From 2013...
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The world's most famous pop culture convention is happening just a
few hours south of the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue
this weekend. Comic-Con International!
The Overbove
cousins only attended for the first time last year. Monty took a day off
from the motel to go down and catch a few panels. He persuaded Gomery
to join, and they take the train down, NOT the freeway, which stays
extra busy between Los Angeles and San Diego come Comic-Con weekend.
Poring
over the schedule on the way south, Monty grilled his cousin on what he
wanted to see, and they hit upon one or two mutual activities (like big
sci-fi blockbuster-type stuff).
Monty stops talking
when Gomery catches a 20-minute nap. He'd woken up during the night
twice, once to help a cranky guest with a stuck door and once to see why
someone kept honking their car horn out on Wilshire. While Gomery
sleeps Monty makes several new friends on the train car, models a few
superhero capes that other riders have stashed in their luggage, and
gratefully accepts a cup of coffee bought by a friendly young woman
dressed as Enid from "Ghost World."
Another woman,
dressed as Bat Girl, drapes her cape over the sleeping Gomery at his
cousin's request. Surrounding passengers "awwww," then return to
discussing the convention schedule.
Gomery is not surprised, upon waking, to find that any of this has transpired.
Sutton
drives down. She has also been to Comic-Con once, with a bunch of
people from her junior year math team. She's a fan of genre television
shows -- spunky girl detectives and mysteries, mostly -- and she wants
to hear what the creators on various panels have to say about what's
ahead for the next season.
She did not wear a costume but vows to return next year dressed as Wonder Woman or famous mathematician Emmy Noether.
Prior
Yates and Clementine Hwang are both at Comic-Con, too, but for work,
not play. They're there as panelists, Prior for two films and the crime
show that sometimes uses the Motel Fairwil for a setting and Clementine
for innovations in sound. She'll also give a demo with her reel-to-reel,
explaining what she searches for when recording ambient noise.
Prior
is kept away from his fans by a cadre of guards as he's shepherded off
stage but Clementine hangs out on the convention floor, chatting up
other audio enthusiasts and agreeing to listen to the samples of leaves
crunching and metal grinding they want to send her.
Gomery
and Monty walk by Clementine, and Monty pauses, wanting to introduce
himself, but changes his mind, despite his cousin's encouragement. I
wonder if Monty knows he'll meet her at the Mmm Mmm Cafe soon? (Shhhh.
Don't tell him.)
Fair Finley does not attend Comic-Con.
With so many international stars flying into California to attend, she
stays busy at The Wilfair, which sees some convention lap-over after the
event wraps.
If she could have gone, she would have
totally attended one of the Prior Yates panels, because he's handsome
and charming as can be. She'd love to meet him, one day.
Like that will ever happen.
I'm
only sorry she didn't take the train with the Overboves, because that
would have been a fun and spontaneous thing for her to do. The train to
San Diego is called The Pacific Surfliner, and it chug-chugs by some
gorgeous beaches and palms and coves.
Just a little
one-day vacation for busy Ms. Finley. Though, on second thought, she'd
probably have slept past the pretty sights, not unlike the tired man
blanketed by a stranger's shiny superheroine cape.
Monty Overbove at Comic-Con
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