To the surprise of…well, not you or me certainly…Comic-Con International has announced they will not be holding Comic-Con 2021 as planned in San Diego in July. You can read the entire statement here about why (which won't surprise you) or how it will be "virtual" like it was last year, so that won't surprise you either. The only news is that they will attempt to do some sort of in-person event in November, details to follow.
Actually, I'm a bit surprised that they announced this soon that Comic-Con won't be a live event in July. It takes a lot of work to not put on Comic-Con and I would have thought it would take longer for this announcement to be made. I'm glad it is so we all don't have to think about if it could maybe possibly happen.
And I've already received one e-mail from a guy who has always wrongly thought that I'm the Complaint Department for Comic-Con. He also apparently thought for a while that the Coronavirus was a hoax and then he thought it was no big deal and it would just kill a few old people who were going to die soon anyway and then go away in a matter of weeks. Now, he apparently thinks that because the infection and death rates are heading down — you know; like they did last April for a while — COVID-19 is history and we can all resume doing everything he's mad that he can't do because of it.
He wrote, "Don't these people realize that by July, nobody in this friggin' country will be dying of this supposed virus?" I would love to think he's right for once but the sheer fact that this guy believes this makes me skeptical.