World's UnPienest

The phrase "This is the worst day of my life" is banded about a lot these days, but for once it might be appropriate:

SDCC PIE UPDATE: NO PIE @ THE IMAGE BOOTH

Press Release
Image Comics® is NOT bringing pie to its fans in San Diego.The Ultimate SDCC giveaway hit a snag.

Though the Image Comics giveaway was targeted to fans, the Convention Center's policy about food giveaways on the convention floor made it fiscally impossible to bring the delicious Home Run Pies® to the show."In order to give away free pie to our fans, the Convention Center wanted to charge us $500 a day plus a dollar per pie. And these are pies that retail at four for a dollar," Image publisher, Erik Larsen said. "They wanted to charge us four times the retail price of these pies so that we could give them away. That's $6500 to give away the 4000 pies that we wanted to share with our fans."

"The staff at the San Diego Comic Con has been more than helpful and, considering that these are delicious Home Run Pies®, more than a little enthusiastic about the prospect of sampling some of the pies themselves. We have no reservations about dealing with them or setting up at the show, this is a purely Convention Center issue.

"To keep its end of the bargain with the fans, Image Comics is actively seeking another venue to get the pies out to its loyal readers."We appreciate the understanding and support of our fans and we're making every effort to bring them our favorite taste treat."

Stop by the Image Comics island of booths and check out the finest and most diverse selection of comic books and graphic novels to be had.

The only plus from all this is the brilliantly-plentiful number of times that the word pie has been used in this article. Beautiful in its way...