Can Comic-Con survive the valleys following the peak of Hall H during the Avengers/Game of Thrones years?
Comic-Con has been around for decades and has become famous for becoming a fan driven annual event.
The most die hard fans are known for camping out in lines for the biggest panels of their favorite movies and tv shows.
Since acquiring Marvel Studios, Disney has decided to take all of the big releases and announcements to their biennial D23 expo in Anaheim, California.
The let down for Comic-Con isn’t due to the lack of content from the writers/actors strike, it’s realizing that the excitement and joy of epic panels that you’ll talk about for years to come has passed with the turnover of dueling tv/movie fandoms of Marvel’s The Avengers and HBO’s Game of Thrones.
The captivation of surprise sunset San Diego Orchestras performances and magic Wizarding World wands during Warner Brother’s Fantastic Beasts panels was long gone when Hall H was used to promote unknown projects like Kalki 2898 AD and Ghosts of Ruin.
With no fan base to fill Hall H with, the echos of Robert Kirkman’s voice feels hollow after waiting all year for Comic-Con Hall H Saturday panels.
It remains to be seen if Comic-Con International can stay afloat through a content slump but it’s certain that the tipping point of the writers/actor’s strike has has plunged the annual event into irrelevancy.
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