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Dallas Fan Festival 2024 Review

It was as intimate an experience as you can have in pop-culture fandom with 15,000 of your friends at the ...
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Los Angeles Comic Con 2024 Programming Highlights

LA Comic Con 2024 returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center from October 4-6, 2024. Tickets are currently on sale ...
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San Diego Comic Con 2024: Sunday Preview

San Diego Comic Con returns to the San Diego Convention Center and surrounding area. Sunday's programming schedule has been revealed ...
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San Diego Comic-Con 2024 Sunday Programming Highlights

San Diego Comic Con returns to the San Diego Convention Center and surrounding area. Sunday's programming schedule has been revealed ...
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San Diego Comic-Con 2024 Saturday Programming Highlights

San Diego Comic Con returns to the San Diego Convention Center and surrounding area. Saturday's programming schedule has been revealed ...
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San Diego Comic-Con 2024: Saturday Preview

San Diego Comic Con returns to the San Diego Convention Center and surrounding area. Saturday's programming schedule has been revealed ...
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San Diego Comic-Con 2024: Friday Preview

San Diego Comic Con returns to the San Diego Convention Center and surrounding area. Friday's programming schedule has been revealed ...
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San Diego Comic-Con 2024: Friday Programming Highlights

San Diego Comic Con returns to the San Diego Convention Center and surrounding area. Friday's programming schedule has been revealed ...
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San Diego Comic-Con 2024: Thursday Programming Highlights

San Diego Comic Con returns to the San Diego Convention Center and surrounding area. Thursday’s programming schedule has been revealed ...
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San Diego Comic-Con 2024: Thursday Preview

San Diego Comic Con returns to the San Diego Convention Center and surrounding area. Thursday's programming schedule has been revealed ...
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CrimeCon 2024 Review: Wrap Up

I have returned from a packed weekend at CrimeCon 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. Outside of the speakers, creators, and exhibitors, ...
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CrimeCon 2024 Review: Day Two

CrimeCon Day 2 started earlier and felt much busier. Today, the numbers of attendees were evident by the packed Main ...
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CrimeCon 2024 Review: Day One

I’ve just completed Day One of CrimeCon 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. This is my first year attending this con, but ...
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WonderCon 2024 Review: Day Two

It was raining Saturday morning so not sure how this affected attendance, but surely had to dissuade a few. More ...
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WonderCon 2024 Review: Day One

Not sure if it's an intentional decision, but WonderCon is getting smaller. Whether that's a good or bad thing is ...
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From the Couch Hole: We’ve Got Good Vibes

Previously on FTCH, Napoleon and the duellists met the boogeyman. The Muppet family and the scientist made a coldplay for ...
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Midsummer Scream 2023 Review, Part 2: Sunday Spooky Sunday

Throughout the 3-day weekend, the exhibit floor was packed with hundreds of vendors for all one's spooky season needs, from ...
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Midsummer Scream 2023 Review, Part 1: The Things I Saw on Saturday

Debuting in 2016, Midsummer Scream dubs itself “the world’s biggest Horror and Halloween convention.” It certainly is the biggest Horror ...
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Midsummer Scream 2023: Hall of Shadows Review: Each Attraction Showcased an Impressive Amount of Work

The Hall of Shadows is a section of the exhibit floor filled with haunted attractions. CalHaunts, a Southern California group ...
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San Diego Comic Con 2023 Saturday Programming Highlights

San Diego Comic Con returns again to the San Diego Convention Center. The Saturday's programming schedule has been revealed and ...
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San Diego Comic Con 2023 Friday Programming Highlights

San Diego Comic Con returns again to the San Diego Convention Center. The Friday's programming schedule has been revealed and ...
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San Diego Comic Con 2023 Thursday Programming Highlights

San Diego Comic Con returns again to the San Diego Convention Center. The Thursday's programming schedule has been revealed and ...
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AlienCon 2023 Review: A Weekend to Discover You Are Not Alone

Courtesy of A+E Networks When people ask those who believe in UFOs, UAPs, and aliens, if we are alone in ...
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Comic-Con International: San Diego 2022 Friday Program Highlights

Friday's programming schedule has been released. I have less conflicts than yesterday, but looks like the day is going to ...
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Comic-Con International: San Diego 2022 Thursday Program Highlights

Previously when going over convention schedules to create articles like this, my intention is to attend most, if not all, ...
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Los Angeles Comic Con 2021 Panels I’d Like to See

