Poway Duo Star at Comic-Con — Playing Guitars for Passers-By

Jacob Ugalde and Will Tindall, both of Poway, celebrated popular culture Saturday at Comic-Con—but not by dressing up as superheroes or previewing Hollywood blockbusters inside the San Diego Convention Center.

Instead, they opened up guitar cases and played for the parade of Con-goers on the grass. 

Tindall, a Poway High graduate, sang We Will Fall Together by Streetlight Manifesto awaiting currency falling into their cases.

With thousands heading in and out of the center, the sidewalk in front became Ground Zero for street performers, including Tish Trotter, dressed as a chainsaw-wielding Wanda the Waitress from the game Zombicide.

Keeping with the spirit, Dirk Hagen of Pasadena greeted crowds on Fifth Avenue with a hand-controlled zombie clinging to his chest and growling at visitors.

He was promoting the Zombie Blood Run on Aug. 17 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia.

In fact, many of the best fantastically dressed folks in the closed-to-traffic Gaslamp Quarter were hawking restaurants, theaters and themselves.

So was Sofi Miles of San Antonio, TX, with a rabbitlike outfit as part of her Nerd Alert Designs, posing for photos in front of the Convention Center.

“May I take a picture of you,” said one visitor.

“Yes, of course!” said Miles.

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