Gawker – They like sci-fi! They wear costumes! They play with light sabers! They saw The X-Files movie in the theater! Yes, every year people freak out when they found out that Comic-Con is full of freaks.

Well, it wouldn’t be the same without them. Here are some of our favorite pictures from the first two days. Strangely, most of them are of women. Like everyone else, the photographer is probably too scared of girls to actually talk to them, so he just snaps away.

boingboing.net – ArtWerk drew this map of Europe, titled “Where I Live.” Be sure to read the lively debate over at Flickr, both in the annotated notes and the comments.

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onceuponawin.com – We got this game for $1 from the flee market on a 5¼-inch floppy disk when we were kids. Then late at night or before they got home from work, we’d sneak into our parent’s office and play on the old 386. It was the first time most of us saw blood-splatter in a video game and it popularized first-person shooter style games. Remember all of the cool hidden rooms? How many of you had handmade maps on graphing paper so you could collect all of the secret compartment shwag?

After a year of begging for more “Jericho,” fans are going to get their wish … kind of. The canceled CBS show will return as a comic book.

Devil’s Due Publishing has made a deal with CBS Consumer Products to publish a “Jericho” comic that picks up where the cult-favorite series left off. The project pledges to answer many of the story’s lingering questions and is aimed at appealing to the show’s famously devoted fans.

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Eric Loyer’s Ruben & Lullaby is billed as a “story you can play”, a wordless comic book-styled piece in which two lovers have their first fight on a park bench, guided toward resolution by your stroking and shaking.

Watch the video and check out the link to see how it works. I haven’t downloaded it myself as $3 is a little high for just interactive fun. Plus my glass screen is cracked so everything looks ugly on my iPhone at the moment.