My wife took our nephew and his girlfriend shopping at Amoeba Records yesterday afternoon and came back with the following postcard in hand.
I really, really don’t want to cast aspersions – geeks in mylar houses, and all – but really folks? An entire convention centering around Depeche Mode? Eh, what do I know – apparently [...]
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I don’t know exactly what it says about either the comics industry or the marketing department at Warner Bros that the biggest story out of this year’s San Diego Comic Con — the biggest nerd convention in the world, which is supposed to be the launching point for all the comic industry’s (and much of [...]
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Weird, random article on the upcoming San Diego Comic Con. The two main points: 1) the con has grown to mean a lot to Hollywood in terms of grassroots marketing, and 2) the nerd/geek stigma is still in full effect — now and forever, perhaps.
The Con, as devotees like to call it, is disconcertingly large. [...]
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Just got back from Day Two of the New York Comic Con, or as sane people like to call it, Hell On Earth. Yesterday was great — a manageable crowd, deals on cool stuff everywhere, and lots of creators on hand to meet without having to wait in-line. Today, as has been the [...]
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Transformer Marvels. Seriously, is this geek merger even allowed? It isn’t like crossing the streams or something?
Since it was Friday — i.e. the one day it’s possible to actually move around at this thing without wanting to strangle somebody — there weren’t too many costumes around. These two were great though. I have to [...]
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Andrew’ll be sending in more pics and stuff from the show, all blogged in this here post, so feel free to keep tapping that reload button.
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The picture is wobbly and grainy, the sound is iffy, but here’s some camcorder footage of the X-Files 2 trailer that premiered at WonderCon over the past weekend. Why no just wait for the real thing to be released? Because we’re pop-culture junkies, that’s why! I remember buying bootlegs on VHS back in the day [...]
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