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WonderCon 2024 Review: Day Two

By Gordon S. Miller | Apr 6, 2024

It was raining Saturday morning so not sure how this affected attendance, but surely had to dissuade a few. More ...

WonderCon 2024 Review: Day One

By Gordon S. Miller | Apr 4, 2024

Not sure if it's an intentional decision, but WonderCon is getting smaller. Whether that's a good or bad thing is ...

From the Couch Hole: We’ve Got Good Vibes

By Shawn Bourdo | Dec 10, 2023

Previously on FTCH, Napoleon and the duellists met the boogeyman. The Muppet family and the scientist made a coldplay for ...

Midsummer Scream 2023 Review, Part 2: Sunday Spooky Sunday

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 5, 2023

Throughout the 3-day weekend, the exhibit floor was packed with hundreds of vendors for all one's spooky season needs, from ...

Midsummer Scream 2023 Review, Part 1: The Things I Saw on Saturday

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 3, 2023

Debuting in 2016, Midsummer Scream dubs itself “the world’s biggest Horror and Halloween convention.” It certainly is the biggest Horror ...

Midsummer Scream 2023: Hall of Shadows Review: Each Attraction Showcased an Impressive Amount of Work

By Lorna Miller | Aug 2, 2023

The Hall of Shadows is a section of the exhibit floor filled with haunted attractions. CalHaunts, a Southern California group ...

San Diego Comic Con 2023 Saturday Programming Highlights

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 8, 2023

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

San Diego Comic Con 2023 Friday Programming Highlights

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 7, 2023

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

San Diego Comic Con 2023 Thursday Programming Highlights

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 6, 2023

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

AlienCon 2023 Review: A Weekend to Discover You Are Not Alone

By Darcy Staniforth | Mar 7, 2023

Courtesy of A+E Networks When people ask those who believe in UFOs, UAPs, and aliens, if we are alone in ...

Comic-Con International: San Diego 2022 Friday Program Highlights

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 8, 2022

Friday's programming schedule has been released. I have less conflicts than yesterday, but looks like the day is going to ...

Comic-Con International: San Diego 2022 Thursday Program Highlights

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 7, 2022

Previously when going over convention schedules to create articles like this, my intention is to attend most, if not all, ...

Los Angeles Comic Con 2021 Panels I’d Like to See

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 30, 2021

After skipping the past two years due to Covid, the folks at Los Angeles Comic Con are holding their tenth ...

San Diego Comic-Con Special Edition 2021 Panels I’d Like to See

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 22, 2021

After cancelling their traditional summer conventions of the past two years due to Covid, the folks who run San Diego ...

Phenomenacon 2020 Review: The First Online Paranormal and Occult Convention

By Darcy Staniforth | May 4, 2020

As spring moves towards summer, for many of us these seasons are usually full of conventions. Conventions that celebrate our ...

The 2020 NAMM Show Review: There’s More to the Music Business Than Music

By Gordon S. Miller | Feb 9, 2020

The NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Show traces its roots back to the NAPDA (National Association of Piano Dealers ...

Wizard World Tulsa 2019 Review: My Last Con, This Time I Mean It

By Mat Brewster | Sep 7, 2019

Several years ago while chaperoning a group of college students through Europe as part of a study-abroad program my wife ...

Wizard World Chicago 2019 Review: It’s a Family Affair

By Cinema Sentries | Aug 31, 2019

Written by Chad Derdowski Another year has come and gone and as summer threatens to fade into the distance, and ...

Star Wars Celebration 2019 Review: One Man’s Journey to Find Kindness

By Cinema Sentries | Apr 20, 2019

Written by Chad Derdowski If I were a gambling man, I'd bet dollars to donuts that Star Wars Celebration is ...

Wizard World Tulsa 2018 Review: Where’d Everybody Go?

By Mat Brewster | Sep 9, 2018

This weekend's Wizard World in Tulsa was my third and possibly last con. Judging by the crowd this Saturday afternoon, ...

