As usual, there’s a whole lot of cosplay to enjoy during Comic-Con this year!
Every imaginable character from popular entertainment (movies, television, comic books, video games…) can be seen roaming the streets and sidewalks in downtown San Diego. Most of the outdoor cosplay is found in the Gaslamp or around the convention center.
I passed hundreds of awesome costumes yesterday and this morning. Every so often poses were struck and my camera shutter clicked!
Star Wars cosplay at Comic-Con.Mighty Thor.Maleficent.Good old Captain America.Sailor Moon.Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.Spider-Gwen.Zenitsu Agatsuma of Demon Slayer.A cool Spider-Man family at Comic-Con!Another Cap and Spidey. Two very popular cosplay characters.Chun-Li from Street Fighter.Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters!Black Widow and Hawkeye.Princess Peach.Iron Patriot.A very scary Batman.Captain Marvel.MTV astronaut!The second Indiana Jones I’ve seen this year at Comic-Con.Riddler has a diabolical scheme.It isn’t every day you see flappers at a con.Ciel Phantomhive.Squid Game.Dr. Artemus Peepers.The Umbrella Academy cosplay.Uh, oh. I didn’t catch who these folks are. Mad Max? Leave a comment if you know please!Old school Hawkeye.Here’s another one where I need help. Everyone knows Captain Marvel on the right. Who’s that on the left?Jedi and his young Padawan practice using the Force on me. I’m an easy target.How many Lokis are there in the multiverse, anyway?Doctor Strange has been stripped of magic. He’s gonna use his fists.Butterfly Lady of Children International uses her smile superpower to help kids in poverty.Chainsaw Man looking for devils to saw.Cloud Strife.Vision.Doctor Strange casts a magic spell!
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Some very cool people are helping military veterans by bringing them the joys of geek culture and video gaming.
Stack Up is the name of the organization. They have a table outside Comic-Con, near the “pirate ship” behind the San Diego Convention Center.
Serving far from home or coming back into civilian life can be difficult for veterans. I’m sure you’ve heard the stories in the news. Or you have friends or family with experience. Feelings of isolation. Anxiety. Depression. Or worse.
Stack Up provides these veterans with community and fun!
They send video games to deployed troops; they offer veterans trips to cool geek culture events; they engage in community outreach; and they provide mental health support through online community.
It’s a uniquely awesome way to help those who’ve sacrificed.
If you want to learn more about Stack Up, and perhaps get connected, or help them out, click here!
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If you’re into Dragon Ball, but not in San Diego, you’ll probably like these photos. I took them today at the Bandai Namco activation that is outside at Comic-Con 2022.
If you are in San Diego, head behind the Marriott Marquis hotel to the large outdoor plaza near the Marina Office (the Marriott Hotel Marina Terrace). Once you see the big statues and flashy photo op panels, you’ll know you’ve arrived.
The public is welcome, I found no lines, and no Comic-Con badge is required! There are card and video games to play, lots of figurines to check out, and more. If you get there early in the day–they open at 10 am–swag is handed out!
As promised, here are my photos. The experience is as fun as it looks!
If you’d like to view my coverage of Comic-Con so far, which includes hundreds of cool photographs, click here!
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Enjoy this collection of cool cosplay photographs that I took today while walking outside Comic-Con 2022!
Which is your favorite?
Two Flashes, Adam Warlock and Star Lord.Princess Zelda and Link.Demon Slayer cosplay.Batgirl.Scarlet Witch.Silver Surfer and silver surfing friend.Nadja of Antipaxos.A guy who is badly pixelated.I assume this is Janice Rand of Star Trek. I’m going by the hairdo.South Park characters.Oh, come on. Everyone knows Spidey!Game of Thrones.Louise Belcher.Looks like a mash-up of Star Wars stormtrooper and Venom.Wonder Woman is here to save the day!And here’s Thor with a very large Mjölnir.Riddler.A Sith Lord and a Jedi. Obi-Wan, perhaps?Namor, the Sub-Mariner.Indiana Jones.Robin.Loki.Zatanna.Dark Magician Girl.How sweet.
If you’d like to view my coverage of Comic-Con so far, which includes hundreds of cool photographs, click here!
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Check out what I discovered today while wandering inside UC San Diego’s Geisel Library!
The very cool Chameleon Jump Suit!
The life-size figure in scaly green body armor was modeled after the time-traveling character in a popular 1998 computer game. “The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time” was entertaining software created by Presto Studios, a company founded by UCSD alumni. You can read more about it here!
