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London Comic Con

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I’ve expressed my love for Comic Con before, for the stars, the exclusive footage, the cult television shows, PaceyCon and even the geeky fanboys, and this weekend I got the chance to experience what that could be like when I eventually get to San Diego.

It was the London Comic Con MCM Expo this past weekend, and I had access to press passes with a little help from a friend. The schedule wasn’t jam-packed full with movie panels galore nor was it packed with writers or celebs, but there were a couple of young guys that I wanted to get my hands on and they went by the name of Tyler Posey and Dylan O’Brien.

Tyler Posey // Jill Wagner // Dylan O'Brien

The stars of MTV’s surprise summer hit Teen Wolf, were appearing at the expo alongside their co-star Jill Wagner. Tyler, plays the bitten teen Scott McCall and Dylan the ever-faithful sidekick Stiles, the show is about an awkward teen turned into a powerful werewolf and being hunted by the alpha that bit him. The first season was a 12-episode action fest of animal attacks, hungry hunters and love triangles galore, aimed at the young adult category but a hit amongst the 12-34 category regularly scoring aorund 1.7million viewers per episode.

There are way too many captions for this photo... especially when they were talking about Jill getting hit by Tyler's banana...

The panel was hilarious there’s no doubt about it, the actors were pretty much like their characters if not a little more hyped up and with a few more sexual innuendos thrown in. Questions were asked about Jersey Shore, which of course they loved, to what was coming up in the second season. I managed to ask a question which I thought received a goodish answer (“We know Tyler plays the werewolf but Dylan, is Stiles the real hero of the show, having to keep Scott on the straight and narrow?”), the response was he sees Stiles as the sidekick and in the first season was a bit of a hero but says in the second season we will see Scott becoming a hero in his own right whilst trying to find a lycan cure.

Here’s a moment  when I got a photo with Dylan and Tyler, they are too adorable…

Dylan thought I wanted a hug I wanted a picture, I really wasn't complaining...

I am way to happy in this...

Caught in a moment of thanks

I got what I came for and I couldn’t have been more pleased! But that wasn’t the only thing that went on over the weekend, there was a panel with The Secret Circle a new show that premiered this fall with one of the stars of the show Jessica Parker Kennedy. It was short but sweet as she answered the inevitable how did you get into acting question (which FYI someone asked in every panel, OI we know how they got into acting we IMDb’d them before we came!) and a question about the show. She apologised for being the only cast member there, and said she was going straight back to filming after her London visit.

There was a panel from a show called Sanctuary, admittedly I don’t even watch this but the two actors, Jonathon Young and Agam Darshi, from the show were really engaging and talked a lot about the show and their careers (that question AGAIN) and there seemed to be a fair few fans in the audience so there were no awkward silences. It even made me think about checking out the show and seeing what it’s about.

Jonathon Young // Agam Darshi

There was an appearance from Aaron Ashmore of Smallville fame (Jimmy Olsen) he was there promoting his Syfy show Warehouse 13, I’m not going to lie and say I paid attention to this panel because the guy he was with was super boring and had that anal American accent that goes right through you.

Aaron Ashmore // Lucas Bryant

The main focus of the Comic Con though was of course its namesake, from anime to Batman, to World of Warcraft, everywhere you turned there were people dressed up as their favourite Cosplay character. There were a few scary moments in the form of Darth Vader, a girl in a freaky fox head complete with tail and jeans (?!) Endless amounts of effort had gone into all kinds of costumes, it was like a bigger version of Halloween.

Back to the Future car replica featuring Doc

SPOTTED: Doctor Who and Captain Jack having a chinwag

Also a complimentary nighttime shot of the London Eye, which I couldn’t believe how big it was!

Lovely

San Diego Comic-Con 2010

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Okay I have to say something about the genius that is Comic-Con. I’ve come to realise these past few years how much of a BIG DEAL it is. And I wish I was there.

According to Wikipedia the convention was founded in 1970 by comic fan Shel Dorf, so it’s been going strong for 30 years.

It’s grown considerably in popularity and from just showcasing comic books. Now it seems Comic-Con is the recreational site of choice for self-confessed celebrity geeks, most are actors/actresses/directors/producers/stars from television series and the like.

I mean where else would you see (apart from say the Oscars) would you see Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johansson, Blake Lively and Natalie Portman under the same roof?

