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During any other summer for the past few decades, nerddom has actually held this time of year as sacrosanct. Traditionally the time when Comic-Con International is held, one end-of-July weekend, is commemorated like a long vacation, even by those who can’t make the expedition to San Diego. It’s a season when fans of all genres– superhero motion pictures, fantasy TV programs, horror flicks, etc.– pay tribute to the culture they enjoy. Comics are the sacred texts; the San Diego Convention Center the house of worship. It’s an untidy, foul-smelling time– and also among occasional transcendence.
Or, well, it used to be. In the past couple of years, big studios like Warner Bros. and Fox have actually chosen to avoid the con, greatly reducing the quantity of A-list celebs and never-before-seen video footage appearing at the convention’s lauded Hall H. That, coupled with the fact that going to the event itself has actually become a costly and difficult venture for fans, has led to a significant mellowing of the Comic-Con hype For those who keep in mind the occasion’s splendor days as a comic book convention severely doing not have in Hollywood officers, the shift was invited. For those who prepared their trip around the possibility they may get to ask the Game of Thrones cast a question, it was a downer. In either case, Comic-Con was on its way to ending up being a really different event.
Now, it’s not even an event at all.
Thus lots of other conventions– like South by Southwest and Star Wars Celebration— Comic-Con was canceled this year over worries of the spread of Covid-19 This was a sensible choice, obviously; a convention of Comic-Con’s size would’ve been a petri meal of infection. But it likewise might represent a loss of momentum from which the event may have a hard time recuperating. In an
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