August 5, 2011 issue of Entertainment Weekly: under the PLUS AN EXCLUSIVE COMIC-CON PHOTO GALLERY STARRING heading we have:
- Hugh Jackman (okay, comic cred, he’s Wolverine, but here he’s showing off what honestly looks to me like Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, the Movie)
- Emma Stone (okay, comic cred, ish, she’s gonna be Gwen Stacy)
- Justin Timberlake (showing off some movie called In Time that I’ve never heard of that does not earn you nearly enough cred in my opinion)
- Chris Evans (okay, Captain America, I’ll give him that)
The article discusses
- The Amazing Spider-Man briefly (with paragraph and picture)
- Twilight (with a picture)
- Cowboys & Aliens
- The Walking Dead (with a paragraph)
- The Big Bang Theory
- Game of Thrones (with a paragraph)
- Glee (with a picture)
- Chuck
- Fringe
- Twixt (just a picture)
- True Blood (with several pictures and a paragraph)
- Tintin (with a paragraph and picture)
- Ringer (with a paragraph and picture)
- Snow White and the Huntsman (with a paragraph and picture)
- The Vampire Diaries (with a picture, costarring the guy from Chuck)
- Nikita (with a picture)
- Haywire (with a paragraph, and what even is that?)
- Spartacus (with a paragraph and picture
- A panel with Jon Favreau and Guillermo del Toro.
The photo gallery features
- The cast of Game of Thrones (well, if “the cast” means Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Emilia Clarke, and Peter Dinklage)
- Chris Evans
- Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart (promoting that Snow White nonsense)
- Henry Cavill (yum) and Freida Pinto (of Immortals)
- Taylor Lautner (here for Abduction)
- Jim Parsons and Mayim Blalik (of The Big Bang Theory)
- Some folks from True Blood (producer Alan Ball, eh, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Alexander Skarsgard [yum], Kevin Alejandro, and Nelsan Ellis)
- Carey Mulligan (here for Drive)
- Sarah Michelle Gellar (here for Ringer and looking adorable)
- The cast of Total Recall (what is that I don’t even know, but it’s Jessica Beal and Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale)
- The cast of Person of Interest (a crime series that I have never heard of, with Taraji P. Henson, Jim Caviezel, and Michael Emerson)
- The cast of The Vampire Diaries (Paul Wesley, Nina Dobrev, and Ian Somerhalder)
- Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield repping Spider-Man
- The lord my god Joss Whedon, repping The Avengers
- Francis Ford Coppola, repping Twixt
- Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake, repping In Time
- The cast of the new Charlie’s Angels rebot (Annie Ilonzeh, Rachael Taylor, Minka Kelly)
- Hugh Jackman, repping Real Steel
- Pee-Wee Herman
- Andrew Lincoln and Sarah Wayne Calies, repping The Walking Dead
- Michael C. Hall, repping Dexter
NOW WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE. I am now switching to numbers to show order of importance.
- Really no mention of… y’know, actual comics?
- Aside from one picture of Joss, shoved to the sixth page of the photo article, and the True Blood bits, and the Game of Thrones bits, and Sarah Michelle, I can honestly say that none of the reasons I give a damn about this Comic-Con were featured. And I’m sure I’m not the only irate geek.
- If Game of Thrones received such a “roaring reception,” how come half of the paragraph was just about Jason Momoa ’cause of Conan the Barbarian? The picture only had five of the cast (although Lena Headey and Emilia Clarke are both badass ladies, and Kit Harington is kinda cute).
- Etc., etc. I was a lot angrier before I checked the website’s extra photo galleries.
The website, at least, had some of my people.
Two of my man Nathan, one with Joss my god.
A total of one of my darling Felicia Day, who has been declared on the interwebs as the Queen of Comic-Con, and rightly so. I mean, babygirl has 1,800,000 Twitter followers, and I know nothing about Twitter though I recently joined solely for blogwhoring purposes, but I know that’s impressive, and she’s got, what, two webseries now [The Guild, of which season five just started, and one based on the game Dragon Age coming out soon], and she’s guested on god knows how many epic things and she’s one of two most prolific ladymembers of the Whedon mafia between Buffy and Dollhouse and Dr. Horrible, and THAT ISN’T WORTHY OF APPEARANCE IN YOUR DAMN MAGAZINE BUT TAYLOR LAUTNER IS?
One of Sarah Michelle Gellar. She’s actually gotten the most decent coverage of any of my nerdloves that aren’t in True Blood in these articles, so good for her. Ringer is gonna be fun, I hope.
Some shots of the True Blood cast, of course. I only feature the one of Deborah Ann Woll here because I don’t just wanna be everyone else posting ASkars (as they call him) though I do love him. But, but, Deborah Ann’s Jessica is… one of my favorite things about the show, honestly, and I am loving this path she’s going down, and that picture is insane with the previously mentioned blue eyes, and.
One freaking picture of the Knights of Badassdom cast. ONE. I know it’s an indie flick. But it’s an indie flick about LARPERS WHO SUMMON A DEMON. And just look at that cast! I mean, geek cred out the window, just by virtue of them. Ryan Kwanten (known for True Blood), Michael Gladis (of Mad Men), Jimmi Simpson (who is also gonna be in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter!!!), Margarita Levieva (okay, I know her from Adventureland, but hey), SUMMER FREAKIN’ GLAU (my looooooove), Danndy Pudi (of Community), and Peter Dinklage (of Game of Thrones, recently). COME FREAKIN’ ON ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY. This is why geeks go to Comic-Con.
The tagline to the article was “Get ’em to the geeks! Stars flocked to the annual San Diego gathering — and worked harder than ever to reward faithful fans.” Sure. These Hollywood people maybe worked harder than ever, but those not-quite-mainstream celebrities, those that we geeks hold dear, they work hard every year. I mean, Felicia’s going to a crap ton of Comic-Cons everywhere, for example (and sure I may be a little biased towards loving her ’cause I met her at Emerald City this year). The people that we love love us back. They know that we are what make them mighty.
Entertainment Weekly, this is the time that I’m just gonna have to bust out that interwebsism and inform you that yes, I am disappoint. I know you’re geeky, EW. The love letter you wrote to a Firefly rerun this spring alone proves that somewhere there is one of you who is a proper geek. Probably more of you. Yet, this article mainly focused on the things that would be accessible to “mainstream America” or whatever. Which, in my humble opinion, misses the point of Comic-Con. Sure, these things are there. But the niche-ier things are, too. And they sorta just got brushed over.
And that makes me sad enough to tl;dr. For the equivalent of six pages of Word Document.
–your fangirl heroine.
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