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.

Bruce Timm stylized Batman is back in a new short for Cartoon Network’s DC Nation block, titled Batman Strange Days, which finds the Dark Knight taking on Hugo Strange and a mysterious, Solomon Grundy-like giant.   Here are some screen caps from the upcoming short:   Timm has been involved in tons of Warner Bros. Animation productions over […]

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Deadline is reporting that China’s top action star Donnie Yen and his reps just closed his deal for Yen to star in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon II: The Green Destiny, which Woo-ping Yuen is directing from a John Fusco script for The Weinstein Company. Deadline went on to say: That deal was started by Paradigm, where Yen recently […]

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Help fight cancer.  At a Game of Thrones party.  In a castle.  With beer. Do I have your attention?  Oh good.  Saturday April 5th, 2014 there will be an event held at the San Francisco Armory building (otherwise known as Kink.com) that includes these things.  Hack Cancer is a SF based group “made up of philanthropic, young professionals in San […]

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Did you happen to catch any Pokémon  today?  WELL WE DID!  That’s because the awesome folks at Google decided it was high time Google Maps allowed users to seek out and capture the creatures: In order to find the best Pokémon master, Google has developed a Pokémon Challenge that is what it calls “the most rigorous […]

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Last night was the season finale of AMC’s hit The Walking Dead, and one of the two tv trailer/teasers shown during the commercial breaks was for the follow up to 2011’s Rise of the Planet Of The Apes retelling of the classic Charlton Heston film.  Here we have the short teaser/trailer of what we can expect from Caesar […]

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This will actually be an episode review, just bare with me while I go off on a tangent first.  One of the things I find most amusing about this “80-85% actually happened and the rest is embellishment” quote from series creator David S. Goyer is the fact the source material he’s ignoring is more far […]

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