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This weekend is the annual Planet Comicon here in Kansas City. As they state with pride on their website, it indeed is KC's largest pop culture and comic book convention. No, it's nowhere near San Diego-sized, but a convention is like a penis: It doesn't really matter how big it is, so long as you can have fun with yours.


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Friends John Champion and Mary Czerwinski over at DVD Geeks have done us a solid.

For those not in the know, DVD Geeks is a kick-ass little weekly show that reviews the latest releases on DVD (and now Blu-ray, of course). While they do cover all the big-budget mainstream releases, where their show really lives is in their coverage of lesser- ( Read more... )

This was brought to my attention earlier today thanks to the Facebook status efforts of the lovely Elizabeth Donald: Over on his own blog, author Jim Hines has offered up some thoughts about discussion panels at conventions. As any good fan (of anything that manages to generate a convention) knows, panels play an important part in any well-run ( Read more... )

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At the Shore Leave convention back in July, one of the panels in which I took part was a discussion of the Star Trek: Vanguard novel series. My hetero life-mate, Kevin Dilmore, and I joined Vanguard co-creators and contributors David Mack and Marco Palmieri for an hour-long discussion about the series, where's it been, the new Declassified ( Read more... )

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Well, we're getting down to it.

Tomorrow, we head out for Shore Leave. After we get done making idiots of ourselves at the Roast of Bob Greenberger and before the rush of panel discussions and other activities commence on Saturday morning, the convention's writer guests will all convene on Friday evening for the traditional "Meet the Pros" party. ( Read more... )

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