Originally, T2 was the hot topic of European fans of Yvonne Strahovski.  She was scheduled to appear and a few people from our forums banded together to buy some Strahotski.com gear and make an appearance.

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Unfortunately, Yvonne’s off filming The Killer Elite and had to cancel.  No ill will towards her, of course.  I think we all can’t wait for her to become the movie star that she should be!

The lack of Yvonne Strahovski did not deter her fans, however.  They still showed up in their Strahovski best and made a splash at the show.  Many of the actors commented on their shirts, and I’m told that Adam Baldwin even mentioned Strahotski.com in a Q&A.

Julia Ling was asked to step in for Yvonne Strahovski at the last minute and I’m told that she didn’t disappoint.  Our own Strahotski Crew was lucky enough to win some raffle tickets for a meet’n'greet with Ms. Ling.  Though it comes as no surprise, Julia is apparently awesome and won the hearts of all manner of convention goer.

Since kroblues from our forums was wearing one of our “Got Strahovski?” shirts, Ms. Ling signed an autograph for him, etched with “Got Ling?”.  Inspired by her suggestion, I added a shirt to the store just for her and I’m told she thinks it was a great change to the shirt design.

Adam Baldwin is also said to have been great fun, and everyone seemed pleasantly surprised at how funny Bonita Friedericy and her husband, Phlox… I mean John Billingsley… was.  Apparently, some convention goers even got to watch a soccer game at the same pub as Mark Sheppard.

All in all, it sounds like it was an amazing time.  Though we all wish Yvonne Strahovski could have been there, her fans were not deterred and showed up in force to show both their love for Chuck and their love for Ms. Strahovski herself.

I am also told there was much squeeing to be had.  If you want more stories and pictures directly from the convention goers, check out the forum topic on the subject.

Though there are photos bouncing around the net from both events, I’m happy to have received permission from Jon  of Joits Photography to host some of his excellent photos of Chuck Fest up in our gallery.  It’s always great to get some professional quality photos for the site.

But it doesn’t end there.  The white dress was so stunning, that I figured it certainly deserved it’s own wallpaper.  So I’ve whipped that up and added an 11th wallpaper to our Official Strahotski.com collection.

It’s been a while, so hopefully this satiates the thirst for more wallpapers.  Be sure to go to the Wallpaper gallery to pick the right size image for your desktop for maximum Yvonne Strahovski beauty.

There’s also a new random sidebar image featuring the white dress that you should see in time as it comes up in the rotation.

Consider yourself an artist?  We’d love to receive fan-created sidebar images!  To get started, download the template here, create your own image and then email it to submissions@strahotski.com.

Enjoy!

With so many screen caps and reviews scrolling by, the front page just can’t hold it all!

We still have a few days before the next episode so there’s still time to go back and comment on the reviews and caps for each episode.

Yvonne wins E! Online’s Girl On Top Poll

With a lot of effort and determination, Yvonne Strahovski fans managed to pull out a narrow victory over Smallville’s Allison Mack.  The forums were alight with fervor over getting the win and the dedication paid off.

This particular win is perhaps a tad bit more poignant than some online polls because Yvonne Strahovski and Adam Baldwin both campaigned for Yvonne.

Little Bailey’s Strahovski Showdown

Here at Strahotski.com, we’re fans of Bailey who managed to catch Yvonne Strahovski’s eye with her awesome Sarah Walker costume which led to some autographed gear for Bailey.

That wasn’t the end of the story, though!  Turns out Bailey got a chance to attend ChuckFest where she met Yvonne Strahovski.  Bailey shared a nice video of the meet-up on her Twitter account.

NBC Press Tour Party

To promote Chuck, Yvonne attended the NBC Press Tour Party.  A lot of great pictures have poured in over the days of Yvonne in her beautiful white dress.

You can check a lot of those out in our forums, mostly thanks to bzzg and her mad photo finding skills.

Chuck Season 3

If you’re at all visiting this site, then surely you already know that Chuck Season 3 premiered this week with astounding numbers.

To help recap the fun that was the season 3 premiere, here are some quick links to all of Strahotski.com’s coverage:

• Review | Screen Caps | Music — Chuck Versus the Pink Slip
• Review | Screen Caps | Music — Chuck Versus the Three Words
• Review | Screen Caps | Music — Chuck Versus the Angel de la Muerte

Whew.  I don’t know if that’s all of the Yvonne news for the week, but I think it should cover the highlights.  At the very least it should keep you busy until next week’s episode , Chuck Versus Operation Awesome.

What do you guys think?  Good week?

