World Comic-Con Exclusive! Must credit Vanity Fair!

How the bust went down:

After attending a panel celebrating the comic-strip artistry and animal-adoption campaigning of Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell (where the news was announced of a Mutts animated movie in the works at Fox!), I forged through Comic-Con's costumed throngs of genetic experiment and reached the glass-tinted light of the lobby when I happened upon comedian Jim Norton being hustled out by a pair of security guards. I fear that Norton may be implicated in the Murdoch hacking scandal that is capturing so many in its thrashing net, or that he may have been getting a little too upclose and personal with Tinker Bell (shown left, below).

Little did I know when I flew into San Diego with Norton that I was seated next to a dangerous felon and/or tragic figure of injustice.