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Pop Rocks: Five Things Comic-Con Needs to Fix If It's Ever Going to Make It

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3. Too Many Comic Books Nobody really buys these anymore, do they? And even if they do, the numbers sold can't possibly justify the taking up of valuable real estate better utilized by a third Tower of T-Shirts.

2. Needs More Non-"Geek" Panels Checking the schedule for Thursday-Sunday, I saw all nerd crap of all kinds arrayed before me: Firefly, Twilight, some guy named J. Michael Straczynski. And yet only a handful of panels devoted to things that might appeal to the non-dork type person: 50 Shades of Grey, Glee, Bones, Shameless, Person of Interest, Sons of Anarchy. Less horror, superheroes and science-fiction, more hot forensic pathologists and the FBI agents they may or may not sleep with.

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Peter Vonder Haar writes movie reviews for the Houston Press and the occasional book. The first three novels in the "Clarke & Clarke Mysteries" - Lucky Town, Point Blank, and Empty Sky - are out now.
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