Comic-Con is upon us

The 40th annual Comic-Con International begins tonight in San Diego with preview programming, and you can expect roundups with videos and links galore from me each day of the event. (After all, me not writing about Comic-Con would be like ESPN not reporting the Ben Roethlisberger story. Oh, wait ...)

The event started as a convention for comic book enthusiasts, but has pretty much become the Nerd Super Bowl: a weekend-long meeting of costumed fans, Hollywood celebs, comic book artists, voiceover talent, video game developers, Browncoats, Trekkers, Jedis, furries and G4 hosts.

What can we expect to see this year at Comic-Con?

• At long last, a peek at "Avatar," James Cameron's first non-documentary film since "Titanic." The buzz says this will be a groundbreaking, potentially record-shattering movie, but most people haven't even heard of it yet -- which is a problem, considering its December release date

• Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse and a host of surprise guests revealing a bit more about the final season of "Lost"

• TV Q&A panels with the casts and creators of "True Blood," "Smallville," "Supernatural," "V," "Fringe," "Chuck," "The Big Bang Theory," "24," "Dollhouse," "Glee," "Futurama," "The Simpsons" and more

• More details on Disney's "TR2N" or "Tron 2" or "Tron 2.0," or whatever the hell they're calling it now (Disney's viral marketing campaign for the sequel has already begun); as well as footage from Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" and Robert Zemeckis' "A Christmas Carol"

• Some sort of "Iron Man 2" presentation

• The dreamy cast of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon"

Coverage of the event will air on G4 all weekend. If you need more videos and updates past what I'll be bringing you, you can hit up G4's Comic-Con Web site which, I must admit, will have two awesome things my blog won't: Olivia Munn and Alison Haislip.

The actual Q&A portion of last year's "Lost" panel was highly
entertaining. Here's part 1, follow the post-video links for the rest.