One of the toughest guys I knew in high school is now a Captain in the Air Force, but guess what? He spends his off time donning skirts and twirling a wand as a mage in World of Warcraft. And my friend with the Witchblade obsession? Her job at Morgan Stanley paid for those 36DD’s and her Chloe Heloise tote that I can only dream about. My point is that the uber-nerd of 80s movies has been replaced with this sort of incognito hybrid. It is really no surprise that the denizens of Comic-Con 2007 numbered in the hundreds of thousands. My sister and her boyfriend spent the weekend there and shared the following highlights:

Zachary Quinto, who played Heroes villain Sylar, is set to play Spock in the next Star Trek movie. Leonard Nimoy will also be in the film.

In other Heroes news, Kevin Smith will be the series’ first guest director next season. Check out Masi Oka’s reaction when Kevin refers to the characters Hiro and Ando as the “gay guys”!

Joss Whedon is a busy man. He released a collector’s edition of Serenity, finished a horror script called A Cabin in the Woods, and announced that Oz is coming back in the 9th season of Buffy. Check out his online comic called Sugarshock at Darkhorse’s MySpace site. He referred to it as his smaller, under the radar project.

An adaptation of Watchmen is supposed to be released in March of 2009. Zack Snyder, of 300 fame, will direct.

Tina and Eric spent most their time in Artist’s Alley where they sought out Jim Lee, Michael Cavotta, Donato Giancola, Rebecca Guay, Mark Silvestri and Thomas Baxa.

Neil Gaiman has three movies coming out in 2007: Stardust, Beowulf, and Coraline. He is also working on an adaptation of Death. In spite of commercial success, he expressed reservations about achieving mainstream fame in the latest issue of Time.

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