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.

Ok, I’m finally excited to see Fox’s upcoming Gotham, and all it took was adding legendary comedienne Carol Kane. Bleeding Cool reports she’ll be playing Gertrud Kapelput, the mother of Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin played by Robin Lord Taylor. But seriously.  Carol is wonderful, and I couldn’t be more excited. Hopefully the pilot will ‘accidently’ make it’s way to the internet like The […]

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Two days ago, ABC/Disney announced their casting for Once Upon A Time characters Anna and Kristophe from the hit animated film Frozen.  The characters will appear sometime during the upcoming 4th season. Today, TVLine released the information that Queen Elsa has ALSO been cast.  Georgina Haig, Fringe alum, will be stepping into the frost tinged role.

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Could this possibly be that Hulk sized secret at the end of Avengers: Age Of Ultron?  It COULD be, considering the first official look we’ve had at Ultron and The Vision have come from the premium Sideshow Collectibles releases.  Looks like Dr. Bruce Banner in his ‘other guy’ form is the newest figure: This new figure […]

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Warning you now, this is a WORD HEAVY press release from the folks over at Warner Brothers about their lineup/schedule for San Diego’s Comic Con International, which happens in 21 days.  Yeah.  21 days.  So here is the press release: BURBANK, Calif. (July 02, 2014) — It wouldn’t be summer without a sizzling, action-packed lineup […]

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We’ve been doing our best to keep you guys updated on the various exclusive releases for San Diego Comic Con this year, IT’S IN 21 DAYS YOU GUYS. There was this one, and this one, and now we have another awesome release from Gentle Giant LTD that glows in the dark!

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WHO’S EXCITED FOR NEW EPISODES OF DOCTOR WHO???  Yeah well you have to wait til August 23rd just like all the other Wholigans/Whovians. BUT!  Here is a lovely fan-vid featuring “the new catchphrase” for Peter Capaldi’s Doctor: And here is the real most recent official BBC post about the new Doctor:

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Last night on SyFy’s Wil Wheaton Project, they ran a vid thing at about 5:28 in this video, about the nerd reactions to Michael Bay’s new TMNT movie.  While it’s only a passing shot, that’s TOALLY our Jenny Lo of Geekgasm!! Here is the original ep!

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This is still in rumor territory friends, but Tracking-Board is reporting that Tina Fey and her production company Little Stranger will be moving forward with the yet unnamed Hocus Pocus sequel. We’re hoping this is true, because who DOESN’T want to see the Sanderson Sisters again?  We’ll keep you posted as things develop. And if they […]

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The new episodes of Sailor Moon get released July 5th, and here we have the first look at footage from the new series. This is a side by side comparison of the original transformation sequence of the young girl Usagi Tsukino (Serena Tsukino in the American dubs) into Sailor Moon: AND.  Added bonus for all you Sailor […]

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With Melissa McCarthy’s new comedy Tammy in theaters now, why not release the trailer for her upcoming film St. Vincent with funnyman extraordinaire Bill Murray? I’ll see anything Bill does, but I can’t for the life of me understand why everyone seems to find Melissa so funny.

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