Comic-Con: Preview night’s big bag swag and images from the floor

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Each year, it seems that Warner Bros. becomes more and more renown for its free bags -- usually huge and usually imprinted with characters and projects that fans want to see. This year, about an hour before the preview night closed, the booth announcer at the WB had to tell those standing in line, or hoping to stand in line, that the allotment of bags was gone.

Also, at the Summit Entertainment booth, tickets were given out to hundreds of people to receive a chance to win ‘New Moon’ posters or ‘Twilight’ DVD sets. As one would think, action around the booth itself was hectic.

And the spirit wasn’t just in the convention center. Across the street in the Gaslamp area, whole shops, such as the Cafe Diem restaurant, were taken over by sponsors. Cardboard cutouts of characters from SyFy’s ‘Eureka’ TV show stood next to dining patrons, and the restaurant itself was sponsored.

And it’s just the preview night.

-- Jevon Phillips

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