Author: Mary Anne Butler

Mary Anne Butler (Mab) got her start in album reviews and live concert coverage for a nationally published (print) music magazine as a teenager. She eventually transitioned to online media, writing for such sites as UGO/IGN, ComicsOnline, Geek Magazine, Ace of Geeks, Aggressive Comix (Editor-in-Chief), Bleeding Cool (News Editor), Nerdbot (as Editor-In-Chief), and now [Bad]Influencers, where she is Editor-in-Chief. Over the past 15 years, she’s built a well-known reputation at conventions across the globe as a cosplayer (occasionally), photographer (constantly), panelist and moderator (mostly), and reporter (always). Interviews, reviews, observations, breaking news, and objective reporting are the name of the game for the founder of Harkonnen Knife Fight, a Dune-themed band. She also produces award-winning immersive events, including Wasteland Weekend and Neotropolis.

This weekend, Stan Lee‘s Comikaze Expo returned to Los Angeles.  With the first day falling on Halloween this year, you can imagine the awesome cosplay running around the show.  But, one of our favorite things that happened was our Generalissimo Stan Lee getting a very special birthday cake.  Duff Goldman from the hit series Ace of […]

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Happy Devil’s night all true believers!  Blogger Sean Korsgaard posted this interview with James O’Barr, the creator of the original “The Crow” comic.  The topic? The upcoming NEW The Crow film starring Luke Evans. “[W]e’re not remaking the movie,” says O’Barr. “We’re readapting the book. My metaphor is that there is a Bela Lugosi ‘Dracula’ and there’s […]

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Sadly, what I know from interviewing Python Terry Gilliam (who wrote and directed the original 12 Monkeys film) is that SyFy didn’t even contact him about being a part of this new series from the network. What we do know about the show is that Brad Pitt’s character will be played by a girl.  The new series […]

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We all know what rule 34 is right? “Generally accepted internet rule that states that pornography or sexually related material exists for any conceivable subject.   Additionally it is accepted that the rule itself has limitations and you cannot be too specific on the content of the item in question.” Well, now we can add James […]

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If you haven’t watched tonight’s episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., I won’t spoil it for you any farther than a brief 2 minute exchange between Coulson and another agent in the field.  Now, this is completely unfounded, and extremely out there as a theory, but one never truly knows where Marvel is heading with their hidden […]

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Netflix has been doing amazing things with their original programming, and it looks like they are delving into history with this next offering.  Marco Polo, starring newcomer Lorenzo Richelmy, the based on the famed explorer’s adventures in Kublai Khan’s court in 13th century China.  We have both a gallery of STUNNING images and the first […]

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It’s long been rumored to be happening, but as of today, we know there will be an actual REAL Captain Marvel movie, and it’ll be the first female-fronted superhero film since Supergirl.  How cool is THAT?  We’re so excited, we’ve been bouncing off the walls of our various headquarters today in response to the awesome that has been […]

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After we’ve all had a bit of time to catch our collective breaths, some other news came out of today’s big giant Marvel Studios press conference.  The biggest thing aside from the upcoming movie lineup being the still unconfirmed casting of Doctor Strange. During the Q & A that followed the press conference, Kevin Feige the […]

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We’re waiting impatiently for 11am pst to roll around so the big Marvel press conference will start. Not much is known about the announcements, theoretically we’ll get official confirmation on the newest bit of casting news for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, rumored Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange, maybe footage from Avengers: Age of Ultron ahead of […]

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