Marvel may hold back its best material for Disney’s forthcoming D23 Expo, but is expected to tease its next film, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and the Disney+ TV series “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.”Ī pair of much-anticipated fantasy prequels will also give fans a taste of their worlds. will also provide a preview of “Shazam: Fury of the Gods.” “Guess who’s coming to town, the most electrifying man in all the DC Universe.” “Get ready, because the hype is real,” Johnson said in pro-wrestler promo mode on Instagram earlier this month. Fate, and other members of the Justice Society. and the DC Universe’s “Black Adam.” It will include Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who plays the titular antihero, director Jaume Collet-Serra, and the stars playing Hawkman, Dr. Chuckie from “Child’s Play” emerged from one cosplayer’s stomach.Ĭomic-Con makes most of its news as a venue to show off trailers and footage from forthcoming films and TV shows during star-studded mega-panels held in Hall H, which holds some 6,000 people. Others wandered the halls Wednesday as “Star Wars” Stormtroopers, the Mandalorian, Wonder Woman, and Sailor Moon. “This is their first time to see me four years later and to see how much I’ve grown since then.”
“My last convention is the first time they’ve seen me as Lorelei,” McKelvey said. This is her first time coming as a cosplayer, and her second time coming as a trans woman, and she’s excited to be reunited with the cherished friends she’s made here. McKelvey came to Comic-Con and worked a booth for 20 straight years. She walked the Convention Center floor in real-as-possible officer cavalry boots and Royal Air Force gauntlets, and carried a 5-pound steel shield. “I went and did my research and found out what were the authentic British officer leathers worn in World War II, and I found manufacturers to actually make those leathers.” “I had to do one that I could authentically replicate,” McKelvey said. Lorelei McKelvey, 54, who is from San Diego but now lives in Yokosuka, Japan, was dressed as Captain Carter, Captain America’s British, World War II-era counterpart. Comic-Con is their Met Gala, and no getup is too elaborate. It’s likely no one has missed the in-person convention more than the captains, queens and connoisseurs of cosplay. I’m excited to see the program, see what’s going on, see everybody cosplaying and all that, and just getting back to what we used to be.”įar bigger crowds are expected Thursday, when the events begin in earnest. “It’s nice just to see everybody in the same atmosphere. “Everybody’s just been cooped up for a while, and they’ve been anticipating this,” said Dinh Truong, 34, who came to Comic-Con for the second time from his hometown of Minneapolis.
As required, nearly all wore masks - the protective kind, not the super-villain kind, though there were plenty of those too - and the excitement amid the crowd was palpable. But when the doors of the Convention Center opened for Wednesday’s preview night, the fans came in droves, mobbing the floor. It’s not clear whether the convention will draw the estimated 135,000 people who flooded San Diego before the pandemic.
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