Pages Tagged “WonderCon”
Reviews
- Justice League: The New Frontier (Movie) ★★★★☆ Cooke’s drawing style and the 1950s retro look to the artwork both translate well to the screen. A bit disjointed at first, but settles into a solid story about hope and trust.
- Mark Twain Hotel (Closed) ★★★★☆ Classic hotel, small rooms, right on the line between the financial district and Tenderloin. Now the Tilden Hotel, closed since 2020.
- Mosser Hotel (San Francisco)
Blog Posts
- Two Years Without a Con
Surprising no-one, WonderCon will be online-only again this year. Last year’s event was canceled just as we all started to realize that Covid-19 was spreading in California. And while the winter surge in cases is finally slowing down, the coronavirus is still more prevalent out there now than it was last March. They’re still hoping […]
- No Wonder
WonderCon has been our main fan convention for the past decade or so. We’ve been every year since it moved to Anaheim in 2012, and several years back when it was in San Francisco. But this year it’s not happening. By February we were already looking at what was going on with the new coronavirus […]
- Cosplaying WonderCon 2019: Paper, Spider, Trelawney
For this year’s WonderCon, Katie refined her Professor Trelawney costume from Long Beach. The biggest change: extending the skirt instead of using actual layers, because it was warm in Anaheim. Just for the weekend – it jumped about 10°F just before and was expected to drop 10°F afterward. She remarked, only half-jokingly, that if she’d […]
- Going Mirrorless: WonderCon 2019 Cosplay Photography
Last fall, I conceded that phones have caught up to casual cameras and I’d have to get a nicer one to get better image quality. Well, I finally bought a mirrorless camera. The kiddo found my old SLR, and we’ve split a few rolls of film (re)discovering how to shoot with it. Then he started […]
- A Gallery of Harry Potter Cosplay at WonderCon
There was a lot of Harry Potter cosplay at WonderCon this past weekend! Here are some of my photos, featuring Bellatrix Lestrange, Hagrid, You-Know-Who, Professor Sybill Trelawney (who should look familiar to regular readers!), Hogwarts Professors Dolores Umbridge, Gilderoy Lockhart and Albus Dumbledore; Arthur Weasley, and Rita Skeeter. There are a lot more that I […]
- WonderCon 2018
It’s been ten years since we first went to WonderCon, back when it was still in San Francisco. At the time I thought it would be fun to come back, but maybe not every year. As it turns out, we’ve kept going back yearly, only missing one! It’s effectively replaced SDCC for us, between the […]
- Convention Inflation
Next year’s WonderCon tickets are available now, and SDCC goes on sale next week. I noticed something interesting about the WonderCon price, because ten years ago, I compared a lot of convention prices. How do they stack up a decade later? WonderCon 2018 costs the same as Comic-Con 2008 did: $75. (WonderCon in 2008 was […]
- Family Trip to WonderCon 2017
For the first time ever, we attended three days of a comic-con with the whole family. Including cosplay! (Well, one of us did) WonderCon was back in Anaheim this year, and it felt like a homecoming. The Anaheim Convention Center is just a better fit for the con than LA. The fountain area is a […]
- Wandering WonderCon in 2016
Last year’s WonderCon went well enough that when our five-year-old said he wanted to go both days this year, we figured sure, let’s do it! Famous last words… (TL;DR: full photo album) We had another thing going on Saturday morning, so we got in around noon and went to get lunch as soon as we […]
- It’s a Wonderful Con – WonderCon 2015
WonderCon is like SDCC 15 years ago, a comic con with broad pop culture appeal & media presence but without the hectic pace or crushing crowds.
- Looking Back at WonderCon 2014
This year’s WonderCon was a bit of a mixed bag – I feel like I missed a lot, but it was still quite a bit of fun.
- WonderCon Wants to Go Home
WonderCon still wants to return to San Francisco, but the only convention center big enough is awfully busy…and so is the spring con schedule.
- WonderCon Staying in Anaheim for 2014, Long Beach Comic-Con Next Week
It’s official: WonderCon will be back in Anaheim next year, which means I’m almost certain to go. Coming up sooner, though: Long Beach, next weekend.
- Nighttime HDR Test: Yerba Buena Gardens
While in San Francisco on business, I wandered into the Yerba Buena Gardens and around the Moscone center. My phone took better pictures than I expected.
- A Weekend at WonderCon 2013 in Anaheim
Comic books, zombies on trial, iconic characters, Disney mash-ups, Game of Thrones toys, cosplay and more descended on Anaheim, CA for WonderCon 2013.
- WonderCon 2012 in Anaheim – A Great Weekend Comic-Con
Even more fun than in San Francisco, this year’s con had everything I’ve come to expect at a WonderCon, with more space, so the crowds never got unbearable.
- WonderCon as a Test Case for Comic-Con in Anaheim
With all the talk of Comic-Con International moving out of San Diego someday, it was pretty much impossible not to consider this weekendââ¬â¢s WonderCon as a test case.
- WonderCon 2010 Experience
Photos and write-up of a day at WonderCon in San Francisco. It’s still fun, but it’s beginning to get more crowded – if nowhere near San Diego Comic-Con levels!
- Overheard on the Bus (Only in San Francisco)
Other passengers react to a bizarre conversation between two strangers comparing notes on all the drugs they used to do.
- I Left My Tire in San Francisco
I already hated driving in SF, but getting a flat tire in the rain on the way to the hotel while late? Not fun, and it kept us out of Wondercon on Friday.
- WonderCon 2009: Saturday Con Report
Saturday at WonderCon: crowds, BSG, DCU, Star Trek, 9, cosplayers and more in San Francisco.
- WonderCon 2009: Friday Con Report
Friday at WonderCon: Farscape, David Mack, Indiana Jones, DC, BOOM!, crowds, Wonder Woman, cosplayers and more in San Francisco.
- Reservations
Possibly jumping the gun, but last night I reserved a backup hotel for next year’s Comic-Con. Although considering that most of the big-name hotels right by the convention center are already booked (though I’m sure they’ve set aside blocks for the convention already) or want incredible amounts of money per night, perhaps it’s not that […]
- Conventions and Distance
You can commute to nearby conventions, drive to others, and fly to even more. Once you have to fly anyway, destination matters more than distance.
- Comic Book Convention Prices Compared
On a per-day basis, Comic-Con isn’t actually that expensive compared to other big conventions like Gen Con and Dragon*Con.
- Con Report: WonderCon 2008
My first trip to WonderCon in San Francisco. A lot like SDCC, mostly comics with movies and TV thrown in, but I could walk, and I could get autographs!
- Review of Justice League: The New Frontier
One of the highlights of WonderCon this weekend was the premiere of Justice League: The New Frontier. I really liked Darwyn Cooke’s original mini-series, DC: The New Frontier, and I’d been looking forward to the animated adaptation. Overall, I’d say the film succeeds. The story links the dawn of the Silver Age of comics, and […]