We’re going back… back to the future! And to San Diego Comic-Con, with our reader party, Enchantment Under the SDCC. It’s our annual event, where we get to hang out with you — our readers — and play music, give away free swag, raffle off awesome prizes, and dance the night away. This year’s event will be on Wednesday, July 8, at Mission Brewery.

As anyone who has attended the last two years knows, we’ve outgrown our previous digs. Each year, we have way more readers wanting to get in than we have space for, and that means that we don’t get to hang out with as many of you as we’d like. So how do we fix that? By getting a bigger venue! And that’s why we’re so grateful to have Mission Brewery, which will let us fit almost 300 of you. Plus, for the first time ever, our party will be all ages (!), and will have an open bar (!) of Mission Brewery’s finest beers, wine, craft cocktails, and sodas.

If you haven’t been to Mission Brewery yet, you’re going to love it. It’s relatively new, has Outside-Comic-Con-Approved beers, has plenty of seating, and has a great atmosphere. It’s going to be the perfect fit for this year’s party.

But because this is Comic-Con, nothing comes cheap – and in order to accommodate more of you, we are simply unable to fund the venue that we’d need without your help. So this year, we’re going to be crowdfunding tickets to the party. We’ve taken all of your feedback into consideration about what you’d like to see at the party, and we’re hopeful that we’ve come up with some ticket tiers that you’re going to like.

Tickets are now on sale.

There will be lots of other information about the party, and exactly what your money is being used for, once it goes live, but we wanted to give you a quick overview of the ticket tiers:

DeLorean – $30

Party entry at 8PM

Goodie bag

1 prize drawing ticket

Johnny B Goode – $50

Party entry at 8pm

1 Shirt: Hashtag T-Shirt

Goodie bag

5 prize drawing tickets

Great Scott – $100

Early entry at 7pm

2 Shirts: Hashtag T-Shirt and Enchantment exclusive event shirt

1 Water Bottle

Goodie bag

10 prize drawing tickets (must be present to win raffle prizes)

Here’s a closer look at both t-shirts (click for larger):

You’ll also be able to purchase our Hashtag t-shirt on its own (!), have brunch with the blog, and a whole lot more.

We can’t wait to see you at San Diego Comic-Con 2015.