I love websites that provide valuable services and ask little or nothing in return. One such is The San Diego Comic-Con Unofficial Blog, run by a couple of enthusiastic folks who love Comic-Con (the one in San Diego) and WonderCon (the one in Anaheim) and make a great effort to help others enjoy those cons as much as they do. Their enterprise is totally unaffiliated with the conventions themselves but it offers valuable information and suggestions to make your con-going experience easier, safer, less expensive and just plain happier.
If you are thinking of attending either con any year, you should keep an eye on the SDCCBlog. Among other things, they'll tell you how to perhaps get badges for the San Diego one when it is possible to perhaps get badges for the San Diego one. It's pert near impossible now, 72 Days before the event, but it was sorta/maybe possible several months ago. You'd have known when that was if you followed the SDCCBlog. (You should also keep an eye on the official Comic-Con website, which is also very good. The SDCCBlog provides supplemental info.)
You should also listen to their fine podcasts which commence in May each year. The first one leading up to this year's Comic-Con will be live online tomorrow night, May 9, at 6:30 PM West Coast Time, which of course is 9:30 PM back east. As has become customary, their first guest of the year will be me. I will be talking about my history with the con and the thousand-and-one panels I'll be hosting there this year. (SPOILER ALERT: It's most of the same ones I host every year but with some different people on them.) Tune in. Ask questions. I'll embed the video on this site after the fact but you'll enjoy it more if you watch live.