Fantastic Forum

“…I just want to talk a little about cosplay, get your opinions on what we’re doing today and what its all about…”

“I can talk to this car and it’ll say about eighty things in response to me with the original voices from the TV show. I can drop black water out of the back of this car just like an oil slick K.I.T.T. had, I have a rocket launcher in the back of the car I can actually fire a rocket out of the back like K.I.T.T. used to do. In the front I have a CO2 system set up so I can actually put fires out…”

“Prose can obscure and elucidate…I love television, I love film but I love books most of all.”

“…in the summer of 2012, which was dubbed ‘The Summer of Valiant’ the company marked its triumphant return to the marketplace thanks to a group of entrepreneurs and fans who seized an opportunity to revive the characters who never left their hearts.”

  The biggest day for America’s Comic Book Industry is the first Saturday in May.  Since its inception FREE COMIC BOOK DAY has been an unqualified success.  Publishers designate certain titles to be offered free of charge to the general public in a nationwide promotion.  And the lines at specialty comics retailers around the country […]

  FANTASTIC FORUM had a banner weekend at AWESOME CON DC!  This is year two for the convention.  Boasting such celebrity guests as Billie Piper (Rose Tyler of Doctor Who) and Danai Gurira (Michonne of The Walking Dead) Awesome Con attracted tens of thousands of attendees to DC’s Walter E. Washington Convention Center.   Things […]

Producer/host Ulysses E. Campbell and panelists Camille Adrienne, Roberto Ortiz and James Rambo engage in a round robin discussion that includes RE-IMAGINING CHARACTER GENDER/ETHNICITY, A WONDER WOMAN FEATURE FILM AND THE DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO MOVIES OF DISNEY/MARVEL AND WARNER/DC. Featuring Producer/host Patrick Michael Strange’s interview with Zombie King ARTHUR SUYDAM and our IN MEMORIAM 2013 […]

On Friday, December 13, I attended the opening reception for Milestones: African American in Comics, Pop Culture and Beyond at Geppi’s Entertainment Museum. This astounding new exhibit features the work of both mainstream and lesser known Black creators as well as some who avoid the spotlight all of whom have made substantial contributions to pop […]

Last year the 501st Legion raised over 11 million dollars for charities nationwide.

On Sunday, December 1, I linked up with the 501st Legion at the Capitol Building.  Legionnaires were out in force to tape a PSA in support of the Museum of Science Fiction.   Executive Director Greg Viggiano and VP of Operations Mandy Sweeney are among an organized group that has banded together to raise funds […]