The Hollywood Strike Is Taking San Diego Comic-Con Back to Its Roots

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With WGA and SAG-AFTRA members forbidden to promote their shows and movies, expect more talk of comic books at a show once dedicated to them

Crowds at San Diego Comic-Con
Crowds at San Diego Comic-Con (Photo: Getty Images)

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This year’s San Diego Comic-Con will look very different from what people have come to expect over the last 15 years or so.

Thanks to the first double strike to hit the American entertainment industry since 1960, almost no members of the Writers Guild of America or SAG-AFTRA who work in TV or film will be attending in any official capacity. And without stars and scribes to draw in fans, TV and movie studios have mostly pulled out too.

That means, at this storied gathering of geeks, the comic book creators who are the ostensible reason the event exists will have the floor almost entirely to themselves.

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