Fantastic Forum

  This weekend marked the first annual Awesome Con DC!  The event was organized by conventioneer, Ben Penrod, in response to the absence of a major comic convention in DC.  Ben is also the mastermind behind the popular Annapolis Comic Con as well as the Southern Maryland Comic Con and he knows how to put [...]

Last Monday, Patrick Michael Strange and I visited the mid-town Manhattan offices of Valiant Entertainment.  As you may know, Valiant Comics re-launched late last year after a successful run in the mid-nineties prior to being bought out by video gaming company, Acclaim.   To say that Patrick is a huge fan of the comics line [...]

Last weekend was another milestone for FANTASTIC FORUM as we co-hosted the advance screening of Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines.  The event was held at Brooks Mansion, the headquarters of DCTV in Washington, DC.  DCTV is, of course, our broadcast partner in the nation’s capital and we are very grateful for their participation.  Thanks, also, [...]

I enjoyed the privilege of meeting Greg Cox last week.  Greg is a prolific science fiction author who has penned a number of successful novels based upon Star Trek including well known, original stories about Khan Noonien Singh and omnipotent entity Q.  But he is perhaps best known for his novelizations of various hit movies [...]

I had the good fortune to catch a terrific documentary on Sunday.  The Washington DC Jewish Community Center through Community Cinema and in cooperation with ITVS screened Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines.  Produced by Kelcey Edwards and directed by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan the feature documentary traces the creation and evolution of DC’s Wonder Woman [...]

It was another big weekend for FANTASTIC FORUM. Two conventions graced the DC/Maryland area as anime convention, Katsucon, was held at National Harbor’s Gaylord Resort and sci-fi con, Farpoint, took place at the Crowne Plaza in Hunt Valley. And I was nutty enough to attend both. Katsucon is the official home of the 2013 US [...]

We’re getting back into the swing of convention events for the new year!  On Wednesday I attended the Toy Fair in New York City.  Sponsored by the Toy Industry Association, the Toy Fair is a destination event on the global toy buying circuit and draws retailers from over one hundred countries.  This was my first [...]

  Valiant Comics is back!  The indy publisher that debuted in the late 1980′s and featured such titles as X-O Manowar, Doctor Solar Man of the Atom and Turok Dinosaur Hunter relaunched its line in the spring of 2012.  Patrick Michael Strange caught up with Valiant publisher, Fred Pierce, at The Baltimore Comic Con. We’ve [...]

Season 4 is underway! The first three episodes have aired and we taped again last Thursday at Victory Comics in Falls Church, VA. The location taping is a huge success thanks to Arlington Independent Media’s mobile production van. Access to the mobile studio equipment allows the show to flow in a pure comics element. And [...]

              My lovely wife and I were among those in attendance at the 2012 MCM Monty Awards last night. This annual event celebrating Montgomery Community Media volunteers and producers was held in Germantown, Maryland at the Black Rock Center for the Arts. Blackrock was the venue for last year’s [...]