Damian Hess has been recording and performing as MC Frontalot for 11 years now. When he started out the music he made didn’t have a name, so he named it himself: it’s called nerdcore. Frontalot raps about computers, video games, Dungeons and Dragons, superheroes, action movies, cartoons and other things beloved of the Comic-Con crowd.
Joss Whedon’s movies don’t make billions. His last foray into TV, Dollhouse, was canceled after two seasons. The one before that, Firefly, lasted only eleven (glorious, unforgettable) episodes. But more than any other writer or director working in Hollywood, he represents the authentic voice of the fan in the big-studio world, and more than any [...]
Today I was able to meet up with, seriatim, three artists who in different ways exemplify what Comic-Con is about. They are not the richest or most famous people at Comic-Con, but they are its royalty. If there is a soul within the heaving mass of hype and advertising that Comic-Con has become, they are [...]
After months of hedging, speculation and delays, Comic-Con International has announced the plan for the show’s long-anticipated potential move after 2012: it’s staying put in San Diego and its convention center (and bits of the convention center’s neighboring hotels) until at least 2015, rather than moving to either Los Angeles or Anaheim.
Details have been released about the stabbing in Comic-Con International’s Hall H on Saturday afternoon, with both the San Diego Police Department and Comic-Con International’s David Glanzer issuing statements about the incident.
The first look at the next big DC Comics/Warner Bros. Animation superhero series rolled out today at Comic-Con. Previously leaked and announced earlier this year, Young Justice uses the Peter David and Todd Nauck series from the late ’90s as its jumping-off point. But the teaser video seems to suggest that there’ll be a fair [...]
You’ve always wanted to know if Chun Li’s massive thighs could take down Tony Stark’s hi-tech armor, right? Now you’ll get the chance to do exactly that at Comic-Con.
With the final movies in their deal with Paramount already in various stages of production (Or, in The Avengers’ case, advanced pre-production), Marvel Studios are rumored to be rushing their first Disney-distributed movie towards shooting early next year. That movie? The big-screen version of Brian K. Vaughan’s Runaways.
Never mind the Scott Pilgrim Versus The World panel at San Diego Comic-Con – What I really want from Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead or director Edgar Wright at this month’s nerd bacchanalia is a t-shirt.
Welcome to what may be the most popular panel at this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego: The LA Times is reporting a rumor that Entertainment Weekly has managed to pair JJ Abrams and Joss Whedon for a spotlight panel at this year’s convention.
