Evangelion Panel at Anime Expo
By The Eva Monkey on Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014
If you’re heading to Anime Expo this weekend, be sure to stop by Dark Horse’s Evangelion panel on Sunday. It will be helmed by the illustrious Carl Horn, a veteran of Evangelion in the English language. Before joining Dark Horse, Carl served as editor for Viz’s English release of Yoshiyuki Sadamoto’s Neon Genesis Evangelion manga. He’s also been attached to several others, including the Shinji Ikari Raising Project. He also worked on Animerica back in the day, as well as a few other things. He’s a wealth of knowledge, and has shared that knowledge with fans in a way that I’ve found uncommon among industry folks. He’s definitely someone worth meeting if given the opportunity.
I was invited to be on the panel, however, I am unfortunately on the wrong side of the country. So instead, I connected Carl with the next best thing. This year, Carl will be joined by Rocco Botte and Garrett Hunter of the web series Mega64. Rocco and Garrett have frequently exhibited a healthy interest in Eva, Rocco with his figure collecting, Garrett with his tattoos, and they’ve done things like a lengthy spoilercast for Evangelion 3.33, as well as an audio commentary for The End of Evangelion, which I consider to be significantly better than the one on the official release.
If you’re going to be at Anime Expo this year, be sure to stop by and check out the panel.
For reference, here’s the panel description and schedule information:
Dark Horse Comics releases four different Neon Genesis Evangelion manga: The Shinji Ikari Detective Diary, The Shinji Ikari Raising Project, Evangelion: Comic Tribute, and Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse. With the new Evangelion 3.33 movie in U.S. theaters and on DVD from Funimation, the Eva phenomenon is as alive as ever! Come by to talk about all aspects of Evangelion, and win special Japanese import Eva prizes!