Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and Comic-Con: The Best Performance Belonged to Warner Bros.

While Comic-Con doesn’t offer a competition, Warner Bros.

took the prize for the event’s most awkward moment with its Saturday-morning Hall H presentation, bookended by ex-spouses Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.

Her film, “Aquaman,” concluded the two-hour spectacle, but Depp’s surprise appearance in character as Gellert Grindelwald, villain of “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” dominated the proceedings with a rapturous fan response and a stage-managed presence worth of its own ovation.On the surface, it would seem a bad time to be Johnny Depp.

He’s made all the wrong headlines — the just-settled fraud lawsuit he filed against his business managers and lawyers, another lawsuit where he is accused of punching a location manager on his upcoming “City of Lies,” deeply unflattering Rolling Stone profile “The Trouble with Johnny Depp,” cadaverous photos, and, of course, the rancorous divorce that included Heard filing a restraining order citing verbal and physical abuse,

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