It's Superheroes vs. smartphones at Comic-Con
Superheroes: They're just like us.
If you read and watch most coverage of Comic-Con, the world's largest nerdfest, you'll come away with the impression that its world-famous cosplay fanatics are forever posing in states of grunting, flexing, fist-pumping, poster-worthy superheroic brilliance.
And while it's true that all weekend long, these living legends will commit 100 percent to that pose at the merest hint of a whispered "May I?", there are the other moments. More telling, more human, more everyday 21st century moments.
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That's right — they may be able to bend steel or run faster than speeding bullets, but give most superheroes a glowing rectangle of social media and they're as powerless as Superman facing kryptonite.
Here for the first time we present an intimate look at this more candid side of Comic-Con: A gallery of what superheroes get up to the moment they think there are no cameras in sight.
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Chris is a veteran tech, entertainment and culture journalist, author of 'How Star Wars Conquered the Universe,' and co-host of the Doctor Who podcast 'Pull to Open.' Hailing from the U.K., Chris got his start as a sub editor on national newspapers. He moved to the U.S. in 1996, and became senior news writer for Time.com a year later. In 2000, he was named San Francisco bureau chief for Time magazine. He has served as senior editor for Business 2.0, and West Coast editor for Fortune Small Business and Fast Company. Chris is a graduate of Merton College, Oxford and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is also a long-time volunteer at 826 Valencia, the nationwide after-school program co-founded by author Dave Eggers. His book on the history of Star Wars is an international bestseller and has been translated into 11 languages.
