New York Comic Con 2012 Preview: Friday Panels Part II

Here it is Part 2 of my look at panels which catch my eye for this years’ New York Comic Con.  Once again as stated in prior articles, this is not MY schedule.  There’s too many panels, too many signings, too many booth events and then throw on top of that that I have Press hours and events and scheduled meetings and such, this is just a guideline and a way for me to promote things you shouldn’t miss at the convention if you’re there.  You also can’t do everything, so once again, a guide.  Go to what interests you most and realize you must compromise.  Sometimes compromising three things for one.

Food & Comics
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
1A23
I desperately wished I had $575 for the sitdown dinner prepared by Iron Chef and owner of The Lamb’s Club, Geoffrey Zarkanian in which I’d be sitting with fellow fans and hopefully foodies in discussion with Joe Quesada, Jonathan Hickman and C.B. Cebulski, in which I would assume the conversation doesn’t have to to be about Marvel. I can’t do that dinner so maybe I’ll attend this panel which won’t have food to eat (I’m guessing) but will at least discuss food. I’m surprised J.T. Yost who kickstarted an anthology about Food & Comics called Digestate isn’t involved, but C.B. does actually have an excellent food blog.

Husbands
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
1A14
Last year at NYCC I got a triple kiss photo with Brad Bell and Sean Hemeon because I absolutely loved season 1 of Husbands and found it just fabulous.

Season 2 has been even more excellent, adding amazing guest stars and longer episodes. I hope to make this panel, but if I don’t I am going out of my way to make it to one of the Husbands signings. Btw if you aren’t watching HUSBANDS, you should throw out your computer.

Crime Scenes, Horror Anthologies, and Steampunk Dracula: Genres leaping to Transmedia
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location: 1E07
Fourth Wall Studios awesome and amazing concept RIDES is brand new to me, but has quickly become my favorite idea/concept yet. The best show in their line-up so far is the Emmy Award winning TV sitcom length DIRTY WORK about a team whose job it is to clean up after murder scenes. They’re an interesting trio portrayed by one of the funniest women ever Mary Lynn Rajskub, former child actor Hank Harris and the beautiful Jamie Clayton whom if this role didn’t make it part of her character I would’ve completely forgotten her transgender status. Fourth Wall has some other awesome stuff including a cartoon, short horror films and even a very interactive fun piece featuring the voices of Greg Proops and Ron Lynch over some real drama written by Fourth Wall co-founder, Canadian sci-fi writer and former member of 42 Entertainment, Sean Stewart. This panel will focus a lot on Dirty Work but also on the rest of RIDES and what will be coming up.

Open Road Films Presents: SILENT HILL: REVELATION 3D
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
IGN Theater
Since this is an IGN Theater event and up against a ton of other stuff there’s a high chance I’ll miss this panel, BUT I still want to state my excitement that this film exists and is coming out. Gans and Avary’s film was excellent and while I doubt Michael J Bassett’s sequel to that first film will be what Avary planned it will be combining elements from that first film with Silent Hill 3, the game. Grr… NYCC scheduling!

Legendary Comics
5:15 pm – 6:15 pm
1E07
Legendary is new to the comics arena. So far they’ve only actually published Frank Miller’s The Holy Terror and The Tower Chronicles created by Matt Wagner and Thomas Hull with art by Simon Bisley. This panel hosted by The Nerdist’s Chris Hardwick will feature Guillermo Del Toro who I bet will announce a comics adaptation of The Strain, as well some of folks on the Legendary banner, hopefully more of the Mark Waid book forthcoming.

The Venture Bros
5:15 pm – 6:15 pm
IGN Theater
Last year the Venture Bros. panel they had no new footage and basically acted like goofs for an hour. It was ridiculous. Funny, but ridiculous. A fan actually asked if Brock Samson could come to his birthday party. Not Patrick Warburton, the VOICE of Brock Samson, but Brock Samson himself. Like I said… ridiculous. This year they’re going to have footage of the upcoming Halloween special, so I expect a madhouse line down the block into that damn garage they used to bring in cars. I’d love to see some early footage, and if you’re a Venture Bros. fan… go to this, but be prepared to sacrifice a lot of time waiting.

Robot Chicken
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
IGN Theater
The same can be said for this. They might bring a special guest again this year even.I think it was last year that Macauley Culkin was on panel and the season hadn’t even started yet, so they had a lot of footage to show off. This year they have the DC special behind them and I think four episodes of the new season. Maybe they’ll announce a Bluray with the rest of the season on it coming out the week after Comic Con. I mean they did it with the LAST season!

There’s some alternative panels/programming to check out during the Adult Swim IGN insanity if you don’t want to wait.

