Wicked Comic Con 2024 Saturday Gallery Part 1
In its third incarnation, Wicked Comic Con returned to the Westin Waterfront hotel in South Boston, after a one-year excursion to the Hynes Convention Center, mainly because of multi-year interior work being done at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (attached to the Westin) messing up schedules for nearly every convention and event space in Boston.
For its first year, Wicked Comic Con was a single day event, taking up the lower level of the South side of the Westin. It expanded to two days last year, and this past weekend stayed at two days but expanded to include the lower-level event space on the North side of the Westin, and some of the panel and meeting space on the lobby level above that. That means that, in just its third year, Wicked Comic Con takes up about two-thirds of the space used by the other nerd con held at the Westin, Arisia, despite Arisia being more than 20 years old.
Keeping its focus on comic books, this year the con again brought in a large roster of comic creator guests, but also added more media guests, mainly voice actors from the very popular recent X-Men ’97 cartoon on Disney+. Based on what I heard from cosplayers stopping at the studio space for photos or to chat, those media guests were quite popular. Unfortunately, I heard from quite a few people that didn’t know that there was more content on the other side of the hotel. Once the convention has a few more years of this new layout under its belt, people will be used to having things happening all over the hotel, as is the case with Arisia. But until that happens, management would be well served by more signage and having all staffers talking up the multiple locations even more than they did this past weekend.
Based on the number of photos I took over the weekend, I would guess that attendance numbers were close to what the convention had last year when it was at the Hynes. Since Wicked Comic Con had to move to an August date, instead of the April dates for its first two years, the fact that it likely held on to similar attendee numbers as last year is good news for the convention. In August it is competing for ticket dollars with big guns like Otakon, DragonCon and this year AnimeNYC, as well as New England cons like Terrificon in Connecticut and PopCult Anime Con in Waltham, Mass. (we’ll have the studio set up there again this year, Aug. 24-25).
Among the cosplayers in this first of three galleries are WaterDragondesign, daniel.donnelly.33, sophiacormier, reallifemikeytmnt, lostinthemoment2024, makermage, bladedtitan, savyland_cosplay, Nerdcred Cosplay, vahlance, gronknation1988, harleysarkhamasylum, rennova_mocs, cassandracosplays, Brandon the Shapeshifter, andywarpop, jammthejedi, Sarkazm Cosplay, deshsaionji, aceofsnakes, lemon_squeetzy, silverfalconcosplay, lsmfitness_, orangejuice6, odd.rolls, and many more.
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