I didn't get a lot accomplished today including walking I had planed to do. I can blame the weather for keeping me inside but besides that there isn't an excuse for me lolling about all day. I have been following the hits on Tweeter on Comic Con and Comics and I am happy to see that there are just as many women, if not more, tweeting about how excited they are about comic con or what comics they are reading. I realize this isn't exactly a controlled survey but it does lead me to believe that my feelings about the subject matter for my documentary are correct.

I don't want to produce something that comes off looking like I took my theory and forced it into some kind of pre made mold and the characters come off looking more like actors than real people. Then again this documentary isn't about me walking around Comic Con and reading from some kind of script. The idea is to get an idea of how other people feel about the continuing evolution of comics and even video games that are either based on comics or have comics based on the creation of a video game. How do movies differ from comics and do they bring new readers into comic book stores.

Hopefully I will get some of these questions answered and many more brought to the forfront of peoples minds. I don't know if I will ever get the funding to have this transfered to film so I can submit it to some of the better known film festivals but I will try and get the people at Comic Con to consider it as well as some other local festivals where I live. Oh well, I should call it a night and get ready for tomorrow. Time is ticking and it's not going to slow down.

Time To Get in Gear.

I recently bought four cheap D rings, the kind they sell for key rings and other such uses, not the kind you would trust to hold your weight while climbing a mountain. No I needed something to help me attach the belts to my camera stabilizer. I hate it when you have to make a hack for something that the manufacture should have done correctly in the first place. Anyway I can now unatach my stabilizer harness with ease. That is one less thing to worry about before I get ready for Comic Con.

I also read Love and Murder, which is a two part graphic novel about Wonder Woman, written by the New York Times best-selling author Jodi Picoult. As a person who is more familiar with Marvel comics a friend suggested that I read this story because they felt it would be a good example of what I am trying to address in my documentary. I have to say she was spot on, and I hope she will afford me the opportunity to get an interview before I leave for San Diego.

What I found so interesting about this particular story is how in depth the female characters were in their perspective roles. The writer, and maybe it's because she's a woman or it's just her style, puts you inside the main character and builds a world that is as real as the one we live in. The metaphors for being a supper hero or in the case of two of the characters in this story who both happen to have the ability change their outward appearance, well, it starts to reinforce my own opinion that many of the comics we read today are more than meet the eye. They are reflections of the world around us and a way for some stories to be told without political reprisal.

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.