Ok, I’m posting the comic-con photos to Flickr today. First I’m going to post a few of them here and make some comments on them.
Also, I’d like to note that while I took tons of pictures I’m only uploading a handful as they are much the same. Most are either fans taking pictures of me, or me taking pictures with costume characters, or they are me in the hotel and have slight nudity (I have nothing against artful nudity, but all the sites I use have all sorts of nude restrictions–and even when they don’t I don’t want to alienate my sites from younger fans by doing so.)
Ok, first my favorite:
Me and Gandalf were gonna break open a can of magickal whoop ass on…whoever happened by!
Just before this photo, Shaun Von Dragen pointed out that I was a true nerd and belonged at Comic-Con, because there were Comic-Con employees who were labeled “Elite”, and I said that they would be extra hard to kill so we would need a full group. (This is a World of Warcraft reference for the non-nerds out there.)
So I tell this dad that I am the “Angel of Death” but that didn’t stop him from offering up his child for a chance to snap a photograph of me.
This little area was excellent, btw. Much better than a real booth. Everytime I would stop in here for more than 30 seconds a crowd would form to photograph me.
That said, almost everyone was extremely nice and polite–except for walking around through the heavy crowds people would bump my wings 
So I took a picture with these fantastic looking ladies, which didn’t do much for my self esteem, as they were like gigantic tall. Where do they grow girls like this? I need to drink the water.
Needless to say neither Shaun nor I remember what the heck they were promoting. There weren’t as many booth babes as I thought there would be, but these two were definitely beautiful.
Then to add insult to injury, I hung out with the famous fatty from Return of the Jedi.
So with my flabby back, I felt like Jabba’s little cousin or something But at least I don’t drool in public–as far as anyone knows.
So our hotel was downtown San Diego at historical botique hotel named the Sophia. It was all redone this year but has been there since 1928.
It was very nice and we had a good time there. The first night we got into town was after a long day fighting with Shaun because the 120 mile drive turned into drive from hell since we left in time for bumper-to-bumper all the way there.
We went to dinner at a place called the Ivy–it was chosen randomly from a list of a half dozen chosen for us by the Concierge at our hotel as nice places to eat. The prices weren’t bad compared to shi-shi restaurants in LA, but my entire dish consisted of 5(!) raviolis.
Dessert was amazing and I had this crazy dessert that was two cotton-candys (just like at a carnival or a faire)–one on either side of a dish of pink ice cream! I wrapped the ice cream in strips of cotton-candy and the result was like eating delicious pink rain clouds!! And just as I was finishing my wonderful dessert guess who came floating by our table, Gwyneth Paltrow and Liv Tyler. Shaun didn’t even notice them go by, too busy was he with dessert, but it turns out they were promoting Iron Man so that was probably their hotel. After that I wanted to go party, but Shaun was dead sleepy (all the arguing and driving) so that was the end of night one, except that we watched Shrek 3 which was ok.
Second day was our big Comic-Con day, and afterward we ate dinner at a rooftop bar with a nice view of San Diego. The third day we went to Sea World, where I caught a farmer’s tan, and later we shot a video that you-tube or the other video shares won’t show even though it is pretty tame! :-/ Overall a really nice time. I’m grateful for everything the universe provides me. Enjoy the pictures!! (The full set on Flickr)
xOxOxXo,
Izabael
