Comic Con 2008

Yesterday, Peter and I took the train up to New York City to attend Comic Con. It was definitely not my idea to go because I've only read one or two comic books in my entire life. Truthfully, I wasn't looking forward to spending the day looking at people dressed up in odd costumes. HOWEVER, we had a really good time. There was definitely some people (ok, a lot), dressed up in odd costumes, but we got to see some cool new games.

One of the most interesting things for me was the chance to meet and talk to Sid Meier. This is a pic that Peter caught and I edited a bit.

He has created a ton of different computer games over the past twenty years and seemed to be really cool guy. I realized later that while I was playing the newest game Civilization Revolution, that he was even watching people play! I think that was pretty cool although I'm sure he must have thought that I was terrible. I plan on getting it though. I think it comes out for Xbox in June.  I even got an e-mail address from someone in his company so my students could e-mail him questions. I think it would be really cool for them to be able to develop a list of questions like "What's it like to be a game designer" and so forth. Here are some of my favorite pictures from yesterday.

In the car, leaving for the train station...

Inside the convention center...

Me and Yoda...No he is NOT taller than me, I'm on the floor!

The UglyDolls had a really cool booth

We also had a chance to view some unreleased video footage for the new Batman and Hulk movies coming out this summer - both look like they will be really good. And we even had a celebrity spotting - Eva Mendez was on the panel for a new movie coming out in '09 - Spirit. Very Sim City-ish looking.

Oh, and one final picture. Peter was interviewed by MTV for a Total Request Live segment - hopefully airing on May 1st - and although I know he was embarrassed, I thought he looked so cute!

While it was a long day, we also discussed that we should take day trips like this more often to New York because even though it's a long day, it's MUCH cheaper than staying overnight and it's really not that far from home - only two hours by Amtrak.