So, it’s 2024 and I am now just getting around to putting up my coverage of LA Comic Con 2022. I really need to get my shit together and try to get this stuff up in a timely manner.

At this point it was really tempting to just throw this out and just continue on with more recent content, but like my D23 2022 coverage (which also went up really late) I figured since this stuff isn’t doing me any good just sitting on my hard drive. I should at least try to put it to some use which is why I’m putting this post up—more than a year later.

Looking back at LA Comic Con 2022, I hate to say this but it wasn’t that great—at least in terms of displays and activations. I remember I said something similar for the 2021 edition of LA Comic Con, but honestly back then it was a bit expected. At least for people in California, LA Comic Con 2021 was the first big convention to come back after the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns, and even though the world was opening back up, a lot of companies at the time were being conservative because they were still recovering from the economic effects of COVID-19 or they were just playing it safe in case of another COVID surge or some other disaster happening. You would think by 2022 things would have recovered enough that there would have been some sort of semblance to pre-pandemic times, but this was not the case. Not only were many of the companies who were absent in 2021 still missing, but a few more other notable companies and vendors had also pulled out—one of which was Sideshow Collectibles.

Sideshow Collectibles being absent was a huge hit for me. With their incredibly detailed products and just massive displays and activations, they’ve always made up a huge chunk of my event coverage, and when I started piecemealing my event content for SEO and readability reasons, I always found myself giving them their own dedicated posts.

Even without Sideshow Collectibles, there was still some noteworthy stuff at LA Comic Con—or at least stuff that I thought might be noteworthy. Just keep scrolling and you decide for yourself.

The first time I was at a convention where I saw they had tattoo artists on site to give people tattoos was at C2E2 2019. Since then I’ve noticed other conventions have also been bringing in tattoo artists. I’m sure many people know that getting a tattoo can be quite a lengthy process, and if you’re wondering how some tattoo artists at a convention can work fast enough to accommodate as many people as possible, the answer is pretty simple. The options of what a person can get from them are limited to a set number of designs of the artists’ choosing.

A big statue that was part of Support Your Local Villain, a clothing brand that was on site.

Some artists from Rob Prior Studios were on site creating art on the floor as a demonstration of what they can do,

Here’s 1 artists doing what I believe is a water color of Batman.

And here’s another doing one of Cilian Murphy from Peaky Blinders.

Here is Bubbles the Corgi dressed as R2D2. Bubbles is the mascot of Tworgis, a small business that sells corgi-themed bags and accessories.

Here’s the Got Glam It booth. Honestly, I only took this pic because the girl was waving around her fan which said “cunt” on it.

Here’s Kiwi the corgi, the mascot of Bukipins, who I have actually met before at some car events.

Hot Topic was the main sponsor for LA Comic Con 2022 so they had the biggest booth smack dab in the middle of the exhibition hall which that had set up with a Nightmare Before Christmas theme.

The theme consisted mostly of this faux-graveyard they had for people to navigate if they wanted to line up to buy things.

One part of the Hot Topic booth I thought was pretty neat was the recreation of the holiday forest from the beginning of the movie.

The “Joker Car” which as you can see is just a Honda Civic with a Joker-themed wrap on it. Seeing this I wonder why the guy didn’t just get a Vaydor which was the car that the Joker drove in Suicide Squad. While the Vaydor may look like a high-end super car in reality it’s really just a fiberglass body kit for an infiniti G35. Although I think the cost of the kit is like $20,000 or so, plus the cost of getting it installed and painted which I’m sure is easily another 10-15gs easy. With a price tag like that it’s no wonder why this guy just slapped a Joker-wrap on his Civic.

Members of the Los Angeles Ghostbusters.

A few custom Lego builds were on display.

Here’s Maleficent’s castle.

And mosaics of Ahsoka and Darth Maul.

And I’ll close this out with a pic of the R2D2 Builder’s Club’s droid corral.

And that’s really it for LA Comic Con 2022. As I said earlier, it honestly wasn’t that great. Honestly, after forcing myself to go through everything to come up with this write up there were multiple times I was tempted to toss this out, but between my stupid sense of responsibility and my attempt at trying to recoup my expenses from this convention, I felt that I needed to put this up here. I still have my cosplay pics from LA Comic Con 2022, so check back soon for those, I promise I’ll have that up soon and not up in a few years.