‘Marvel’s 616’ at Comic-Con: Disney Plus Docuseries Highlights Unsung Women, Wacky Marvel Characters

coronavirus pandemic. It follows in the wake of San Diego Comic Con and other fandom frolics that have offered streaming programming in lieu of live events.“We are thoroughly disappointed that we can’t gather together, in-person for the New York Comic Con we love to build and our fans love to revel in.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterIf a fan convention is held on the internet and no one’s there to talk about it, does it make any noise?That was the overwhelming experience with Comic-Con@Home, the virtual fan convention that ran from July 22-26.

[email protected] comes to a close Sunday, ending a five-day lineup of almost entirely prerecorded virtual panels.San Diego Comic-Con 2020 was canceled in April due to the coronavirus pandemic, marking the first time the annual pop culture event won’t happen as planned in its 50-year history.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerFXX has set the premiere date for the 11th season of Archer, the Emmy Award-winning animated comedy series.The new season premieres September 16 on FXX, and is available the next day on #FXonHulu.

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Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“The End Is The Beginning” declares some rough graffiti scrawled on a wall in the just released trailer for Season 6 of Fear the Walking Dead – and the end is looking very rough.Kicking off the zombie apocalypse mega-panel at the virtual Comic-Con@Home today, the first TWD spinoff aimed to give the people what they want – even if the FearTWD and the fans weren’t packed into the San Diego Convention Center’s huge Hall H as usual.To that end, FearTWD

[email protected] is in full swing, boasting an impressive lineup of almost entirely prerecorded virtual panels.HBO has set presentations for “His Dark Materials” and “Lovecraft Country,” and Amazon Prime Video is bringing “The Boys,” “Upload,” “Truth Seekers” and “Utopia,” and also sponsoring its own Amazon Virtual-Con hub.Meanwhile, AMC is hosting panels for its “Walking Dead” universe and “NOS4A2” and Disney is prepping 11 different presentations, including a career retrospective on Nathan

With its increasingly absurd number of delays, “The New Mutants,” fast becoming the “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” of superhero movies, has again returned to prove that it actually exists. A large push at this year’s virtual edition of the San Diego Comic-Con that included a screening of the opening few minutes.

Alex Stedman News Editor, Variety.comThe Boys are back — well, almost, anyway.“The Boys” showrunner Eric Kripke and stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Karen Fukuhara, Tomer Capon and Aya Cash got together for a virtual panel as part of San Diego Comic-Con@Home on Thursday, during which they revealed that the show’s already been renewed for Season 3 and will get an aftershow hosted by Aisha Tyler, who moderated the panel.

San Diego Comic-Con is quite different than it has been in previous years because, well, it's not taking place in San Diego — at least not exclusively. As a result of the social distancing brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 Comic-Con is instead taking place virtually.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe annual and original Comic-Con, which draws thousands of fans and millions of dollars to San Diego each July, has retooled in the COVID-19 world to engineer Comic-Con@Home, with the confab’s first-ever virtual-only event kicking off in earnest Thursday morning.The event, which officially began Wednesday, July 22 and runs through Sunday, July 26, will play host more than 350 panels and programs via YouTube including the usual slew of presentations

Janet W. Lee For the first time in its 50-year history, San Diego Comic-Con is happening as a virtual, streaming event.

[email protected] As a result, there will be no Marvel, DC Comics or for that matter any Hall H panels, no Artists Alley, no convention floor to walk around, and definitely no cosplayers (despite the uptick in masks we’re all seeing).It’s not just fans, of course. The other side of the big events in Hall H and Ballroom 20 is that they are the place many studios, networks and streamers kick off the promotional arm of an upcoming tentpole movie or genre TV show.

Eli Countryman San Diego Comic-Con may be going digital, but the lineup still offers a wide array of panels and conversations. With four days of content, Variety breaks down a list of this year’s most notable, anticipated and exciting panels.The “Star Trek Universe” panel begins Thursday at 10 A.M.

[email protected], a free virtual event that boasts an impressive lineup of almost entirely prerecorded panels, kicks off Wednesday with the online version of SDCC’s traditional “preview night.” But that’s just the beginning of the festivities, which will run through this Sunday and consist of no big Marvel or DC Universe panel, but will include the appearance of many streaming services, cable networks and studios promoting their upcoming shows and movies.HBO has set presentations for “His Dark

[email protected] curator Chris Morrow shared pictures of the shrine — which is located in front of the Tin Fish restaurant across the street from the San Diego Convention Center — on her Twitter account Tuesday.

coronavirus, few are as lively and vibrant as Comic-Con. Every year, tens of thousands of people – many in elaborate costumes – convene in San Diego for a pop culture extravaganza.

[email protected] event is less than two weeks away and, as of Sunday, its full schedule has been set with a full lineup of almost-entirely-prerecorded panels.HBO has set presentations for “His Dark Materials” and “Lovecraft Country” and Amazon Prime Video is bringing “The Boys,” “Upload,” “Truth Seekers” and “Utopia,” and also sponsoring its own Amazon Virtual-Con hub within the official [email protected] site.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterWhen the COVID-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of the 2020 San Diego Comic-Con, it was the first time in the 50-year history of the fan convention that it would not take place.“It was really a heartbreaking decision,” says David Glanzer, chief communications officer and strategy officer at Comic-Con Intl., the organization that oversees SDCC and its sister event WonderCon in Anaheim, Calif., which also had to be canceled.

The Walking Dead will get a confirmed release date at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con.The episode, pushed back multiple times due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis, was promised for later this year.