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Tomorrow I leave for San Diego and four glorious days of Comic Con International. A lot of acquaintances have questioned me why I delight in it, and I have to admit that it is a modest hard to articulate. It isn’t just the straightforward access to millions of books, or the opportunity of meeting my creative heroes, hearing industry news, or considering clips of my pet science fiction movies and cartoons. All of those things are incredible, but most of all I delight in being around hundreds of people who like the constant thing that I do. Growing up in London without the internet I didn’t admit anyone that liked American comic books. In detail, a lot of the calculate I didn’t dare tell anyone, as the result I got was usually one of initial disbelief, quickly followed by derision. I used to buy extra copies of splendid books to try and convert my acquaintances to comic book reading. It rarely worked, but at least I was slowly spreading the word. That is why now it is so heartwarming to waste some calculate at Comic Con, with my fellow comic nerds. Internally, I secretly pretend that it is the total planet, and everyone feels as passionately as us in this area comic books. I realize that this is kind of eerie, (there is a wits my column is called “committed”), but I reflect that the planet would be a more pleased place if everyone was willing to communicate with descriptions and text in racing bike.

In the median calculate, we have a new blog post to give listeners a taste of what to expect at Comic-Con 2010.