Jeri Jacquin

Here we are at the Anaheim Convention Center for the beginning of WonderCon 2025 from March 28th-30th. It is always a fantastic time to explore so many events and the people dressed up are equally amazing. The day begins with Spider-Men: Multiversal Storytelling as the talk is navigating the multiverse of this iconic character with James Thompson, Patrick Reed and Peter Coogan and where they see it going in the future.

Signa and Robot Invasion! Features The Rupert Wars as the Pan-Universal Galactic Worldwide brings new comics to the delight of the room. Maryelizabeth Yturralde leads the talk with creators Livio Ramondelli, Yuri Ramondelli and PUG-W founder John Nee talks about the inner workings and ideas that fans have to look forward too. It truly was interesting to hear where the ideas come from and how they make their way onto the page.

Being a happy horror lady from way back in the day, anything titled Monstrous Horror in Comics, Film and Beyond is going to be on my must-attend list. The line up of creators Rebekah and David McKendry, Shannon Denton, Dirk Blackman, David Harman and Kevin Grevioux are just the people I wanted to hear from. I had the opportunity to hear where their love of monsters comes from and was thrilled to discover that it isn’t far off from my own experience. Let’s face it, monsters scare some people out of their skin, and then there is people like me who want to find the scariest thing to read and watch.

That also falls into with Threads of Fantasy, Fright, and High-Stakes Action because you can write about a scary thing, you can do comics of scary things but it is people like Jennifer Bryan, Christine Wada, Marie Schley, Cynthis Summers and Annie Loppert who brings that scary to life, especially Summers who has The Last of Us on her resume! Follow that up with Alexa Donne, Liz Kerin, CJ Leede, Chuck Tingle and Justine Winans who talk scary icons with Terrifying Tropes. So needless to say, I’m having a horror of a good time with all this.

Moving past the horror and into a universe that I have had in my life since first seeing Luke Skywalker stand on the sunset ridge looking longingly out at a world he thinks he’s missing, puppeteers Victor Franco, William Miyamoto and Rob Wight talks about their work on Skeleton Crew and Kenobi. Being that Obi-wan had such an influence on me as a kid, I leaned into listening to the technical aspects that happened on Kenobi.

Raising two boys on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, it was a shock to them when I told them it is the 35th Anniversary of the first TMNT film. Now they now how I felt when they were kids and the reality of a favorite show anniversary came up – makes a few gray hairs pop up. Producer Bobby Herbeck tells the inside stories of trying to get the 1990 version of the film made and the pitfalls as well as reactions to the first film.

To wrap the first day, Adult Swim (and who doesn’t love Adult Swim!!) provides fans with a Sneak Peek from Shinichiro Watanabe and two episodes of the sci-fi thriller Lazaris. Prepared to be thrilled because if you loved Cowboy Bebop, then Lazarus is going to knock your socks off. That isn’t the only screening tonight as AMC is bringing THE WALKING DEAD: Dead City to WonderCon. The walkers are back along with Maggie played by Lauren Cohan and the once most hated and now most beloved Negan. Season one ended with glaring looks from Maggie and Negan realizing that going to Manhattan might not have been such a good idea after all. There is a war for control and these two characters are stuck in-between it all.

Also, Comic-Con: The Cruise, The Ultimate Fan Adventure™, is set to make waves at WonderCon 2025 with an exclusive panel discussion on Friday, March 28, from 2:30 PM to 3:30 p.m. in Room North 200A at the Anaheim Convention Center. Titled “An Immersive Fan Experience,” the discussion will unveil how this dedicated team created an environment that brings the spirit of Comic-Con to life in an entirely new way. Panelists include David Glanzer (Comic-Con International’s Chief Communications and Strategy Officer), Felicia Day (creator, actress, singer and host of Comic-Con: The Cruise), Robb Pearlman (New York Times best-selling author and Comic-Con: The Cruise curator), Yaya Han (costume designer, cosplayer, author, 2025 Comic-Con: The Cruise Artists’ Alley cosplayer and panelist), Sarah Myer (comic artist, writer, colorist and 2025 Comic-Con: The Cruise Artists’ Alley exhibitor and panelist) and JT Watters (Comic-Con: The Cruise programming and production team).

Mondo, known for creating limited-edition posters, vinyl soundtracks, premium collectibles, and games, has announced today their Mondo Toy Talk Live panel at WonderCon 2025!

Go behind the scenes of film and television with Impact24 PR at WonderCon 2025! Attendees will learn how projects like Cobra Kai, The Penguin, Agatha All Along, and more get made in three special panels featuring industry professionals! Hear firsthand from writers, directors, editors, composers, sound designers, makeup artists, costume designers, and more about the filmmaking process and the creative decisions behind your favorite stories. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to gain exclusive entertainment insight!

Tomorrow there will be panels including A Faith-Full Dickens Tale: The King of Kings Animated Movie, Legion M: It’s All Happening II, Defiant: The Robert Smalls Story in Comics, Graphic Novel … and Film!, Watchers: The Next Step in Collectible Card Games, Temple of Geek to Host Panel on Turning Fandom into Community Projects, and so much more to come on Saturday.

This has been a world wind of a first day and tomorrow is going to have so much more. WonderCon brights out the best and brightest in all genres with only three days to get as much of the experience as possible.

Onward to day two!

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