Yes, friends and neighbors and Con veterans, the McFarlane Companies will be at the 2004 Comic-Con International in San Diego. This year's event will be July 22-25 at the San Diego Convention Center.

McFarlane will have a booth displaying many of our latest action figures and two-up prototypes of upcoming figures. The booth will be staffed with spawn.com'ers ready to answer all your questions and show off our products.

Be on the lookout for a special announcement to be made during Comic-Con, as well as portfolio reviews for sculptors and comic artists. Once again this year, we will host the ever-popular "How to Make Toys the McFarlane Way" discussion panel.

We won't, however, be offering a Comic-Con exclusive for sale this year. We already have a full slate of exclusives through our online Collector's Club and other events; and, more importantly, we wanted to have an event with time to actually interact with many of our core long-time fans.

We'll have an updated story with our booth number as well as more specifics on the portfolio reviews and panel time as soon as that info is available. For more information on the Con, go to www.comic-con.org.