Amid the hustle of hordes of cosplayers and comic book fans spilling into the Anaheim Convention Center for the first day of WonderCon on Friday, March 24 to pick up exclusive merchandise, get in the front rows of panel discussions or to get books and artwork signed by their favorite artists, there was a bit of calm as small groups hit up the CMON booth in the center of all the action to play tabletop games.
With all of the colorful costumes and the sights and sounds of a bustling convention surrounding them, WonderCon attendees were able to hunker down and play the new Marvel Zombies: A Zombicide Game.
“We love it,” said Geoff Skinner, senior vice president of U.S. operations at CMON as he stood inside the large booth and guests played games around him. “We were able to come back to WonderCon for the first time last year since the pandemic. We had the Marvel United game that had just come out and until then we hadn’t been interacting one-on-one with people and by far the most rewarding thing was seeing like a 10-year-old come play for the first time. It was fun to watch them take the time to learn and these games have a ton of strategy and they can pretend to be their favorite characters, too. Watching people come, sit down, play and try it out and later say that it was one of their favorite things of the convention; that’s one of my favorite things from these weekends.”
Marvel Zombies is the company’s latest game and is based on the five-issue limited series of graphic novels published in 2005-2006 that were written by “The Walking Dead” graphic novel series creator Robert Kirkman along with art by Sean Phillips and covers by Arthur Suydam.
CMON, which has released dozens of these types of games, used a Kickstarter campaign with the goal of raising $500,000 to create the new tabletop game. They were stunned when in just 16 days they received more than $9 million in pledges with more than 28,500 backers earlier this year. The basic…
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