Background info: My GF (Angela) and I did the volunteer thing forthe ‘Con. Give the ‘Con a day of your life and get free admitionfor the weekend. From what I understand, the ‘Con folks were reallypleased with the turn out, they were estimating around 1000 peoplecame in the first hour on Saturday and it peaked out around 2800(their estimates). Now onto Kevin’s first appearance:

Got to the Ballroom where Kevin & Co. where doing the Marvel Knightspanel about 15 minutes early and listened to the end of somethingelse (think it was the Batman/Supes animated stuff). Anhoo, when thatwas over I moved my way to the front row, things kicked off about 5minutes later. The panel: Jim, Devin Grayson, Kevin, Joe. They wenton about how things came about, how working together was great. Theytook several questions, one of which was if Kevin ran into any problemswith the religious overtones of DD (considering the crap Dogma’s gettingnow). He said no since Marvel kinda saw how the whole thing was gonnapan out and overall there really weren’t a lot of controversial thingsin there, although they did tell Kevin & Co. that DD couldn’t beat the Black Widow into pulp like he had wanted. He said something aboutthe whole voilence against women thing, but they did still let DD snapthe BW’s leg. When asked how he got into “The Business”, Kevin made yourstandard dick sucking jesture, which became the running joke of thepanel.

They didn’t really discuss any Green Arrow stuff since Jim and Joe aretrying to stay focused on the Knights stuff. As for the future ofthe Knights stuff and Kevin working with them: Kev was originallytapped for 6 issues, this was extended to 8 (old news). But, *IF* the Marvel Knights line is renewed (J&J were pretty sure it would be)then Kevin mentioned something about coming back to writing againsomewhere in the late ‘teen issues (16-18, somewhere in there).

After the Panel, Kevin, Jim, and Joe went to do signing stuff atthe Oni booth (which was pretty large). To avoid the initial rushAng and I went to get lunch then head for the signing line. SinceI had my “volunteer” shirt on I got drafted for crowd control whileI was trying to get in line *grumble*. It worked out great tho’. Iwas the last person to have Kevin sign stuff for (at that sitting).Got a buncha things signed by Kev, Jim, and Joe. Also asked Kevin ifwe were going to get a “sneak peak” tomorrow at the focus on hisfilms, he responded with a rather definate “Yeah”. Someone also askedhim when it was coming out and he sounded rather positive when he replied”October”. So tomorrow we get a peak at Dogma, mere foreplay forthe real thing a full 6 months away.

Also there was Scott Mosier, who, when I caught up with him was givinga film student lotsa info. From what I heard, Dogma was the most tiringproject to date. Since he was used to getting everything done for a flickin 7-8 months and Dogma’s going on for at least a year now, this process ismuch longer than he’s used to. He also commented about the animated seriesin that it was going to be considered “seperate” from the movie stuff so itcould have a life of it’s own and not have to worry about continuity. I askedhim about the much rumored Clerks 2 and if they would try to keep the samelook and feel of the original. He said if and when it ever happens there’sno way they could ever go that cheap again. Since thigns were done that waybecause of a major lack of budget, if there’s a next one, it’d have a muchbetter look to it.

I’ll get ya’ll pics the instant I get them developed and scanned in. I’ve gotat least one of the Panel and a couple shots of Kevin. More will followtomorrow.