COMIC-CON 2019: Amended Schedule
FRIDAY JULY 19
10:00am – PANEL: “Medium-Speed-Moving Zombies – A Major Paradigm Shift”
11:00am – DOCUMENTARY: “CGI Robots and CGI Monsters— Onscreen Enemies, Offscreen Lovers
12:00pm – TRIBUTE: “Hello Kitty – 45 Years of Delighting Girls and Arousing Creeps”
1:00pm – GAMERS DISCUSSION: “What I‘m Told Sunlight Feels Like”
3:00pm – CBS-ALL ACCESS SNEAK PREVIEW: “Star Trek: Actuarial Table Proofreaders”
4:00pm – LINGUISTICS SEMINAR: “Klingon or Dothraki: Which Releases More Mucus?”
5:00pm – SCIENCE PANEL: “The Grandfather/Fanboy Paradox: Time Dilation Effects Within the Line into Hall H”
6:00pm – COMIC CREATORS’ SPOTLIGHT: “Our Spouses and Their More Lucrative Professions”
7:30 pm – MEET THE CREATORS OF: Nasonex
8:00pm – “I Am SUCH A Nerd!” COCKTAIL RECEPTION (professional athletes and supermodels only)
9:00pm – MEET THE CAST OF nice people who make up the administrative support staff for GAME-makers like Parker Brothers and Hasbro, and others OF that ilk, who have put these popular games on their THRONES.
10:00pm – SUPPORT GROUP: “Survivors of All-Female Reboots of Childhood Faves That Don’t Really Hold Up Now That You’re Pushing 50” (Petco Stadium)
Midnight – HIGHLY UNEXPECTED CAMEO: Stan Lee
SATURDAY JULY 20
10:00am – PRESENTATION: “The Next Frontier in Digital Comics: Digital Staples”
11:00am – CAUSEPLAY – Literacy? Homelessness? Lupus? Dress as your cause du jour and strut your righteous stuff.
12:00pm – SNEAK PREVIEW: “Hungry Hungry Hippos: Day of Reprisal”
1:00pm – LIVE DEMO: Keir Dullea Attempts To Use the Zero-Gravity Toilet from “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Prepare to get wet!)
1:30pm – NETWORKING (Deodorant and Non-Deodorant Tracks available)
2:00pm – COLLECTORS SPOTLIGHT: “Serial Killers – Getting a Fair Assessment of Your ‘Collection of Beautiful Things’”
3:00pm – DISCUSSION: “Stuffed Crust Pizzas vs. Burrito Supremes: What’s Easier to Get Out of Your Beards?”
4:30 pm – OBLIGATORY PANEL ON WOMEN IN SCI-FI – Moderated by: 100% Dudes
5:00pm – Call Mother
6:00 pm – LIVE DEMONSTRATION: The one, solitary 40-watt light bulb used to light all DC superhero movies
7:00pm – “NERDS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!” PARTY (Only Studio VP and higher invited)
8:00pm – SNEAK PEEK: Meet the team behind the latest “Walking Dead” spinoff, “THE SEGWAY-ING DEAD”
8:30pm – SAURIAN BRANDY
9:00pm – PREVIEW: “BATMAN: THE EVEN NEWER ANIMATED SERIES: THE GAME: THE VR EXPERIENCE: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL: THE ‘BAZOOKA JOE’ INSERT”
10:00pm –CONTEST: “Dress As The STD You’re About to Get After Downing Too Much Saurian Brandy!”
SUNDAY JULY 21
10:00am – DEBATE: “Stick Around For Some Basic Cable Show Panels I’ve Never Heard Of, Or Try and Beat LA Traffic?”
11:00am – COSTCOPLAY – Are you more a “Pallet of Dasani Water Bottles” or a “Pallet of Cheez-Its” type? And which luck winner will take home the “Pallet of Trophies?”
12:00pm – MEETUP: People Demanding Another Fantastic Four Reboot (limit: 3 people)
1:00pm: JK ROWLING: Just kind of wandering around, drunk, mumbling unsolicited sex secrets about various Weasleys
2:00pm: Panel with creators of GOTHAM and PENNYWORTH: “Picking the Last Morsels off a Carcass”
3:30pm – GUEST APPEARANCE: The guests at the Rabinowitz Bar Mitzvah, who have this venue starting at 4.
3:35pm – PANEL: “Who’s Still Here? Show of Hands.”
3:41pm – MARKETPLACE – “Will Someone PLEASE Buy This Piece of Gaffers’ Tape Used In ‘Lost in Space’ Before My Wife Divorces Me?”
4:00pm – RABINOWITZ BAR MITZVAH – Mazel Tov!
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