Woz is the face of the new Comic-Con and the driving force behind this new Comic-Con hub:

When Woz and Stan [Lee] did meet, they bonded. “The two of us hit it off so well we wanted to work together on something, anything, anytime we could be together,” Woz told me. “We just hit it off like the best friends ever.”

The something that came out of the historic meeting was Silicon Valley Comic Con, which will take place from March 18-20 at the San Jose Convention Center. As you’d expect, it includes panels and a show floor devoted to celebrating fantasy as expressed in comics, movies, and TV. But it has another major ingredient that reflects Woz’s influence and the event’s location: science and technology. “I don’t like to do the same thing as everyone else, I always like to be first at something, do something different on a different track,” Woz says.

“This will be the first comic con with a technology link.” The show’s guests include Astro Teller, head of Alphabet’s X group (formerly known as Google X); Bobak Ferdowsi, the famously mohawked NASA engineer, and Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux, cofounder of Escape Dynamics, a space technology company. Google is participating with a VR zone, and an App Alley section will give developers the opportunity to show off their wares for free.

Feels like a return to its roots.