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Swords of Sorrow #4 Gets A Cosplay Cover!
Jul 17th
The all female crossover event that is rocking Dynamite Entertainment has just got some more incredible woman power behind it with the recently announced cosplay cover for issue #4. As if Gail Simone’s incredibly epic crossover series, Swords of Sorrow, wasn’t already empowering on all things female with strong female casts, creative teams, and stories, now they’re bringing out the female cosplayers for a great and unique cover. The cover loosely replicates the J. Scott Campbell cover to issue #1 of Swords of Sorrow, seen below. It features four of the main characters working together in the series, despite their More >
Long Beach Comic Expo ’15 - A Review
Mar 3rd
The spring end of the comic convention season is in full swing while we wrap the wonderful 2-day convention that was Long Beach Comic Expo 2015. This year the show was brought to new levels while still enjoying its second year of being a 2-day spring expo, something rather new to the Long Beach Comic Expo stable of change. That, compiled with its rather impressive Cosplay love in their Cosplay Alley and large cash prizes for the Cosplay Contest are showing this quickly growing spring expo in sunny Southern California is a comic convention well worth attending even if its More >
SG2M Travels: Art Cosplay Expo 2014
Sep 4th
If you’re in Southern California this weekend, you might want to make your way to Temecula, in the Inland Empire, for a fun day of Anime at the small, yet quickly grown, Art and Cosplay Expo. This will be the Expo’s second year, after a unexpectedly large turn out for year one that left the show sold out. The now annual event has moved to a larger venue so it can better celebrate everything anime, manga, comics, steampunk, fandoms, table top gaming, and galactic fantasy. But the big draw, aside from participating with like minded Geeks in the Southern California More >
Super-Secret Celebrity Cosplay at SDCC ‘14
Jul 28th
Over the last several years as San Diego Comic Con’s popularity has skyrocketed, many celebrities have taken to dressing up in costume too and blending in with crowds. Especially when it means they won’t be swarmed by fans. So let’s take a look at some celebrities who did just that.
One of the more talked about hidden celeb citings people were talking about was of course Harry Potter himself Daniel Ratcliffe. The Boy Who Lived donned the iconic red and blue tights and toured the convention as Spider-Man.
“I did an American accent for the whole time. I even took a rucksack, More >
Kid Apocalypse Drops His New Music Video
Jun 16th
To some of you it might be a surprise that Genesis/”Kid Apocalypse”, the youthful clone of the dreadful first mutant currently living at the Jean Grey School for Gifted Children, is a rapper. But what should truly surprise you is how good he is. Cosplayer, actor, and Co-Founder of Mongrel Studios, Quinn Allan is Kid Apocalypse. He is a brilliantly talented lyricist who has made several music videos with his ‘Dark Beast’ compatriot, rapper Jared Yanez. You might have seen them at several various conventions, including Emerald City Comic Con, where his March 2013 music video, Came From The Chain, More >
Project: Shadow #1 - Indie Review
Dec 3rd
The major comic companies get enough reviews and press, it’s time for the creator-owned and indie series to get some love and judgment. Indie review takes up-and-coming indie and creator-owned series and puts them through the review process so you can confidently support the best of the small press and passion driven projects in the comic industry.
Title: Project: Shadows #1
Genre/s: Sci-Fi
Writer: Alfred Trujillo w/ back matter prose by Cara Nicole
Art: Alfred Trujillo
Colorist: Milen Parvenov
Letters: Alfred Trujillo & Cara Nicole
Publisher: 183 Degree Studio
Number of Issues: #1 (on-going)
Page Count: 32
Price: 3.99
The Review Bit
“Where were you when the world ended?”
In the year More >
NYCC ’13: Whoopi Goldberg Pitches A Comic On The View
Oct 18th
On today’s episode of The View, actress Whoopi Goldberg shares video of her trip to New York Comic Con last week. There, Whoopi prepared to pitch her new comic idea as any TV show host at a major comic convention might…through brief and comedic interviews with various geek celebrities. Whoopi started out with DC Publisher Dan Didio, who had originally joked about the interaction on his Facebook, and continues to tweet about it today. From there she met with various Geek celebrities, cosplayers, and exhibitors like Frank Beddor, John Barrowman, Kevin Smith, Seth Green, and more. The celebrities, all playing More >
Anime Expo ’13: Brenna Wigs Out
Jul 30th
While on the floor of this year’s Anime Expo, model and actress Brenna Rhea got fitted for a brand new and very anime themed wig. The cotton candy colored wig was available at Fanciful Gifts and is sure to make anyone fit in to the cosplay heavy exhibit floor of California’s largest anime convention. Check out the process of putting on this fanciful wig and how quickly it changes Brenna’s look to blend in with the crowds in the video down below.
Anime Expo ’13: Inside AX With Brenna Rhea
Jul 25th
Anime Expo was back on top this year, as the convention was perhaps the best it had been in years. Filled with amazing cosplayers, big exhibitors, a stunning artist alley, a very large video game room, panels, and much much more. Thankfully, we had actress and model, Brenna Rhea, on hand to help show everyone around. Check out the video below to get a peek inside the convention and meet some of the cosplayers, exhibitors, and artists that filled the Los Angeles based anime convention’s vast halls earlier this month.
10 Things I Saw/Learned/Heard At SDCC ’13
Jul 24th
Everyone who has been to San Diego Comic Con knows that there is A LOT of different things going on. There is so much information to take in, and sights to see, it is almost impossible to know and do everything. So here are just some of the things that I saw and subsequently learned from my time at this years’ Comic Con in no particular order.
1. There is SOOOO much to do outside the convention center. From Legendary Pictures’ Godzilla experience to Ubisoft transforming the Star of India into a pirate ship to promote Assassins Creed IV, if you More >
