PCA Event Board: San Diego Comic Con International

As pretty much every pop culture addict in the world knows, this weekend thousands of fans and media professionals will be descending on San Diego, California for the 40^th annual San Diego Comic Con International. Held at the San Diego Convention Centre from Thursday July 22^nd until Sunday July 25^th, the San Diego convention is the largest media convention of its sort in the world. San Diego is where the biggest names in pop culture media premier their projects and acts as a world showcase for movies, television and, even sometimes, comic books. Celebrities and media professionals mingle with fans and cospalyers of every shape, size and nationality in this massive four day extravaganza.

With all eyes focused on San Diego, if you aren’t there you’re no where man. Thankfully PCA has our own correspondent that will be braving the crowd and the chaos of San Diego as part of the press and will be sitting in on a number of press conferences and round table panels and reporting back to us at the PCA offices throughout the week. Our long time friend Janet Hetherington is no stranger to the San Diego convention. She has tackled the crowd before as a writer for Animation World. A free lance writer, artist and the creator of Eternal Romance, Janet Hetherington is a woman of many talents and we are very lucky to have her in our court and braving the mania that is the San Diego Comic Con. For more on Janet make sure to visit her blog @ Best Destiny where she will also be posting her adventures at Comic Con all weekend.

"Eternal Romance" creator and PCA correspondent Janet Hetherington

For the next two weeks PCA will be putting aside many of its regular features for Janet’s reports and findings in San Diego. Last night Janet and I spoke briefly and she told me of some of the panels she hopes to attend and I gave her my shopping list (the Dark Shadows action figures from Spectre Toys to be exact). Janet has some big plans and great ideas but, in the end, it will be a surprise to all of us what Janet comes up with.  You never know what or who you’re going to meet when your in San Diego.

So if you can’t be in San Diego this weekend, we know that you’ll be scouring the internet for Comic Con information and news. Make sure to include PCA on your stop as we follow Janet’s adventures at the San Diego Comic Con!  And if you are near San Diego then I’m sure you already have your passes ready.  Good luck and have fun.

Travel safe Janet, and good luck at the con. Oh, and if you run into any single girls dressed up as The Black Canary make sure to drop them my number.