A review by lanikei
Comic-Con Strikes Again! by Douglas Wolk

4.0

I will likely never attend San Diego Comic Con, but I have attended several DragonCons, so this book struck a chord. I think it tries to capture the width and breadth of the Con, from the frustration from "true fans" about "Twi-hards" or other fads, contrasted with the old fans from the first cons who barely get recognition at all. It's important to see the change in the last 10 years from fan conventions about the love and work put towards a passion to now when it's so media and industry oriented. The scope of the cons have also grown to include a lot more with hundreds of panels devoted to all aspects of geekery.

I felt that the essay was a pretty honest introduction to nerd conventions, if you've never attended. Good read for a couple bucks.