Comic-Con 2026 Top 5 Moments

**SPEAKER_1** (0:26)
From Anne Rice's Immortal Universe comes what Vulture calls the most momentous event in fictional rock history.

**Mallory Rubin** (0:32)
Thousands of fans love you.

**Carlos Chiriboga** (0:34)
I want millions.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:40)
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**Carlos Chiriboga** (0:45)
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**Mallory Rubin** (1:15)
Greetings and welcome to House of R, a Ringerverse podcast here on the Ringer Podcast Network.

**Joanna Robinson** (1:21)
San Diego Comic Con edition.

**Mallory Rubin** (1:23)
On location. My goodness, look at this. It is Saturday night. You'll probably be hearing this a little bit later, but it's the end of a long Saturday in Hall H, a long and fun few days here on the ground at Comic Con. And we couldn't wait. We were originally going to pot tomorrow, but no.
Coming off my first ever Marvel Hall H panel.

**Joanna Robinson** (1:44)
Much to the light of our production staff, we said.

**Mallory Rubin** (1:47)
They're miserable now, but they'll be thrilled tomorrow when they don't have to be here in the morning.
We just wanted to get together much like we did last year. Last year was Sunday morning. And listen, hindsight, it's 2020 I already had COVID at that point and just didn't know it yet. By the time I got home a few hours later, I was like, I feel like I'm going to die. But we still made a podcast because such is the joy of being out in the world together.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:12)
Do you want to breathe on me right now just to make sure that I get whatever you inevitably have?

**Mallory Rubin** (2:17)
I feel like I've breathed on you quite a bit, but yeah.
We're in it together, folks. We're in it together, ride or die.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:28)
That was horrible. I will say we spent many, many hours really close to each other in Hall H.

**Mallory Rubin** (2:34)
Yeah.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:35)
Both today and yesterday. Was it yesterday? And this is our third day here. Yeah, yeah. We're doing great.
You had a mask on for-

**Mallory Rubin** (2:45)
Just today.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:46)
For today, and I was impressed.

**Mallory Rubin** (2:47)
Only because in the frantic search for a seat at one point, I somehow spotted an oasis in the desert, a seat. And it turned out it wasn't a mirage. It was a real seat. So does that open? I sat down, and then the lovely gentleman who had said, yes, in fact, that is open, started coughing and sneezing.
Quite a bit. And then probably left. And I thought, you know what? I'm gonna pop on an old mask for a-

**Joanna Robinson** (3:14)
You're like, no offense, sir, but-

**Mallory Rubin** (3:16)
For a hot second here. So here's what we thought we would do, in addition to talking about potential illnesses.
Any aches and pains, bodily ailments you wanna run through, we'll hit that in a second as well. We wanna celebrate, we wanna talk about the five highlights for each of us, the five top moments, the things we're most excited about, the things that we're most excited to see, coming out of Comic-Con. I do wanna establish a ground rule in a moment.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:39)
Wow, that you didn't tell me about.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:41)
It's something that I just think we can work through in real time.
It's a question. It's not an edict, it's not a mandate. Is being here together eligible for the list or is it just should we consider that outside of the top five and just sort of assumed, really of course that's number one, being here together and being here with all the bad babies?

**Joanna Robinson** (4:02)
I was thinking about that like last year. I definitely picked like our listeners or whatever.

**Mallory Rubin** (4:06)
Yes, but it was after I had said, do you remember this? It's after I had said, well, obviously the number one is being here with all our listeners and getting to do this together. But even I wouldn't dream of making that my number one, so I'm just gonna say it at the top. And then you had it at your number one. I was like, Carlos, can you edit that out of the pod so I don't seem like quite as big of an asshole?