Heidi MacDonald has a great summation of how the annual Nerd Prom, aka the San Diego Comic-Con, has become a defacto Sundance-type festival, or “Cannes for Fans“, at once a celebration of pop culture (as personified by comics) and a complete and utter rejection of the source material (as evidenced by those comics’ segregation in the outermost wildernesses of the convention and the pricing out of the people who basically built the convention itself…)