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2002 San Diego Comic Con

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Thursday

Thursday brought the official opening of the 2002 San Diego Comic Con, and while traditionally there were lines that went down the street just to get in, that was not found this time due to a huge Tanker truck accident which closed Highway 5 for the rest of the day. Several people ended up late or not at all. This included panel and celebrity guest. But Thursday still had a "con" feel to it with some of the fun areas brought by Hasbro. They had brought their life size "Star Wars and GI Joe" blister packs which made for great photo opportunities as seen here.

Of course, present in the GI Joe section was the lovely Cobra Agent "Baroness". She was quite the hit with male and female attendees alike.

There were also several Independent Comic artist at the con and two of the artist that we saw at Wonder Con were also showing their work here. Jerry Williams and Jesse Vail of Off Panel/Greater Apes and Dan Cooney of Valentine/Red Eye Press are a joy to interact with and both are great artist. Their work is really worth checking out. I also want to mention the folks with Blood Fire Studios. They were really cool to us last year and their fine work continues this year.

Here we are goofing off at the Broad Sword Comics booth with Jim, Holly and the gang. We me these great people last year and have to say that they are some of the nicest people we know. They should be releasing their new comic "Three Little Kittens" this month and we look forward to checking it out!

Photos From the Floor

To us, a great Convention has great costumes and there was certainly no shortage for costumes on Thursday, take a look at these:

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Autograph Area

The were several celebrities, models, and artist on hand signing autographs and selling their photos, including Elvira, Erin Gray, Richard Hatch, and David Prowse. Here are just a few that we talked to from Thursday: Ken Foree, James C. Leary, Nutopia, Patrick Kilpatrick, Lana Clarkson and our very own Vera Vanguard.

We spent a little time at Vera's table taking a few photos...

Our friend and Cosplayer Marilyn was already wearing her Lara Croft "Angel of Darkness" outfit, so Tracy decided to wear hers later Thursday. Two Laras? Here come the Lara fans...

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