Browsing: Crowds

Titan Wales Comic Con rolled into the Welsh capital on Saturday as it made its debut at Cardiff City Stadium.

Despite cancelled flights, tornados, and other travel travails, it seems that the tribes have successfully gathered here at San Diego for this year’s Comic-Con. The day kicked off with the press conference announcing that SDCC would be in San Diego for another three years. The announcement by Mayor Todd Gloria still left some lingering questions:

We were sitting in the Nejmeh supporters’ section at Beirut’s Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, watching the Lebanese football derby between Nejmeh and Ansar, accompanied by an Egyptian friend who supports Al Ahly back home.

Something quiet has been happening at the edges of fandom. The same people who keep a phone glowing beside the TV during a season finale, who run a second screen while a tournament stream plays, who refresh a subreddit between anime episodes, have started spending part of that idle attention on US online casinos. It…