Burly, jovial fantasy author George R.R. Martin shared a love feast Thursday afternoon in Comic-Con’s Ballroom 20 with fans of the HBO favorite “Game of Thrones” at the annual gathering Martin described as “the geek capital of the world.”
The Martin series, described onstage by co-show-runner David Benioff (with D.B. Weiss) as “crack on paper” has been the thinking fan’s sword-and-mukluk epic since it began winning awards in 1996; this year’s 10-episode arc took a big bite out of the series that began with “Game of Thrones” and is still being written under the overarching title “A Song of Ice and Fire.”