Wizard World Chicago 2018 Review: Concerns about the Wizard’s Future

By Cinema Sentries | Sep 2, 2018

Written by Chad Derdowski I've had a solid week to ponder upon my annual visit to Wizard World Chicago. A ...

San Diego Comic-Con International 2018 Review: Go for the Comics, Stay for the Stories

By Shawn Bourdo | Jul 27, 2018

Is it as easy as copy and paste? If you have followed my writings even tangentially over the past eight ...

Saturday Program Highlights for San Diego Comic Con 2018

By Cinema Sentries | Jul 12, 2018

Written by Staff Here are a few highlights where you might find three Sentries who will be attending. Shawn Bourdo: ...

Friday Program Highlights for San Diego Comic Con 2018

By Cinema Sentries | Jul 11, 2018

Written by Staff Here are a few panels where you might find three Sentries who will be attending. Todd Karella: ...

Thursday Program Highlights for San Diego Comic Con 2018

By Cinema Sentries | Jul 9, 2018

Written by Staff The modern-day equivalent of getting the new Sears catalog before Christmas is the debut of the Comic-Con ...

Fandemic Tour Sacramento 2018 Review: A Solid Debut

By David Wangberg | Jun 27, 2018

One of the most disappointing things about this year is that, for the first time since it expanded to the ...

Interview with Jason David Frank about Fandemic Tour Sacramento and the Power Rangers

By David Wangberg | Jun 20, 2018

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

Saturday Programming Highlights for Fandemic Tour Sacramento

By David Wangberg | Jun 19, 2018

Unfortunately, I won't be able to make the first day of the inaugural Fandemic Tour due to getting off work ...

By Todd Karella | Mar 30, 2018

This is Part 2 of Todd's ECCC coverage. Part 1 is available if you wish to start with that. Saturday ...

Emerald City Comic Con 2018 Review: Thursday and Friday

By Todd Karella | Mar 29, 2018

Having been to my first Emerald City Comic Convention last year, I knew what to expect and was a little ...

Wizard World Chicago 2017 Review: A Pretty Good Show

By Cinema Sentries | Aug 27, 2017

Written by Chad Derdowski Another summer has come and gone. School buses once again prowl the streets in the early ...

San Diego Comic-Con 2017: Taking a Step Back for a Look

By Shawn Bourdo | Jul 25, 2017

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

Five Cool Things and San Diego Comic-Con 2017

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 23, 2017

Mat, the normal curator for this column, and his family have gone on vacation, but with San Diego Comic-Con having ...

Hailing Frequencies Open with Dennis Hanon, IKV Stranglehold

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 20, 2017

Stranglehold is a not-for-profit, San-Diego-based fan group that not only puts on the long running Klingon Lifestyles panel at San ...

Wizard World Sacramento 2017 Review: Great Guests and Even Better Panels

By David Wangberg | Jun 23, 2017

Ever since making its way to Sacramento in 2014, I've had the pleasure of covering each Wizard World convention. That ...

Actor Kevin Sorbo Talks Hercules and More at Wizard World Sacramento Comic Con

By David Wangberg | Jun 17, 2017

I first interviewed Kevin Sorbo back in 2013, when he was doing a promotion for a little film called Storm ...

Emerald City Comicon 2017 Review: A Smaller Convention Coming into Its Own

By Todd Karella | Mar 21, 2017

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

By Darcy Staniforth | Nov 6, 2016

Disclaimer: I'm a podcaster and a podcast fan. I was one fourth of the amazing team of the now-retired Scorebored. ...

Wizard World Tulsa 2016: A Quick Visit

By Mat Brewster | Oct 24, 2016

During this, my third Wizard Con experience I came to realize there is a certain sameness to these things. You ...

Los Angeles Podcast Festival 2016 – Saturday Review

By Gordon S. Miller | Sep 30, 2016

Aside from appearing as a guest on a number of podcasts, I have no interaction with them, which made me ...

