Getting ready for Comic Con

It's hard to believe that the day I have been waiting for is within a few weeks. This time last year I was ready to embark on the very same journey. A lot has happened in a years time. Last year my trip was interrupted by my fathers sudden complications with his heart. For no apparent reason he would have these strange palpitations, which seeing that he had already had a pacemaker inserted over a year earlier, that should have taken care of the problem. As fate would have it, his cardiologist happened to ask him what his fluid intake was. Well as long as I have known my dad he is one of those people that can go all day on a cup of coffee and not eat all day. So on Dr's orders he began drinking at least a liter of fluid a day and suddenly the symptoms went away.

So after the Christmas holiday I start planning for Comic Con, seeing that I have a canceled airline ticket that had to be booked within a year of its purchase date, which I didn't want to miss. At this point we, my parents and I, were contemplating the idea of going to San Diego together. Which at the time seemed like a good idea. That was until about a month or so ago when my sister called to tell us that my brother-n-law had cancer. I won't say what kind but it is very common in men. Well like the trooper my sister is she didn't feel it would be worth canceling, which quite honestly I had no plans on because I could have found a place to stay. Anyway her husband had surgery and they were able to remove most if not all the tumor.

So now it's just down to getting my gear ready and hopefully things will fall into place. Actually I went to my local comic book store tonight and talked to some of the people there about my documentary and they thought it was a good idea. In fact one of the girls who I hope to pre interview gave me the idea of reading the Wonder Woman Series written by Jodi Picoult 'Love and Murder'. I have to say it is a really good example of how women are changing comics as well as how it iterates my opinion that comics are a reflection of American culter just as Manga is a reflection of Japanese culuture.

Well it's a quarter past midnight CST and I have school tomorrow afternoon so I can't pull an all nighter. Hopefully I will keep this blog up-to-date so people interested in my documentary can read about my progress and maybe I'll even get some video on here that shows some preliminary footage before I head to Cali.