Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is the Hottest Ticket at Comic-Con

Despite a notably toned-down presence among Disney-owned properties at Comic-Con, there was no hotter ticket than the 90-minute panel for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., ABC’s much anticipated fall drama series. If you want to know the premiere date, you have only to ask one of the several thousand fans in the standing-room-only crowd at the convention’s biggest venue: Jeph Loeb, head of television for Marvel Entertainment (and a comic book writer himself) emerged to cheers in a “Coulson Lives” T-shirt, then split the audience into thirds and had them compete for volume screaming “September!” “24!” “On ABC!” Loeb played the part of hype man for every actor on the show, a roster that includes How I Met Your Mother’s Cobie Smulders, reprising her role in the Avengers film; Chloe Bennet as the superhero-obsessed hacker Skye; and Brett Dalton as the gruff black-ops agent Grant Ward. But nobody, not even Whedon, got the kind of screaming adulation reserved for veteran character actor Clark Gregg, who oversees the S.H.I.E.L.D. team as agent Phil Coulson. Gregg is literally resurrecting the role, as Coulson appeared to be quite dead in his final scene in The Avengers. “I didn’t like being dead, but I liked the way I died,” Gregg said. “And then #CoulsonLives happened, and then Joss...” Visibly moved, Gregg paused to collect himself, at which point someone close to the front screamed out, “You’re my favorite Avenger!” “Thank you, man!” Gregg said. “You’re my favorite guy at... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

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