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The San Diego Comic-Con International is the biggest and most amazing comic book convention in the country. It's considered The Place To Be if you're into comics. It's also very exhausting and prohibitively expensive if you haven't saved up. We won't be there this year. At least three people on my "Top Six" will, however - check out the blogs of Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton and Mark Evanier for more specific plans of where they can be found.

We had planned to attend a couple more conventions later this year, one in NYC and one in Ohio, but they're being held on exactly the same weekend (argh!) and we're already committed to the latter. We continue to be impressed with the way Wizard World has treated us in the aftermath of their Philly con (to which we plan on returning next year), and the announcement that they're planning a convention in Long Beach, CA next March has us interested (it's a week before my Los Angeles-based brother's birthday and JetBlue's airfares look pretty good), but as with everything else it's all finance-dependent. Meanwhile, I'm getting psyched to spend a vacation week pretty much at home (with the exception of a couple medical appointments and a possible overnight at Chez 'Rents).