Author: Mary Anne Butler

by Mary Anne Butler, Reporter ABC green lights a full season pickup (22 episodes) for the new series. S.H.I.E.L.D. ranks as the No. 1 new show of the 2013-14 TV season among the 18-49 demo (averaging a 4.0 rating that swells to 5.7 with Live+3 DVR playback factored in). The adventure-drama did 7.9 mil and a 2.9, edging out NCIS for the No. 2 spot at 8 o’clock. To celebrate,  a treat from SDCC 2013.  The premiere (*read* FIRST TIME BEING HEARD BY AN AUDIENCE with reaction) full length theme song  for S.H.I.E.L.D. from Emmy Award winning composer Bear McCreary:…

by Mary Anne Butler, Reporter/Photographer Silence.  Complete and stunning silence.  Until some ass in the front of the theater rustles around for his candy and makes a snide comment.  I shush him.  He stays quiet, mercifully.  It’s very rare the commotion of so many bodies in one room during a film bothers me, I’ve come to tune out the mostly disrespectful movie-goers for the most part.  But this time….there was no denying the need for quiet.  I’m going to do my best to NOT give spoilers, and I’ll say that I’ve been avoiding all the “extended” trailers because I wanted…

by Mike Favila, Editor Having just won the 2013 Eisner Award in the category of Best U.S. Edition of International Material – Asia, Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys, Vol. 1 just came up for review. Although I’d seen the live…

SPOILER ALERT!  You’re listening to the ComicsOnline Podcast. Season Thirteen. Episode Forty-Three. Starship Smackdown SDCC 2013! This episode… Remember those awesome schoolyard debates about if the Enterprise would win in a fight against a Star Destroyer? Well for anyone who loved being a part of those debates (or still argues the point to this day), this podcast is for you. With a panel of crack writers, producers, and other luminaries from stage and screen – and this time guest starring a real space cowboy, Bobak Ferdowsi (aka NASA’s mohawk guy), they spend a few hours grinding through 16 of your…

by Bill Watters, Senior Editor/Photographer  Our Bill got to sit in on a group phone interview with one of the main personalities from the upcoming SyFy network original series Heroes of Cosplay Yaya Han.  The show airs tonight after Face Off. Q:   It’s nice that cosplay is getting this attention from the series, why do you think it’s been so misunderstood all this time? Yaya:   I think that cosplay is a very unique art form, and I’m not surprised there are misunderstandings about it. Inherently we’re all adults, from all walks of life. And we’re dressing up as these characters from…

by Mary Anne Butler, Reporter/Photographer Sometimes, there is a magic that happens when at conventions.  You walk into a room where something amazing is about to take place, and somehow, you get to be a part of it, fulfilling years of fantasy.  For me, this happened on Saturday at SDCC 2013 when I got to have some one-on-one time with Neil deGrasse Tyson.  He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center For Earth and Space and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History, and in 2011, it…

by Mab, Mary Anne Butler, Reporter/Photographer I will totally admit my opinion of SDCC has changed over the last two years.  Especially this year.  I don’t know how many of you noticed, but this was the first time in what, six years, there were ZERO big Twilight related panels.  I firmly believe this is why I managed to make it into a panel on Thursday in the *Loki voice* Midgard Arena known as “Hall H”. Now let me preface this by saying most of the time Bill and I travel to cons, something goes wrong on the way to the…

by Mary Anne Butler, Reporter/Photographer  (photo of McCreary from GalactiCon Houston) That’s right, Bear McCreary (composer for Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, and Europa Report) is set to add Marvel: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to his resume.  Fans can look forward to possibly, MAYBE, hearing something at this week’s San Diego Comic Con during the panel on Friday.  He was kind enough to offer us a quote on the subject: “Ever since I was a kid, I dreamt of writing music for superheroes. The brassy fanfares and gothic textures of the superhero music of my youth had a lasting impact on my imagination.…

by Mary Anne Butler, Reporter/Photographer SPOILER ALERT!  You’re listening to the ComicsOnline Podcast. Season Thirteen. Episode Thirty-Eight. Garrett Wang Interview! This episode, Mary Anne is joined by Star Trek Voyager’s Harry Kim: Garrett Wang. It’s very VERY rare to see someone who was an actor/producer/whatnot for a show such as Star Trek want to take a role like the director of a lineup of panels at a large fan-run convention.  However, that’s exactly what Star Trek: Voyager alum Garrett Wang (who played Ensign Harry Kim on Voyager) has done.  Something you might not know about Dragon Con (held over Labor Day weekend in Zombie Central Atlanta)…

For all you audiophiles out there attending SDCC 2013, HAVE WE GOT THE PANEL FOR YOU! BMI AND WHITE BEAR PR TO PRESENT ‘THE CHARACTER OF MUSIC’ PANEL DISCUSSION AT 2013 COMIC-CON WHO: Broadcast Music Inc.® (BMI®), a global leader in music rights management, and White Bear PR will return to 2013 Comic-Con to present a dynamic panel discussion about the working relationship between film composer and executive director. Other topics will include the role of music as a character in story and the intense process of scoring film projects. BMI Director, Film/TV Relations Anne Cecere and White Bear PR Founder Chandler Poling…