The rumors are abuzz in comics land this morning that Marvel will skip this year’s San Diego Comic-Con event.
According to ComicBook.com, in a Saturday impromptu Q&A via Facebook, Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn let it slip that the comics giant would skip this year’s International Comic-Con. When asked if he would be attending he wrote: “I’m not sure. Marvel isn’t going so I’m not sure I will either.”
There is a lot of speculation about exactly what is meant by this, ComicBook.com pointing out that they “believe he is speaking strictly of Marvel Studios rather than Marvel Entertainment as a whole, since that’s the part of the company he works for…It’s possibly that Marvel Studios is skipping San Diego in favor of D23, the bi-annual expo held by parent company Disney. The next D23 expo is scheduled for August 2015.”
Marvel has not issued an official comment about Comic-Con at this time.
