Comic-Con Report 2003
FEATURE
POSTED 2003-07-24 | PRINT | MORE ON THIS COUNTDOWN
BY DAVID SERVER | Hey guys! Typhon24 here, reporting from the just recently finished San Diego Comicon. I caught some pretty groovy stuff this weekend, and I thought I'd give my general impressions of what was shown film-wise from this year's Con. Overall, I was pretty darned impressed. I'll try and cover the stuff I saw that really stuck out to me (for better or for worse), although I may skip things like the Paramount or Kevin Smith panels because they were really only Q&A sessions with no footage or anything like that -- I liked them, but there's not much to report: Angelina Jolie is hot, Kevin Smith is funny -- consider yourself all caught up. But anyways, I'll try and hit the highlights, relevant Q&A info, and freebies, and sum it up with a grade. Let's dive right in, shall we?
THE PUNISHER: Technically, Artisan didn't have any actual 'presentation' to speak of for their upcoming Punisher film since they're busy filming in Florida, but they did have a booth, and being CountingDown's resident 'comic-book-guy', I had to check it out. Started strong -- they had a *huge* foam-core cutout of the skull logo which stretched the entire height of the convention center. Most of the booth's space was mysteriously hidden behind a black curtain. The table outside the curtained area sported a table with some free promotional t-shirts, pins, and postcards, all featuring the Punisher logo and nothing we hadn't seen before. There was also a prop tombstone for Frank Castle, which was a sort of nice touch. But what lay behind the curtain? New footage from the film? New promotional imagery? Maybe even a new poster! So I went in. I found a small flat-screen playing the teaser, the old teaser we've all seen in theaters, in repeat. Nice job, Artisan -- you guys really pulled out all the stops, huh? And yeah, that was sarcastic.
Freebies: T-Shirts, Promo Cards, Promo Pins
Grade: D+
