Geek Power! (raises fist to the sky with glowing ring on finger followed by numerous lightning flashes)
Though RC is my passion, as the name on this blog indicates, I’m also a geek (I know, shocking, right?!). Though I’m not a big reader of comic books or graphic novels (I generally read for research), I love many of the comic book characters and thoroughly enjoy the many movies and TV shows that are out. I’ve researched origin stories and evaluated similarities of film stories to comic book stories and all that nonsense (cue Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds as he declares, “NERD!!”). So, you can understand my excitement when this year, I had the opportunity to go to one of San Diego’s institutions…Comic-Con! If you know anything about how tickets are acquired for Comic-Con, being an average Joe like me, tickets seem almost impossible to obtain. Somehow this year, we made it through and with much excitement by myself (and the rest of my family), we got tickets!
It was an early, cloud covered Sunday morning of getting to the Trolley station (no way were we going to drive down there!) and picking up our tickets. We arrived an hour before the doors opened and there were already droves of people flowing towards the convention center. Surprisingly though, getting our tickets was Continue reading