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http://www.comingsoon.net/imageGallery/Comic_Con_2008/Comic-Con_2008_13.jpg

ComingSoon.net has some photos from the floor of Comic-Con. Could this be from the Dark Horse Buffy panel? If so, why does it feature artwork of Buffy and Faith from season three episode, "Enemies"?

Or could this be another Buffy project altogether? Anyone attending? There are many comic websites posting similar galleries, so there might be Dr. Horrible and Dollhouse images out there.

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http://karjack.livejournal.com/656327.html?format=light

A blogger provides her interesting, well-written, and original take on the production.

• 13:54 Watching Dark Knight at Horton Plaza. #
• 20:50 Preview night crowd less than last year. Actually room to move. #
• 22:59 @SheilaS if you want to add feed I'll be tweeting from ComicCon the rest of the week. BTW they even have Marco Andretti's IRL car here. #
• 23:39 ComicCon Preview Night - Random Thoughts and Notes - tinyurl.com/5p6hba #

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http://www.splittinghairsthemovie.com/SPLITTINGHAIRSTHEMOVIE.com/Home.html

The short film by Michael Boretz (Dr. Horrible producer and Joss' former assistant) is now available to watch. Joss describes it as "funny and twisted and God help us, probably true".

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http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/801542

and Angel coming in November. Now in tin!

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http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=080724

this time on Sluggy Freelance.

• Did you know, returning to work cures all your ailments? Yep, I feel 150% better knowing that all my work is for shit. #
• Can blowing your nose wear you out this much? It shouldn't. What part of my body produces this much mucas? #
• "For that price, she better fuck like Helen of Troy with her ass on fire!" #
• @VanessaY I play music or I'll sing out loud at work with the song in my head. Yesterday, it was "Fine, fine line" from Avenue Q. #

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wwdn/~3/344107344/im-off-to-nerd.html

It's so weird to have this great week working on Criminal Minds that I can't talk about in any detail until October. I have no mouth, and I must scream, you could say. How about I just give up one little non-spoilery thing, and nobody tells on me, okay?

At the end of the shoot, I was thanking a lot of the people I worked with for making it such a great experience. Every single one of them told me that they wished I worked on the show every day. I guess the feeling was mutual.

So, yeah, that made me feel pretty good. If you get a chance to work on Criminal Minds, I highly recommend it.

Now, to business:

Tomorrow, I'm heading down to San Diego for an abbreviated stay at Comic-Con. Here's my schedule:

• On Thursday, I'll be on a panel called Star Trek Without a Blueprint: How books and comics keep expanding the boundaries of the Star Trek universe. We'll be talking about the future of Star Trek publishing in room 32AB from 4:00-5:00. I'll be on the panel with Andy Mangels (moderator and Star Trek author), Margaret Clark (executive editor, Pocket Books), Andy Schmidt (senior editor, IDW) and Star Trek authors Kevin Dilmore, Dave Mack, Scott Tipton, and Dayton Ward.
• The rest of the time, I'll be with my friend Rich Stevens at the Dumbrella booth, which is number 1335. MC Frontalot is going to be there, too, so if you're looking to fill that final square on Nerd Bingo, come and see us.
  

Oh. I guess it would be useful to know what I'm taking with me to sign and sell, wouldn't it?

In addition to some 8x10s from Star Trek and Stand By Me, I'll have copies of The Happiest Days of Our Lives , which I'm kind of hoping will sell out.

I'll have a few copies of Dancing Barefoot and Just A Geek. I'll also have a few copies of Volume 2 of the Star Trek Manga. I won't have any copies of Volume 3 of the Star Trek Manga, but it's just been released, so I'm sure you'll be able to pick up a copy somewhere. If you bring it to the booth, I'm happy to sign it for you.

Finally, I will have copies of this year's Chapbook, which is called Sunken Treasure. What's that, you say? You don't know what that is? You don't have time to click a link, you say? Well, my lazy friend, allow me to show you part of the author's note:

Every summer, I make one of these limited chapbooks and take them with me on the inevitable summer convention tour. In the past, I’ve pulled material from whatever I’m working on, as sort of a fall preview, but this year the book I’m working on is so top secret, I’d have to print the chapbook on self-destructing paper, and while that would make it a very limited edition, the costs associated are kind of prohibitive.

So for 2008’s limited edition chapbook extravaganza, I’ve put together the first ever Wil Wheaton Sampler. With the help of my editor Andrew, who is a former ninja warrior and recreational time traveler, I’ve pulled together things I like from all three of my books, my blog, and this groovy collaborative fiction project I play with called Ficlets. I’ve also included, for the first time anywhere, one of the scripts I wrote for a sketch comedy show at the ACME Comedy Theater.

I am really proud of Sunken Treasure, and I think Andrew (my friend and editor) and I came up with something really special. I only sold about a dozen of them at San Jose Super-Con (there really weren't that many people there this year) and since I'm not welcome at the Creation convention in Vegas, the only places you can get copies of it will be Comic-Con and PAX. I'm anxious to get these little books out into the wild, though, so I hope you'll tell everyone you know, for a grand total of 150 people (you guys can coordinate this, right?) to come by the Dumbrella booth and check it out. It's so weird to make something I'm so proud of, and only get to share it with a handful of people so far.

I don't know if I'll be particularly motivated to post while I'm away. I'll likely be posting all sorts of things to Twitter, including where I am and when I'll be signing. There will also be pithy observations about my fellow geeks, so you don't want to miss that. Erm, provided I can avoid the fail whale, that is. Ahem.

The Internet is quiet as hell lately. I feel like I'm talking into an empty tube, so thanks for reading and commenting; it makes me feel a little less like a crazy old man with no pants standing on the corner ranting about the weather.

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http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/07/23/dr-horrible-by-the-numbers/

A blogger estimates the revenue at $2.6 million. Why on earth would Joss ever go back to regular television?

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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog

Cataloging how Whedon & co. used or twisted convention in the story.

It's like Wikipedia, except for organizing fictional cliches-- ahem, "tropes"-- for the benefit of writers, or those who really like to pick something apart, until it's not so much funny (or becomes much funnier... 'cause it's true!)

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http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/07/dollhouse-pilot.html

Joss and Eliza talk Dollhouse with the Hollywood Reporter. With pretty moving pictures.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/07/23/DI2008072301967.html

On the heels of the popular Joss chat, Washingtonpost.com is doing a chat with Neil Patrick Harris tomorrow 7-24-08 at 10am EST. The inside scoop on the Joss chat btw is that 50 questions of 300 were sent to Joss for him to pick from. I imagine it will be the same for Dr. Horrible himself. Cheers!

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http://redeye.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/red-superherotourney-31,0,897245.story

Buffy defeated Superman and moves into the title match.

Buffy had a rough start in this tournament of Superheroes. She faced off against Thor in the first match and was outvoted almost the entire time, until delivering a surprise boost of votes at the end to move on to the 2nd round. There, she was pitted against Batman and was predicted to lose. But in the biggest upset of the tournament, Buffy crushed Batman and moved into the next round against The Silver Surfer. Once again stacked against the odds, Buffy fans moved into full force and handily defeated The Silver Surfer. And in the semifinal match, it was old versus new when Buffy faced the legendary Superman. In a battle of epic proportions, Buffy fans lead her to victory once again. Now, in the final battle to decide who is the BEST SUPERHERO ever, it is Buffy the Vampire Slayer against Spider-Man. Two heroes walk in, one hero walks out.