Most first-person games set the camera in the head of the character, which makes things easy to control, but forces a very fluid movement that looks unnatural. &

I'm not a purist. I take my action figures out of the package. I buy damaged boxes at a discount whenever possible. But like I said, Hasbro has my number. Every once and a while, they'll release a $40

Published by VIZ, rated T, and complete in fourteen volumes,

Last year they rolled living Sci-Fi legend Ray Bradbury across the Comic-Con floor and propped him up in his wheelchair in front of the giant Jabba the Hut. & I say "propped him up" because Ray was clearly unconscious. &

Lead Designer Jonny Ebert started off by explaining the three keys to success of the first incarnation of the

You don't know it yet, but Firefly is already your favorite TV show. & You just need to get busy and watch it.

Forry's 92, you see, and frail.

Other highlights:

The strategy paid off. Not only did I manage a fourth row seat, but I ended up sitting next to a cool guy who had managed to make his first trip to Comic-Con. At the

Raimi and Tapert were searching for a project and came upon

Every good superhero has & some useful & powers (sorry, Aquaman), and

Smiling fans pour off the trolley, funnel into the convention center, and swarm the halls of Comic-Con. & Shoulder to shoulder, & every stranger with a badge is an old friend.

He came out on stage and announced that the role of young Spock would be played by

Last night, I had the pleasure of having dinner with Jordan Mechner, creator of

So yes, the chainsaw bayonet is back. & "Of course the chainsaw is back," says Cliff. & "That's our lightsaber." & One new tool in your gore creation kit is the Mulcher, which sounds a lot like the Heavy's gun from

For a long time, cut scenes were the principal way to advance the plot in a video game. & For some reason, game creators more or less took you out of the game and into a movie when they wanted to tell you what was going on. & Bioshock wasn't the first to use "discoverables" to tell the story -- an old letter, and audio recording, a newspaper -- but they certainly showed us all how much more powerful (and fun to play) a story could be when most of the story is advanced in the game itself. & And Bioshock inspired Cliff for the sequel to

Four years ago, Eric Clement of Atlanta took his love for comics and the city, and spawned the series

Paul Friedrich and his creation Onion Head attack the Con! (Paul Friedrich)

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