A Couple of Things that Would be Nice to See

One - a headline having to do with Comic-Con that didn't have the word geek in it.

From Variety - Hollywood sneak peeks woo geeks

From the Christian Science Monitor - At Comic-Con, geek is chic

From the New York Times - We’re All Geeks Here

USA Today - It's good to be a geek at Comic-Con

Ad nauseum

Number two - how about leaving out the nasty little digs in the articles? Let's look at the Variety story.

And while stars like Hugh Jackman, Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry, Guillermo del Toro and Samuel L. Jackson have shone on panels, others like Scott Speedman and Hilary Swank have wound up looking unsure what to make of the crowd in front of them. That's perhaps not suprising, since requests during Q&As can include autographs that will wind up as tattoos on a stranger's body.

I don't think whoever wrote that has been to a Q and A. Or an autograph session. Maybe instead of making really odd farfetched excuses we could consider that acting is usually doing and saying what someone else tells you to do and say. Unless you've done improv you may not have the training to answer the questions an intelligent group of strangers are going to lob at you. I can just imagine what Tom Cruise would have made of the questions Frederick Pohl got at the Book Festival a few years ago.

To get back to the body thing for a second, yes of course fans have autographs turned into tattoos, especially when the autographs include drawings. But I don't think there's any law that says you have to give someone your autograph, esp. if you don't like what they're going to do with it.

And one last thing -

an audience made up of fanboys and a growing number of families.

We're still struggling with so many stereotypes. What about women? Do these people, who are really talking about film, not comics at all, still think women and girls don't read comics, watch films or go anywhere alone? Give me a break.