There was thunderous applause and cheering as I waited patiently backstage for my interview. It was possible to tell whenever a zinger went off with every loud burst of ooh’s and laughter. Finally, the cheering reached a crescendo and the four members of the cast of Serenity rounded the corner of the partition in the Centennial Ballroom. A moment later,… Read more →
David and Kelli Wallace will be at Dragon*Con 2005. Long-time comic and game industry retailers and specialty retail education professionals, the Wallace’s are co-authors of A Specialty Retailer’s Handbook: Comics and Games and The Manager’s Training Manual. They are currently working on a new book geared toward training the buyer. The Wallace’s have served on the board of directors of… Read more →
Robert Jordan told several hundred fans his plans for future books and movies during a wide-ranging Q&A session Saturday afternoon. Jordan’s sprawling epic has swelled, but he promised to end the series at twelve books. “I’m committed,” he answered a fan. “It’s going to be twelve books, even if the twelfth book is 15,000 pages long. So, if you have… Read more →
Dateline: Montreal/Vancouver Room, Hyatt Regency, Dragon*Con. Sources who attended the “Wishes, Mysteries, and Fallen Angels: The Crüxshadows” panel on Saturday report that the most famous hairstyle in all of Dragon*Con, that of the Crüxshadows’s front man, founding member, and visionary, Rogue, may be no more. The signature towering spikes that have so enthralled fans across the world were said to… Read more →
After a scheduling mix-up with Adam Baldwin for “Bad Angels,” Mercedes McNab struggled at first to get questions and even pleaded with the audience to fill the silence of two Centennial ballrooms. Then, questions started flowing from the microphone-shy fans. McNab seemed to recover from the awkwardness and even enjoyed the questions about her career and her time as Harmony… Read more →
I’m supposed to give a lecture right now. I don’t do lectures. This is about mayhem. Anyone here want to see mayhem?” A forest of hands sprang up at Grandmaster Sabutai Musashi’s question, and the fun began. Grandmaster Musashi’s demonstration included open hand techniques, weapons techniques, and blindfolded weapon techniques where he demonstrated the use of the sense he calls… Read more →
For an actress whose Sci-Fi credits equates to 22 hours of Battlestar Galactica, Tricia Helfer sure can fill up a room. After every other star scheduled on “Galactica New and Old” was either called back to the set or had a scheduling conflict, it became an unofficial “Hour with Trisha Helfer” While this might have spelled disaster for a supporting… Read more →
A cheerful hello began my conversation with Cherie Priest, author of the Southern Gothic novel Four and Twenty Blackbirds, recently re-released by Tor Publishing. Sitting in the lobby of Marriott, we were surrounded by costumed con-goers of all stripes as we carried on our talk. I expect that any other author might have been distracted by the stormtroopers and anime… Read more →
