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.

Marvel confirmed yesterday that Cabin In The Woods director Drew Goddard left the Netflix series Daredevil in early march, amid lots of speculation caused by Edgar Wright’s parting ways with Marvel’s Ant-Man earlier last week. We now know that Stephen S. DeKnight creator of the hit Starz series Spartacus has taken over as executive producer and showrunner of Daredevil. […]

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LEGO has this really awesome thing in place where people can submit their ideas for official kits to be voted on for release.  The current batch up is pretty awesome, one of our favorites being this model from Ysomt of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier.  I wonder if the various LEGO Marvel figures will fit on it […]

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The Big Wow! Comic Fest in San Jose California took place over the weekend of May 17th and 18th.  (My recap is here.) There were fantastic media guests, artists, and cosplayers.  One of the topics covered by panels during the weekend was bullying in it’s various myriad forms.  From “girls can’t like comics” and “boys […]

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The 1980s really was the greatest decade of science fiction film.  This week in May specifically, as we’ve had an anniversary for a big time movie every other day. The first was Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back on May 21st, 1980.  With an initial budget of $33 million and a world wide box office count […]

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DON’T PANIC. Today is the day chosen by fans to celebrate the life and times of author Douglas Adams by carrying a towel.  Why a towel?  I would first suggest reading “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, and THEN watching the various film and tv versions.   How can you get involved?  Check out the listing on […]

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After announcing a pretty interesting cast thus far, looks like Marvel’s Ant-Man is without a director. Here is the official statement: “Marvel and Edgar Wright jointly announced today that the studio and director have parted ways on ANT-MAN due to differences in their vision of the film. The decision to move on is amicable and does […]

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So far, in the cinema life X-Men has known, I have enjoyed one, ONE  film, and that was X-Men: First Class. I am not a fan of Bryan Singer’s casting choices for the most part with four big points;  1.) Cyclops being FAR TOO YOUNG compared to Jean and not the right actor in this regard, 2.) […]

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