Last weekend my sweetie-wife and I attended our first Comic-Fest here in San Diego. Now, this is not the world famous and massively attended Hollywood trade show that is known as Comic-Con, but rather a much smaller convention that was founded by the original Comic-Con founders. The first few Comic-Fest passed by without me attending as they were much more focused on Comics and that art form is not my passion. Last year it looked to be much more generalized in its mediums along with a growing a science track of programming but it sadly conflicted with Kingdom-Con a local gaming convention, so I missed that year as well. Now that I have been to a Comic Fest what do I think?

It was a blast.

The science was very robust with lectures and presentations on the on going search for dark matter, galactic formation, imaging the moon, and even about two competing missions from NASA that look amazing. (Both un-crewed one a sample return from a comet the other an autonomous flying drone for Titan.) The media programing was sharp, with histories on the Twilight Zone and personal recollections from 40 years in the industry. The convention was rounded out by some decent SF programing and of interesting panels, presentations, and discussion on the comics industry.