I just got a PR email that made an announcement that caught my eye:
Veteran comic scribe Mark Millar is currently setting Hollywood on fire with properties like Wanted and Kick-Ass, and now the Scottish sensation will be meeting and greeting fans at Chicago Comic-Con. Known for his larger-than-life characters and action sequences that make Michael Bay movies look like “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” fans are guaranteed a rip-roaring good time when they meet Millar at any one of his numerous panels and signings taking place all weekend long.
Chicago Comic-con? There hasn’t been a Chicago Comic-con in many-a-year.
Could they mean this? Nope, don’t think so.
How ’bout this? Don’t think so.
At some point since last July (looks to be around October 2008 by this Wizard forum posting,) Wizard has rebranded Wizard World Chicago as Wizard Chicago Comic-con or, as their PR email shortens it- Chicago Comic-Con. It’s not a move completely out of left field but with this week’s announcement of Reed’s Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, it seems like a bit of odd timing, as if they’re trying to one-up Reed with pulling out a name for the show that Wizard mothballed 15+ years ago after they bought the old Chicago Comic-Con.
The name “Wizard World” is obviously losing some of it’s prestige and the Chicago show has spent the last 10 years shrinking in prominence and importance as San Diego and New York have sky rocketed. I wonder if this is Wizard’s first attempt to turn their show around or the first desperate move of a show that just doesn’t matter anymore.
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