Geek Girls Create – What Would YOUR Comic-Con Panel Cover?

Attending WonderCon? Check out some of my favorite geeky gals in their “Geek Girls Create” panel on Saturday, March 17, at 5:30 p.m. Check them out on Facebook (Geek Girls Create) and follow their fun tweets on Twitter (see their @’s above). I’ll be there! Will you?

Later, I’ll tell you about other friends’ panels and wow do we have big plans for this summer’s San Diego Comic-Con. This weekend, I asked other online associates, friends, fiends, and fans what topic they’d cover if they had their own con panels.

"Oh, You Sexy Geek!" Oh, how much trouble our summer 2011 panel stirred up.

Answers on Facebook:
Sarah Fuller Phillips: Using comic book media in narrative therapy for adolescents/college students. Of course, I’d have to do quite a bit of research and several years of practice with it, but if we’re dreaming here….
William G. Hamrick Jr.: I once did an “independent study” class in college on the topic of “Comic Books as Literature” so I would probably want to design a panel around that idea. Hmm, might be something to suggest to the DragonCon folks this year.
Kate Finnegan: Geek feminism- what it REALLY is and how it affects us as fans and creators.
Travis Langley: Summer 2012: “The Dark Knight Rises: Is Batman Broken?” with Michael Uslan, Steven Englehart, & Denny O’Neil. Plus one with Andrea Letamendi, but when we reveal that title’s up to her.
Sarah Fuller Phillips: How fancy! Yours are actually happening in this year.
John Ferrigno: Underrated characters in comics: Why The Mole Man is f’n awesome but nobody realizes it
David LeVack: The first black female Cartoonist. Jackie Ormes
Arcade Brewery: Beer, Comics, and Video Games
Brennan Neil: How not to break into comics.
Kurt Christenson: Digital Comics First: Rethinking the comic book publishing model from digital to floppy to trade to hardcover. Also, how best to take advantage of the digital medium to create a unique experience.

