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...Comic-Con International at San Diego, the largest comic convention in the world, took place last weekend to the biggest attendance in its history: more than 70,000 people, according to organizers. Lasting four days, the San Diego Con, as it's known, spans nearly five football fields on two floors, hosting retailers, publishers, creators and fans. While it sounds like a comix Brigadoon, a magical island that appears just once a year, many in the comixcenti scowl at its mention, fuming at the mix of toys, models, movies, videogames, animation, trading cards, t-shirts and ancillary merchandise that they...
...Andrew D. Arnold Raison D'etre: Rows of comics at the Comic-Con International...
...ever withdrawn. Or when the Saudis help the U.S. by keeping a lid on oil prices, he labels the assistance nothing more than blood money. Baer argues, somewhat implausibly, that the monarchy's demise is imminent. In that event, he suggests--even more implausibly--that the U.S. seriously con-sider a military takeover of the oil fields...
...CON: --American Beauty, Mendes' first film, was not exactly an advertisement for matrimony. --Mendes' ex-girlfriend Calista Flockhart would make anybody feel fat. --Judging by her movies, Winslet likes acting out roles when naked...
...while an Israeli flag was burned. As police barricades separated pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli students, I walked by with a first-year art history class on a museum trip. Having already survived one year at the cantankerous university, I told the shocked freshmen, ‘Welcome to Con...