San Antonio’s Henry B. Gonzalez Conference Heart will remodel right into a popular culture hub from October 17-19 for Large Texas Comicon, promising three days of star-studded panels, unique merchandise, and alternatives to rub elbows with favourite celebrities.
Simply the most well liked identify on the checklist is Antony Starr, who portrays Homelander on Prime Video’s gloriously vulgar superhero sequence The Boys. Initially written by Garth Ennis, Homelander is a hyper-violent, self-absorbed superhero who degenerates into insanity all through the present. Fortunately for conference goers, the New Zealand actor is famend for being form and welcoming to followers. He can be showing Saturday and Sunday to signal autographs, take footage, and take part in a $250 premium fan occasion.
Starr just isn’t the one streaming superstar showing. Jamie Campbell Bower, who performs the villainous One/Vecna in Netflix’s Stranger Issues, will attend. Bower shined as the brand new massive unhealthy within the interval piece horror sequence, menacing Hawkins, Indiana, from the Upside-Down. The long-awaited fifth and closing season is about to premiere this November, so followers ought to most likely not count on Bower to disclose something too juicy.
Jamie Campbell Bower performed the villainous One/Vecna in Netflix’s Stranger Issues. Photograph by Mike Coppola/Getty Photos
Different expertise bulletins embrace Thomas Jane (The Punisher), Michael Jai White (Spawn), Martin Kove (Cobra Kai), Henry Winkler (Scream, Joyful Days), and the legendary wrestling tag group The Hardy Boys. Extra surprising names embrace Bare Gun’s Priscilla Presley, Tori Spelling and Brian Austin Inexperienced from Beverly Hills 90210, and McLovin himself, Christopher Mintz-Plasse. The latter at the very least has some comics cred as an antagonist in Kick-Ass.
Large Texas Comedian was first launched in 2019 and has grown into one of many largest fandom occasions in San Antonio. It has garnered a fame for touchdown big-name celebrities and dealing with the move of followers properly. Strains at comedian conventions are at all times a gift, however Large Texas has dealt with the rising pains of a profitable occasion with out descending into chaos.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse is likely one of the extra surprising company. Photograph by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Photos
Like all conventions, there can be a cosplay contest, an artist alley, distributors, panels, and different occasions. Extra particulars on content material will doubtless be introduced nearer to the opening date.
Tickets, accessible on-line, vary from $30.20 for a single-day cross to $267.90 for a three-day specific bundle. All autographs, picture ops, and fan occasions are individually priced apart from basic admission and ought to be bought forward of time.
