Las Vegas - Keep Your Paws Off Our Comics!
When an article appeared in Sequential Tart (a comic webzine) proposing that Comic-Con (the largest U.S. comic convention) be moved from San Diego to Las Vegas, author Katherine Keller drew a swift and effective response from Mark Evanier at POVOnline.
In Keller’s article “What Happens in San Diego…Should Happen in Las Vegas” Katherine Keller discusses San Diego’s lack of hotel rooms, parking expenses, transportation, convention space, and restaurants, contrasting them with the abundance of Las Vegas.
Evanier’s article “What Happens in San Diego Stays in San Diego” takes on each of these issues in turn, but the most convincing argument is one completely ignored by Keller: the weather in July, when Comic-Con commences. As Evanier states:
The average July temperature in San Diego is 84 degrees and it’s usually 5-10 degrees less around the ocean where the convention center is located. The average July temperature in Las Vegas is 106.
Evanier knocks the rest of Vegas’ amenities just as hard as Keller knocks those of San Diego, adding that many of Comic-Con’s attendees come from Hollywood and other northern destinations by train, something that they couldn’t do in Vegas. Further, Comic-Con enjoys being the big fish in San Diego conventions’ small pond, and would be lost among all of the commotion in Las Vegas. If that’s not enough to convince you, please read both articles and make up your own mind.
What’s my opinion?
Of course I want Comic-Con to stay in San Diego! As a San Diegan, that’s a no-brainer.
It’s not that I don’t like Vegas; I do. I may even have an Elvis impersonator marry my husband and I when we renew our vows again next year, and where else would I do that but Vegas?
I’ll happily attend the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas again in the future, while taking full advantage of the cheap buffets, Blue Man Group and the like. With all Las Vegas has to offer, it’s just not what people are looking for when they attend Comic-Con. San Diego is NOT Las Vegas and, God willing, it never will be .
Oh wait, here’s an idea: Let’s move CES to San Diego!
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