Welcome Back, San Diego Comic Con. With the cancellation of San Diego Comic Con 2020 and the much smaller capacity San Diego Comic Con ‘Special Edition’ over last year’s Thanksgiving weekend, SDCC returned in all of its 130,000 attendee glory this past week (July 20th-July 24th), and it was both good and a little terrifying…
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San Diego Comic Con 2019 MegaPost: Preview Night and Cosplay…
San Diego Comic Con 2019 (the 50th anniversary) is once again upon us, and the crowds (limited to around 130,000 now) once again make this glorious, wildly over-the-top celebration of pop culture feel like a curious mix of “The Wizard Of Oz” and “Soylent Green.” Preview Night. Cosplay. Cosplay is the soul of these conventions….
A few words for Stan Lee (1922-2018)…
The highlighted link from the New York Times does a nice job of summing up Stan Lee’s life: Stan Lee, dead at 95. Superhero of Marvel Comics/New York Times. I never really knew Stan Lee, since I only met him once very briefly. I can offer the following… My own two cents. I used to…
Marvel’s “Iron Man” ten years later…
The Marvel shared cinematic universe first came online with 2008’s “Iron Man.” There’d been many other Marvel Comics properties adapted as films (“X-Men”, “SpiderMan”, “Hulk”) but “Iron Man” was the first that was deliberately designed to be part of a greater whole. It’s a universe that (10 years and 19 or so movies later) shows no…