8. Lockdown Your Panel Choices
Half of the fun of Comic-Con is the panels. In my decade of attendance, I’ve been present for huge comic book news reveals, conversations between my favorite writers and artists and dozens of world premiere trailers. But the process of picking your panels is a long one. This is how it was described to me:
Step one: three months before the con, you get out the official comic-con schedule and your handy-dandy highlighter and mark every panel that looks even remotely interesting. If you even think “maybe I’ll go to that†then highlight that baby.
Step two: about a week before the con, go into your closet and grab that Comic-Con schedule you highlighted. Now look through it and cross off all the panels you can’t do because they conflict with other panels you want to do more and cross off anything that conflicts with any dinner reservations you may have. Oh, and just draw a big X through anything in Hall H unless you’re a crazy person.
Step three: The day of the convention, wander around the con ripping up pages from your schedule because you wanna eat lunch and you’re not going to that panel or because that panel is all the way upstairs and your feet hurt. If you follow these steps, you should wind up going to about twenty percent of the panels you originally highlighted. This is about average, unless you wanna do Hall H, in which case you should head on over to the next entry.
