Pic-shas!

Here they are: The promised pix of Saturday and a little of Sunday in San Diego! Our buddies Ian & Jess took us around to the west side of the San Diego bay on Saturday. The weather was lovely as usual, but it was a hazy day, so my panoramic shots kinda suck. Enjoy!

The official VM fiancee introduces us to the In-N-Out Burger that she’s about to chomp!

The sub base.

The airstrip at Naval Base Coronado.

The military cemetery where we were taking pix. I was afraid they’d come back as zombies and, since they were military, they’d be pretty regimented and not as ragged as zombie-irregulars.

Just a nice tree in the cemetery.

Jess & Ian, my buddies in SD, who were doubling as tour-guides for the afternoon.

Here’s a tide pool on the other side of the peninsula.

Same thing. I just like the organicness of the terrain.

On our walk over to the tidal pool.

TIDEPOOLTIDEPOOLTIDEPOOL!

Bonus surfing picture for longtime VM reader Elayne!

The view of the bay from that Cabrillo National Monument park I mentioned a few days ago.

Same thing. Sue me.

A statue of Cabrillo himself!

Strong jaw on that dude. He’s no Communist Superman or anything, but he still seems pretty bold.

On Sunday morning, we headed back to the Con. This guy was waiting for us, as was Ray Harryhausen.

The pic you were waiting for: It’s Enigma! He’s tattooed like a jigsaw puzzle! He has horns implanted under his skin! Embarrassingly, my hip friends have no idea who this guy is, which means I am a freak.

You can decide:

Nerd Vegas

You can’t have a Comic-Con without an awards show! Occasional VM contributor Tom Spurgeon just posted his diary of the Eisner Awards night at last week’s Con.

A lot of the jokes are really industry-specific, so you might not laugh as much as I did.

9:32 — Sean McKeever wins Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition, which is a neat award because it helps to solve the problem it presents in its title.

9:33 — I dream of an entire awards show designed along the same, utilitarian lines as the previous award, like “Artist Most in Need of Something Small to Place on a Desk.”

I’m still fixing up the pix from Saturday and Sunday; they’ll be up soon. You get back to work.