San Diego 2008

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Talking ‘Sanctuary’ With Amanda Tapping And Robin Dunne

Talking ‘Sanctuary’ With Amanda Tapping And Robin Dunne

Check out our exclusive interview from Comic Con with Amanda Tapping and Robin Dunne about their new SCI FI series “Sanctuary”!

SDCC 08: Transformers Fans Still Rabid for ‘Robots in Disguise’

SDCC 08: Transformers Fans Still Rabid for ‘Robots in Disguise’

During a Hasbro panel at this year’s San Diego Comic Con, the Transformers brand team presented their plans for the the remainder of this year and into 2009. Thanks to the blockbuster success of the live-action feature film, the Transformers brand had a banner year in 2007. Hasbro learned that they had not only [...]

SDCC 08: Hasbro Tips the Scales with Marvel Universe Line

SDCC 08: Hasbro Tips the Scales with Marvel Universe Line

When Hasbro received the Marvel license back in late 2006, fans like myself lost their minds. It wasn’t that we didn’t love Toy Biz… oh how we loved Toy Biz. No, it was that we knew something from Hasbro was coming, something we’d wanted since the Star Wars resurgence in the late 1990s… a [...]

SDCC 08: ‘TV Writers of Marvel’ Panel Report

SDCC 08: ‘TV Writers of Marvel’ Panel Report

With the enormous success of comic-based properties in other media formats, comic book writers are finally getting their due among the mainstream markets of film and television. A number of writers who got their start in comics have been given opportunities elsewhere, while those who got their breaks in traditional media formats have been able [...]

SDCC 08: Sideshow Delivers as Distribution Dynamo

SDCC 08: Sideshow Delivers as Distribution Dynamo

While Sideshow Collectible’s own products could easily fill up any collector’s home, the company also gives fans the opportunity to get the goods from independent studios, whose relationship to Sideshow benefits everyone. Through Sideshow’s in-place distribution model, smaller manufacturers can get their product to the masses. By serving as distributor for these smaller companies, Sideshow [...]

SDCC 08:  ‘Stargate Atlantis’ Conversations

SDCC 08: ‘Stargate Atlantis’ Conversations

At this year’s San Diego Comic Con we sat down with Joe Flanigan, Robert Picardo and Jewel Staite to talk about the new season of ‘Stargate Atlantis’ and a bit more. Click on in to check it out.

SDCC 08: Sideshow Opens Up For Booth Tour

SDCC 08: Sideshow Opens Up For Booth Tour

Year after year, Sideshow brings dozens of amazing collectibles to San Diego Comic Con and 2008 proved no different. Sideshow’s booth was one of the centerpieces of the show, featuring not only their own productions but also the work of several independent studios.  Sideshow will be expanding many of their already-extensive lines by adding new [...]

SDCC 08:  ‘Heroes’ Season 3 - The Second Coming?

SDCC 08: ‘Heroes’ Season 3 - The Second Coming?

When ‘Heroes’ premiered in 2006, it was quickly championed as the Next Great Genre Show. As it trounced ‘Lost’ in the ratings, and the nerd-debate raged, one of the things that quickly distinguished the two shows was the way they flashed their geek-cred to build their respective mythologies.
‘Lost’ took the easter egg approach, weaving its [...]

SDCC 08: A Glimpse at ‘Mirrors’

SDCC 08: A Glimpse at ‘Mirrors’

Editor’s note: During this year’s San Diego Comic Con, we were invited to attend a limited breakfast/press event for the upcoming Alexandre Aja-directed horror flick ‘Mirrors’. Ian, our intrepid and and relentless film troll, heartily agreed to attend this event… likely because there was free food. What follows are Ian’s musings on the [...]

SDCC 08:  ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Torchwood’ Press Roundtables Part Two

SDCC 08: ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Torchwood’ Press Roundtables Part Two

At this year’s San Diego Comic Con Julie Gardner, Naoko Mori and Steven Moffat met with reporters to talk about all things Doctor Who and Torchwood. This was the first press event of the con, happening on Wednesday before Preview Night. We journalists gathered at a closed off restaurant in a nearby hotel [...]