WonderCon 2025, the little sister of San Diego Comic-Con, kicks off today in Anaheim, California. While it’s not nearly as packed with big TV and movie panels as the July celebration, there’s still a ton of awesome sounding panels, some great comic book spotlights, and most importantly: Comic Book Club will be on site this year doing interviews, and breaking out news from panels.
If you are interested in WonderCon, or just curious what’s going down… Well, the schedule can be a bit of a beast. Particularly when it comes to Saturday afternoon, where it seems like every cool-sounding panel is being held in a two-hour period. Don’t worry, there are three full days of programming including panels, signings, screenings, and your requisite masquerade. But it can be difficult to navigate.
So with that in mind, we’ve taken a look through the panel schedule to highlight some of the do-not-miss discussions you’ll want to check out at the Anaheim Convention Center, from looks at what’s coming up in DC Comics, to looks back at Invincible, and much, much more.
Note: all times are in PST, all events are at the Anaheim Convention Center.
WonderCon 2025 Panel Schedule Highlights, Friday, March 28, 2025:
DSTLRY: The Future of Sci-Fi (1:00 pm, Room 300A): Chuck Austen and Scott Hoffman help kick off WonderCon’s programming with a look ahead at the upstart, prestige publisher’s offerings.
Comic-Con: The Cruise: An Immersive Fan Experience (2:30 pm, Room 200A): This may end up being the equivalent of a time-share presentation, but it’s certainly intriguing to find out about how Comic-Con is extending the brand onto the high seas.
Spotlight On Dan Slott: Playing the Long Game in a Shared Universe (3:00 pm, Room 207): Slott is straddling both DC and Marvel, and is always a boisterous presence, even though it sounds like from the panel title he’s about to scam everyone out of all their money.
Spotlight on Sean Gordon Murphy (4:00 pm, Room 209): Come hear Murphy talk about the Batman: White Knight universe, among other things.
Spotlight on Derek Kirk Kim (5:00 pm, Room 209): Kim is responsible for Image Comics’s superb The Last Mermaid, so well worth checking this out.
Spotlight on Sam Maggs (5:00 pm, Room 211): Maggs has worked on Star Wars books among many other things, so decide who you like better — Derek Kirk Kim, or Sam Maggs — because these two spotlights are at the same time and you can’t see them both.
Working on the Set: Skeleton Crew and Kenobi (5:00 pm, Room 207): Some of the best panels I’ve ever seen involve puppeteers geeking out about their craft. Guess what this panel is about?
Spotlight on Todd McFarlane (5:15 pm, Room North 200A): …Or you can cut out of the above after 15 minutes and go see baseball’s biggest fan live on stage. Why did they schedule all the spotlights in an impossible-to-navigate block? I don’t know!
Spotlight on Darick Roberton (6:00 pm, Room 209): Robertson somehow avoids the 5 pm Spotlight Massacre with a slot all on his own. Come chat with him about The Boys, among other things!
Collider: Shudder’s Clown in a Cornfield (6:30 pm, North 200A): Based on the books, the new movie gets some sneak peeks and surprise guests.
Adult Swim’s Lazarus Sneak Peek Screening (7:45 pm, North 200A): Shinichirō Watanabe’s new anime screens episodes 1 and 2. Note: there’s no panel or Q&A, just the screening.
Bikini Bottom Bash: Tom Kenny & The Hi-Seas (8:00 pm, North 100B): SpongeBob himself performs a concert with his band and special guests.
Advance Screening of the Season Two Premiere Episode of The Walking Dead: Dead City (AMC/AMC+) (9:00 pm, North 200A): Another no-frills screening, this time of the May-debuting new season of the zombie series.
WonderCon 2025 Panel Schedule Highlights, Saturday, March 29, 2025:
The Skeleton Crew Boys (10:15 am, North 200A): The kids who play Wim and Neel on the Star Wars series host an interactive Q&A.
Mark Waid: 50 Answers in 50 Minutes (10:30 am, Room 213AB): Join the hardest working man in comics for a breakneck panel I am not looking forward to transcribing.
Intro to TV Writing: From First Draft to Getting Staffed (10:30 am, Room 300C): Hey, we’re in LA, so why not get some writers together to talk about how to break into TV writing? A nice change from the usual “how to break into comics panel. Panelists include the co-showrunner on Invincible, plus writers from The Handmaid’s Tale, Titans and more.
Writing the DC Universe Animated Movies (11:30 am, North 200A): Similarly, this panel reunites writers from 18 years of DC Animated Movies to discuss the process of turning your favorite comics into your favorite toons.
