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.

We will warn you right now, this stuff may be spoiler-y, depending on how hardcore you view the definition of the term spoiler.  This reguards upcoming quad-quel Jurassic World. Here’s your chance to turn back now. Are you still here?  Ok.  Don’t blame us if you get upset about this stuff: JoBlo reported today that JURASSIC WORLD […]

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We are sad to report these six DC Comics titles will be ending this year come August:  “All-Star Western,” “Superboy,” “Birds of Prey” and “Batwing,” all with issues #34; and “Trinity of Sin: The Phantom Stranger,” wrapping with #22, and “Trinity of Sin: Pandora,” ending at #14. Reposting this information from Comic Book Resources: The […]

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According to the Hollywood Reporter, one of our favorite 80’s icons will be joining the live action Jem and The Holograms movie!  Molly Ringwald stole hearts in the John Hugh’s classics 16 Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Pretty In Pink.  No word yet on what character/role she’ll be playing, but we know Juliette Lewis has also been […]

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When WonderCon left San Francisco for Anaheim, local fans and convention goers needed a new event.  They found one in BigWow! Comic Fest, which has actually been around 15+ years.  The show was built around comic art; the display, collection, creators of it, and has grown to encompass all aspects of current comic book pop […]

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Fresh off his oscar wins for the astounding Gravity, former Harry Potter (Prisoner of Azkaban) director Alfonso Cuaron is rumored to be directing Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, a spinoff film based on one of the wizarding student’s textbooks in J.K. Rowling’s series.  We know the script for Fantastic Beasts is written by J.K. herself, and though the story takes place in […]

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Deadline reported after the worldwide monetary success ($103 million internationally) of the newest addition to the Godzilla family, a follow up/sequel is already in the works.  (What a coincidence, we have 2 Godzilla reviews!  This one and this one.) Director Gareth Edwards is obviously a student of the ‘leave the audience in suspense’ school set in Spielberg films, not […]

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Once upon a time there was a little show Fox network canceled called Firefly.  The fans were called Browncoats, and they proudly proclaimed you could not take their show from them, so after several years, they managed to get a feature film made.  Pretty awesome when a fan group is loud enough to be heard […]

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While I still am a bit fuzzy as to why they’re splitting the final Hunger Games film into two parts, aside from money, here is our first look at Julienne Moore as President Coin.  I won’t say president of what, lest I spoil things for you non-reader types.  And I still can’t stop laughing about the […]

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These images were tweeted earlier today and posted on Superhero Hype.  While they don’t show us much, we CAN see how lovely Gal looks in blue?  I’M TRYING TO BE NICE HERE, GUYS.   I mean it can’t all be as AWESOME as this first look at the invisible jet posted by Collider: Or as […]

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