When: Monday, February 2, 7:00 PM Where: AMC Fashion Valley Please note that RSVP does not guarantee admission—seating is first come, first served. Arrive early to secure your spot!

Walking into 2026, we got some amazing new anime to watch this season! Some follow up seasons and long awaited new series. I know I have been waiting years for some of these series follow ups and new series to finally be released. Going from an anime slump, with only a few to watch at the end of 2025…I’m jumping straight into the deep end with all of these new and continuing anime’s this season. 

Director: Timur BekmambetovStarring: Chris Pratt, Rebecca Ferguson, Kali Reis, Annabelle Wallis, Chris Sullivan, and Kylie RogersMovie Length: 1 hour 40 minutes What it's about: In the future in a crime ridden Los Angeles, criminals who have been charged with a violent crime are given a 90 minute trial by The Mercy Capital Court.

Starting off the year with a packed schedule for the first few months of 2026 is crazy, but there are some new events and good conventions coming up fast, so it’s worth it. It’s also exciting to be seeing all these new fan run events happening, for anime and games. Last year was super fun with these happening around the convention down times, and being a few hours during a weekend.

The Convention Collective's Darren Shulman has been very lucky to get the chance to speak to STAR TREK: VOYAGER / INNERSPACE / STARGATE: SG1's Robert Picardo about his career, his relationship with ge...

This past October, The Convention Collective's Senior Editor Dan Berry was given the opportunity to attend New York Comic Con in New York City. While he was there he had the chance to speak to some of

Director: Johannes RobertsStarring: Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, and Troy Kotsur Movie Length: 1 hour 29 minutes What Mike thought: As I compose this review, I can’t help but wonder about the thousands, perhaps millions of calls that the Simian Anti-Defamation League has received recently. After all, they’ve hit a rough patch in the arena of motion pictures.

The 2026 convention year begins this weekend, and our friends at RSVLTS are bringing some hot new exclusive shirts to this weekend's FAN EXPO New Orleans. Among the 5 new shirts are one for everyone's favorite card throwing mutant Gambit, a Mickey Mouse one, and 3 New Orleans themed shirts (one of which is a floral shirt which I'm going to try to get someone to get for me).

I feel like this year just flew by, one minute it's March and we are slugging through the month and then BAM! It’s kind of wild to look back at 2025, cause it doesn't feel like anything was a few months ago, but years ago (I feel like I’m a completely different person then I was at the start of this year). 

One of the bigger shows in SoCal has extended their fan investment campaign for an additional 60 days! Los Angeles Comic Con earlier this year announced that they were starting a fan investment campaign that would let attendees become a part owner of the show. More information is below courtesy of their press release. With 2025 show attendance hitting 130K and new anime, gaming, and horror destinations driving more than 50% growth since Covid, the show is raising capital from loyal fans to expand shows, partnerships, and year-round experiences…

Director: James CameronStarring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, and Kate WinsletMovie Length: 3 hours 17 minutes Photo by 20th Century Studios/20TH CENTURY STUDIOS - © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved. What Leo thought: The movie picks up less than a month from where 2022's Avatar: The Way of Water…

We are once again talking about Labubus, which we touched on back a few months ago over the summer because they did a collaboration with One Piece and fans went wild. Now for those of you who do not know what these little guys are well...It is a collectable plush toy that has elf/bunny ears and monster-like smiles that include fang-like teeth.

Director: Emma TammiStarring: Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Freddy Carter, Theodus Crane, Wayne Knight, Teo Briones, Mckenna Grace, Skeet Ulrich, and Matthew LillardMovie Length: 1 hour 44 minutes What Michael thought: As a warning, this will be an unusual review. In a year of providing movie reviews to The Convention Collective, I’ve never felt prompted to insert myself so prominently into my piece.

Another wonderful year at Anime NYC 2025! The convention delivered a solid lineup of special guests including voice talent, guests of honor, and musical performers, exciting anime season updates, a vibrant artist alley, and the return of Hololive. Musical Guests We were graced this year with Yoko Takahashi, who did a meet and greet and performed a full concert.

This October, The Convention Collective's Senior Editor Dan Berry was given the opportunity to attend New York Comic Con in New York City. While he was there he had the chance to speak to some of the

At a semi-glittering affair at the acclaimed Cartoon Museum in the heart of the nations capital, Tripwire Magazine EIC Joel Meadows and celebrated writer Jasper Bark co-hosted the ceremony and revealed the winners of this years Tripwire Awards 2025; shortlisted by a bunch of knowledgeable comics bods (and, erm, yours truly) and voted on by the discerning general public.

I have been attending conventions for many years now, small, medium, and big and sized ones all both around the PNW as well as all over the US. Then this year “cupsleeve” events started popping up around the US, outside of them being just for K-Pop. A cupsleeve is basically something that wraps around a cup, to decorate or protect your hand from the heat of said cup (and what's inside of it).

We are not even done with 2025 yet and I’m just trying to relax now that convention season is over and WHAM! FanExpo Portland is coming at us with all these amazing guests?!! I saw this announcement about the voice actors from Hazbin Hotel and My Hero Academia and was losing my mind. One of my first ever cosplays I ever made was Bakugo from…

Director: Edgar WrightStarring: Glen Powell, William H. Macy, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, Daniel Ezra, Jayme Lawson, Sean Hayes, Colman Domingo, and Josh BrolinMovie Length: 2 hours 13 minutes What Michael thought: Running Man foregoes subtlety and finesse and instead wields an unyielding sledgehammer, pummeling its audience with many examples of social commentary.

Tuesday, November 18 7:00 PM AMC MISSION VALLEY Arrive early! All tickets are limited and on a first-come, first-served basis. Passes received through this promotion do not guarantee you seats at th...

There were many super fun things this year at Kumoricon that really stood out to me, and were fun to see happening at the convention. Lots of fan meet ups, even unofficial ones around the convention. It was cool to see groups of cosplayers from the same series posing together and making new friends. The photoshoots they were doing were great for people watching and people were making some pretty silly TikToks.

By Allie G. This past September I finally went to a comic con after hearing about all the different ones for years. I decided to attend Los Angeles Comic Con, and it was an unforgettable first comic convention experience! The first day of the convention can be best described as fast, exciting, and hectic! There was so much to see and do.