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Ralph Macchio from The Karate Child and Cobra Kai will probably be in San Antonio this weekend.
It’s time to brush the leg, San Antonio.
The largest draw at this 12 months’s Massive Texas Comicon, which runs Friday by means of Sunday, is the solid of the Netflix sequence Cobra Kai, which can step confidently onto the conference flooring prefer it’s the All-Valley Karate Event.
The solid will even embody OG rivals Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) from the 1984 film The Karate Child. Becoming a member of them is actor Xolo Maridueña, who performs Miguel Diaz in Cobra Kai and in addition kicked butt because the titular superhero character in Blue Beetle.
If martial arts isn’t your factor, lots extra celebrities will probably be available throughout the three-day celebration, together with a pair of hobbits — Elijah Wooden and Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) — and a handful of biker gangsters together with Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy), JD Pardo (Mayans M.C.) and San Antonio native Emilio Rivera (Sons of Anarchy and Mayans M.C.).
Blue Beetle’s Maridueña will even have fellow superheroes to hold with throughout the conference, together with Jon Bernthal (The Punisher), Charlie Cox (Daredevil) and Ron Perlman (Hellboy). What’s extra, an enormous “Shellabration” with actors together with Judith Hoag (April O’Neil) from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe is on the agenda.
Each celeb in attendance at Massive Texas Comicon could have paid autograph and photograph alternatives, so be sure you apply the proper stance for the unique film’s well-known crane kick if that’s the pose you’re going for. No mercy.
$30-$35 adults, $5 youngsters (ages 3-10), 2 p.m.-8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, Henry B. González Conference Heart, 900 E Market St, (210) 207-8500, bigtexascomicon.com.
