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There's always one day during the Sdcc when you just shake your head, laugh, and say, "This schedule is ridiculous." Saturday, July 20th, is shaping up to be that day this year.

Horror fans will have a lot of choices to make as the "Bates Motel" panel battles the one-two punch of Godzilla and Seventh Son. Later in the day you'll be faced with choosing to learn more about "True Blood," Telltale's The Walking Dead video game, or "Being Human." Right now 20th Century Fox's presentation that runs at the same time remains "To Be Announced," but once details are revealed, we'll provide an update.

Other panels vying for your attention throughout the day are "The Originals," "Grimm," I, Frankenstein teamed with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (that combination should make for some interesting audience reactions), a look at gameplay from Dead Rising 3 on the Xbox One, more games, comics,...

So what’s in Mindy’s head today?

I haven’t been to a convention in a long, long time, but reading about some of the ComicMix crew’s sojourn to Baltimore (here and here) lit up my temporal lobe – that’s the part of the brain responsible for memory, for you non-biology majors out there. James Doohan (Chief Engineer Montgomery “Captain, the engines canna take it” Scott of the U.S.S. Enterprise Ncc-1701) in the “green room” at Icon spilling his coffee all over my new outfit and his gentlemanly response as he went to wipe my chest and then blushed, stopping himself just in time. London in 1986 – walking through London with Archie Goodwin, Mark Gruenwald, Louise and Walter Simonson. Meeting Neil Gaiman and John Wagner. Forgetting that I met John Higgins and then marrying him 17 years later. The British Museum. The Tower of London. Breakfast with Mike Grell and Tom DeFalco.

Every title of the Before Watchmen event continues to impress me. It's amazing how so many writers and artists can maintain the excellent quality they do over so many storylines that ultimately intersect. Before Watchmen: Nite Owl Issue #2 continues the trend and gives us more compelling background on the characters we know and love.

Issue #2 focuses more on the working relationship between Nite Owl and Rorschach. The two definitely have different ways of doing things and clashing moral codes. Things get more complicated as Nite Owl becomes obsessed with a tempting mistress named the Twilight Lady. He's infatuated with her while Rorschach just sees another vile piece of criminal scum that needs to be permanently cleaned up. The two heroes must also come to grips with life-altering events which happened to them in their childhoods. 

J. Michael Stracynski continues the forward momentum he started with Issue #1. There's lots of great...

Every title of the Before Watchmen event continues to impress me. It's amazing how so many writers and artists can maintain the excellent quality they do over so many storylines that ultimately intersect. Before Watchmen: Nite Owl Issue #2 continues the trend and gives us more compelling background on the characters we know and love.

Issue #2 focuses more on the working relationship between Nite Owl and Rorschach. The two definitely have different ways of doing things and clashing moral codes. Things get more complicated as Nite Owl becomes obsessed with a tempting mistress named the Twilight Lady. He's infatuated with her while Rorschach just sees another vile piece of criminal scum that needs to be permanently cleaned up. The two heroes must also come to grips with life-altering events which happened to them in their childhoods. 

J. Michael Stracynski continues the forward momentum he started with Issue #1. There's lots of great...

Of all the different characters in the Watchmen universe, Adrian Alexander Veidt interested me the least. I put off reading Before Watchmen: Ozymandias Issue #1 for that very reason. As I've admitted several hundreds of times in the past about other things, I was wrong to do so. What I found inside the glossy cover of this first chapter in the six-part series was the life of this eccentric and troubled "superhero" fleshed out in both words and illustrations.

The story unfolds with Veidt reflecting on his long road to "savior of the world" as he sits in front of his TV monitors. It's before the arrival of the other Watchmen to stop him from "saving" the human race from themselves by tearing civilization down to rebuild it. He flashes back to his troubled youth, gives us insight into his training in martial arts, introduces us to his one and only love,...