Dope!  Thanks for this.

As will I.  I'm already looking at Beach Houses for next year, in the Coronado area.  Needless to say I had a blast this year.  Yes, the pornstar is a friend of Seanbaby's and I.  In fact, April (not her real name but I don't advertise that) was my road trip buddy o the way down to the con.  If you're at all familiar with her, she's an obsessive Dr Who nerd, and once we hit the show floor on preview night, she literally bought 200 bucks worth of Who gear in the first half hour.  What's funny is one of the dudes at the BBC America booth recognized her as the giant Dr Who Nerd from the previous year...and NOT for her profession.

The rest of the trip was fun.  I got some business done, found an artist for my comic, and found a guy I'm going to try to sell a show on.  More importantly, I got to drink and hang out with most of the people I love but don't get to see.  My friend Fryda Wolff, my buddy Shawn Smith (founder of Shawnimals) and of course my lovely house mates.  One night I got so fucking plastered that I texted Teague, and I quote, "Teeth aren't on face anymore.  Alert the governor."

Sean got us into the XBox media event.  Got to chat with Cliffy B again, which w nice.  Hadn't talked to him since GPhoria 05.  Got to play test Halo 4 (not impressed) Resident Evil 6 (dug it) and Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (AWESOME).   Saturday we participated in our annual Monster Off, which hopefully Shawn Smith will have pictures of up pretty soon.

But the real highlight this year may have been bringing my boy down on Sunday.  Through a lovely sitter snafu, I drove home late Saturday night, and came back down Sunday morning with Grayson for his official first comic con.  HUGE thanks to Cloe for helping me with him.  But between watching his face lit up as I bought him a plush chewbacca, and playing with him at the embercadero park behind the convention center, it made me enjoy con all the much more.

Gah, can't see it unless YouTube.  Computers at the office don't have Internet and I only have my iPad on me.

Can DiF'ers and Reserve DiF'ers like myself post reviews?

Huh....can't say I'm not intrigued by the idea.  I've been trying to develop an MMA podcast for almost a year that is mainly war stories from the dark days of the sport.  I had though of incorporating fighting movie talk, but that's not what that is about.  But this...hmmm...let me think on this for a moment.

Gina fights well in movies because she fights pretty well in life (though she's no where near Cyborg, Kaufman, Tate, or Rousey).  I liked Haywire, but the overdub of her voice was so distracting that it made it hard to enjoy the movie.

Sakai definitely has his distinct art style.  His is one of those books like Love and Rockets or Strangers in Paradise thats just been running forever and as long as the creators are alive, it will have a fanbase.

Again, I agree with Zarban.  This isn't a "movies we like," thread, its ESSENTIAL.  It should cover genre, time, performances, tone, and technique.  It should be a variety.  I adore Heat and Casino, but I don't know that I'd call either essential.  I love Brick, but I put up Maltese Falcon and Detour instead.  Choose accordingly.