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Many, including this editor, were sporting issues of the best-selling series 'Darkest Nights: Metal.' They were answering fan questions and were slated to alsoВ sign items for attendees. Snyder and Capullo had only been talking for about 15 minutes. Some people in food court remained in their seats, eating, despite the alarms. Out in the halls, people headed for the doors, confused but calm. A staff member told everyone in the room to proceed to the exits. When the fire alarm first sounded during the meet and greet in the North building with DC Comics creators Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, no one knew what to do at first. The Phoenix Convention Center was evacuated when the fire-alarm system went off shortly after 7:30 p.m. There was even a panel on the state of independent wrestling, with a dais filled with the kind of bodies you see all the time at comic cons, but usually sculpted out of foam rubber. (Favorite panelist quote: вЂњI do have some trivia questions, but only a few, so weвЂ™re trying to fill more time.вЂќ) More than a dozen people turned out to discuss, among other things, whether John Leguizamo should have had a mustache in the 1993 film that currently carries a 13 percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In the year of вЂњBlack Panther,вЂќ it was no surprise to see an inquiry into вЂњThe History of Diversity in Superheroes.вЂќ (Best panelist quote: вЂњDonвЂ™t get me started on вЂThe Jetsons.вЂ™вЂќ) But what about вЂњWhy the Super Mario Bros. Many of these chat session attract only a handful of attendees, but the variety of topics is staggering. But if you really want to understand comic con culture, you need to do some panel hopping.

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Panel hopping: From 'Super Mario Bros.' to professional wrestlingДЇan intensity is what drives the event (so maybe that latest name change isnвЂ™t so bad). But it took a while to spot him and his golf-ball-size remotes as R2-D2В wandered through the convention center, taking time to face off against Darth Maul (aka Kenny Novero of Avondale).ДЄfter that, вЂњIt looks like Artoo is going to the beer garden,вЂќ someone in the gawking crowd shouted.ДЄnd that is also very much in the spirit of the con. The remote-control droid was controlled by Dan Johnson of the R2 Builders Club ( ), who made the trip to Phoenix from Las Vegas. If there was one moment that distilled the spirit of fandom, it was the look of startled delight on a young boyвЂ™s face when a full-size R2-D2 came to beep-beep-beeping-life in the food court. вЂIt looks like Artoo is going to the beer gardenвЂ™ДЄ comic con by any other name remains the same: an unabashed celebration of the magic of pop culture.

The name change will take effect with next yearвЂ™s show, which is also scheduled for Memorial Day weekend. вЂњIt's just not the right name for what we do,вЂќ she said. Why the change? вЂњBecause Phoenix Comic Fest doesn't sound right,вЂќВ said Kristin Rowan, spokesperson for Square Egg Entertainment, the organizers of the four-day annual convention. вЂњI was confused, but then I decided to roll with it,вЂќ said 23-year-old Annalise Amado of Tucson.

вЂњMy opinion is we should go back to the Comic Con moniker, and if we have to pay licensing fees to the San Diego Comic-Con, we should,вЂќ Adamson said. вЂњI was kind of OK with Comic Fest,вЂќ he said, but вЂњFan FusionвЂќ is just too far away from the familiar brand for this type of thing. No,вЂќ he said outside the Phoenix Convention Center on Sunday, shuddering visibly. Longtime event attendee Bryan Adamson was more adamantly negative. There was a bit of eye-rolling to Sunday morningвЂ™s announcement that Phoenix Comic Fest will be getting its second new name in two years for 2019: Phoenix Fan Fusion.

Phoenix Comic Fest fans react to name change вЂњThank goodness IвЂ™m a video producer, so IвЂ™d already taken some high-rez images.вЂќД®ven with fewer competitors on the stage, a thousand or so conventioneers returned to cheer them on. So Asmundson returned to the stage Sunday afternoon with a life-size poster of Martinez (as Romy to her sisterвЂ™s Michelle). First-time contestant Alesther Asmundson of Tempe said less than half of the other entrants returned for the rescheduled final rounds of judging - and one of the missing was her sister, Sally Martinez, who had to drive back to her home in Show Low.

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