COMIC-CON 2010 UPDATES!

Comic-Con 2008 was the first year that SDCC completely sold out before the event had even begun. In 2009 over 125,000 people preregistered to attend the annual Comic Book Convention at the beautiful and gigantic San Diego Convention Center. Now, marking it's 41st year, hopeful attendees were clawing for passes on ebay, craigslist, and dirty street corners as much as six months in advance. And with good reason;


Huge news in VIDEO GAMES this year including Capcom's announcement of Marvel v. Capcom 3 (featuring the very welcome playable characters Amaterasu from Okami and Thor), as well as the Capcom and Namco team-up for Street FighterXTekken.

In Addition, new trailers released for such titles as Dead Space 2, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (starring Neil Patrick Harris as the voice of your friendly neighborhood etc. . .), Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, James Bond 007: Blood Stone, and Infamous 2, not to mention some ominous suggestions from Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune that "2010 will be a big year for Mega Man fans" adding only that the imminent announcement  was something Mega Man fans have been wanting for years. As you may have noticed, there isn't a great deal of original story coming out in gaming anytime soon, at least not that we know of just yet. . .

In MOVIES, James Renner was confirmed at the Con to play Hawkeye in Joss Whedon's The Avengers.  Renner, of 28 weeks later and The Hurt Locker, joins a cast of industry giants including Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johanssen, Chris Evans and Mark Ruffalo,

Said Whedon:
"There will be some avenging that takes place during the film and that's about all I can tell you. I think it's well-known that Jeremy Renner is joining us as Hawkeye, which is so exciting for me and the rest of the cast."

We expect to hear much more about Disney/Marvels plans for 2010-2011 season tonight at their panel discussion.

But DC Comics isn't letting Marvel get the best of them this year. News of a Wonder Woman movie being in preproduction was just the tip of the iceberg for DC. There were also by hints of a Green Lantern Video Game to accompany the Movies release, confirmations of Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy rehashing their roles as Joker and Batman for DC universe online, and very strong insinuations that one Joseph Gordon Levitt would be working once again with master Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan on a third installment of the Batman franchise. (we're all thinking it, I'm just saying it, all reason indicates the introduction of The Riddler.)

All-in-all a huge first three days of Comic-Con 2010, and you can bet that in keeping tradition with past expos, the best is yet to come. Stay tuned for more!