Even though I never played that particular computer game, I know a number of my readers love Comic-Con and popular culture, so I thought I’d share these photographs for everyone’s enjoyment!
I’m taking Comic-Con week off from work again this year, so stay tuned for lots of cool photos during 2022 San Diego Comic-Con coming up in July!
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There will also be many “at home” activities, including art and cosplay challenges, and a video competition!
Learn everything you need to know, and print your free official badge by clicking here!
Plus, visit Amazon’s Virtual-Con here! Amazon is the official sponsor of Comic-Con@Home and will have lots of cool experiences at their website.
Meanwhile, I’ve gone through hundreds of photographs that I’ve taken during Comic-Con over the past six years, and I’ve selected some of my personal favorites . . . in no particular order!
While the world anticipates Comic-Con’s triumphant return to downtown San Diego and the Convention Center in 2021, enjoy this wonderfully mixed-up collection of photographic memories!
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A building wrap on the Marriott Marquis’ meeting space windows promotes Gundam 40th “Beyond” for 2019 San Diego Comic-Con.
Late this morning I took photos all around the Gaslamp Quarter and San Diego Convention Center of cool stuff being readied for 2019 Comic-Con!
A bunch of Comic-Con offsites and building wraps are now appearing!
The big international pop culture event gets started in just four days!
The right part of the cool Gundam wrap is being applied four days before Comic-Con.
Another building wrap is just starting to appear. This one is on the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. I guess that, like in past years, it will promote a show on FX.
The grassy area behind the San Diego Convention Center is now buzzing with Comic-Con offsite construction.
Adult Swim on the Green will return in 2019 for Comic-Con.
The FX Fearless Forum appears quite a bit different from their offsite here last year.
Workers start to set up the FX Fearless Forum in front of the Hilton.
Looking across Harbor Drive, one can see the Animation Domination wrap, which is being applied on the Omni.
As I walked past the Hilton parking structure, I aimed my camera up at one of the big Marvel’s Avengers video game banners.
Harbor Drive and the convention center viewed from the pedestrian bridge, with four day to go until 2019 Comic-Con! Looks pretty quiet right now.
This offsite will feature two recent movies from Warner Bros. Pictures. People will walk through a large tent and see cool stuff concerning Detective Pikachu and Shazam!
The Brooklyn Nine-Nine offsite is also under construction in Gaslamp Square. NBC has their offsite in this prime location every year, it seems.
Part of the Brooklyn Nine-Nine activation for 2019 Comic-Con.
A cool Statue of Liberty will appear about here!
I turned my camera in time to get a photo of a FOX Animation Domination trolley wrap at the Gaslamp station.
A mysterious wrap was going up around noontime near the Gaslamp Quarter landmark sign.
I spotted a free ride FRED electric vehicle promoting WEBTOON.
No parking signs are up in areas of the Gaslamp for Comic-Con week.
This wrap on the Hilton Gaslamp is indeed for Star Trek: Picard, as I surmised in a past blog post. It features Patrick Stewart.
AMC’s popular DeadQuarters fan zone is returning for 2019 Comic-Con, and they just started building their offsite this morning.
Preparing for an invasion of zombies.
Another part of DeadQuarters.
Videoboards have been installed high above Amazon’s big, colorful offsite. Explore the shows…
Carnival Row.
The Boys.
The Expanse.
The Ferris wheel appears ready to go at the FOX Fan Fair. A ride on this should provide a good view of Comic-Con action along MLK Promenade!
A shot of FOX Fan Fair preparations in Childrens Park.
The familiar old Welcome to Comic-Con International banner is now on the San Diego Convention Center.
The big TBS Snowpiercer building wrap on the Marriott Marquis should soon be completed.
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Three huge banners promoting the upcoming Marvel’s Avengers video game were hung today on the Hilton San Diego Bayfront’s parking structure for 2019 Comic-Con!
Check it out!
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During my walks around San Diego over the years, I’ve photographed all sorts of pop culture characters depicted in street art. The cool artwork has appeared on walls as murals and on sidewalk electrical boxes.
I’ve stumbled upon characters from comic books, manga, movies, television shows and even video games. Can you name all of them?
With Comic-Con now just ten days away, I thought I’d have fun and post some of these old photographs again!
If you want to see a lot more of this street art, and read additional information about the above photos, here are the related blog posts to check out…
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