Movies and TV shows are always heading to Comic-Con, but what happens when Comic Cons appear in pop culture outside of the conventions?
San Diego Comic-Con is the place where pop culture converges for four-and-a-half days and brings fans of all strips together under one banner. Comic book readers, movie and TV fans, fantasy lovers, sci-fi enthusiasts, anime experts, gamers, and more can always find something they love at the show. That’s because Comic-Con is pop culture. But sometimes, Comic-Con leaves such an impression that it leaps out to other aspects of pop culture on screen or even in the pages of a book.
For this year’s SDCC, we’re taking a look at seven times a Comic Con has appeared in pop culture. It’s not always San Diego, but Comic-Con’s influence is still felt in these projects.Paul (2011)
Although Paul wasn’t filmed in San Diego, the opening of the movie has some of the most convincing Comic-Con moments ever seen on screen. The movie even used the official SDCC branding and invited some very recognizable Comic-Con regulars as background extras.
In the film, Nick Frost and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning‘s Simon Pegg play lifelong pals Graeme Willy and Clive Gollings who travel to Comic-Con. But on the next leg of their trip, they encounter and befriend a real alien who calls himself Paul (Seth Rogen).Entourage (2004)
Now it’s time to go from one of the most convincing representations of Comic-Con to the other extreme.
