I'm a virgin.

Well, a Comic-Con virgin. The annual festival of genre entertainment is a hedonistic extravaganza of comics, games, television, movies, toys... The event draws tens of thousands of fans every year.

Except this year. This year, the 40th anniversary, and there could be more than a hundred thousand people hanging out at the San Diego Convention Center.

The facility, it deserves mentioning, was designed by world-renowned Vancouver architect Arthur Erickson, who was also responsible for the Academic Quadrangle at Simon Fraser University. Fans of science fiction television will recognize it as a location used in nearly everything lensed in Vancouver, from The X-Files to the Stargate franchise to Battlestar Galatica, for which it doubled as Caprica City's main square.

I won't be surprised to see the concrete landscape of SFU, with its sharp angles and steps, appear in the upcoming series Caprica or as a location for Tron 2.

Comic-Con is as much — or more — about the creators as it is the stars and celebrities who may appear in some of the big-budget productions that have become such a large part of the event.

Nevertheless, I was pleased that my I spotted my first celebrity less than ten minutes after stepping into the exhibit hall.

I suspect that Felicia Day (The Guild, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog) would probably hate to be called a celebrity, but she belongs at Comic-con because she's as much a creator as she is a star.

She was certainly the perfect person to initiate me into the Comic-Con orgy.