This is the first of a three part dragon-con review series of blogs the other two parts will in appear in the respective horror and music blogs. First off for those of you reading who do not know what dragon-con is , imagine Comic-con as fan run and less of a trade show, with an emphasis on private hotel parties and fan performance based entertainment. Where Comic-con is in a convention center Dragon-con is spread out over 5 hotels.
While Stan Lee is a featured guest , the emphasis on Comics in the panels is less than say Firefly , or Star trek, this year's comics panel seemed to be mainly academic studies , the one i attended was a study of real life super-heroes like the ones in hbo's recent documentary, if you didn't see think a more humanitarian version of kick ass. Their was a dc animation panel as well as one on the dc universe mmo, i did meet Peter David at a writing panel, and got the chance to talk to him afterwards about the DC 52 , which he thought was a roll of the dice on their part.
As far as Cosplay goes it seemed there were more dc characters than marvel, though a noted lack of Green Lantern Characters , especially from the new movie . A very busty Aqua-woman , yes you go that right it wasn't mera but a female version of the aqua -man costume, though i did see a pretty good mera, several robins and cat women and harley quinns. On the marvel front alot of dead pools, a m.o.d.o.k, a few black cats and iron-men as well.
A genre convention not just a comic -book convention , i can only hope super heroes play a larger role .. or could this be the first symptoms of a hollywood imposed spandex burnout .
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