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So the weekend blogging didn’t quite work out…

Anyway, you can catch all the announcements and stuff over on Newsarama and CBR – there’s no sense in rehashing every word, plus I didn’t go to the Cup of Joe panel as I was con’d out by that point Saturday, and I got there too late – ie past 6am – to get Stephen King panel tickets dammit…

Photos – blurry and indistinct though they may be – will be added tonight!

Buffy panel
No Nick Brendan – apparently he was running late. I’m not sure if he turned up for the autographing later, either. Kind of sucks – if someone makes a commitment like that they really should honor it. Ah well.

These things always creep me out a bit. The actors either are kind of quiet and look that they don’t want to be there or throw themselves into it a bit aggresively. There’s often a quiet desperation to these kind of things, I find. A sense of ‘if my career was doing better, I wouldn’t have to be sitting here taking questions on something I did eight years ago’, or ‘You don’t see Gellar, Boreanaz or Hannigan doing this anymore, do you?’

But I digress – this wasn’t quite that bad, although Bianca Lawson (Kendra) was kind of quiet. Jonathan Woodward (Angel‘s Knox, Firefly‘s Tracey in The Message and Buffy‘s talky vampire Webs in the excellent Conversations with Dead People) and James Leary (Clem) were both on great form and had the crowd eating out of their hand – literally in Jonathan’s case. Jonathan’s story about ‘winking’ at Lawrence Fishburne’s wife whilst being straddled by a tall Canadian man in very tight pants was priceless – and if you’re not geek enough to get what that means, man you’re really in the wrong place.

Juliet Landau (the incomparable Drusilla) was also entertaining, relating how she and James Marsters came up with a lot of their physical interactions early on and doing a frankly kind of creepy little Dru bit into the microphone.

Leland Crooke (Angel‘s Archduke Sebassis) related how much fun it was to kill Wesley knowing that he was going to stay dead. Only Bianca Lawson (Kendra) – who is absolutely tiny – looked pretty shy at the mike, and didn’t have too much to say.

Even without Nick Brendan though, this was a fun hour and a pretty good way to start the day!

Genius ad from IDW.

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