beetlejuice sequel for awhile now!

Woodstock and Snoopy enjoy some downtime at the Petco Park Interactive Zone where you can sort of make out part of the giant inflatable doghouse set up to promote The Peanuts Movie.  They also had beagles up for adoption! 

Pretty much since I've been going to SDCC (Over 20 years now!), this guy has been there, leaning against a pillar, pretending to be Silent Bob.  He never leaves, he never breaks character.  I admire his commitment to the bit, but that's just a waste of a badge!

2015, the year of Mario Maker!  No shortage of irony that the Wii U took off just as it was ending its service life with games like Splatoon, Smash Bros U and the aforementioned Mario Maker being monster hits.  Talk about a late bloomer?!?

The beloved Xbox Lounge, enjoying what turned out to be its final year.  It was an otherworldly experience that was completely immersive.  The next year they partnered up with NerdHQ to sponsor their gaming areas, but it just wasn't the same.  Then NerdHQ got evicted!  The life of an offsite is a fickle one.

Zombies.  They are still a threat to unsuspecting con goers!

The FX Experience at the Hilton Park!  Not always the most ideal location, due to the sun, but FX always delivers big with their offsite.  It's also one off the few offsites you are usually guaranteed to get into at some point during the week!

Johnny Depp seems to really have a knack for playing characters who wield sharp objects!

So back in 2015, Kentucky Fried Chicken set up several statues of Colonel Sanders cosplaying as various things.  They ranged in theme from the weird, like the alien above, to the downright disturbing, like the one they had dressed up like a Sailor Scout!  Needless to say, KFC hasn't been back since.  I'm sure the millions of pics of attendees doing inappropriate things with the statues that surfaced during and after the con didn't help!

The finale of the big Star Wars concert that those lucky enough to get into the Hall H panel were able to attend afterwards for a night of music and fireworks!  I just watched it all from the steps behind the convention center!

This was obviously promoting something.  I just don't remember what?!?

And finally, we'll end things this week with Sexy Skeletor because...  Why not?

And that was SDCC 2015!  Another fun year that saw my brother's kids run me ragged that week!  You'd like to think I'd be a pro at this by now, but if there's one thing I've learned about comic conventions, it's that having a plan is almost pointless because you're likely not going to be able to stick to it.  If nothing else, they're more like guidelines!

Another week down as we head towards our June finale, but never fear!  There's plenty of the CRAZY COMIC CON COUNTDOWN left to get to, so be sure to come back next week and check it out!  Until then, take care, stay safe and I'll catch y'all later!