{"id":413122,"date":"2026-07-26T19:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/413122\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T19:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:52:16","slug":"produce-this-last-nights-bad-idea-comics-san-diego-comic-con-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/413122\/","title":{"rendered":"Produce This! Last Night&#8217;s Bad Idea Comics San Diego Comic-Con Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"taxonomy\">Posted in: <a href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/comics\/comics-publishers\/bad-idea\/\" rel=\"category nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Idea<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/comics\/\" rel=\"category nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Comics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/pop-culture\/events\/conventions\/\" rel=\"category nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conventions<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/pop-culture\/events\/\" rel=\"category nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Events<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/pop-culture\/\" rel=\"category nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pop Culture<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/pop-culture\/events\/conventions\/san-diego-comic-con\/\" rel=\"category nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">san diego comic con<\/a> | Tagged: <a href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/tag\/derek-kolstad\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">derek kolstad<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/tag\/dinesh-shamdasani\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dinesh Shamdasani<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/tag\/matt-kindt\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">matt kindt<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/tag\/sdcc\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sdcc<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt\" style=\"font-weight:lighter;margin:6px 0;font-size:1.1em;clear:both;\">Produce This! A look inside last night&#8217;s Bad Idea Comics Party at San Diego Comic-Con<\/p>\n<p>Published Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:57:12 -0500 by <a rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/author\/rich-johnston\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rich Johnston<\/a><\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>Last updated Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:11:13 -0500 <\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>Article Summary&#13;<br \/>\nBad Idea Comics\u2019 San Diego Comic-Con party drew a packed crowd of film and TV producers chasing buzzy adaptation rumors.&#13;<br \/>\nRumors of Johnny Depp or Keanu Reeves appearing for a Warbird movie signing proved unfounded, but fueled major interest.&#13;<br \/>\nBleeding Cool\u2019s SDCC team got inside the Bad Idea Comics bash, with Dinesh Shamdasani offering a warm welcome.&#13;<br \/>\nThe Bad Idea San Diego Comic-Con Tiki Party ran at Bali Hai, with free entry offered to First Customer Pin owners.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Rumours that Johnny Depp was <a href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/comics\/would-keanu-reeves-play-the-lead-in-a-bad-idea-comics-warbird-movie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">turning up at the Bad Idea Comics party last night<\/a>, as part of some signing deal for a movie adaptation of the Derek Kolstad comic book Warbird, may have been way off the mark, ditto for Keanu Reeves, but the place was packed with movie and TV producers who thought it might not have been\u2026 why they let Bleeding Cool&#8217;s Senior San Diego correspondent Jimmy Leszczynski and friends of Bleeding Cool Steph N and Isabelle Carty through the doors is beyond me. And a special thanks to Dinesh Shamdasani of Bad Idea for giving me such a warm greeting from the other side of the world to wake up to\u2026 soi, who can you spot? Apart from the goat of It Demands Sacrifice, their new comic from the director of Brightburn, David Yarovesky, the writer of most of Love, Death &amp; Robots, Philip Gelatt and X-Force&#8217;s Adam Pollina\u2026<\/p>\n<p>This is how the <a href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/comics\/the-massive-bleeding-cool-san-diego-comic-con-party-list-final-draft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bleeding Cool 2026 SDCC Party List described it<\/a>\u2026 Bad Idea San Diego Comic-Con Tiki Party, Bali Hai, 2230 Shelter Island Dr, 7-10 pm. 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