Commentary: Comic-Con should stay in San Diego

August 06, 2008 More than a week after 125,000 geeks descended on San Diego for the annual pop-culture mecca that is Comic-Con International, organizers are conducting postmortems on what worked and what didn't and whether Comic-Con should even stay in San Diego or begin looking for another location. Reading some articles and blogs, you might get the sense that this Comic-Con wasn't that successful, that it was frustrating and out of control. After a shaky start to the 2008 Con that saw the normally quiet Preview Night become like any other day of the confab, a nice rhythm developed as people realized that waiting in long lines was a way of life and the price of success Geek Nation must pay for captaining the pop-culture spaceship.

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