What's That? Why It Was WonderCon 2025

 

Truly it was a WonderCon. WonderCon 2025 has came and gone. And, with it a different con. We enjoyed ourselves and saw many a smiling face and looks of awe and wonder.

 

Still it was missing many old time fan favorites. It had panels from DC Comics, but no DC Comic booth? Jim Lee, current editor and in the guy charge was there, but couldn't bring a booth? Doesn't seem like WB's is giving him some help.

 

It's not just comics, we saw a lot less from gaming and movies. This is the place to interact and hype fans to see your stuff. Bring your booths. Funko, easily was king with its booth at this con. We have a whole other post devoted to it.

 

It's the oddest thing not to see comic publishers and other entertainment groups not try and show off to new readers...new fans.

What was at WonderCon was revered, because at least they came out for the fans.

 

We're gonna go over some booths that just get the gold star for being there, but we'd probably showcase them anyway. Those funky shirts above came from Ohmonah, a small artist owned business. We stopped dead in our tracks to check out their booth right near Artist Alley. We have to give major props to the discounts and deals on the wonderfully designed merch including: a shark backpack and fish shopping bags.

 

Not far was an old friend of the site. Steve Minty was showcasing the greatest collection of bottle openers in all the land..or adjacent to Disneyland.

Really some of the caliber of items you get at Artist Alley is just simply amazing. All these smaller artists are producing goods that larger companies should. It's just mind-blowing that they can't be featured or have bigger presences as part of brands.

Of course Pokemon, was a major source of love in Artist Alley.

Illustrator Gabby Ramirez stood out to us, by recreating Pokemon cards in her own design. That is nuts, she recreated the flippin' the cards her way.

Just look at these lovely sticker packs from another artist!

Ridiculous, we all know cats hate hats

Sony, was possibly the only studio promoting their upcoming films with a booth. Based on a video game, Until Dawn is a new horror film out April 25th. They were giving away free posters and had this lovely undead piece to have your photo taken with. Hats off to them to remind fans to check out something their making.

Bandai Namco wasn't showing off its games, but was showing off it's Gashapon. The collectibles inside each ball capsule are pretty addictive to collect, but they might want to think about making American machines as the annoyance of conversion seems to stop people from fully embracing it. We don't think people enjoy the extra amount of time it takes to get tokens. Sure, the prizes are great, but it's not as easy as just putting some quarters in. We don't really use dollar worth coins in America, like Japan does with Yen.

And in the back, people were playing all manner of strange new card and board games. A nice change of pace for some.

Though none of the bigger comic companies were there, Bad Idea and Mechanical Cake were showing off with their booths. You can see me in the Planet Death armor from Bad Idea. Mechanical had their artists signing comics and touting they were releasing director Ridley Scott's first comic. Bad Idea was giving away a preview issue.

 

Both intrigued the fans who had come out to see them. Hopefully, more of the old gang can come back and showcase their projects. I know I'm gonna look more into everything I saw than the no shows.

 

WonderCon remains a wonderful place for people to share their newest and crazy sci-fi concepts or movies or art or just a comic. Cosplayers are gonna show off per usual. It just be nice to have some of those big glam booths and swag again.