Weekend guide: Comic Con, Budos Band, Fernbank hike

🎶 The Budos Band performs 1970s TV detective music at Variety Playhouse. (Thurs.)

📖 Author Lauren Francis-Sharma discusses her novel "Casualties of Truth" at the Atlanta History Center. (Thurs.)

🥁 Kirkwood Ballers Club boggles the brain with experimental music at Eyedrum. (Thurs.)

🥳 The popular Atlanta Comic & Pop Culture Convention returns to the Georgia World Congress Center. (Fri.-Sun.)

🎸 Ocean Alley brings psychedelic reggae‑fusion to The Eastern. (Fri.)

🖼️ The High Museum of Art's Friday Jazz series returns with Vinnie D'Agostino. (Fri.)

🥙 Sample food from around the world with the first-ever Atlanta Summer Halal Food Festival. (Sat.)

🧘 Bring your mat and find your zen at Woodruff Park's free community yoga. (Sat.)

🥞 The Atlanta Pancake & Booze Art Show celebrates 10 years with art vendors, music, body painting and all-you-can-eat pancakes. (Sat.)

🌲 Explore Fernbank's old-growth forest on a ranger-led morning hike. (Sat.)<br/><br/>🎬 Children's Museum of Atlanta's "Pajama Jam" gives kids and parents an early evening experience of sleepover fun. (Sat.)

Editor's note: The event listing for the Atlanta History Center has been corrected to reflect that Lauren Francis-Sharma wrote "Casualties of Truth" (not Wanda M. Morris, who is the event's moderator).