SciFi Scanner for 01/11/2008
• It looks like the WGA Strike may kill off even something as seemingly un-Hollywood as this year's Comic-Con. Oh, there'll still be plenty of beardos wiping Cheetos dust off their beards. Just no panels.
• io9 looks at five alternate histories of New York. None involve a zombie apocalypse, unfortunately.
• A couple of short films "informed" by J.G. Ballard's bizarre novel of post-traumatic gash humping, Crash.
• An androgynous David Hasselhoff's light saber duel with stop-motion androids.
• Based in LA? Hurry over to this phenomenal gallery exhibition of art inspired by Stan Lee's comic characters.
• If you're savvy with Bittorrent, check out this incredible steampunk puppet show put on by a gaggle of Germans at this year's Chaos Congress in Berlin.
Most of the pannels at Comic Con are comic based. A lack of Hollywood parcipitation would slightly reduce the number of pannels, not kill them or the con off. As for picketing, I'd like to see anyone try it with in 100 yards of the convention center. The crowds would make it too difficult and dangerous to set up in front or across the street.