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.

The CUBESTORMER 3 broke the world Rubik’s Cube record, solving the puzzle in 3.25 seconds.  The previous record was set by the CUBESTORMER 2, which took a lazy 5 seconds to complete the task. Expect the CUBESTORMER 17 to go back in time and show Rubik how to make a better cube.  

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To build up excitement for Game of Thrones season 4 premiering on April 6th, HBO has partnered with artist Robert M. Ball to create beautiful posters counting down the deaths in the series since season one.  The “Beautiful Death” series highlights one death from each episode.  They will be releasing one poster a day and have just reached the end […]

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Here we have a candid interview with our Generalissimo, the godfather of the funny papers, Mr. Excelsior himself, Stan Lee appearing in April’s issue of “Playboy” available now.  Between 1961 and 1965, in one of pop culture’s most remarkable creative bursts, Stan Lee, working with freelance artists including Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, created the […]

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Reposting from Deadline.com: Sony Pictures is eyeing an early 2015 production start in New York on its next installment of Ghostbusters. There is a major change, though. Inthe wake of the death of his close friend and original Ghostbuster Harold Ramis, Ivan Reitman has decided he won’t direct the film, after all. Instead, Reitman will help Amy Pascal find a […]

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The March 26th episode of The CW’s Arrow is titled “Birds of Prey”.  In the episode, Frank Bertinelli (returning guest star Jeffrey Nordling) gets arrested, luring his daughter Helena aka The Huntress (Jessica de Gouw) back to town. When Laurel is picked to try Frank’s case, that lands her (and others) as The Huntress’ hostages — and […]

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This is an official press release from StarWars.com STAR WARS: EPISODE VII SET TO ROLL CAMERAS MAY 2014 March 17, 2014 Disney and Lucasfilm are excited to announce that principal photography on Star Wars: Episode VII, directed by J.J. Abrams will commence May 2014, and will be based at London’s historic Pinewood Studios. This will be […]

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