I skipped Friday Five last week because COMIC-CON. There was no way I was going to be able to sit down and slap together a post during that whirlwind. So this week I’m featuring my five favorite things about San Diego Comic-Con 2016! (Don’t worry, I’ll also do a full recap soon.)

1. Stephen Amell & Friends Conversation for a Cause at Zachary Levi’s Nerd HQ: these intimate panels are incredibly hard to get tickets to because there are only 200 seats and they literally sell out within seconds (no joke!). I managed to snag two tickets to this panel for my friend and I, and it was so much fucking fun! Arrow star-slash-salmon-ladder-aficionado Stephen Amell brought surprise guests Emily Bett Rickards, Cody Rhodes, Arthur Darvill, and the delightful John Barrowman (whom I had seen walking to the convention center earlier in the day). The whole panel was a riot, but the absolute highlight was when Barrowman appeared onstage in hot pink high heels and dared Stephen to walk across the stage while wearing a leopard-print pair of heels. Tears. Of. Laughter. Watch the whole panel here.

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