I Just Realized Something About Wizard’s PDX Announcement

This didn't occur to me when I slipped it into the festival news column this morning, but Wizard announced their 2013 Portland show for a week before Emerald City Comicon. I can't be the only person to notice that... and I'm not. Well, good. There's no chance that Wizard presents any kind of challenge to Emerald City: that show is extremely well-run and the comics people like it about as much as they distrust and feel contempt for Wizard. I'm sure they'll find a few people interested in doing both if that remains an okay thing to do, and they'll have access to the usual army of marginal geek culture figures for whom the Wizard shows have been very kind. That's been their primary interest for a long time now, anyway.

Flat out, I can't imagine they win a shoving contest. In fact, Wizard drafting off of a show like Emerald City would be noteworthy considering that one of the things that killed their convention momentum (along with whiffing on New York City) was getting creamed by HeroesCon in a similarly competitive and overreaching move back when Wizard was a lot more powerful in the comics world.

So that's one to watch. The only ways I can think of this having an effect is 1) bleeding off some regional audience that might only want to do one and decide to attend the show closer to them, 2) generally firing up Emerald City to put on a strong show. I know which convention I endorse, and it's not anything put on by Wizard. If they steal that guy with the $2 1960s Marvel Comics, I may even go 1980s action film on them.
 
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