Huge crowds–crowds so humungous and dense that a body can barely move! Sudden celebrity sightings! Amazing cosplay absolutely everywhere! Uninhibited creativity run amok! It must be another Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con!
Comic-Con 2024 has come roaring back after several difficult years due to COVID and a writers strike. This year it seems like nothing had happened at all. Practically everyone loves Comic-Con and San Diego is fortunate to host such a wildly popular and simply wonderful international event.
As someone who traveled to San Diego from out-of-state told me (after asking for directions to the convention center): this is nerd heaven!
Yes, I had to walk outside Comic-Con a couple times today, to experience the wild and crazy atmosphere. I took some photos of what I happened to run across, including one very famous actress out in the crowd!
Enjoy!
Wall to wall humanity behind the San Diego Convention Center.Here comes Emilia Clarke off the IMDb Boat, leading actress in Game of Thrones!Just walking along…Looks like they’re taking a break.Ranch dressing cosplay. You don’t see this every day.Yes, if you don’t like crowds, this might not be for you!The Incredible Hulk flexes for a photo!A street musician.Looks like the chef has emerged from Tacos El Gordo.Spidey.I can’t recognize about half the cosplays, sadly. Perhaps you can help me with this one.A typical sight in the Gaslamp on the Saturday of Comic-Con.Chainsaw Man cools down in the shade.An arrival from a galaxy far, far away…Those MTS workers at the trolley station have a front row seat to the Comic-Con craziness!Happily promoting Grim Death.Cosplay of Lucifer Morningstar from Hazbin Hotel.Sword and shield at the ready!Don’t ask me. I’m keeping my distance.Oh, nooo! A mutant-seeking Sentinel has arrived. All those Wolverines now in San Diego better watch their back!Phew! Doctor Strange has sent the Sentinel away using powerful magic.These crazed Psycho guys have been hanging around Comic-Con all week. Someone should send them back to the Borderlands.How sweet!
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I was walking today outside Comic-Con 2024 when I noticed an artist hanging out with some of his artwork near the San Diego Convention Center. His name is Phil, he’s a local, and his great digital art is in the anime style.
Umbridled Ambition is the name he uses to showcase and sell his art, as you can see from his Instagram page here.
Phil was sketching out another piece on his tablet as Comic-Con goers streamed past. When I paused by his table to look at his digital art, he graciously allowed me to take these photos!
Check it out!
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Not only is San Diego Comic-Con back in full force for 2024, but the cosplay you can spot around downtown, the Gaslamp Quarter and convention center is plentiful, and frequently amazing!
Here are more cosplay pics taken outside during Comic-Con 2024. Simply walking around randomly is like journeying through a wonder world of fantasy and imagination…
Feast your eyes on another collection of cool cosplay photographs!
Rubik’s Cube cosplay.Wario cosplay.Captain America cosplay.Thor cosplay.Doctor Octopus cosplay.Deadpool and Wolverine cosplay.Beetlejuice cosplay.Hellboy cosplay.Wolverine cosplay.Mystique cosplay.Spock cosplay.Elektra cosplay.Static Shock and Captain Marvel cosplay.Green Lantern and Hawkgirl cosplay.Power Rangers cosplay.Animal the Muppet cosplay!
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Lupita Nyong’o and Kit Connor surprised an outdoor crowd today at Comic-Con 2024 when they appeared in public to promote their upcoming animated film The Wild Robot!
Late Saturday morning, a remote controlled robot version of Roz (the movie’s protagonist), created and operated by Catalyst Engineers, was standing near the entrance to the Omni San Diego Hotel, moving its head and body and talking to random fans who’d gathered nearby. Little did anyone know that voice actress Lupita Nyong’o was actually hidden from sight and speaking through the robot.
When the cast members suddenly appeared from around a corner, the crowd went crazy!
The Wild Robot is an upcoming American animated science fiction film that will hit movie theaters on September 27, 2024.
I arrived early and waited for several minutes, having an inkling of what might transpire, and managed somehow to get some fun celebrity photographs!
Oh–that bird on Roz’s shoulder is an orphaned gosling with whom the robot develops a relationship while shipwrecked on an uninhabited island.
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Costumes worn by actors in both the Doctor Who and Star Trek science fiction franchises are now being displayed in San Diego for Comic-Con 2024!
The free-to-the-public exhibition is titled Friendship is Universal. It’s located at two separate locations: 226 and 230 Fifth Avenue in the Gaslamp Quarter. The original television and movie costumes fill the latter address, and that’s where I took these photographs yesterday afternoon. (I’m afraid I accidentally missed two Star Trek costumes as I moved through the exhibit–Seven of Nine and Kathryn Janeway.)
