Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we take a more grown up look at San Diego Comic Con with our Alternative Preview Night. Sure, you could spend your whole day making it into the one single Episode 7 panel in the infamous Hall H – and behold as Grim and Marke walk you through the mammoth task that it shall be! – but why not take an alternative approach and see what other treasures lie in wait in this year’s Gaslamp Quarter? From the alt press booths like our old friends from Devastorpress.com Amanda Meadows, Geoffrey Golden, and Patrick Baker, author of Devastator’s newest book A Presidential Dickerbook (we chat with them all about the book and the Con and playing with stickers), to the independent documentary premeires like Byrd McDonald’s Vintage Tomorrows, an introspective look at the growing steampunk culture (we talk to Byrd about the movement and get him excited for the glorious steampunk wonders he’s sure to see at his first SDCC), all the way to the House of Blues for a fan-fueled night of sexy burlesque from The SuicideGirls (Suicide Girls co-founder Missy Suicide tells us why they trust the Con crowd to help shape the show), so get out of line for Hall H and have look around! Follow us @StayclassySDCC or check us out at Mattypradio.com

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