After skipping the past two years due to Covid, the folks at Los Angeles Comic Con are holding their tenth ...
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San Diego Comic-Con Special Edition 2021 Panels I’d Like to See

After cancelling their traditional summer conventions of the past two years due to Covid, the folks who run San Diego ...
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Phenomenacon 2020 Review: The First Online Paranormal and Occult Convention

As spring moves towards summer, for many of us these seasons are usually full of conventions. Conventions that celebrate our ...
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The 2020 NAMM Show Review: There’s More to the Music Business Than Music

The NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Show traces its roots back to the NAPDA (National Association of Piano Dealers ...
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Wizard World Tulsa 2019 Review: My Last Con, This Time I Mean It

Several years ago while chaperoning a group of college students through Europe as part of a study-abroad program my wife ...
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Wizard World Chicago 2019 Review: It’s a Family Affair

Written by Chad Derdowski Another year has come and gone and as summer threatens to fade into the distance, and ...
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Star Wars Celebration 2019 Review: One Man’s Journey to Find Kindness

Written by Chad Derdowski If I were a gambling man, I'd bet dollars to donuts that Star Wars Celebration is ...
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Wizard World Tulsa 2018 Review: Where’d Everybody Go?

This weekend's Wizard World in Tulsa was my third and possibly last con. Judging by the crowd this Saturday afternoon, ...
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Wizard World Chicago 2018 Review: Concerns about the Wizard’s Future

Written by Chad Derdowski I've had a solid week to ponder upon my annual visit to Wizard World Chicago. A ...
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San Diego Comic-Con International 2018 Review: Go for the Comics, Stay for the Stories

Is it as easy as copy and paste? If you have followed my writings even tangentially over the past eight ...
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Saturday Program Highlights for San Diego Comic Con 2018

Written by Staff Here are a few highlights where you might find three Sentries who will be attending. Shawn Bourdo: ...
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Friday Program Highlights for San Diego Comic Con 2018

Written by Staff Here are a few panels where you might find three Sentries who will be attending. Todd Karella: ...
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Thursday Program Highlights for San Diego Comic Con 2018

Written by Staff The modern-day equivalent of getting the new Sears catalog before Christmas is the debut of the Comic-Con ...
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Fandemic Tour Sacramento 2018 Review: A Solid Debut

One of the most disappointing things about this year is that, for the first time since it expanded to the ...
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Interview with Jason David Frank about Fandemic Tour Sacramento and the Power Rangers

This weekend marks the start of a new type of comic convention hitting the national market. Fandemic Tour, which was ...
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Saturday Programming Highlights for Fandemic Tour Sacramento

Unfortunately, I won't be able to make the first day of the inaugural Fandemic Tour due to getting off work ...
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Emerald City Comic Con 2018 Review: Saturday and Sunday

This is Part 2 of Todd's ECCC coverage. Part 1 is available if you wish to start with that. Saturday ...
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Emerald City Comic Con 2018 Review: Thursday and Friday

Having been to my first Emerald City Comic Convention last year, I knew what to expect and was a little ...
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Wizard World Chicago 2017 Review: A Pretty Good Show

Written by Chad Derdowski Another summer has come and gone. School buses once again prowl the streets in the early ...
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San Diego Comic-Con 2017: Taking a Step Back for a Look 

What if I said that the San Diego Comic-Con International has nothing to do with comics? For anyone that has ...
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Five Cool Things and San Diego Comic-Con 2017

Mat, the normal curator for this column, and his family have gone on vacation, but with San Diego Comic-Con having ...
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Hailing Frequencies Open with Dennis Hanon, IKV Stranglehold 

Stranglehold is a not-for-profit, San-Diego-based fan group that not only puts on the long running Klingon Lifestyles panel at San ...
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Wizard World Sacramento 2017 Review: Great Guests and Even Better Panels

Ever since making its way to Sacramento in 2014, I've had the pleasure of covering each Wizard World convention. That ...
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Actor Kevin Sorbo Talks Hercules and More at Wizard World Sacramento Comic Con

I first interviewed Kevin Sorbo back in 2013, when he was doing a promotion for a little film called Storm ...
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Emerald City Comicon 2017 Review: A Smaller Convention Coming into Its Own

Having been to several comic conventions in California, one of my friends living in the Seattle area told me I ...
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