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.

It looks like part of the promise to bring more women into prominent positions in the Marvel cinematic and now televisional (ha, totally invented a new word) world is coming true.  At least for the sophomore season of ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.LD. We know already that Lucy Lawless (Xena, Spartacus) will be joining the second […]

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We’re impatiently awaiting the pilot of NBC’s Constantine to air (October 24th), and all this casting news is getting us more excited. We have Angelica Celaya as Zed, Michael James Shaw has been tapped to be Papa Midnite, and the most recent addition is Emmett Scanlan as New Orleans Police Department detective Jim Corrigan, who later goes on […]

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If you can’t get enough of the Southern Zombie Mysteries (that’s a joke there, because the True Blood book series is called the ‘Southern Vampire Mysteries’), then never fear!  Looks like AMC just placed the official order for the ‘companion’ series to their cult hit The Walking Dead. This series specifically will cover the zombie outbreak in […]

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Without giving too many spoilers away, book readers are aware of the jumping character narrative nature of the later Song Of Ice And Fire novels.  The fifth season of the hit HBO series Game Of Thrones hasn’t even fully covered the third and fourth books, respectively.  And it was announced today that fan favorite Hodor, the Groot-like […]

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Thanks to my friend Glen for pointing this out just a few minutes ago!  It looks as if everyone’s favorite wrestler turned actor this side of Hollywood Hulk Hogan as just confirmed that he will indeed be playing Black Adam in one of the upcoming DC Comics films. Here is the direct link to the […]

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The first reports of this acquisition made it sound like Netflix was precognicent when it comes to Fox networks and their upcoming series Gotham.  I say this because Fox doesn’t exactly have the best reputation when it comes to good sci-fi or superhero based shows sticking around for more than one season.  And sometimes NOT EVEN […]

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