San Diego Comic-Con International (SDCC), the country’s largest gathering of fans of popular culture, held its 50th convention last month. The sold-out event drew around 135,000 attendees.
This year’s Comic-Con dedicated many panels to charting the event’s changing style and feel from decade to decade—and the controversies that accompanied those changes. Those arguments ultimately come down to concerns about who the event is for, and whether the sense of ownership felt by an experience’s early…