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When I flew back to Tampa from California last summer, I was recovering from such a great first experience I had at San Diego Comic-Con. But I vowed then I would not return the next year alone.

I kept that promise. Airlock Alpha, Rabid Doll and our soon-to-be-launched Inside Blip sent five people, including me, to Comic-Con this year to bring you some of what I feel was the most comprehensive coverage of the event.

You had Bryant Griffin, the assistant news editor of both Rabid Doll and Airlock Alpha, who really made some waves through some excellent reporting, including this cool interview with the writer and director of "The Collector." Then we had Katie Sawyer who was like an iron woman attending as many panels as she could, and sharing one of my favorite stories from Comic-Con: This retrospective of the life of "Battlestar Galactica" line producer Harvey Frand at the Bear McCreary concert Friday night.

With the two of them were columnist Tiffany Vogt who was trying her hand at news reporting for the first time and did a fabulous job, especially in this story about how Eddie McClintock almost didn't make it on "Warehouse 13."

And then there was creative director Shane Churchman. He didn't cover too much because he spent much of the weekend trying to get Inside Blip up and running.

So some great stuff, and some excellent memories.

Because we had so many people wandering around the convention, I was able to spend a lot of time in the press room. This was nothing more than a room set up for press conferences, where absolutely no press conferences were held. There were just like four tables that all the media had to fight over, and few of them were near outlets so that we could charge up our computers and phones.

I think it was Saturday when I was up on the stage area because it was the only available power outlet when Jimmy Fallon, who has his own late-night show after Conan O'Brien on NBC, walked in, and seeing me on stage, proceeded to introduce himself to me.

That same day, I was standing in line to see the first full-fledged episode of the Fox comedy series "Glee." While I was trying to figure out why my iPhone wasn't getting any signal, I looked up, and standing right near me in line was none other than Joss Whedon. Crazy.

BBC America had invited me to do some press roundtables with the people from "Doctor Who" and "Torchwood," but for some reason, I was hoofing it to the wrong hotel. By the time I figured it out, the roundtables had already started, and I was finding myself running nearly a mile to the correct hotel.

Drenched in sweat, I walk into the media room, and was nearly tackled by the public relations guys from BBCA. When they realized who I was, they invited me over to a table where Russell T. Davies, the man who revived "Doctor Who" and created its spinoff "Torchwood" stood up, and shaking my hand, asked me where the hell I'd been. If he only knew.

I only got a single question in when Davies and "Torchwood: Children of Earth" director Euros Lyn had to get up and move to another table only to be replaced by none other than The Doctor himself, David Tennant. Dressed in some cool light jacket and clothes that made me long for casual day, Tennant is exactly like the Time Lord he plays on television. He's engaging, has a killer smile, and even if he wasn't The Doctor, it's hard not to love this guy.

The strangest thing for me during the whole convention was seeing the "Syfy" name all over the place. I was glad to see NBC Universal so proud of the name, and doing whatever they could to promote it. They even handed out tote bags with the logo on one side, and on the other, saying it was a "four-letter word you can swear by." Sadly, the first time I saw one of the tote bags on Thursday, I had just parked my rental car and was walking to the convention, and I witnessed a homeless man putting all of his worldly possessions into it.

I didn't make it into the big Syfy/Entertainment Weekly party held Saturday night, but the two groups did let me camp out on the red carpet, and I had a blast. I have to say, I don't know how amazing the party was, but NBCU and the EW people sure know how to put on a red carpet. It was a blast, and I can't wait to share with you all the video from that one event alone.

The biggest thrill for me is all the news we were able to pick up. A lot of it we've reported, and there's more we still haven't (but will soon). Yeah, that makes me a geek beyond regular geekdom, but that's what I do and what I enjoy.

We'll be back for Comic-Con again next year, and we're even planning on making a trip to the New York version of the event next October. But know that no matter what, this site is the first and last place you need to get all the latest of your favorite television and movies.

Thanks to everyone who followed us on Twitter through the event, and gave us encouragement through the grueling 20-hour days of the entire weekend. And yep, I'm ready to do it all again!