I knew someone would come out of the woodwork to argue here. Anders Breivik killed 77 people, the Vegas shooter killed 58 -doesn't really seem "tame" -especially when you consider that he was only one of the 1,624 shooters in the last 1,870 days in America. Yeah, this is the only country where this regularly happens and I defy you to come up with even two more mass shootings in other developed nations without using Google.

But by all means, use the only example you can to argue the fact that America doesn't need to change anything.

I think you're right Andrew, it's more the base concept of selling it as Anne Frank that's terrible, but yeah, I think the evacuee part is certainly more closely related with English history than Jewish history -and the tag is a big key in that part.

Try being gluten free. All of your starches are pretty much rice, potatoes and corn. I eat Mexican food probably 4 nights a week

I was just giving credit to the site that created it, but that's just a link to it -the map isn't on their page apparently.

The salary history issue is actually being made illegal in many states because aside from just being annoying for the reasons you listed, they have found that it also perpetrates pay discrimination against women and minorities because if one company pays less based on sex or race, then every one that follows will continue to do so if they go by history. Instead, a person qualified for a position should just be offered whatever any other person qualified for that position would be offered regardless of what they were paid.

They also found that women who refuse to give up salary history are paid significantly less than average while men who do the same are paid more than average, so it promotes discrimination even when the candidate refuses to give that information.

Plus, it also discourages people from wanting to take chances with startups and non-profits that might be rewarding in other ways because then when you leave the job, you're stuck with that salary history.

Fair enough. I watched it as a kid and it was my favorite movie. They certainly market it to kids now with their Roger Rabbit ride.

It does strike a nerve with me because I hear that every year and 99% of the time, it's from people who have gone one year or who only went to Hall H or didn't even walk the floor. As his blog post states, there's still a huge section of the floor that's all comic books and the funny thing is that you'll hear people bemoaning how there's no comic books because they themselves don't actually want to look at comic or buy comics, they just want to complain because it's the hip thing to do. Obviously you actually care about comics and aren't one of these hipster too-cool-for-everything types that I'm talking about, but they are why I get so short tempered about people saying that crap. The people who actually care about comic books go and buy comic books, or prints from artists who work on comics, they don't sit there and whine about how there's nothing there related to comic books.

SDCC has always been a bit of a different beast because Star Wars was actually first promoted at the convention back in 1976 before anyone even thought the movie would be a hit. No other conventions were home to exclusive movie content back then, but that's what made Comic Con what it is. Complaining about having pop culture stuff at Comic Con is complaining about what made SDCC THE convention of note.

And as the mainstreaming of geek culture (which is precisely what made SDCC so insane over the last decade) is starting to become less of a thing, the crowds are thinning out. A lot of studios are leaving the convention, MTV scaled back it's stupid Fandom Awards ceremony and even companies that do belong there, like Syfy, have greatly reduced their budgets.

The bubble burst, which means soon enough, people who want to buy passes won't have such a tough time getting them and actually getting in to the convention center. With any luck, it will also mean floor space will clear out a little and more independent artists and distributors will be able to get in because that's what the majority of visitors (outside of those Hall H idiots who by and large don't actually visit the floor at all and just want to stand in the same room as a celebrity) actually care about.

Chuck's blog mentioned how there were less people there and he seemed to insinuate that it was because there's free stuff outside, but it wasn't that they issued less passes or that people just decided not to go (it was the same number and they still sold out), but now that they have RIFD chips, people can't "lose" their passes and give extras to their friends or just copy extras on their scanner and print them out. The fewer people in the hall were actually the number of people that were supposed to be there for the last few years. People who are going to all the free stuff outside are largely doing it because they can't get in to the convention itself (trust me, I live in SD and most of my friends go to that stuff for that exact reason).

Bottom line: there's still plenty of comic book stuff and in the next few years, there will be more of it and more fans around to support it.

I always hate this argument. Yes, there's tons of pop culture stuff here, but there are also tons of booths selling comic books, comic book memorabilia and art based on comic books. There are tons of artists making comic books with booths here. Overall, comic book movies and tv shows are the biggest panels at the convention. Just because there's other stuff at the convention doesn't meant there's not also way more comic-related stuff than just about anywhere else. I feel like people don't even want to bother looking at the booths or any of the comic book stuff at the convention and then they want to bitch about there's nothing related to comics -and people always want something to bitch about at SDCC.

And you know what else? Most comic book shops sell stuff related to Star Wars and D&D as well, so I guess they should change their name to reflect that too, right?

People who like comic books tend to like other geek stuff as well. Catering to those interests as well doesn't make a convention or a comic shop less dedicated to comic books.

I know that 120 isn't enough to melt plastic and that the images could have nothing to do with the actual heat wave as it's the internet, but given that asphalt can reach 160 in the sun and any reflecting heat from other sources could make the temperatures even hotter, I still think the pictures could be credible. If there was no way this was possible, I wouldn't have posted this. The wall is particularly bad looking because they obviously used inferior materials or stretched it way too thin -even so, the fact that it's only in a tight grouping suggests it could easily have extra heat reflection on it.

Yeah, it seems strange, but he was great in Dexter -so creepy. But then, that balance of creepy and charming/smiley is pretty hard to pull off. Robin Williams also almost got the role and I could imagine that being really cool.