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WASFen Convention report
This last Saturday, I attended the 3rd annual WASFen convention. That’s the Wausau Area Science Fiction Enthusiasts. Organizer Evan Cass invited me to be a Guest of Honor after meeting me at last year’s Wizard World. I found it to be a fun time, with several hundred attendees to the one-day convention. It gets off…
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Metro Med trailer and Facebook page
I’ve created a new Facebook page for Metro Med. This also allows me to have an embeddable version of the comic book’s trailer: If you’d like to embed this in your blog or other web page, use this code: <object width=”400″ height=”224″ ><param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true” /><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always” /><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.facebook.com/v/1179573177875″ /><embed src=”http://www.facebook.com/v/1179573177875″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always”…
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WASFen plans
Maybe I haven’t ever been to Comicon, but I will be able to say that I’ve attended a convention this year. The Wausau Area Science Fiction Enthusiasts have invited me to be a Guest of Honor at their convention in Wausau this Saturday! If any of you are in central Wisconsin, be sure to hit…
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Best picture from Comic-Con yet!
I’m not going to be a bandwidth-thief. If you want to see it, go to Big Hollywood. The first commenter wins the caption contest: “For once, middle-aged, out of shape fanboys have the perfect body type for the characters they’re cosplaying.”
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DC To Pathetically Kill Off ALL Characters In “Countdown”
Dan DiDio: “Batman to die like a whiny bitch!” DC Comics announced Saturday at Emerald City Comicon that Countdown is counting down to the moment when all of DC Comics’ characters will have been killed off, which will lead into a new event beginning a new era. While killing off characters has been done before,…
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Slate of DC Comics movies announced at Friday convention
For most of my life, it was true that DC Comics had the best movies, whereas Marvel’s attempts at doing other media resulted in embarrassing garbage that ended up straight to video or hidden in vaults. But for the last decade, while DC has turned out camp Batman & Robin, Steel and Catwoman (we won’t…
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FallCon 2004 Report #1: Nice Guy Finishes Art
You know what? Every time I try to get the gumption to do my FallCon 2004 recap I shrivel, because it’s a big undertaking and it makes me want to put it off. So I’ve decided to just post little bits and pieces as they come to me, some big, some small. I have to…
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Great FallCon
It was a great FallCon…probably my best ever…and I’d like to thank MNCBA’s Nick Postiglione for doing the dynamite job he always does. Also, thanks to the numerous “Evil Henchman” (i.e. volunteers) whose hard work of henching did not go unnoticed by the pros, exhibitors and other guests. I will have a post-con wrap-up, but…
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Off to FallCon 2004!
FallCon 2004 is my first FallCon since Job Wanted was published, and I’ve been looking forward to it for quite a while now. It’s this weekend at the State Fairgrounds in The Cities (that’s Minneapolis/St. Paul to all you folks who don’t know the lingo, like what a Minnesota Flying Wedge is or what we…
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DC Comics panel at WizWorld Chicago
The only panel I’ve attended here at Wizard World Chicago was the DC Comics panel which gave some info on upcoming titles. Geoff Johns reports that an upcoming arc in Teen Titans will have the team visiting their future selves a decade down the road, when the Titans have become Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and…