SDCC 2021 Was Another Letdown, But Here’s What You Missed

Another San Diego Comic-Con come and gone. But… did you even discover?

SDCC was as a substitute the digital “Comic-Con @ Home” for a second yr in a row—because of the ongoing international pandemic in fact. We had been pretty essential about the way it all performed out final yr however gave the con crew lot of credit score contemplating how briskly the annual leisure conference wanted to adapt. But after an entire yr and a number of other different extra participating digital cons—New York Comic Con, DC Fandome, and even a Walt Disney traders name—SDCC was a bust as soon as extra.

We spoke to the organizers previous to the present and we didn’t get the impression they had been planning for that rather more than final yr. We thought (and hoped) the non-profit would no less than benefit from YouTube’s “premiere” choice to make issues really feel extra energetic. It didn’t. SDCC’s communications and technique officer, David Glanzer, instructed us the con didn’t have the assets to do true livestreamed panels however, once more, this meant that every little thing was pre-recorded method upfront… which additionally meant having a breaking information facet was mainly out of the query. Even in the present day you may see some information dropping that completely would have been a part of an in-person con—a brand new Exorcist trilogy, a live-action Pokémon present on Netflix—had it existed.

Besides the lackluster (and sometimes late) drop of panels, followers appeared total disengaged with the weekend occasion. Regardless of whether or not or not you watched, there actually was a substantial amount of footage and information, and seeing as the way it’s develop into tougher to search out what you need on our website as of late, we’ve gone forward and picked up all of our SDCC 2021 articles on this (transient) slideshow for you.

What did we study earlier than SDCC 2021?