NYCC 2015: The Good, The Not-As-Good, And The Ugly

This year was the tenth annual New York Comic Con — and my fifth in attendance — and it was a pretty good year. I did my usual run of the panels and screenings, fitting in as much as I could in the four glorious days of nerddom. Here’s my summary of the best, the worst, and the “meh” of this year’s con.

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The Good Lucifer: Now this is exciting. Lucifer Morningstar—yes, that Lucifer Morningstar, Mr. Devil himself—has decided to take a vacation, so he’s managing a bar in Los Angeles. He’s charming, he’s inappropriate, he’s British, and he’s got the power to get people to confess their forbidden desires. He meets up with a female detective who doesn’t fall for his tricks or his bullshit, and the banter is priceless. Think Constantine meets Castle—but if both shows were about ten times better. This one’s genuinely funny, though I already worry that the budding romance/attraction between the two protagonists will take over and weaken the actually interesting parts of the show. And Lucifer’s also got killer music: Beck, Cage the Elephant, the Black Keys, etc. The best part? Lucifer’s based off of the character in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series. Win. Look out for this one on Fox. [divider type=”space_thin”] Daredevil Season 2/Jessica Jones: If you haven’t heard about this one, you’ve been…