As with recent Comic-Con Internationals and WonderCons, they're not having Comic-Con International this July in San Diego. Whatever they do have will be online and as usual, I'm preparing three online panels that will be on the convention website on the days when Comic-Con would have happened…July 23-25. In fact, I'm recording the third of three today.
There's a panel with Sergio Aragonés, Thomas Yeates and myself discussing the new Groo Meets Tarzan mini-series that will be coming out about the same time that Comic-Con@Home occurs. There's a Jack Kirby Tribute Panel with Paul Levitz and Walt Simonson. And there's a Cartoon Voices Panel that I'll tell you about later because I have to get ready to record it in an hour.
The Jack Kirby Panel has already been recorded and it will be of great interest to Kirby fans 'n' scholars. It focuses mainly on Jack's New Gods series for DC and we discuss what actually happened there and how the series actually sold. Some of what you may have heard — or thought you heard — about those comics is not true. It'll be online in about six weeks.
The Comic-Con Special Edition announced for Thanksgiving Weekend looks increasingly certain to take place but they still have a helluva lot of planning work to do on it. I'll tell you more about it as soon as I know more about it. I don't know much more than is in this paragraph.
As long as COVID-19 has been in the news, there has been this "lab-leak" theory making the rounds. It says that the virus originated in a lab in Wuhan and that it was accidentally or perhaps deliberately allowed to escape into the wild. We're hearing a lot more lately about this interesting theory and we ought to know if it's true or not — and if it isn't, then just where did this damned thing come from?
But as Kevin Drum reminds us, there was absolutely no evidence to support this theory when it was first suggested…and there's still absolutely no evidence. That doesn't mean there isn't any truth to it but we oughta remember that there's zero evidence.