I love these super cool graphics on the fence of the FX offsite at San Diego Comic-Con 2025. They promote the upcoming original series Alien: Earth.
It appears planet Earth is in serious trouble!
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The deep space exploration vessel USCSS Maginot has crash landed on Earth. It has broken into pieces on the grass in front of the Hilton San Diego Bayfront hotel!
Workers were busy with the debris this afternoon. They appeared to be extremely cautious. Rumor is, an alien xenomorph might have been lurking aboard the spaceship!
From a careful distance, I observed the operation.
Imagine my relief when I learned the crashed vessel is actually a prop, part of “The Wreckage,” an offsite activation that will thrill visitors during Comic-Con 2025!
The upcoming FX show Alien: Earth is being promoted. The series is set to premiere on FX and FX on Hulu on August 12, 2025.
This offsite looks super cool so far. FX usually promotes several shows with their large outdoor activation, but a worker confirmed the entire space will be devoted to Alien: Earth!
Watch out! A hungry Alien might be ready to jump out!
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More and more reasons to scream in San Diego during Comic-Con 2025 are appearing!
Scream with horror–or delight!
Several building wraps in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter are going up very quickly today, with six days to go until the start of Comic-Con 2025.
I took these photos in the late afternoon…
As usual, the convention center facing side of the Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter will feature wraps that promote horror shows on AMC, including Vampire Lestat, an adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire series
Across Fifth Avenue, the Omni San Diego Hotel is now almost entirely wrapped up with graphics promoting the upcoming Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle movie!
The north-facing side of the Hilton Gaslamp building will promote an Amazon Prime Video series, as usual. This year it’s Gen V, a spinoff of The Boys franchise
If anything will make one scream, it’s the undead! Daryl Dixon has arrived to save the day on the Pendry hotel!
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Another sequel to cult classic Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is filming today in San Diego. I saw the production crew out on the wooden boardwalk just south of the USS Midway, and the scene was of tomato mayhem!
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence is the name of this latest sequel according to IMDb. It’s described as “Jurassic Park” meets “Dr. Strangelove” which sounds like more campy absurd crazy fun. I did see an alligator on the set, so there’s at least one reptile among the rolling red vegetables!
Are those giant tomatoes co-stars in the film? Who plays Doctor Doom? Oops–wrong franchise.
Is this what tomato Armageddon looks like? You can spy the alligator on the right in the next photo–or is that a crocodile? Must’ve escaped from the San Diego Zoo.
Thank goodness they’ve caged one of the rampant ripe vegetables. Or, wait–is a tomato a fruit?
Man versus an overgrown villainous vegetable. Who is victorious?
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Should we be frightened? Halloween has crept into San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter!
I took these spooky (and fun) photographs early this morning in dim light, then in the late afternoon as restaurants and bars prepared for a terrifying onslaught of evening partiers.
Trick or treat!
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Check out these eerie promotional wraps for Comic-Con 2024! They’re now being applied to the exterior of the Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter!
The building wraps advertise two spooky shows on AMC: Mayfair Witches and Interview With the Vampire. The Hilton Gaslamp is usually a venue for AMC offsite activations during San Diego Comic-Con.
I’m sure more wraps will be appearing on the Fifth Avenue and K Street sides of the building–those typically advertise shows on Amazon Prime. We shall see!
I’ll share more photos of these AMC wraps as they get closer to completion. I’ll post those pics in an update below!
UPDATE!
Next day…
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A terrifying group of classic movie monsters has appeared outside the San Diego Convention Center for Comic-Con 2024!
Check out today’s photos!
These characters from classic horror films are all considered Universal Monsters–they appeared in Universal Pictures movies from the 1930s to 1950s (if you include Abbott and Costello comedies).
I remember as a kid watching these dark, atmospheric movies for the suspense, chills and occasional thrills. I’m afraid the old Universal classics appear pretty tame by today’s ultra-realistic, slashing, bloody standards.
The Universal Monsters have been painted for fans of Comic-Con, and you can see the artwork on the windows of Sweet Things Frozen Yogurt, located at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. The artist responsible is Shirish Villaseñor. (By the way, she’s one of the local artists renovating many of the historic murals in world-famous Chicano Park!)
UPDATE!
Shirish has been adding color to her images as we approach the start of Comic-Con…
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Are you a fan of science fiction, horror, comic books or graphic novels? You don’t want to miss Collaboration(s)! A Journey with John Jennings, a fantastic new exhibit that opened last week at the Comic-Con Museum in Balboa Park!
John Jennings is an Eisner Award–winning and New York Times best-selling artist, designer and author who has worked in comics for over twenty years. He’s also a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside and the director of the Abrams ComicArts imprint Megascope, which publishes graphic novels focused on the experiences of people of color.
Jennings was introduced to comics by his mother at a young age, and fell in love with the medium, whose possibilities are limited only by human imagination. Since then he has made many notable contributions to the popular culture.
Perhaps you’re familiar with the new Marvel character, Ghost Light. Jennings was the creator! He is the author of the 2023 comic series Silver Surfer: Ghost Light.
The African American character Ghost Light actually began his life as Al Harper, a physicist and friend to Silver Surfer, who sacrificed his life to save the world in a 1969 story titled And Who Shall Mourn for Him? That was back in Marvel’s comic book Silver Surfer #5.
Jennings brought the character back in a way that represents the modern African American experience. Ghost Light also reflects John Jennings’ artistic collaboration with co-creators and his love of Afrofuturism, which can be observed throughout this new museum exhibit. He has helped to create thousands of images that have been enjoyed in art shows and diverse publications.
As my few photos demonstrate, you’ll be dazzled by the bold, very colorful comic artwork produced by this prolific artist. You’ll see familiar Marvel superheroes, monsters and dark horror, images filled with symbolism and mythological and historical references, and futuristic wonders that might blow your mind!
Visitors to the exhibit can also “collaborate” with the artist by writing a story or coloring a sketch, and then share it on a wall in a Comic-Con Museum gallery. Very cool!
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Check out this new San Diego trolley wrap for Comic-Con 2023! I got these photos today. The graphics promote products created by video game publisher New Blood Interactive!
Images afire with fantasy and horror relate to the games Amid Evil, Gloomwood and Dusk.
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Hear your heart stop? It might happen when you listen to Impact Winter on Audible, or if terror grips you as you step onto this spooky Comic-Con 2023 trolley!
I caught this trolley wrap today at the Linda Vista Station.
You might recall Audible had those three awesome sand sculptures along MLK Promenade outside Comic-Con last year. One sculpture promoted this same Impact Winter audio series: it’s a world-gone-dark post-comet-impact vampire apocalypse!
I posted photographs of those great Audible sand sculptures here!
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