Here I am, reporting back from Comic Con on Friday.

I first went to the Shonen Jump panel where Stan Lee and Hiroyuki Takei-he did Shaman King- talked about their collaboration manga Ultimo. Ultimo is about these two mechanical boys who were created to be perfect good, who is Ultimo, and perfect evil, who is named Vice(shocker!). The mad scientist who made them, Dr. Dunstan, wants to find out whether good or evil is stronger.

Dr. Dunstan is modeled after Stan Lee. It was pretty funny because Takei does the illustrations and when the board asked him what he thought Stan Lee was going to say when he saw the character design for Dunstan, he responded "I thought he was going to kill me." Takei said he figured that Stan Lee might want to be in the manga since he shows up in the films he works on. When Stan Lee showed up he was losing his voice. Poor guy, it was all raspy. He said he did some speeches yesterday and that couch drops don't work. I missed the time for the autographs, but the panel was enough.

Straight from that panel I went to the 12:45 pm Disney Panel with Hayao Miyazaki, where I waited in line, outside, on the grass, from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. @_o Yes, you can assume that I missed some of the panel and got totally sunburned. And I had just lost my farmer's tan. ; P I came in when they were talking about Toy Story 3.

Toy Story 3 will have a Ken doll, since the last movie had Barbie dolls. Ken will be voiced by Michael Kietan...I know I spelled his name wrong. It's the villian car from the movie Cars. They showed an interview with Ken.
Interviewer: So Ken, how do you feel about being a girl's toy?
Ken: What about it? *smirk*
Interviewer: So what do you think about Barbie's name being 10 times bigger than your name on the Barbie box?
Ken: No comment
Toy Story 3 will be coming out June 2010.

On Valentine's Day 2010 there will be Beauty and the Beast in 3D in theaters. They showed a piece of it and I don't know if it's because I had my glasses and the 3D glasses on or I was sun stroked, but it made me a little dizzy. The upside is that you can see the layers, there's more depth in the backgrounds and crowds.

On ABC channel there will be a Christmas Pixar special called Prep and Landing, which is about these special ops elves that get each house ready for Santa. They make sure the fire at the bottom of the chimney is out, the presents will fit under the Christmas tree, the cookies don't have nuts in them and so on. It looked funny.

Ok by the directors of The Little Mermaid and Adladin comes The Princess and the Frog, based off of the Frog Prince, but with a twist. It takes place in the 1920s in New Orleans and is an animated musical.Comes out this holiday. I personally liked what I saw. The villain is this voodoo witch doctor who is drawn by Bruce Smith, who also did the Proud Family.The Prince looks handsome. I know that the prince lost his fortune and the witch doctor told him that he should marry someone with money and turns him into a frog. He meets this girl named Tiana who's a waitress but the prince sees her in a fancy dress. Somehow she kisses the frog and gets turned into a frog herself, since she isn't a princess and kissed the cursed frog. That's all I know.

Then, near the end, Hayao Miyazaki came onto the mini stage. I can't tell you how many camera flashes there were. It was CRAZY!!0_o He came to promote his latest film Ponyo. Ponyo is about this goldfish girl who sees this boy and tries to get his attention. So it's a story that starts in the sea to the topside. Personally, I don't think it's as colorful as some of his earlier works, but I love how Miyazaki made the waves into fish. Comes out August 14th. Of course there was Q and A. I...only remember two questions off the top of my head. The first one was where does Miyazaki get his inspiration. He said that he doesn't remember once he finishes the film. The second one was why his films mostly have female protagonists and he said because women are strong and beautiful. ^_^

After the Disney panel I wandered around, bought some baby blue and white koi fish earrings that move slightly. They're beautiful. My sister took a picture of a wolverine look-alike stabbing my back. She'll load it on facebook on Monday.: )

And then I went to Yen Press panel with my sister. They publish graphic novels, whether it be Japanese, American, or Korean. They said ethnicity doesn't matter.There's a couple of titles that caught my interest. Unfortunately they will be releasing a Twilight graphic novel. Blehhhh...As if there wasn't enough of it.-_- There was a Twilight booth that was shared with Astro Boy. I thought that was a weird combo.