Wizard World Richmond 2016: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful

By Cinema Sentries | Sep 13, 2016

Written by Kim Wilson Wizard World Richmond was this past weekend and I've got some things to say about it. ...

Wizard World Richmond 2016 Preview

By Cinema Sentries | Sep 2, 2016

Written by Kim Wilson The first (and only) time I've been to any kind of convention was in 2013 when ...

Wizard World Chicago 2016: Kids Day at the Con

By Cinema Sentries | Aug 22, 2016

Written by Chad Derdowski If you've been reading my Wizard World columns for the past few years (2014, 2015), you've ...

Wizard World Tulsa 2015: Too Legit (and Sick) to Quit

By Mat Brewster | Oct 25, 2015

Last year, I attended my very first Con (Wizard World Tulsa, you can read all about it here). I had ...

By Cinema Sentries | Aug 23, 2015

Written by Chad Derdowski So I went to Wizard World yesterday (August 22, 2015) at the Donald E. Stephens Convention ...

Star Wars Celebration 2015 Review: The Biggest Star Wars Convention in the Galaxy

By Steve Geise | Apr 19, 2015

The biennial Star Wars Celebration took place over the weekend at the Anaheim Convention Center, an occasionally frustrating experience in ...

Wizard World Fan Fest Chicago 2015 Review

By Cinema Sentries | Mar 10, 2015

Written by Chad Derdowski Spring hasn't exactly sprung, but even though there's still a chill in the air and frost ...

Saturday at Wizard World Tulsa 2014: My First Con Experience

By Mat Brewster | Nov 10, 2014

When I learned I'd be going to Wizard World's Tulsa Comic Con this past weekend, I was excited and a ...

Wizard World Chicago 2014: You Can Go Home Again

By Cinema Sentries | Aug 25, 2014

Written by Chad Derdowski Once upon a time, I couldn't have imagined missing a Wizard World event in Chicago. Even ...

Stan Lee’s Comikaze 2013 Review: Three Days of the Octopus

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 8, 2013

The third Comikaze was my second time attending. I skipped last year because the inaugural event was a tad disappointing, ...

Sunday at Stan Lee’s Comikaze 2013: The Final Day

By Rons Reviews | Nov 6, 2013

Up early on a Sunday morning for my first trip to Stan Lee's Comikaze Expo. Though this was Day Three, ...

Saturday at Stan Lee’s Comikaze 2013

By Lorna Miller | Nov 4, 2013

Held at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Stan Lee's Comikaze offers pop culture delights on a much smaller scale. I ...

Friday at Stan Lee’s Comikaze 2013

By Todd Karella | Nov 3, 2013

The last time I attended Comikaze was during its inaugural convention two years ago. It was also at the L.A. ...

Spotlight on San Diego Comic-Con 2013 Day Three

By Shawn Bourdo | Jul 27, 2013

CAC #10: JAPAN AND GLOBAL INFLUENCE: After a morning of making a last trip around the Convention floor, I was ...

WonderCon 2013 Review: WonderWow

By Cinema Sentries | Apr 1, 2013

Written by Mike Bruno If it can be imagined, it can come to life, and what better place to hold ...

San Diego Comic-Con 2012: Firefly Panel

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 21, 2012

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the cult TV sensation Firefly, Science Channel gathered creator Joss Whedon, executive producer Tim Minear, ...

TR!CK2TER: Bringing Options to San Diego During Comic-Con

By Cinema Sentries | Jul 8, 2012

Written by Chris Smits With Comic-Con only days away from its takeover of the wonderfully accommodating city of San Diego, ...

Star Trek: The Next Generation Cast Reunites at Calgary Expo 2012

By Cinema Sentries | May 4, 2012

Star Trek: The Next Generation (Syndicated) season 1 Fall 1987 Shown: Wil Wheaton (as Wesley Crusher), Denise Crosby (as Tasha ...

Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo 2012 Review: Something for Everyone

By Cinema Sentries | Apr 16, 2012

Written by Chad Derdowski April 13-15, 2012 marked the third annual Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo. Held at McCormick Place ...