Englishman In San Diego

SDCC 2018 - The Len Wein Memorial Panel (Room 4, Thurs 19th July 2018) The first day proper of this years San Diego Comic-Con was hectic, eventful, punishing, exhausting, rewarding, and ultimately heartwarming and very emotional - Thursday had plenty to see and do throughout its programming but there was one panel that I was determined not to miss: the Len Wein Memorial panel, celebrating the work and mostly the big, big life of the comics industry giant who passed away in September of last year. Len Wein was, with no word of exaggeration, a titan of comics, not only in his output - co-creator of characters like DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine, as well as one of the men responsible for the revival in fortunes of the X-Men and editing Alan Moore / Dave Gibbons' WATCHMEN - but also in the size of his heart. He was, by all accounts, a boisterous, exuberant, warm, generous and extremely kind-hearted man, as evidenced by the love and joy that was on evidence at this 'let's not call it a memor