Best of San Diego Comic Con 2013

Today’s the big day. Open registration for San Diego Comic Con 2014. For all those waiting in line, hoping to get a badge today, here’s my recap of the best stuff from SDCC 2013.

Best Art I Bought

Sara Richards

Got this lovely Doctor Who Print from Sara, along with an original piece – Amelie:

Mike Vasquez

You might recognize this art Mike did for me at SDCC.

Bordin Marsinkul

Best Panels

Tournament of Nerds: Live

The World’s End – The panel featured Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Edgar Wright talking about the movie for an hour. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Ode to Nerds – You can read more about it, but this was the biggest surprise to me at SDCC 2013. Charlie Jane Anders was a delightful moderator, and the panelists were intelligent and encouraging. I hope to see more panels hosted or featuring io9 staffers at SDCC 2014.

Best Cosplay

Classy look for Ms. Marvel.

My favorite GL of the convention. I’d totally feel safe if this guy was guardian of our sector..

Lilith is the bomb. And, yes, I am man enough to play a female character in Borderlands.

Beast Boy! Looking for love in all the Con places.

Hey, kids. It’s Mr. McGiblets!

Spider-Maus. Super cool.

Girl Power!

And the winner of the most intense Boy Wonder goes to…

You can see the rest at my SDCC Cosplay page.

Best Parties

The Unofficial SDCC Blog’s #UndertheSDCC party

Geek and Sundry

You can read a full travelogue of all the parties and panels here.

Best Comics I Bought

Love and Capes TPB #1

Thomas Zahler is quite a nice guy, in addition to being a very talented writer and artist. I reviewed this TPB here.

Atomic Robo #1-6

Another great find from a terrific publisher – Red Five. Reviewed here.

Vision and Scarlet Witch (Vol 2) #1-12

And to wrap this all up, how can I resist?

Thanks, and good luck to all!

– CCG