1 . Muir alum Michelle Houle ’ 98 and current student Tan Stowell were the first to snag a Comic-Con prize pack during several downtown scavenger hunts .
2 . Amid the Comic-Con chaos , a true believer stands proud .
3 . No stranger to spaceships , Dude Vader ( a . k . a . Christopher Canole ’ 69 ) brandishes a high-flying Geisel Library .
4 . Next stop Comic-Con : UC San Diego ’ s wrapped trolleys were also plastered with posters for the event .
5 . A street team of sandwich-boarded believers spread the word of Science Nonfiction up and down San Diego ’ s Gaslamp district .
6 . Kristin Schafgans ’ 09 joins Ben Frable , Scripps Institution of Oceanography ' s fish collection manager , who donned a tin-foil hat for a news interview .
7 . UC San Diego visiting scholars Karla Reyes , Mariana Estrella and Rodrigo Estrella got in on the Science Nonfiction action .
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