FanExpo
FanExpo is this weekend! There's a lot of stuff I'm looking forward to see, including:
Friday
4pm - PocketModels is doing free demos of the Star Wars collectible miniatures game, which is kind of like another game I like (Pirates of the Spanish Main) but with, obviously, Star Wars.
7pm - There's a panel called "literary monsters" that's looking at modern horror fiction
9pm - Star Trek: Of Gods and Men screening. This is a modern kind of fan fiction but kind of not thing with Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koening, Tim Russ, and other DS9/Voyager people which was written by some former DS9 writers. Could be interesting?
Saturday
11:30 am - Q&A with Max Brooks (author of the excellent Zombie Survival Guide and the I'm-told-it's-excellent-but-haven't-read-it World War Z)
12pm - more game demo stuff with Monsterpocalypse, a daikaiju-themed tabletop game
1pm - DCU Editorial Q&A
1pm - Magic the Gathering tournament that I'm not sure if I'll be going to - I love playing Magic, but whenever I go to events like this I end up with a "it's not the band I hate, it's their fans" kind of feeling
4:30pm - screening of "Heart of an Empire", a documentary about Vader's 501st Legion. Not sure if I'll be going to this one either, as I've got to get down by the CNE before 7:30 for the show we're going to see.
Sunday
12:00 - BOOM Studios spotlight. BOOM's been producing my favourite new comics title, Irredeemable, and Keith DeCandido (TV tie-in writer extrordinare) is going to be there, so it should be cool.
1pm - Q&A with Billy Dee Williams (best known as Lando Calrissian and Harvey Dent in Tim Burton's Batman)
3pm - Vampires in fact and fiction panel
5pm - Screening of Chad Vader, a series of youtube videos about Darth Vader's brother, who is a manager at a grocery store.
Sunday's kind of up in the air - not entirely sure if I'll be going. Might have other stuff to do, but there is some cool stuff happening, at the same time. Looking at the schedule, though, I'm not sure how people handle larger cons like Dragon-Con and San Diego. Even with this there's enough happening that I can't see everything I'd like to.
(Actually, Friday's kind of up in the air too, as my pregnant wife will be with me and might not want to do too much walking around and will have little interest in the panels I want to see)
Friday
4pm - PocketModels is doing free demos of the Star Wars collectible miniatures game, which is kind of like another game I like (Pirates of the Spanish Main) but with, obviously, Star Wars.
7pm - There's a panel called "literary monsters" that's looking at modern horror fiction
9pm - Star Trek: Of Gods and Men screening. This is a modern kind of fan fiction but kind of not thing with Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koening, Tim Russ, and other DS9/Voyager people which was written by some former DS9 writers. Could be interesting?
Saturday
11:30 am - Q&A with Max Brooks (author of the excellent Zombie Survival Guide and the I'm-told-it's-excellent-but-haven't-read-it World War Z)
12pm - more game demo stuff with Monsterpocalypse, a daikaiju-themed tabletop game
1pm - DCU Editorial Q&A
1pm - Magic the Gathering tournament that I'm not sure if I'll be going to - I love playing Magic, but whenever I go to events like this I end up with a "it's not the band I hate, it's their fans" kind of feeling
4:30pm - screening of "Heart of an Empire", a documentary about Vader's 501st Legion. Not sure if I'll be going to this one either, as I've got to get down by the CNE before 7:30 for the show we're going to see.
Sunday
12:00 - BOOM Studios spotlight. BOOM's been producing my favourite new comics title, Irredeemable, and Keith DeCandido (TV tie-in writer extrordinare) is going to be there, so it should be cool.
1pm - Q&A with Billy Dee Williams (best known as Lando Calrissian and Harvey Dent in Tim Burton's Batman)
3pm - Vampires in fact and fiction panel
5pm - Screening of Chad Vader, a series of youtube videos about Darth Vader's brother, who is a manager at a grocery store.
Sunday's kind of up in the air - not entirely sure if I'll be going. Might have other stuff to do, but there is some cool stuff happening, at the same time. Looking at the schedule, though, I'm not sure how people handle larger cons like Dragon-Con and San Diego. Even with this there's enough happening that I can't see everything I'd like to.
(Actually, Friday's kind of up in the air too, as my pregnant wife will be with me and might not want to do too much walking around and will have little interest in the panels I want to see)