BAD IDEA: The WonderCon Panel (11:30 am, Room 213AB): After mysteriously selling 668k copies of Planet Death #0, Bad Idea takes the stage for a victory lap.
Women in Comics: How Much Do You Really Know? (12:00 pm, Room 213CD): The Beat’s Heidi MacDonald hosts a game show format to test how much you really know about women in comics. Given “name two women” is a challenge for some comic book fans, this should be interesting.
Building New Worlds with DSTLRY (12:30 pm, Room 213AB): DSTLRY’s second panel of the con once again brings on Scott Hoffman, alongside Joe Henderson.
World of X-Men ’92 and X-Men ’97 (12:30 pm, North 100B): Behind-the-scenes folks as well as the voices of Wolverine, Magneto, and Bishop hit the stage to discuss the classic show and the revival. Will they give scant but exciting info about X-Men ’97 Season 2? Probably!
Dive Deep with Clips and Conversations with Prime Video’s Invincible (12:45 pm, North 200A): While no cast will be attending, and the always-on Robert Kirkman won’t be there either, this still should be an interesting look at Season 3 of the series.
Gremlins: The Wild Batch Screening And Q&A (1:00 pm, Room 207): Alongside showrunner Tze Chun, John Glover, Joe Dante and more preview what’s coming up in the second half of the season for the Max animated series.
Modville: Ridley Scott’s First Graphic Novel (1:30 pm, Room 208): Ridley Scott will not be in attendance at this panel, if that helps with your plans at all.
Spotlight on Denys Cowan (1:30 pm, Room 213AB): The legendary Denys Cowan takes the stage for a spotlight panel.
DC: Superman with Mark Waid and Dan Slott (1:45 pm, North 100B): Dan Slott is really gonna slow Mark Waid down from answering the 100+ questions he needs to tackle during this panel.
Scott Dunbier and Act 4 Publishing: Breaking Free! (2:00 pm, Room 209): Remember I said every panel was happening in a two-hour period on Saturday? Yeah, so this is it. After leaving IDW, Scott Dunbier is launching two new formats for collections and more. Check out what’s coming up for his upstart publishing imprint.
The Folio Society: What Makes a Marvel Story Unforgettable (2:00 pm, Room 207): Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum discuss curating their new Marvel Comics collection for the Folio Society.
What’s the Buzz with The Beat: Inside the News (2:00 pm, Room 213CD): Heidi MacDonald discusses hot news topics with hot news people.
A Conversation with Ronald D. Moore: Why Replicators Are [Still] The Worst (2:00 pm, North 200A): Moore discusses everything from Star Trek to Battlestar Galactica to For All Mankind and more in this panel.
Comixology Originals: Lights, Camera… Comics! (3:00 pm, Room 213CD): Thomas Jane, Chuck Austen and more discuss what’s next for Comixology.
Two Legends (3:00 pm, North 100B): Potential highlight of the con alert… Jim Lee and Todd McFarlane discuss their careers, mano a mano.
Spotlight On Jessica Fong (3:30 pm, Room 213AB): Fong discusses her work on covers for Poison Ivy.
Spotlight On Brian Posehn (4:30 pm, Room 213AB): Posehn talks comedy, comics, and more!
Spotlight on David Dastmalchian (5:00 pm, Room 207): Mr. Late Night With The Devil himself, Dastmalchian talks film, TV, comics, and more.
The 2025 WonderCon Masquerade (8:30 pm, North 200A): Come for the cosplay, stay for the… Well, cosplay.
WonderCon 2025 Panel Schedule Highlights, Sunday, March 30, 2025:
What Am I Going To Do With All These Comic Books? (11:00 am, Room 300A): Winner of “best-named panel of the con,” comic book experts and members of the Golden Apple Foundation talk about selling or donating those dangerous boxes you’re probably going to die trapped under.
Women In Comics (12:00 pm, Room 209): Put that trivia you learned the other day to use with the classic Sunday afternoon Women in Comics panel.
Diverse Storytellers Empowering Equity and Inclusion (12:30 pm, Room 213AB): Not an acronym, unfortunately (DSEEI is, uh… Nothing) but this panel returns from San Diego Comic-Con featuring Nicole Maines, Marguerite Sauvage and others discussing what’s on the tin.
We Are All Superfans (1:00 pm, Room 207): The official launch of the SuperFan Podcast welcomes guests Pornsak Pitchetshote and Marco Finnegan.
The Thrilling Adventure Hour 20th Anniversary (1:15 pm, North 100B): Ben Acker and Ben Blacker host a WonderCon exclusive episode of their popular show.
Spotlight on Mitch Gerads (1:30 pm, Room 208): Gerads talks about his stunning art with moderator Tim Sheridan.
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