Welcome Back to WonderCon! The title of this column is both literal and metaphoric. The usually sunny spring weather of Southern California gave way to two days of near-nonstop rain, which forced a few last-minute changes to this year’s WonderCon 2024 in Anaheim (right across the road from Disneyland). The metaphoric aspect refers to my…
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Cosplay, Quantum Leap, and the Walking Dead: WonderCon 2023 wraps…
Welcome Back. Once again, WonderCon has returned to Anaheim, California and with COVID restrictions pretty much gone now (though I still wear masks), things feel a bit more back to normal. This year also saw a surprising championing of smaller or lesser-known movies and TV projects than in years’ past. Instead of a DC or…
Update for regular readers; a lot of fresh geeky content, coming soon…
This column is for regular readers/subscribers of this site, and don’t worry—it’s NOT bad news. Despite a lack of published content this week, this column is still going plenty strong. In fact, I’m taking a little breather this week, because I’ve got back-to-back events coming next week that I’m very eager to cover for this…
WonderCon 2022 is back in-person at Anaheim, after three years…
WonderCon Returns! Due to the ongoing COVID pandemic, it’s been three years since the last in-person WonderCon was held at the Anaheim Convention Center (ACC), right across the street from Disneyland. The last two were virtual (i.e. online Zoom panels, prerecorded videos, online buying, etc), but sci-fi/fantasy conventions are one of those things that cannot…
“Shazam!” (2019) infuses its superhero story with loving homages to 1980s cinema…
My wife and I saw “Shazam!” yesterday after a week-long delay (technical issues with the theater’s digital copy) and I have to say, it was well worth the wait. “Shazam” turned out to be surprisingly witty, and a lot more nostalgic than I originally anticipated… ****SUPER-SPOILERS!!**** Without ruining a great big spoiler near the end…
WonderCon 2019 in Anaheim: Star Trek, superheroes, cosplay and wam-bam, thank you, Shazam!
Welcome to WonderCon 2019! Another WonderCon (my 6th now) comes to a close. Yes, in many ways it’s San Diego Comic Con Junior, but that’s part of its appeal for me; lots of ‘big ticket’ events (and a kick-ass dealer hall) with some of the charm and intimacy of the smaller conventions. The best of…
“Ready Player One” boots up…
Need to open this quick little review of “Ready Player One” with two things: * First, I am quite possibly the world’s worst video gamer. I have the hand/eye coordination of a drunken toddler and I know next to nothing about video games, online gaming, virtual reality, etc. Driving in often-thick California traffic is…
WonderCon 2018 is a wrap…
What a weekend! My wife and I (along with our friend/longtime-partner-in-crime Ali) spent last Friday afternoon through Sunday evening in the fair city of Anaheim (a half hour away at maximum warp and home of Disneyland) attending WonderCon. I’ve heard WonderCon described as ‘Comic Con Jr.’ It has many of the same elements that comprise Comic Con…
WonderCon Recap Day 3: Last Day…
As they used to say on multi-part TV shows, ‘First, some scenes from Part One…’ WonderCon Recap Day One 3/31/17 ‘…and here are scenes from Part 2…’ WonderCon recap, Day Two: 4/1/17 ‘…and now, the exciting finale of WonderCon 2017 in Anaheim!’ WonderCon 2017 Day 3 was a bit more relaxed (okay, I may have…
WonderCon recap, Day Two: 4/1/17
I begin this recap assuming you (my faithful 3-4 readers!) have already seen the Day One recap, so here goes: Day Two of WonderCon Anaheim was less eventful but no less personally satisfying. I decided to cosplay as Fred Flintstone for the entire day since I kind of half-assed it on Friday (by changing into…
WonderCon Anaheim 2017, Day One recap (3/31/17)
Well, yesterday was Day One of Anaheim’s “Comic Con Junior” known as WonderCon, and it was a lot of fun…without the crowds or chaos that is Comic Con San Diego (not that I don’t love it, mind you…). First, I plan to include all the pics and graphics on the full recap (to be published…
Remembering Richard Hatch, and Battlestar Galactica…
In September of 1978, when I was all of 11 (a few months shy of 12), a TV show blasted onto my family’s 25″ Zenith’s phosphors that captured my grade school imagination; the Star Wars inspired exodus-in-space story of “Battlestar Galactica.” I remember reading the preview article in TV guide, and I eagerly awaited the…