I should probably be resting in preparation for my next day at the San Diego Comic-Con, but I'll continue to be a machine and work on the first of three photo blogs covering my time at the event. I'm finding this convention to be a bit overwhelming, but I'm still loving every minute of it! I hope you have as much fun looking at my first set of pictures as I did taking them.

My first glimpse of the San Diego convention center

A gigantic Optimus Prime statue guarded the outside

Despite the crowd, I only ended up waiting in line for about 20 minutes

Out of the 11 possible swag bags, I got one featuring Chuck... bleh

A bad shot of one of the Brightest Day bags that I'm hoping to get on Friday or Saturday

The first cosplayer I photographed was a scout trooper from Star Wars

True Blood banners decorated the upper floor

The dealer room was packed, and basically felt as if the two E3 halls were connected together

A statue of the Franken Berry cereal mascot at Funko's booth

My first actual stop was the Capcom booth since they were giving out quite a few freebies

Capcom merchandise for sale, including Servbot bobbleheads

The majority of the store's inventory

Poogies and Felynes

Mega Man Volnutt

After playing the Okamiden demo, I earned a special stylus, trinket, and a raffle ticket to win a rare shirt

Ghost Trick was enjoyable, and reminded me of a more humorous version of The Incredible Machine

The Marvel VS Capcom 3 arena

MVC3 tournaments are held every day, with prizes like shirts and arcade sticks

Dead Rising 2's photo op from E3 was also present at Comic-Con

The Justice Society of America's Sandman and Dr. Mid-Nite

The Square Enix booth, where I received a free Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light fan

A replica of Alphonse Elric

The Hasbro exhibit

A closer look at Shia's favorite Autobot

Baroness waits for her turn to be sealed in a blister pack

BY THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL!

Statues from the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series

Well, what would you prefer... yellow spandex?

This Iron Man outfit was only $1,100

If only I had an extra grand to spare...

Giveaways at the Diamond Select Toys booth, which I totally forgot about

Do the Bartman

Some sort of giant golden throne that I do not recognize

Horrifying heads

Another sinister-looking creature

Disney models

Papa Smurf was actually a woman... SCANDALOUS!

An arcade cabinet sporting fake art for Abobo's Big Adventure

Rockin' Android promoted their line of Japanese indie games

Voltron defended the universe by wandering around Comic-Con

Cute merchandise at Bored Inc.

A large mech

I would have tried to get in closer, but these Iron Man suits were swarmed by fans

Models from the Stan Winston Creatures line

Mile High Comics should have put their mascot on the sign

The DC Universe's legendary trinity

Artwork from the final issue of Blackest Night decorated DC's walls

World of Warcraft memorabilia, including coins and a statue

Starcraft 2 statues

Busts of Harvey Dent and Hal Jordan

Action figures sporting Bruce Wayne's various looks as he travels through time

DC action figures exclusive to the convention

An assortment of Blackest Night toys

I'm tempted to buy one of the miniature Green Lantern sets

Entertainment Earth carried exclusive Lost and Halo: Reach toys

They also were hosting several celebrity appearances

The Avengers assembled on Marvel's exterior

The Tofu Girls exhibit

Down on Fraggle Rock!

Dozers

The Image Comics booth

Two of the numerous Ghostbusters at Comic-Con

Daft Punk cosplayers

Lego C-3PO and R2-D2

I couldn't get a good shot of ECTO-1 since the hallway was cramped

Perhaps I'll try Metroid: Other M on Friday or Saturday

I got a free Slime shirt and special map thanks to Nintendo's Dragon Quest IX section

Cute bean-like creatures

The Uglydoll line of toys

A kid befriends an Uglydoll

The Green Hornet teams up with Supergirl

Me with G4's girls

GameStop TV was on the scene

Posing with Motohide Eshiro during his autograph session

Those furry hats continue to spread around California

People relaxing while munching on expensive convention cuisine

The Sideshow Collectibles exhibit

A creepy zombie bust

One of the props from Gremlins 2

Another Capcom signing, this time with Hiroyuki Kobayashi of Sengoku Basara and Devil May Cry fame

Special Spider-Man Xbox 360 systems at the Activision booth

The Red Faction: Armageddon mech from E3

Marvel's famous incarnation of Red Sonja

A woman at the City of Heroes booth

The Rock Band 3 stage

They used too much flash!

A view from the escalator

Up on the second floor, hundreds of people waited to meet actors from shows like Dexter

Citizen V of the V-Battalion

Chun-Li finally faces Kitana after all these years

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!

