“Giant” and “little person” unite to roll wooden cheese
Hagrid and Flitwick enjoyed the ancient custom of cheese rolling in a grand photo op in Stilton, UK yesterday. Warwick Davis, star of STAR WARS, HARRY POTTER, WILLOW and several other films, is...
More on the ex-Knuckles
As revealed in our comments section, that classy looking open river-side lounge is not the actual New Knuckles, instead it has been remodeled and turned into something called, ominously enough, the Red Bar:
The...
New comics mole at New York Mag
We hear this blogging thing is BIG, and so has New York Magazine, apparently. We also hear COMICS are big, and so has NY mag. They've launched Vulture an entertainment blog that covers everything...
Spotlite on…COSPLAY!
A couple of stories that illuminate this sometimes confounding activity. In Hawaii, the deck sums it up:
Passive fun isn't for hard-core anime fans who toil to dress the part
and the story digs in:
About an...
I’m the Scrapple King, I can do anything
There was apparently a display of sculpture made from Scrapple at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia yesterday, but try as we might we couldn't find any online pictures of the momentous event....
Comics now for lesbians, too
AfterEllen has a well-researched piece on lesbian comics, with extensive comments from Ariel Schrag, Alison Bechdel and manga artist June Kim. A sample of Shrag's musings on the sudden high profile for comics:
While this...
Armed Forces roll saving throws
Even in a war zone, stress-relieveing, fantasy-fulfilling RPG play can go on, witness Ziggurat Con:
When President Bush ordered troops to Iraq, he probably never imagined that he would be ultimately be responsible for what...
Do you have what it takes to be a superhero?
The Glens Falls Post Star takes us behind the scenes of a casting for an amusement park which included several DC roles:
Potential superheroes are captured in uniform, and photographs are sent off to DC...
Jam finds new place to drink, draw!
Regular readers will recall our grief over the closing of dive bar McCarthy's, home to the monthly House of 12 comics jam. Mastermind Cheese Hasselberger writes to say that a new venue has been...
Pirate garb “Disruptive”
Shiver me timbers! A high school student in North Buncombe, NC has been suspended for a day for dressing like a pirate and coming to school wearing an eyebpatch and brandishing an inflatable cutlass:
The...
Blogger defends bad smells
It started when Glenn Hauman (him again!) wrote the following about last weekend's I-Con:
Friday night, while I was escorting a number of actresses from the annual Destinies Mystery Guest show at I-Con, we were...
Oh no! New Captain America already!
It's true! While Cap's shield has been bequeathed to truth-seeker Stephen Colbert, his mantle as icon of American Freedom and democracy has been taken up by the blood thirsty killer know as THE PUNISHER....
