All You Need to Know about 2020’s Comic-Con@Home

Thanks to COVID-19, this year’s San Diego Comic-Con has transformed itself into Comic-Con@Home. In true superhero style, they’re making it easy for everyone and anyone to attend panels and more from the comfort (and safety) of home. For free!

Although, they are asking if you enjoy the content to donate to Comic-Con International. There’s a link on their site that I’ve included with rest of the info herein on how to attend, what panels of paranormal interest are when, etc.

Dates

Wednesday, July 22 – Sunday, July 26

Cost

Free!

However, donations are appreciated because they still have web hosting costs, time and labor associated with putting on a virtual con. They’re also a tax-exempt organization so your donations are deductible.

Click here to donate: https://donate.comic-conmuseum.org/give/292950/#!/donation/checkout

Schedule

You’ll find a complete list of all the panels and presentations under the Programming tab on the Comic-Con@Home site.

Noteworthy Panels

There are a TON of panels. These are the ones I felt would appeal most to fellow restless spirits:

• Wednesday 4 pm – GeekEd: Watchmen and the Cruelty of Masks 
• Wednesday 5 pm – Conspiracy Theories and Propaganda Throughout Pop Culture
• Thursday 12 pm – Amazon Prime Video: Truth Seekers (A new paranormal comedy series by the creators of Shaun of the Dead that’s coming soon from Amazon Prime.)
• Thursday 1 pm – This is Not the Apocalypse You’re Looking For: Real Life Disasters, Fictional Recovery (Okay it’s not exactly paranormal, but I do love apocalypse fiction and own that here often so I included it. However, it conflicts with a Travel Channel-based panel I want to see at the same time.)
• Thursday 1 pm – Wonder Women: Superstars of Paranormal
• Thursday 6 pm – Shudder “Horror is Queen”
• Friday 10 am – “Crazy” Talk: Mental Health, Pop Culture, and the Pandemic (Has pop culture shows and movies helped you get through the pandemic?)
• Friday 12 pm – AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead
• Friday 12 pm – Zombies and Coronavirus: Planning for the Next Big Outbreak
• Friday 1 pm – AMC’s The Walking Dead
• Friday 2 pm – AMC’s The Walking Dead: World Beyond
• Friday 3 pm – First Look at Hulu’s Helstrom (Here’s some more info about this supernatural live-action Marvel Comic coming to the streamer this Fall.)
• Friday 5 pm – The Living Dead: Celebrating the Legacy of George Romero
• Friday 6 pm – The Famous Monsters Podcast
• Saturday 1 pm – Guillermo del Toro and Scott Cooper on Antlers and Filmmaking (Antlers is a forthcoming Wendigo-inspired movie.)
• Saturday 4 pm – HBO’s Lovecraft Country
• Saturday 4 pm – Let’s Get Spooky
• Saturday 5 pm – What We Do In The Shadows
• Saturday 6 pm – AMC’s N0S4A2
• Saturday 6 pm – Scary Good TV: A Conversation with Horror’s Top Showrunners
• Sunday 12 pm – Women On The Dark Side
• Sunday 3 pm – Inside the Vault of Ripley’s Most Exclusive Finds
• Sunday 4 pm – Supernatural Therapy: Fighting Internal Monsters like a Hunter IRL

How to Attend

They’re streaming all panels via YouTube. Links are handy on the Comic-Con@Home site under each panel title.

Comic-Con@Home Virtual Screenings

In addition to panels, they’ll also have watch parties. Three different types in fact:

1. Film 1 – a variety of different movies, no themes.
2. Film 2 – Themed: Punch a Nazi.
3. Anime – You’ll need a special subscription for this one.

As noted above for the Anime watch parties you’ll need a subscription for that: Funimation.

For the other movies, you’ll need subscriptions to Amazon Prime, Disney+ and/or Netflix. Some are also available on YouTube.

The Watch Parties take place Thursday through Sunday.

Worried they’ll conflict with a panel you want to attend? Nope. Panels are during the day, watch parties are in the evenings and in some cases super early in the mornings (like midnight).

For More Info

Visit: https://www.comic-con.org/cci/2020/athome

Check-In

Have you ever been to a Comic-Con? Have you checked out all of the programming for Comic-Con@Home? Which panels interest you?