{"id":1452,"date":"2011-03-22T20:45:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T01:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2011-03-22T20:46:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T01:46:52","slug":"last-minute-schedule-changes-at-planet-comicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1452","title":{"rendered":"Last minute schedule changes at Planet Comicon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1433\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/PlanetComiconNew.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1433\" title=\"PlanetComiconNew\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/PlanetComiconNew.jpg\" alt=\"Planet Comicon\" width=\"180\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/em><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Planet Comicon is Kansas City&#39;s largest comics and pop culture convention.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Costume contest, new panel appearances, and a guest cancellation lead the list of last minute changes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As this weekend&#8217;s <a title=\"Planet Comicon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetcomicon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Planet Comicon<\/a> approaches, its promoters continue to tweak the schedule of events. For the second year, the convention will feature a costume contest. This year, the contest will be held at 4:00 PM on Saturday on a new stage in the main convention hall. Contestants can register to participate in the contest prior to 3:30 at the Elite Comics booth.<\/p>\n<p>The panel schedule also has additions. Peter Rios, one of the hosts of the popular podcast <em>Comic Geek Speak<\/em>, will moderate two panels. On Saturday at 2:00, Rios will helm the &#8220;DC Unleashed&#8221; panel with guests Gail Simone, Phil Hester, Rick Burchett, and Yanick Paquette. Then he takes on &#8220;Independent Visions in the Mainstream&#8221; at 2:00 on Sunday. That panel features Tony Harris, Jason Latour, B. Clay Moore, and newly confirmed panelist Ben Templesmith.<\/p>\n<p>The promoters also announced that comics guest Rick Remender has had to cancel his appearance at the show. According to the website, &#8220;We are sorry that circumstances have arisen that require him to miss the show, but wish him well and hope that he can attend a future Planet Comicon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Costume contest, new panel appearances, and a guest cancellation lead the list of last minute changes. As this weekend&#8217;s Planet Comicon approaches, its promoters continue to tweak the schedule of events. For the second year, the convention will feature a costume contest. This year, the contest will be held at 4:00 PM on Saturday on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1452\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Last minute schedule changes at Planet Comicon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}