So comic con was the single coolest con I've ever been to, mostly because I got to meet lots of really awesome people (i was like twenty feet away from Whedon and my inner buffy almost fainted) and get many many free things because I have very large... brains...
I've been to a million cons. True, most are magic cons, and there's very little good to be said about magicians (they're worse than teenage girls in the drama department) but still. And it was certainly better than Marcon, the sci fi con with one of the highest pedo to nerd ratios known to man, and barely one upped context. context is a special case though; it's smaller, more literar