Two brief items. The Programming Schedule for Thursday at Comic-Con should be online tomorrow. The schedule for Friday should be up on Friday and so on. I really suggest that if you're attending, you take the time to study the whole list and jot down what you want to see and what your second and third choices are if the lines are too long. I believe the line for the Adam West-Burt Ward-Julie Newmar panel on the 60's Batman show is already forming. I will have the list of my panels up as soon as the convention has announced everything.
And Joe Melchione alerts me to a stupendous bargain on Amazon: Laurel & Hardy: The Essential Collection for (at the moment) $34.49. This was a great deal at a hundred bucks and I don't regret paying what I paid — around $70 — for my copy. When I was a kid, I was thrilled to have four and ten-minute abridgements of some of their films on 8mm. To think that you could own a set like this of their best work, fully-restored and complete, at any price was like hoping to win the World Series…except that the kind of kid I was, I would rather have had the Laurel and Hardy movies than win the World Series. You can order this set at this link. Thanks, Joe.