WonderCon is here! Who doesn’t love a good old fashioned comic book / pop culture convention? I definitely do. It may not be no San Diego Comic-Con, but it does give a look as to how SDCC used to be. WonderCon is best known for it’s relaxing atmosphere and holding most of us down until SDCC rolls around in July.
This convention wouldn’t be WonderCon without some sneak peeks of upcoming movies. Sadly in the past year there’s been a lack of movie presence in the main halls for most major DC and Marvel movies. Yes, we’re getting “The Amazing Spider-Man,” but what about “The Avengers”? They won’t be arriving at WonderCon this year, even though the convention is in Anaheim this year other than San Francisco.
Fans like myself were disappointed to hear this news, especially since “The Avengers” is about a month and a half away from release. So in celebration of “The Avengers,” I bring you The Pretend WonderCon Avengers Panel!
All of the fans crowd into the large hall in anticipation to catch not only a sneak peek at “The Avengers” but maybe one of the actors like Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson or the god among geeks, director Joss Whedon. Some slick announcer that we’ve never seen before uses the power of words to effectively bring out the entire cast. The audience immediately begins to shake in their seats out of pure joy. It feels like an earthquake.

Robert Downey Jr. gets first dibs on speaking and thanks everybody for showing up and leaves it to Joss Whedon to introduce the new footage we’re about to see. Whedon proclaims that the footage “…will literally make you explode with excitement. It’s the equivalent of Shamu making a jump and splashing you in the face with pure awesomeness.” Whedon’s absolutely correct as half of the audience literally explodes by the end of the presentation. Only few are left standing after Chris Hemsworth tells the projectionist to play the footage again two more times.

The slick moderator says a couple of words to them and then the floor is open to questions from the audience. The first guy comes up, starting to ask about the changes done in Captain America’s costume. Captain America doesn’t approve.

Then you have the fans who end up gushing only to Samuel L. Jackson and Scarlett Johansson. Finally the biggest question of the panel is asked by a cute little kid. “Mr. Ruffalo… could you say the Hulk line please?” He successfully does so with a slight slur to his voice that ends up making his delivery of the famous line into everybody’s new ringtone.

Then the panel has ended. Everyone says their goodbyes and the janitors come in to clean up the mess and get new seats before this happens again in the “Prometheus” panel.
I’ll be at WonderCon, most likely with a camcorder in hand so be on the lookout for me. I’ll be asking people… stuff. I don’t know of what yet, maybe something Who-related, we’ll see! Feel free to follow me for WonderCon randomness on Twitter @Meli_Molina.