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Human traffickers arrested at San Diego Comic-Con.

Comic-Con would be a venue of opportunity, not an active participant in these crimes. The con had nothing to do with this, in other words. The article was still alarming to read:

Authorities arrested 14 people and rescued 10 victims in a massive human trafficking sting at the San Diego Comic-Con Convention, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Tuesday.

The operation took place Thursday through Saturday at the wildly popular and star-studded convention in downtown San Diego and involved local and state task force officers, Bonta’s office said.

Law enforcement personnel posed as sex buyers to identify and contact potential trafficking victims and arrest their traffickers, according to the attorney general’s office. They also posted undercover ads soliciting sex.

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Comic-Con to be a little… sparse this year.

Apparently the ongoing writers’ strike (and a possible looming actors’ strike) is having an effect on programming:

Damn… this is gonna be another rough year for Comic-Con International. A list of big Hollywood studios are bailing on the event this year. We already reported that Marvel Studios will be a no-show, but now we’ve learned that Netflix, Sony, HBO, and Universal will not be showing up.

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Crud. The Maryland Comic-Con got canceled.

That’s the one in June; apparently there were scheduling conflicts that they couldn’t resolve. This is a shame. The staff’s pretty friendly and I was making the table fee back, no worries*. Now I gotta find an alternate venue for the summer of 2023…

Moe Lane

PS: …Huh. That puts Awesome Con back on the table. $350 is a lot of money, though. Then again, it’s a really big convention.

*Generally, if I make the table fee back, I usually see an overall profit from people going and getting my other books online. Besides, it builds my readership.

Well, it’s Comic-Con time. …Groovy.

Which means: it’s trailer time, too. This Ash vs. Evil Dead trailer isn’t up on Youtube- yet – but it looks pretty old school. Nice to see Bruce Campbell still has a good sense of humor about himself; it’s what makes his movie appearances so much fun.

Via

https://twitter.com/andylevy/status/619692057410543620

Scene from a comic book convention.

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Well, a potential one. Apparently, it looks like there’s going to be a heavy presence at this year’s Comic-Con of a hitherto-unknown, Twilight-focused demographic – FlickFilsopher calls them ‘girls and women’ – and there’s some concern over the inevitable disruptions.  Personally, I’ve never had any trouble as an adult in finding women to date (and one to marry) who shared geek interests; the fact that somebody’s swearing at the screen in response to that brag right now suggests that maybe more people should be focusing on the positive elements of this story.

Because I’m pretty sure that my teen-aged self would have considered a comic-book convention that had a lot of girls my age there too to be Shangri-La.

Via @Rhetorican.

Moe Lane