Adult Swim will premiere its highly anticipated show Rick and Morty: The Anime at San Diego Comic Con (SDCC). The American adult-oriented television subsidiary of Warner Bros. Television Studios has revealed its line-up for the Comic Con which is scheduled from 25 to 28 July 2024.
Apart from the new Rick and Morty show, Adult Swim will premiere its other shows Common Side Effects and a screening presentation for the upcoming season of My Adventures with Superman in a pirate themed fan party dubbed as “Pirate Parrrty.”
Adult Swim president Michael Ouweleen stated about the fan party, “For reasons too long to get into, we at Adult Swim have always used a pirate ship (and, owls, but maybe we’ll do that at a later con) as a metaphor for how we operate. We thought, since we like to think of us, fans and network, as all one thing, that we should bring the pirate ship to the harbour of San Diego this year and let everyone join us on the – erm – poop deck.”
The studio’s presentation will be located on the Green space outside the San Diego Convention Center (5th Avenue Landing and Convention Way). It’s “Pirate Parrrty” will include custom games, exclusive first looks, giveaways, and evening entertainment including DJ laser sets.
The panel events will feature a series of panels that will include premieres, news and interactions from series creators and voiceover artists
- Common Side Effects series first look and panel: From executive producers Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, and creators Joe Bennett and Steve Hely, this comedic thriller follows two former high school lab partners who take on big pharma and government agencies as they try to bring a medicine that cures everything to the whole world. Co-creator Hely and writer/director Sean Buckelew will join the series voice cast including Martha Kelly, Emily Pendergast, Joseph Lee Anderson and Dave King to discuss the show. The premiere will be aired on Friday, 26 July at 11 am at the Indigo Ballroom.
- Rick And Morty: The Anime series first look: Writer/director Takashi Sano, producers Joseph Chou and Takenari Maeda, and the studio’s head of action and anime Jason DeMarco will share details about the intergalactic adventure and show you the inner workings of the new series. The show will be premiered on Friday, 26 July at 12 pm at the Indigo Ballroom.
- My Adventures with Superman screening presentation and panel: Executive producers Jake Wyatt, Josie Campbell, Brendan Clogher, and voice cast members Jack Quaid, Alice Lee, Ishmel Sahid, and Kiana Madeira answer fans’ questions from season two of the well known DC Comics’ series. Attendees will get early details on the upcoming season of the show which is produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The screening and panel event will be held on Saturday, 27 July at 10 am at the Indigo Ballroom.
The space will host a series of special evening events:
- “Battle for the Booty” Wrestling Tournament : All Elite Wrestling (AEW) stars will face-off in tag team matches against famous Adult Swim faces for a no limits event as each competitor fights for the chance to win the “Battle for the Booty” title on Thursday, 25 July 7:30 pm.
- Night of New: Comic Con attendees will get to experience a collection of new series at this special screening event featuring the full-length premiere episodes of Common Side Effects, Rick and Morty: The Anime, Invincible Fight Girl, and Women Wearing Shoulder Pads alongside more never-before-seen content from the studio. The screening will be livestreamed in real-time on the studio’s YouTube channel on Friday, 26 July at 7:30 pm
- Fun with Zach and Michael: Fresh off the finale of the Smiling Friends’ second season, join the show’s co-creators Michael Cusack and Zach Hadel for a special live-draw and fan Q&A event, on Saturday, 27 July at 7:30 pm.
- Rickmobile Tour: The Rickmobile, a travelling mobile shop with merchandise from the titular show and the Mortymobile, an enlarged vehicular Morty themed car that fans can drive, for the studio’s “Anime-rican” tour in support of the anime-fied Rick and Morty series.