Comic-Con 2018: Thursday Panel Highlights Include MR. MERCEDES, In Conversation with Robert Kirkman, THE PREDATOR

Comic-Con's Hall H panels tend to generate the most buzz, but there are hundreds of panels going on throughout the event outside of Hall H and plenty of panels that attending horror fans should keep an eye out for. The official Thursday panel schedule has been released, and I've highlighted horror-related panels that you may want to line up for.

To check out the full Thursday panel schedule, visit: https://www.comic-con.org/cci/thursday

20th Century Fox: The Predator
The hunt returns as director, Shane Black (Iron Man 3, The New Guys), along with cast members, Olivia Munn, Sterling K. Brown, Keegan-Michael Key, Trevante Rhodes, Jake Busey, Yvonne Strahovski, Thomas Jane and Augusto Aguiliera, bring their all-star firepower to an explosive panel on Fox's upcoming bigger n' badder take on the iconic franchise.
Thursday July 19, 2018 10:30am - 11:30am
Hall H

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Zombies
Treyarch's Jason Blundell (director, Zombies) and Craig Houston (lead writer) celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Call of Duty's Zombies and discuss what's next for the studio's signature undead in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Get ready for never-before-seen footage, exciting special announcements, and Q&A.
Thursday July 19, 2018 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Room 6BCF

Monsters in Our Midst: Our Favorite Creepy Comics Creators
Love things that go bump in the night? Hear what it takes to get those monsters out of your nightmares and onto the page with Comic-Con special guests Rafael Albuquerque, Emil Ferris, Alex Grecian, Jeff Lemire, Terry Moore, and William Stout. Moderated by the Cartoon Art Museum's Andrew Farago.
Thursday July 19, 2018 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Room 8

In Conversation with Robert Kirkman
Prolific comic book creator, writer, and executive producer Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead, Oblivion Song) discusses his work across comics, TV, and film, including his newest comic book series, Oblivion Song. Room 6A
Thursday July 19, 2018 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Room 6A

Van Helsing: The World Is a Vampire
Now entering its action-packed third season, SYFY's Van Helsing continues the story of Vanessa Van Helsing and her band of heroes as they fight to reclaim the world after vampires took over during "The Rising." Stars Kelly Overton, Jonathan Scarfe, Missy Peregrym, Aleks Paunovic, Rukiya Bernard, Vincent Gale, and Trezzo Mahoro, along with showrunner Neil LaBute and executive producers Mike Frislev and Chad Oakes, premiere exclusive footage from the upcoming third season and dish out tidbits from behind the scenes. Moderated by Bevin from Den of Geek.
Thursday July 19, 2018 4:00pm - 4:50pm
Indigo Ballroom, Hilton San Diego Bayfront

A Celebration of Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was so much more than the 17-year-old girl who eloped with her married boyfriend and wrote the immortal classic Frankenstein. Shelley is also the mother of both the science fiction and horror genres and wrote a novel so subversive that it was not published until 1959. Lisa Morton (president, the Horror Writers Association; Ghosts: A Haunted History), Leslie Klinger (The New Annotated Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes technical advisor), Kate Jonez (chief editor at Omnium Gatherum Press, Best Horror of the Year), Gillian Horvath (showrunner, Primeval: New World; co-executive producer, Beauty & the Beast for CW), Kate Maruyama (professor, Antioch; Harrowgate), and New York Times bestselling author Nancy Holder (writer, Mary Shelley Presents comic book series from Kymera Press) discuss the importance of Mary Shelley in the cultural landscape. Moderated by D. Lynn Smith (publisher, Kymera Press).
Thursday July 19, 2018 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Room 26AB

Z Nation
Be the first to witness a whole new evolution in zombie-kind as the cast and creators of SYFY's hit series Z Nation reveal exclusive details of what's in store for the 5th (and possibly final) season. Join cast members D. J. Qualls, Kellita Smith, Russell Hodgkinson, Karl Schaefer, and surprise panelists.
Thursday July 19, 2018 5:00pm - 5:50pm
Indigo Ballroom, Hilton San Diego Bayfront

Sandman: House of Whispers
Nalo Hopkinson (House of Whispers) talks about the experience of writing the manuscript for one of the four new books in Neil Gaiman's Sandman Universe.
Thursday July 19, 2018 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Room 32AB

30 Years of studioADI
Discuss the past, present, and future of Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr.'s Academy Award-winning practical FX studio and get an exclusive sneak peek at studioADI's upcoming feature film, Wellwood. Tom and Alec will be joined by Wellwood's producers/stars Keisha Castle-Hughes (Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead), Camille Balsamo, and Reid Collums (also the screenwriter), as well as the film's director, Eliza Hooper.
Thursday July 19, 2018 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Room 24ABC

Dynamite Entertainment 50 Years of Vampirella
Executive editor Joseph Rybandt introduces Joseph Michael Linsner (Dawn) and Kristina Deak-Linsner to preview Vampirella's upcoming 50th anniversary projects. Q&A session moderated by CEO/publisher Nick Barrucci.
Thursday July 19, 2018 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Room 8

Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes: Season 2
Jack Bender (EP/director, Game of Thrones, Lost), Harry Treadaway (Penny Dreadful), Jharrel Jerome (Moonlight), Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire), Holland Taylor (The L Word, Legally Blonde), Justine Lupe (Snowfall), and Breeda Wool (UnReal) give a first look at the new season of the AT&T AUDIENCE original series Mr. Mercedes. A year after his thwarted attempt to perpetrate a mass murder, Brady Hartsfield remains in a vegetative state, and retired Detective Bill Hodges has opened Finders Keepers. When unexplainable occurrences begin, Hodges has a feeling that Brady is somehow responsible.
Thursday July 19, 2018 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Room 7AB