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.

You guys know how to make a ninja mask out of a t-shirt, right?  That’s been a thing forever.  Well, here’s how to make YOUR OWN SUBZERO COSPLAY out of your jeans and a t-shirt. And of course, once you’ve mastered this, YOU CAN MOVE ON TO RAIDEN THE LORD OF THUNDER.

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“Oh wow, you guys are bad parents”.  That, right there, is one of the main points of Frozen.  Along with accept people for who they are, not locking them in their rooms away from everything and everyone that could possibly HELP them. But on a less serious note, here we have the new video from those […]

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I would like to remind everyone that the “Song of Ice and Fire”  otherwise known as Game of Thrones has been a published series for over a decade.  The first book was published in 1996, and so there has been PLENTY of time to read them.  I understand some people don’t have the time or the […]

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Kara Thrace “Starbuck” from Ronald D. Moore’s reimagined SyFy series Battlestar Galactica is arguably one of the strongest women on tv in the last decade.  Katee Sackhoff has been carving out a piece of the predominantly male centric world of Science Fiction action since we first met her character 10 years ago during a card […]

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Every so often, there is a kickstarter you just have to get behind and support.  Mine for the last two months has been The Gathering Storm: A Marauders Fan Film.  It takes place in the Harry Potter world, pre “The Chosen One”. The story follows the Marauders; Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs during their sixth year at Hogwarts and the events leading to their roles in the First […]

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Man, Hiccup sure grew into his shoulders!  Toothless is as awesome as ever and Astrid looks hawt.  No surprise, seeing as how those Vikings were gorgeous to begin with.  What am I talking about?  How To Train Your Dragon 2 of course! Here is the third trailer for the upcoming Dreamworks sequel: The OFFICIAL synopsis […]

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NBC is having a field day with shows of a darker nature.  They MUST be, because after so many decades of the ‘gritty’ crime drama procedurals and the medical shows and the recent hit of Hannibal based on the book series by Thomas Harris, they’re going full on into the dark. Here we have Rosemary’s Baby reimagined as a […]

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So here we have a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live by Paul Bettany talking about his role CONFIRMED as Vision in Avengers 2: Age  of Ultron: So I guess we’ll see what happens!

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After much back and forthing  (Zimmer supposedly not being asked to score the film vs “OH YEAH HE’S DOING IT”.)  In a recent interview, Zimmer admitted: “We’ve already had a couple of chats, and once I finish the movie that I shall not talk about I will probably head over to where Zack is shooting his […]

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