She did, however, get to dance to a hilarious live performance by Jeffster:

In addition to the panels, there are always lots of interviews and press appearances at Comic-Con. Our lovely Yvonne gave a great interview to Kevin Pereira from G4’s Attack of the Show. I can never get enough of the Aussie Accent Awesomeness:

You can find more Comic-Con coverage, including tons of pictures in our forums.

If you were at the Con and have some pictures you’d like us to share, send them our way!

Okay, as you can tell I’m a little punch drunk at this point from crashing all weekend to move Strahotski.com to its new home, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been keeping our eyes on Yvonne Strahovski!

WonderCon was yesterday in San Francisco, and the whole cast of Chuck was in attendance.  You can read a rundown of the panel by the moderater at BuzzSugar.com.

It sounds like it all went swimmingly.

We’re also happy to have added 6 new images to a new WonderCon gallery, courtesy of reader Moreen who was able to attend the event.  Special thanks for those!

Also, don’t miss the massive WonderCon thread going on in our forums.  Everyone’s talking about what may be coming up in the season.

If you were able to attend WonderCon and have pictures to share, be sure to send them our way!

Enjoy!

(I promise — the NYCC avalanche of pics & news is almost over — just in time for Chuck Vs. the Suburbs next week!)

This one isn’t too fancy, but it captures some of Yvonne’s cuter facial expressions of the panel.  And, of course, there was no way to keep Strahotski Bear out of the shots.

You can check out the Wallpapers Page for various resolutions for your desktop pleasure.

If you have any works of art involving Yvonne Strahovski, send it to us at submissions@strahotski.com!

Enjoy!

After she caught it Fedak caught it and gave it to her, she showed it to Josh Schwartz and these pictures capture that moment.  Yet again, it’s good to see an angle that I couldn’t see and an exchange that I was too freaked out to take in!

Also, I haven’t had an opportunity to mention it elsewhere given all the Yvonne news, but Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak were also awesome, funny dudes.  Chuck (and by extension the career of our favorite girl) is in good hands.

There will probably be more NYCC photos trickling in over the next few days.  Hope you guys don’t mind.

Enjoy!

And if you’ve been in our forums, we’ve talked circles about all of the juicy information about Chuck from the panel.

But the one thing I feel like I haven’t really conveyed are my impressions of Ms. Strahovski from the NYC Comic Con Panel.

First off, I want to say that I’m incredibly grateful to Yvonne for how perfectly gracious she was to not only me, but all the fans who attended the panel.

She was a real trooper, and she took everything in stride.  She is clearly a first-class lady.

I know that I’m not a complete weirdo, but she doesn’t know that and for her to give me (and the rest of her fans) the benefit of the doubt shows a real solid side of her personality that shows how grounded she really is.

Unlike on Chuck, Ms. Strahovski had the opportunity to smile a lot at the panel, and her smile is absolutely infectious.  I’m not just talking about beauty here, but just the ability to draw people in with that smile.

Also, I can’t explain enough how radiant Yvonne is.  And again, I’m not just talking about beauty.  She sparkles; she lights up the room.  It is hard to not just stare at her because she is just that kind of star.

But all of that aside, the best impression I got of Yvonne is that she’s just a person.  A normal, fun-loving person who cares about her fans and is extremely gung-ho about her work.

We may all know that she is far more beautiful than most human beings, but I’m not sure she knows that — and perhaps that is what makes her most beautiful of all.

Yvonne Strahovski seems to be having a ball being a star, and I for one think she deserves all of the glory and happiness that this life can give her.  I hope she becomes a mainstay of Hollywood for decades to come.

Being totally freaked out at the time, I enjoyed watching this.  I noticed I got a thumbs up from Chris Fedak!  Awesome.

I can’t believe I actually made that throw.  It was a good catch by Fedak as well.  The bear didn’t have a lot of heft to it, so I was scared it wouldn’t make it.

After having read some of the relatively negative takes on the ‘crazy’ fans at the panel, I was relieved to watch this back and see that it looked like a fun exchange to me.

There were no signings, so I didn’t have the opportunity to literally meet Yvonne, but giving her the bear was just as sweet of a reward.  I tried to be respectful and keep my distance; after all I don’t want her to think me the looney.

Just got back from a grueling weekend of New York City and I have lots of other thoughts to post, but I figured that if I didn’t get these pics up tonight someone would put a mark out on me.  And that would be bad.

So here we have 35 new pictures in the New York Comic Con Gallery.  They were all pain-stakingly taken by me with my little camera from the fourth row.  I took out the particularly bad ones for both your and Yvonne’s sake.

There are tons of pics floating around I’m sure, so I don’t know if I bring anything new to the table.

But my pictures are all about Yvonne (and Strahotski Bear as you’ll see).  I think I heard Chris Fedak and Josh Schwartz were there too, but there was this blinding light blocking them from my view. /shrug

Enjoy!