All there for their respective films, Angie sat on the panel for her new action movie Salt, where she said: “I think this is a better action movie than the ones I have done.” And as we all know Angie is a fan of the semi-automatic kind of weapon and she added, “I got to play with just about everything including using a fire extinguisher in a way I’d never used it.”

For the Green Lantern panel, Blake Lively showcased her talents (yes I’m talking about her boobs) and Ryan Reynolds was there too looking all dishy. JustJared reported that a female attendee had tweeted about the panel, “Nerds in Hall H transfixed… It’s like a normal dress but only it’s missing a chest piece. Even I’m transfixed.” Fantastic. I’m plenty sure that Scarlett Johansson only agreed to be in The Avengers is so she could go to Comic-Con and spy on her hubby Ryan Reynolds.

*Update – Blake is wearing Preen’s Haulster Bra

"Oh I hope my boobs stay in..."

Yes for me the big announcement, well I hadn’t heard that Joss Whedon had decided on the cast of The Avengers until Comic-Con, but who would play who in this hugely anticipated comic-movie.

Samuel L. Jackson – Nick Fury

Scarlett Johansson – reprising her role as Black Widow

Chris Hemsworth – Thor

Chris Evans – Captain America

Robert Downey Jr. – Iron Man

And Tah dah….

Jeremy Renner – Hawkeye

Mark Ruffalo – The Hulk

The last being my favourite, I really am excited to see Ruffalo play the green monster, the whole movie will be tres good.

The Line-Up

I also saw a little preview of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack (yess someone had illegally recorded it and posted it on Youtube but it was awesome), there were plenty of other reveals including some from Alan Ball the creator of True Blood.

So let’s just talk about how effing fantastic that show is. Adapted from the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris (I am currently reading them I suggest you go out and buy them all NOW) it follows a a telepathic barmaid, the title character, who realises she lives in an amazingly dangerous world of the supernatural which she is begrudgingly a part of. Think sexy vampires (nothing like Twilight), hot werewolves, weird maenads, witches (books not the show yet) and fairies. Yes FAIRIES.

If you think this sounds like shit, then you are wrong you have not sampled the delights of Eric and co. Here he is in his glory:

Eric Northmann Viking Vampire and Sheriff

Here’s the Season 3 preview that was aired:

Oh yeah and Olivia Munn was there next to some stormtroopers (yeah every Star Wars’ geek wet dream):

Oh hi do you know me?

As well as all these wonderful people and wonderful films and television shows, comic books, fantasy novels, video games, anime and collectibles I would just like to say how much I would like to have been there. And as discussed with fellow blogger Contains Scenes of Mild Peril and fellow tweeters, I want to be there one day. One day…

Olivia is no Munn-ter (geddit?)

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I like to read celebrity gossip, I’m not going to lie and it’s pretty obvious if you read my blog how much I talk about celebrities. Some feature more than others, but on JustJared I noticed they have some kind of fascination with Olivia Munn.

Who you say? Yes that is also what I thought, with the majority of the sites I read focused on US celebrity culture there are some that star that I have no idea whatsoever who they are.

I’ll give you a little bio, Olivia Munn is an absolute stunner, but with a girl-next-door kind of pretty so she doesn’t seem that threatening. She is hailed as some kind of “geek”, as she’s the host of G4′s Attack of the Show (G4 must be cable channel or something) which is some kind of sci-fi/computer games/films etc show and OMG there’s this hot girl presenting it.

Munn also starred in Iron Man 2 as Chess Roberts (Yeh I can’t remember her in it either…) as well as this she is a correspondent for The Daily Show a fake news show, with the tagline “When news breaks, we fix it”. So she’s funny as well as some kind of geek, she’s hot, and she’s funny. God does anyone else get a chance?

Oh yeah and she was also at Comic-Con this year, signing copies of her book “Suck it Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek”, OMG she has written a book as well?!!

This is what she said it’s about: “I want young girls who read it to feel empowered that there’s somebody who went through all of this and made it out on the other end”. Jeez, she’s nice as well and got to date Chris Pine.

Oh and the fascination may be something to do with this:

Or this:

So to sum up Olivia Munn is like a saint in the celebrity world, not quite on par with Angie Jolie and her rainbow family, but she went naked for PETA, she doesn’t take herself seriously, supports geeks and has a cute smile. Oh and she has her own fan club in Austin that she visits!

Please can I be your friend?