No-Face from Spirited Away

Tuxedo Mask meets Wonder Woman

Ms. Marvel tagged along with Deadpool in hopes of appearing in Marvel VS Capcom 3

Street Fighter's Cammy

Of course, protesters stopped by to try and ruin the fun

Another group of "protesters" appeared in retaliation

He tricked out his scooter to resemble a white dragon

The Punisher and Flash are Gaga fans

This Red Hood wasn't Jason Todd, but a female

The Jedi master known as Ki-Adi-Mundi

Beam them up, Scotty

A trio of characters from Tim Burton's interpretation of Alice in Wonderland

Wonder Woman wields a powerful blade

The misguided Jinx from the Teen Titans animated series

Amusing puppets

The Peanuts booth

Snoopy waves at the camera

Sideshow Collectibles had some nice pieces on display, like this Thanos with Death

A statue of Psylocke

Another statue featuring Scarlet Witch and a miniature Vision

Busts of Wolverine, Thor, and Carnage

Optimus Prime was trapped while looking for his bigger twin brother

A prototype of a Lion-O statue

Replicas of famous props from the Indiana Jones films

Rogue and Gambit of the X-Men

A difficult UFO catcher game, which featured neat Bleach and Naruto items

There were people inside of the giant bunnies

Black Panther didn't want to wait for the Wakanda Comic-Con

A set of slave Leias

Captain America's mighty shield

The invincible Iron Man armor

Thor's hammer completes the trinity of Avengers weapons

A bike from Tron

I believe the demo was actually Otomedius-Gorgeous

A dragon from Yu-Gi-Oh

The top half of The Walking Dead's exhibit

The lower portion, including the fake corpse

Silk Spectres

If you participated in a fake horror movie scene like this person, you'd get a free calendar

Poison Ivy and a female version of The Comedian

An android busts a move on the Just Dance 2 stage

Some of Gotham City's greatest villains

War Machine was on active duty

The Behemoth's exhibit, where I don't recall seeing anything new

The *** Batman

A child tries out the Move

The WB lounge

The state of Rick also made the trip from LA to San Diego

I missed Thursday's signing, but I'll make sure to stop by on Friday

Statues of the Enslaved stars guarded the demo units

Microsoft's exhibit was tiny in comparison to E3 and PAX

Geoff Keighley samples Halo: Reach

EA had several of their upcoming titles at the show

Aion fans could get their wings at this photo op

I don't think the DC Universe Online team would be happy to see Catwoman near City of Heroes

Cammy sporting more of a proper military outfit

Kitana had many fans

Ahhhhh... Carlos Blanka

Hellboy and the bride of Hellboy

Several DC heroes and villains formed a line

The Rabbids were promoting their latest and greatest adventure

Supergirl

Several DC women receive an anime-style makeover

A few of Marvel's ladies also received the same treatment

Hee hee

Tai from Digimon

You'd find most of the autograph sessions in this portion of the event

Seconds later, the Flash donned his actual costume at super speed

I took a break in a panel about The Force Unleashed 2, which is something I probably won't play

I was so disappointed when the rumored Namco VS Capcom wasn't revealed at the Capcom panel

An attractive Baroness

The power of Buddy Christ compels you!

Gabe and Tycho strike one of their usual serious poses

The White Queen, Emma Frost

These folks were promoting a calendar aimed at nerds, featuring cosplay girls and convention dates

SHAZAM!

Death Eaters from the Harry Potter universe

X-23 was apparently quite a fan of Tuxedo Mask

I let 'em borrow some roses

Jango Fett traveled through time and space to be with Leia

Posing with another Emma Frost cosplayer

Vanille and Lenne

The crew at Spike & Mike's

The stars of The World Ends With You

The works of painter Alex Ross

Tinkerbell may be taller than she appears in the movies

I liked the outfits

Official photos, which could be purchased for autograph sessions

Kenner mislabeled this Indiana Jones action figure

The Punisher and an associate

A trio of Indiana Jones characters

Black Canary

Wolverine wants to play a game with Jigsaw

Some sort of lizard man

An Asian version of Jean Grey

Meeting Keiji Inafune, creator of Mega Man

"This is for Falcon! This is for me! This is for Duke! And this... is for the US of A!"

I liked the bear/mouse thingies at the Toy Tokyo setup

Even Duffman is feeling the impact of the economy

Voldemort casts a wicked spell on the convention center

Hands off the pony!

A female Flash arrived from the DC multiverse

Free swag bags were given away by the good folks at Shonen Jump

Lego land

Hmmm... a Lego Toy Story game could be neat

I wonder if these were the same ones I saw at Pixar

They were handing out free inflatable Pokeballs

Pikachu didn't shock Starfire or Robin

Hanging with some booth babes

Japanese toys

Hasbro sold a massive Galactus action figure, which looked like a pain to lug around the convention center

Cobra Commander is playing favorites by hanging out with one of the grunts outside of work

I pretty much always photograph one Pyramid Head at each convention

Pachirisu

Oooooooo, The Expendables

A steampunk version of Rogue

Fox's booth babes

Another attendee with a cool look

PikMEN

Wildstorm's greatest hero, Grifter

I believe the statue was of Aspen Matthews from Fathom

The original Silk Spectre

A scene of the masses departing the convention center for the day

Several roads were closed off due to the sheer masses of people at Comic-Con

An outdoor Scott Pilgrim exhibit, which I'll investigate later

Subway hopes to appeal to the cosplayer community

Thursday's swag pile

 

San Diego Comic-Con 2010 - Thursday Photos

San Diego Comic-Con 2010 - Friday Photos

San Diego Comic-Con 2010 - Saturday Photos