They ran out of badge holders! You know those plastic things you slip the badge into and then you clip it on a pocket or something? They ran out of them at the con and had to ask departing guests to turn theirs back for recycling. There's a good indicator that attendance at this year's Comic-Con International was waaaay above anyone's expectations. Rumor has it that at one point, the line for on-site registration was six blocks long. (If you're thinking of registering on-site for next year's con, I'd leave now.)
I'm beat from the drive home so I'll just say that my panels today (tributes to Dan DeCarlo and Jack Kirby) went well, though I was a tad loopy by the second and babbled more than usual. Fortunately, all the guests were great. Heck, everything at the con was pretty great except, of course, for things like parking, concession stand prices, the sheer size of the hall and of the teeming mass of humanity that often made getting from Here to There a task of superhuman proportion.
Check back here in a day or so for more in-depth thoughts about the last four days…assuming, that is, I have any.