Steve Niles, one of Fangoria Magazine’s “13 rising talents who promise to keep us terrified for the next 25 years” and writer/creator of the comic 30 Days of Night, later adapted into the film, was involved in some sort of “altercation” on the floor of Sunday’s Comic Con.

We get this from Ryan Rotten:

A fight broke about between the 30 Days of Night creator and an unidentified man. Security personnel got involved and the physical scrap was brought to an end. Police were later called to the scene, but at that point, tempers had faded.

I spoke with Niles this afternoon and he told me, in short, that he was attacked and had no choice but to defend himself. (Witnesses tell us did a pretty damn good job of it, too.) He walked away with minimal injuries.

As for the other guy, we’re not sure (no one from the other side has stepped forward to talk about it).

Some commenters online have suggested that Steve might have thrown the first “sucker punch,” but thus far no actual reports to the contrary of the above have been filed.

What could possibly cause a Comic Con goer to attack Steve Niles?