Answers on Twitter:
aaron cochran @HANNIBALPB81: neal adams and denny o neal on there green lanter green arrow run one of my all time favs
AJ @rage_A: Alestorm The Lack of Supernitro Drunken Pirates in Modern Comics.
AJ @SAssassian: The future of comics “To Be or Not To Be Digital” artist perspectives and collectors the every growing long white boxes
Alan Braden @ProfUpsidasium: “Steampunk: Stay Calm and Relax. It’s Still Steampunk.”
Andy Suriano @wolfboy74: my facial hair–or “facial hair as a genre”…?: )
Arturo R. Garcia @: “The All-Star Celebrity Roast of Katrina Hill”? #kidding RT @ActionChick What would YOUR Comic-Con panel be about? What your topic?
BG3 @CaptainB_Money: The Panel on Starships and Shiny Japanese SuperHeros/Kaiju.
Bilal Mian @Bilal_: Have an interactive panel with the crowd where we take a comic book series and adapt it into a TV show
Bilal Mian @Bilal_Mian: We would need a fun panel lineup. Critics, a network head, and both Zach Levi and Nathan Fillion
Brooke Adams @brookeaholic: it’d be on some horror-comedy-musical where I would have played an absolute nutter:D yay.
CAPTAIN COMIC CON!!! @IconOfComicCon: I wouldnt have my fans questions filtered! The topic will be the crowd and how awesome Comic Con is. With special guest panel.
CAPTAIN COMIC CON!!! @IconOfComicCon: Panel would consist of Adam West, Mark Hamill, Katrina Hill, Stan Lee and Me! We would answer questions of the crowd and stars!
Cosmic Bob @cosmicbob55: #Buffy “Did Drusilla kill the Boogedy-Boogedy Shopkeeper?” An important question. BTW, she did not.
craig wiedman @Mr_Wiedman: @ActionChick the dangers of wearing costumes in the ungodly heat
Cricket Lee @crixlee: #geekgirlscreate ha
Dalek V @DalekEmpress: No-Sew Costuming -tips and tricks for those on a budget.
Davann Srey @Dvann562: The Comic-Con Panel panel.
destry arender @DLA_91: My panel would be about anything I wrote:D
Diana Moon @dianamoon: hard to narrow down! Either one like @HerUniverse’s herstory panel but w/ POC focus or a fanfic panel or non-canon lgbt panel
DJalphabeats @DJalphabeats: fusion of music and how it sets the tone for most things in our world, and then I would probably finish with star trek:-)
Dutch @RangerDutch: How comics can address/deal with current geo-political issues. They are fun AND can be informative or raise awareness
E.Nigma @ENigmanr01: cast from Riddick, cast from Big Bang or cast from Avengers…..and maybe BSG cast ( still love that show)
elizabeth_ann @elizabeth_ann: I don’t want a panel, just a space with a comfy chair where I can people watch… find the crowds at cons fascinating
Franchesca Havas @TheRealChes: Contracts. How to negotiate a contract for a “fill in the blank”. Be it books, modeling, etc.:)
Heather Kuehn @IncredibleHLK: Becoming Batgirl: Nerdy Inspirations for Losing Weight.
heidi(8) @travelingheidi: We’re hoping to do our Harry Potter fandom panel again this year. 5th year in a row if we do….
Jaes Anthony @ninJaeS: Animated properties, TV shows, and games that need to be given a 2nd chance/new life. My comic-con panel.
Jake Nelson @Jake_Nelson_UK: Legion of Super-Heroes, particularly the more obscure members like Element Lad, Shrinking Violet, and Timber Wolf.
Jason @DoctorNvrmore: Digital Comics, why not more of a price break over floppies? RT @ActionChick: topic they’d cover if they were on a Comic-Con panel?
JASON LIVES @JasonSpore: trying out & supporting creator owned/indie #comics and the extreme importance of preordering books you’re interested in.
jrsydevils @jrsydevils: Why are there no women on Comic Book Men
Justin_TheBuck @Justin_TheBuck: I’d like to address the lack of any truly original IPs from the big two and why people should try more indie comics.
Kristen McHugh @kristenmchugh22: Geek Culture and the Female Gaze.
Langston @reyford1: a panel for jack bauer vs chuck Norris
Larry G. @LGgonzalez10: a “do-it-yourself” comic series. Utilizing pre set templates and characters. It would probably be directed towards children.
Maria Selke @mselke01: @fangirlcantina I’d absolutely go to that!! @actionchick
Matt Jarbo @mjarbo: I would have a #SDCC panel about my films, and why I rock.:)
Matt Smith @AllThingsSmitty: poor military planning by the Empire, last scene of Ep. IV. They should’ve shot through the planet instead of going around.
Matthew Gant @FknGantisms: old school Variant and its resurgence #X-OManowar
mikie graham @zombiemonkie: i would host a “how to dress to impress, for the modern nerd”
Nicholas Lawrence @LinkinPhoenix: Will we ever see the ‘Next Generation’ Super teams become the current Super teams in comics IE Teen Titans, Young Avengers
Paul Saukas @Arasoi: The Science of Sci-Fi.:D
paul swanson @TheRaymondMoon: something on weapons of scifi and fantasy films. And or something on the supernatural in pop culture and the legends based on
Peoples Rodriguez @DanTresOmi: the evolution of Luke cage
Rachael Berkey @bookoisseur: @kristenmchugh22 @actionchick ohhh I like that!
Rachael Berkey @bookoisseur: How can you turn your passion for geek culture into a job/mission that gives back…speakers from nonprofits/foundations.
Romina @redRomina: best way to survive a zombie apocalypse.
Roy G. Biv @PonyRoy: What else? Ponies!
ryan weeks @Ryeguy695: Paper comics going the way of the Dodo in the digital age?
scott jeffries @urabore: My Comic Con panel? Zap comics, or Mad magazine. Whatever happened to humor in this industry? In other words, who took the “Comic” out of comic books.
Sergio @Stanley_Pain: My panel would be about comics in mainstream media w/ a focus on how to pair up w/ like minds & get your stuff out there
Shiksa @sdigda: “Homeschooling & Comics” –> how comics improve reading skills for “non-readers” (nephew hated reading but had @SI memorized)
Skye Donald @skyedonald: Do we really need a D&D 5.0? – WotC takes your abuse while they take your money!
Slacker and The Man @satmpodcast: Podcasting!
Tim Barzyk @TimBarzyk: Conservation of Mass in Superhero Transformations: Incredible Hulk, Mr. Fantastic, Quantum Field Theory, & Virtual Particles
Tony @CylonBookworm: The death of the SciFi series. Firefly, Stargate, Caprica, Eureka, and almost every other good series is killed off too early.
Tricia @fangirlcantina: I would love to host a panel on the heroine’s journey. How would it differ from a hero’s journey as defined by Campbell.
Wildride Robert Roy @wyldride: Why are there so many heroes with Green in their name? RT @ActionChick what topic they’d each cover if they were on a Comic-Con panel