New Moon Cultists Storm the Barricades Early at Comic-Con

As noted here yesterday, Movieline's fearless Seth Abramovitch and Kyle Buchanan are en route to San Diego for this year's Comic-Con. But guess who beat them (and pretty much everyone else, apparently) to the geek confab?

A Movieline reader (and fellow Comic-Con early bird) snapped a few shots of the New Moon contingent piling up outside the convention halls in San Diego, where they've been camping out in anticipation of this weekend's appearances by Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and early footage from the passionately awaited Twilight sequel. The reader expressed concern over the frenzy, which is said to compromise hopeful attendees of the Tron panel scheduled adjacent to New Moon, but it seems like that might be a secondary problem to the fierce aroma of hormones and 90-plus-degree B.O. threatening to overtake the early going. If anyone happens to have photos of the civil war sure to ensue in a few hours as proceedings get underway, please do pass those along as well. History calls.