If you’re in San Diego during San Diego Comic-Con this year, check it out! The offsite activation opens each day at 11 am. There is a photo op and merch to be had at the second address, just a few steps away. The lines for both locations tend to be small.
If you can’t see these costumes in person, please enjoy some cool photos!
Through fifteen Doctors and their companions and over a dozen brave captains and their crews, we’ve traveled on journeys spanning the cosmos…
Doctor Who costumes:
Left: Amy Pond, Vincent and the Doctor Costume. Right: Eleventh Doctor, Various.Left: Yasmin Khan, Flux Costume. Right: Thirteenth Doctor, Various.Left: Fourteenth Doctor, 60th Anniversary Costume. Right: Donna Noble, 60th Anniversary Costume.Left: Ruby Sunday, Boom Costume. Right: Fifteenth Doctor, Boom Costume.
Star Trek costumes:
Left: Beckett Mariner, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Right: Brad Boimler, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.Left: Nyota Uhura, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Right: Hemmer, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.Left: Emperor Philippa Georgiou, Star Trek: Discovery. Right: Michael Burnham, Star Trek: Discovery.Left: James T. Kirk. Right: Spock.Visor used by Geordi La Forge.Hat and pipe used by Data playing Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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If a traveler had arrived in San Diego today, not knowing our city is in the middle of Comic-Con, and if they were to walk anywhere downtown or near the San Diego Convention Center, they’d conclude people have gone completely nuts. And to a certain extent they’d be right! Nuts can be good!
Check out these photographs I took while strolling outside Comic-Con today. The crowds were enormous. Super creative cosplay was everywhere. Some silly, bizarre sights designed to attract attention certainly attracted my camera!
A throng of Deadpools riding unicorns? Marketing genius! Funny, too!
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Even those who’ve never played the video game Genshin Impact will probably enjoy a great, free exhibit now showing during San Diego Comic-Con 2024. You can find it in the gallery across L Street from the Omni Hotel.
Teyvat Fashion Show Genshin Impact Fan Art Convention is the full name of the exhibition, and should you walk through the door you’ll be wowed at the really great anime-style artwork. There’s art from the video game and lots and lots of fan art. The submitted fan art is so good it appears to have been created professionally! While there’s an emphasis on fashion, the art depicts many aspects of the game.
In addition to all the art, there’s Genshin Impact merch, many photo ops, and a cool video backdrop with a treadmill that allows you to take a video of yourself walking slowly through the fantasy world of Teyvat! How cool is that?
The exhibit opens at 9:30 am each day through Sunday. I was told that some of the first fans through the door get free swag!
These photos are a tiny sample of what you’ll encounter…
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A comic art Mini Con will be coming to San Diego on August 24th, 2024. The free event will be held at Southern California Comics at 8280 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., #124, from 11 am to 5 pm.
Featured artists will be Jevin Loop, Kevin Tran, Phillip Quick, Action Figure God and Zander6comix. This morning at San Diego Comic-Con, Zander himself told me about this cool local comic event. We’ve met on a couple of occasions in the past while I’ve blogged about events around San Diego.
Come support great comic talent and have a fun time. Burgers and Fries will be on hand, too!
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In San Diego, hundreds of Comic-Con fans walked through a toxic waste site today. A truck hauling biohazardous material overturned overnight, spilling a slime-like blue substance in a downtown parking lot. The toxic waste is thought to have mutagenic properties.
Workers in pink hazmat suits and gas masks proceeded to open the rear of the truck, allowing curious Comic-Con fans to walk through it. Inside the tanker truck fans discovered all sort of cool toys adhering to the gooey walls! With any luck, these happy visitors won’t mutate into some sort of horrible monster or beast!
Yes, you’ve realized by now that I’m kidding. The truck and the blue slime are actually part of a Comic-Con 2024 offsite activation produced by MrBeast Lab. They make all sorts of cool toys.
When I exited the offsite, I got free swag! A monstrous miniature figurine!
I believe the offsite will be open throughout Comic-Con during the day. Look for it north of MLK Promenade and east of First Avenue, on the back side of the Bathroom Battlestation!
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Are you a fan of Harry Potter and the Wizarding World “Potterverse” characters, as they were portrayed in the popular movies? Enjoy these cool cosplay photos taken today in San Diego outside Comic-Con 2024.
Comic-Con’s fun Harry Potter cosplay group has returned!
I spotted the witches and wizards on MLK Promenade, not far from Children’s Park. They would afterward walk through the Comic-Con crowds, casting their magic wherever they turned.
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