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Month: April 2012

ComicsOnline Podcast S12E10 – Brian Michael Bendis

SPOILER ALERT!  You’re listening to the ComicsOnline Podcast. SeasonTwelve. EpisodeTen Brian Michael Bendis. Recorded at SupaNova Comics Expo in Melbourne, Australia in April of 2012. Hello again and welcome to the ComicsOnline Podcast, Season Twelve Episode Ten. …I’m your host…

ComicsOnline Podcast S12E09 Morena Baccarin

SPOILER ALERT!  You’re listening to the ComicsOnline Podcast. SeasonTwelve. EpisodeNine Morena Baccarin. Recorded at SupaNova Comics Expo in Melbourne, Australia in April of 2012. Hello again and welcome to the ComicsOnline Podcast, Season Twelve Episode Nine. …I’m your host Kevin…

Events

San Diego Special Event: Drew Carey Live at American Comedy Co on April 27th-28th

DREW CAREY! COME ON DOWN…TO SAN DIEGO! 

Attention San Diego Readers:

We wanted to bring your attention to a special event that will be happening this weekend at the American Comedy Co  in downtown San Diego:

Drew Carey (The Drew Carey Show, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, The Price is Right) will be performing standup and sketch comedy live on April 27th-and 28th! 

Supanova Pop Culture Expo 2012: Exclusive Tristan Jones Interview

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Ghostbusters fans should do themselves a favor and check out ComicsOnline’s exclusive interview with writer/artist Tristan Jones, who has written for Mirage’s Tales of the TMNT and IDW’s Ghostbusters and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Infestation, and also happens to be a really cool guy!

 

Supanova Pop Culture Expo 2012: Melbourne Day Two

The geeks were out in force today

by David “Aussie Dave” Lobato, Reporter

Supanova 2012 officially opened to general public ticket holders on a very sunny Saturday the 14th of April at 10am. The Royal Melbourne Showgrounds was the (not so) secret headquarters for the event, with ample parking spaces and several public transportation options (including a special Supanova train service) in operation meaning that getting to the event itself was a rather straightforward affair.

TV Review: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic – “A Canterlot Wedding”

by Kroze “King of the Bronies” Kresky, Media Editor

I can say that without a single doubt that My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has been one of the most consistently entertaining and well written shows on television in recent memory, and I have no fear of being ridiculed or laughed at. This is because the show has grown to such enormous levels of popularity, taking over the internet with its massive fanbase at a lightning quick speed that could only be compared to Rainbow Dash making a Sonic Rainboom™.

Events

Special Event: My Little Pony Royal Wedding, A Second Look!

by Jodie Zoll, Guest Reporter

“How do you feel about ponies?”

I was in a parking lot with a friend and a fellow brony when I was asked this random-in-almost-every-scenario question. I could tell there was some underlying reference that I didn’t catch, but I didn’t know how to answer. My ultimate response was a hesitant, “…why?” The aforementioned brony gave a brief but relatively informative breakdown of the show, mentioning some of the puntastic names (i.e. Fillydelphia, Manehattan, etc.), and, if we’re being honest, I wasn’t quite sold. Like most girls, I loved My Little Pony when I was younger. I even had a place for them in my heart of hearts as I went into young adulthood in that Peter Pan “never gonna grow up” kind of way. Despite not having watched the movies or the shows due to my ever-lasting tomboy phase, the ponies never failed to make me smile. But would I, as a young adult, be captivated by this show like some of my peers seem to be?

 

iPad App Review: Avengers Origins: Hulk

by Mike Favila, Reviewer

After reading the fun Avengers Origins: Assemble! (read my review here), I was curious to see if there would be any major differences in the pacing of this app. With the same writer (Rich Thomas) and the same excitable narrator (Stan “The Man” Lee), would this just be more of the same? Amazingly, I found a more intereresting, engaging adventure.

 

iPad App Review: Avengers Origins: Assemble!

by Mike Favila, Reviewer

With the upcoming theatrical release of the inevitable blockbuster The Avengers, Marvel have released two apps to tie in which should appeal to a younger audience. Avengers Origins: Assemble! is the first cannonball from the promotional might of Disney, but it’s charming on its own merits and hits the mark.

 

Special Event: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Royal Wedding

This past weekend, The Hub put on a spectacular event in honor of what could be called “The Wedding Event Of The Year” (TM). Shining Armor and Princess Candance are getting married on the season finale of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, which airs this Saturday at 1 pm eastern on The Hub. No expense was spared for the Wedding party in Los Angeles, which featured a menagery of guests who were excited about the royal event!

WonderCon 2012: Community – Interview with Yvette Nicole Brown (Shirley)

by Matt Sernaker, Managing Editor

It’s time to go meet up with our favorite study group, as we continue our exclusive video interview series with our friends from Community! Check out this new WonderCon 2012 interview with Yvette Nicole Brown, who stars as Shirley – only at ComicsOnline.com!

 

Exclusive Interview: Eureka’s Colin Ferguson discusses the Final Season

by Matt Sernaker, Managing Editor

Eureka returns to Syfy on Monday April 16 to complete it’s five year run. We reached out to our friend Colin Ferguson (Sheriff Jack Carter) to get our readers an exclusive interview about what to expect for the final episodes of the series.

 

Movie Review: The Cabin in the Woods

Hey guys, the cellar door just flew open loudly. Let’s check it out!

by Aliki Taylor, Reviewer

Sure, we all love Joss Whedon and we’re already salivating over his upcoming blockbuster The Avengers, but Dollhouse has been off the air for a while, so what’s he been doing? It turns out he spoiled us years ago.

At the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con, Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse) announced on stage that he and Drew Goddard (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cloverfield) were co-writing something, describing, “It is a film called Cabin in the Woods, and it is the horror film to end all horror films. Literally. And more about that, I will not say.” Nearly five years later, we now know what he meant.

(Spoiler-free review ahead!)

 

Blu-ray/DVD Review: War Horse

by Karissa Barrows, Editor

Albert Narracott (Irvine) and Joey

When you think “horse movie”, what do you think of?  Black BeautySeabiscuitSpirit: Stallion of the Cimarron?  Typically, I usually think some movie that’s going to make me cry because of shameless horse-killing, the overplayed horse-separated-from-loved-owner-and-later-reunited storyline proven to elicit tears, or some cowboy movie.  War Horse, Steven Spielberg’s newest film, uses those first two, mixed with a little Seabiscuit-style “miracle horse” aspect, and a little bit of storytelling I thought slightly reminiscent of Tarantino – and makes for a huge success.