Comic Con has sadly come to a close and it’s time for me to set my weary bones down and pen my impressions. I know, it’s a bit on the late side, but that’s what happens when you are a stay-at-home mom trying to keep a one and a half year old busy.

Like many bloggers in this industry, I found Comic Con 2010 to be the biggest yet. What used to be a convention filled with nerds eating, drinking and sweating cards and comics has now branched into a high-end collectors paradise filled with all manner of ephemera.

There’s still a great emphasis on comic collecting, but it’s not so center-stage anymore. For instance, lets pretend your kryptonite is vinyl collectible figures with googly eyes and antennae. Well, there’s plenty of that. How about the 1983 re-release of some “B” film with zombies in it? Around every corner. T-Shirts declaring to the nation that you wish to be “The Dude’s” girlfriend? Plenty. Zombie mimes wearing striped underwear on their heads while doing handstands and screaming expletives? But of course. Comic Con has become a treasure trove of everything. You name it, Comic Con has it.

But that’s not the focus of this article. I want to talk about my favorite Comic Con Icon. Elvira.

Yes, yours truly was able to attend the Elvira Press Panel Q&A. While I did feel a bit like jello, I didn’t turn into a blubbering idiot the minute she spoke, although, I did feel my knees buckle a bit. One could say that I worship Elvira, I have an official Elvira t-shirt with a chocolate stain from the time I went to see her in the Hollywood Christmas Parade in 1994, I pour coffee into my special Limited Edition Elvira Mug every morning, I own all of her DVD’s, I own and wear the Official Elvira Mistress of the Dark costume while I listen to Elvira’s Haunted Hits and I even have an Elvira Mistress of the Dark jewelery box that I decoupaged myself from my collection of pics. But really, what does this all mean in the larger scheme of things anyway? Does it really mean that I worship her? I don’t hang outside her house waiting for her maid to empty the trash so that I can go through it….hell, I don’t even know where she lives, or her maid for that matter. I don’t follow The Mistress of the Dark to speaking engagements all over the world because that would be creepy and I really don’t wish to be a “that fan”.

What’s a “that fan” you ask.

Now, now.  I’m sure he’s a very nice boy.  My opinion is that everyone who’s anyone needs a “that fan” and in all honesty, I’ve seen Elvira’s. I have to say, a nice shower and a clean shave would do him a bit of good. And, maybe a bit of a wardrobe change as well. All I’m trying to say is that while I adore Elvira and am a hardcore fan, I don’t worship her. Really. I didn’t even try to get on her “Next Elvira” show (because frankly, she’s irreplaceable), in fact I boycotted it. I don’t fly to Romania or Prague and sneak onto her movie sets…well, except for that one time, but no one caught me, so mums the word. Seriously though, I just respect myself too much. However, I must confess, if Elvira’s “that fan” ever decides to retire, I’ll be waiting to take his place.

In all seriousness, I’m just a kid among many who grew up with that wonderfully exotic woman lying on her settee. And, whilst the light from the TV danced in the orbs in my nine year old head, Elvira told me all sorts of silly things about movies that no one even knew about or liked at the time, making me giggle incessantly because of her whit and humor. Of course when I’d go to school the next day and tell all the other kids, they’d just through pebbles at me until I ran away….and for some reason I was always the one that ended up in the principals office. It might have been all the sexual innuendos…..

Enough with my coveting only the coolest goth in the world. I do have some information that I gleaned from Elvira’s Q&A that is truly interesting…..

She’s Baaaaaacccckkk! And guess what?! She’s bringing the old settee with her!

Here’s a bit from the press release:

Who would have imagined back in 1981 that the hostess of a local Hollywood horror movie show would grow to become a household name? Elvira was the first horror host ever to be syndicated nationally, and the Mistress of the Dark has remained one of the most original and outrageous characters in popular culture today. This fall, she returns to national syndication with 26 horror movies, accompanied by her one-of-a-kind commentary. B-movie actors and directors beware, because nothing escapes the keen eye and sharp tongue of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

ELVIRA’S MOVIE MACABRE

Tentative Movie Schedule

- Premiering Fall 2010 -

Manos, The Hands of Fate

Night of the Living Dead

The Terror

The Brain That Wouldn’t Die

Giant Gila Monster

Scared to Death

Werewolf of Washington

Eegah!

Untamed Women

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Satanic Rights of Dracula

I Eat Your Skin

Don’t Look in the Basement

Teenagers From Outer Space

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter

Lady Frankenstein

Manster

Wild Women of Wongo

Bucket of Blood

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric

Tormented

Wasp Women

Beast From the Haunted Cave

The Killer Shrews

Monsters From a Prehistoric Planet

Attack of the Giant Leeches