Minnesota Fan Fusion (previously known as Minnesota Fan Fest) is coming up on August 3-5, 2018. The event is, once again, held at the Rivercentre in downtown St. Paul. Everything is an upgrade from last year, including adding another day (Friday), and doubling all their guests.

The main attractions are the film & television celebrities, but, personally speaking, we really enjoy sitting and listening to fans talk about their passion on these panels-heavy shows. In fact, they’ve double-down and the panels have expanded to four times from last year!

For Deathstroke, the Terminator fans, you’ll be pleased to know that Manu Bennett (who plays Deathstroke in Arrow), Summer Glau (who plays Deathstroke’s daughter Ravager) and Christopher Priest (who wrote Deathstroke vol 4) will be appearing together.

For comic book television fans, they should be happy to see The Walking Dead’s Laurie Holden and Flash’s Danielle Panabaker. Although people will know Panabaker as Killer Frost, she was brilliant in the Sci-Fi Time Lapse 2014 film. Lord of the Rings (and video game fans) should be happy to see that John Rhys-Davies will also be here.

There are also plenty of comic book artists and writers in attendance. Too many to mention, but just quickly looking over the list, we see a few favorites: Howard Chaykin (Blackhawks and American Flagg), Greg Land (Sojourn and The Ultimate Fantastic Four), Jae Lee (Hellshock and The Inhumans), Kevin Nowlan (a unique style on Tomorrow Stories with the great Alan Moore), and Rick Leonardi (Cloak & Dagger). Please note that cheesecake artist Frank Cho has cancelled his appearance.