Anne Rice Spotlight
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
1A10
Up until Merrick I loved Anne Rice. I just felt at that point I’d spent enough time with the Vampire Chronicle characters. I also enjoyed the Mayfair Witches and her books outside of the series, but since 2000 I haven’t really read her work. Especially when she started writing about Jesus Christ and then about a former government assassin involves in Christian concepts. Then in 2010 she renounced Church. She stayed a Christ follower, which I still go “Really?”, but I don’t hold it against her. Unfortunately her first book after that was a Werewolf take, which is not what she needs to do. I am hoping she’s here to announce her Zombie take or a return to Lestat. I want her to announce an embracing of everything she’s done. Maybe returning to erotica and sadism just to show people what Fifty Shades of Grey could be. Although she tackled that perfectly in the 80’s. No, I want to hear her announce something completely new. An original intellectual property all her own.

Hachette Author Spotlight
6:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Unbound Stage
Okay time for speculation!
Lemony Snicket for All The Wrong Questions
James Patterson for ZOO and Daniel X
Joe Hill for NOS4R2

Seriously Hachette encompasses a bunch of divisions and authors. This could be anyone! Well, except for Anne Rice whose with Random House.

Comedy Central
6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
1E07
The Comedy Central panel is usually super crowded and instead of doing each show as separate things, they’re just doing three hours showing everything they have new and old. Which means Dinkleberry, Key & Peele, Tosh.O, Mash Up, South Park. Oh and the night after this there’s the fourth annual Autism fundraiser. So yeah, if you can’t get into Venture Bros./Robot Chicken and want a panel and want it to be adult humor TV based, this is the place to be. Or you can also try the next panel!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
6:45 pm – 7:45 pm
1E13
The new Nickelodeon cartoon just debuted on Saturday and it combines the nostalgia and antics of the 80’s toon with the style of the 2000’s CGI film. I haven’t been completely sold on this show, but it’s TMNT and it has a chance of success and I’m sure this panel will have fan service.

TRON: Uprising
6:45 pm – 7:45 pm
1A10
As will this because it’s much less a panel and more a screening without commercials of an airing after the con two part important episode. I’m guessing together the two episodes are 44 minutes long, allowing for an intro and a 5 minute Q& A. The show doesn’t actually start airing again till October 19 so this is a 1 week preview.

Scott C and The Great Showdowns, from Ripley vs the Alien Queen to Han vs the Green Fellow!
7:00 pm – 7:45 pm
Unbound Stage
Of all things with things scheduled at the same time and all the other things on my schedule, I’ll probably be going to this for sure. I really wanted to go to The Great Showdowns art opening/book debut in California that was last week, but I couldn’t… so this is the next best thing. I love Scott Campbell’s art and even though he told on Twitter that Double Fine isn’t sending him in for DFA, that doesn’t mean he’s telling the truth! DF have to know there’s fans in NYC who couldn’t come to PAX, I mean, yes, Scott’s book is important, and the game is really Bagel’s… but Scott did all the concepts on the girl in the game!

THE SCRIBBLER Movie!
7:45 pm – 8:45 pm
1A23
I don’t really know John Suits movies, but this is based on Dan Schaffer’s comic and is starring Katie Cassidy and Michele Trachtenberg so if anything I am definitely intrigued.

Titmouse
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
1A10
Titmouse animates everything man. From Superjail to Black Dynamite to Motorcity to Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja. They’re a seriously awesome animation house. Next to Augenblick Studios, possibly one of my favorites. This panel which will have most of the staff on it is a big example of overlapping schedules being the death of me. This is going to all rely more on where I am mentally, where rooms are physically and all that.

Kaiju Big Battel
9:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Variant Stage
Dude holy shit! Live Kaiju Press Conference. This may be one of the best photo opportunities of insanity the whole show. I am not even going to try and explain Kaiju.

Kirk Hammett, Lead Guitarist for Metallica, Talks to Kevin Clement about His Passion for Collecting Monster Movie Memorabilia
9:00 pm – 10:00 pm
1A23
Of course Kaiju would be at the same time that a Master of Metal would be talking about his Monster Movie Memorabilia book, Too Much Horror Business. Yes, let us schedule a panel about monsters fighting each other to loud, brash heavy metal music against one of metal’s GODS talking about monsters fighting each other.

I love you New York Comic Con, but your coordination director totally did not take fans/genres, etc. into consideration or maybe he did and they’re trying to split them up. They know the same people who go to Kaiju will want to be at this and in an effort at crowd control, force them to choose!

Genius New York Comic Con… I take it all back. I just wish I could be two people. That’s my fault though, not yours.

I’ll be back with Saturday, Part I and II later today or tomorrow!

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