Good morning. Emerald City Comic Con is ditching badges next year in a first for ReedPop shows. Marvel is building hype for Amazing Spider-Man #1000 while launching a new Jean Grey series. Plus, Lady Baltimore returns to Dark Horse.
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Emerald City Comic Con 2027 will adopt a badgeless attendance system, marking a significant shift for the Seattle convention. The move could signal broader changes across ReedPop's convention portfolio.
The badgeless system eliminates physical badges entirely, likely replacing them with digital verification or wristbands. ECCC typically draws tens of thousands of attendees annually and serves as a major West Coast convention alongside SDCC and WonderCon.
Why it matters: If successful, the badgeless model could spread to other major ReedPop events like NYCC and C2E2, fundamentally changing how fans access conventions and potentially reducing fraud and resale issues.
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Amazing Spider-Man #1000 promises a major launch Marvel editor Joe Kelly teases that the milestone issue will be "a really big blowout" that kicks off the next chapter of the Spider-Man saga. Read at source (Google News - Superhero Comics) →
Marvel launches new Jean Grey series in November The X-Men: Jean Grey solo series debuts in November 2026, strategically timed ahead of the Avengers: Doomsday film release. Read at source (Bleeding Cool) →
Lady Baltimore returns with new Dark Horse series Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden reunite for Lady Baltimore: The Constant Death of Dr. Rose, a new occult series launching at Dark Horse in December. Read at source (The Comics Beat) →
Marvel's Midnight universe called edgier than DC's Absolute line Spider-Man writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson says Marvel's new Midnight universe makes DC's Absolute comics look "pretty polite" by comparison. Read at source (Google News - Superhero Comics) →
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