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As a heads up to anyone planning on going to the 2008 San Diego Comic Con, the four-day passes are now sold out.

(As in, no more of them are available.)

You can still buy the individual one-day passes. If you were to buy all four days this way, it would currently run you $110.

That said, the individual passes for Saturday are nearly sold out.

You can read more at the San Diego Comic Con site.

Following up on ota's post that followed my earlier post about four-day passes being gone, a check on the Comic Con site last night revealed that Saturday is now sold out.

Click here for the Comic Con site.

Despite the blow out on four days and Saturday, the other days remain relatively open. None of them have hit the halfway mark, although Friday is approaching it.

The real question for this year is if the Exhibit Hall will be hideous on Saturday, or if, like last year, the major shows in Hall H will siphon enough people off to make the Saturday experience altogether more peaceful than the Thursday crush.

As reported by Heidi MacDonald at The Beat, Dreamworks is sponsoring free wireless access in the non-Exhibit Hall portions of the Convention Center, as a promotion for their upcoming movie Eagle Eye.

On Saturday, we put a lot of effort into making it into the Pushing Daises panel (on the plus side, the panel preceding it was very interesting, so it wasn't a bad thing that we ended up sitting through that one as well).

The full cast showed up, along with show creator Bryan Fuller and executive producer Barry Sonnenfeld. This post is mainly meant to link over to my extensive Flickr photoset from the panel. Some highlights:

All the major stars, along with two executive producers and the show's creator.

Lee Pace and Anna Friel being embarrassed by Barry Sonnenfeld as he tells the story of how they talked a director into letting them play the kinetic (and potentially calamitous, in context) card game Snap during an establishing shot for an episode.

Kristin Chenoweth singing part of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" at a fan's request. She must be primarily made of lungs, because her voice is amazing and HUGE.

Bryan Fuller answering a question. The majority of audience questions came to Bryan, often from fans of his earlier shows such as Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me.

Also, Chi McBride is a very, very funny man.

Lee Pace explains that acting roles do affect you emotionally, and that's one reason he likes Pushing Daisies so much -- he goes home happy. Throughout the panel, people emphasized that a core concept of the show is that you're just happy to be watching it.

This was a fun panel, filled with people who seem to be happy to be working together and working on the show.

Immediately following the Pushing Daisies panel, the stars of the show were ushered down to the exhibit hall for an hour-long signing session in the Warner Brothers booth. Although I appreciate that they wanted to have a crowd at the booth and to be able to show the stars in the big screens up above, the end result was choked aisles and a generally clogged mass of sometimes cantankerous folks. You can see the swarm around Lee Pace in the second picture below:

The signing line was already closed when we arrived, most likely filled by people who had failed to line up two hours in advance (!) to get into the panel. Even some of those who were turned away from the panel didn't make it into the line. littlestar was initially disappointed, but we hung around the booth anyway, diving in for pictures every so often, until WB and convention security flushed people away from the signing area (and then repeating this cycle several times for the next hour). Following the one-hour signing period, Lee Pace came over to the waiting crowd of people who hadn't made it into the line, said hello, posed for some pictures, and signed some things despite being told not to.

The Daisies crowd was then ushered upstairs for a series of interviews and a bit of general taking in of the convention floor from above.

After the interviews, Lee came down into the crowd again at a fan's request, signing some more things and hanging out as long as his handlers would let him, before the whole group was ushered off one final time.

You can check out the rest of the signing photoset by clicking here.