Digital Rioting: San Diego Comic-Con 2013 Tickets On Sale February 16th

As we speak, we are watching the Super Bowl, taking place at the Super Dome in New Orleans and packed with people who spent a great deal of money and endured extreme personal hardship to attend in person.

Those poor dupes are rank amateurs. As anyone who had ever tried to attend San Diego Comic-Con knows. And will soon relearn. Because the sales of passes to the general public for SDCC 2013 starts at noon Eastern Time on Saturday, February 16th…

…and if history is any guide, will be sold out by 2 p.m. on February 16th.

The wait is over! Badges for Comic-Con International 2013 will go on sale February 16, 2013 at 9:00 AM Pacific Time (PT).

The link to EPIC Open Online Registration will be sent to eligible participants with a valid and confirmed Comic-Con Member ID via email 48 hours prior to the start of badge sales*.  You may click the link, or copy-and-paste it into you browser. Comic-Con will NOT post this link on our website, Facebook, or Twitter.

So here’s the deal: if you want to attend Comic-Con this year and you haven’t already bought tickets during the presale for 2012 attendees back in August, you can get in on this sale. You’ll need a Comic-Con member ID, which you can get here until February 12th – don’t dawdle though; if you miss that date, you won’t be able to get an ID. SDCC will email you the link to follow to get tickets – and take my advice and copy that link into a text document do you can paste it into a browser address bar; there have been times in the past when the link fails, but pasting the URL works.

And then you sit in front of your computer a week from Saturday and hope for the best. During the August presale, we had luck by using two different computers in two different locations to maximize our chances… and make damn sure you check out the Comic-Con Website and follow the directions. This ain’t the old days where you could fuck around and still get tickets; so read up and know what you are doing. A little knowledge can be the difference between a nice week in San Diego and reading about it here.

Either way, look at it this way: while it might be a harder process to attend SDCC than it is the Super Bowl, there’s a hell of a lot more genre stuff than the 30 seconds of Iron Man saving people falling out of a plane we just saw… and they are generally way too competent to lose half their fucking power halfway through.