We’re only a few days away from the debut of Dragon*Con’s newest tradition, the ART CRAWL! The ART CRAWL is an independent show of artists and their wares at Dragon*Con. We have everything from fine art to fan art. We have 2D and 3D. We even have a gypsy tarot reader Saturday night! Saturday, the ART CRAWL will be in… Read more →
An unnerving thing happened to me on the way to the Dragon*Con Parade. No wait for the elevator should have alerted me, but I may have still let Harry Potter’s Snape be my guide. Snape, admittedly, did not know the gathering point’s location either, but exited the elevator striding, taking a left and then another left out of the Hyatt… Read more →
The panel started a little late due to the fact many attendees wanted to see what Adult Swim had to offer, so the Dragon*Con organizers decided to move it to the larger Centennial ballroom. Starting with a compilation DVD, attendees were happy to see clips from upcoming episodes of Robot Chicken and Harvey Birdman, as well as peeks at new… Read more →
Tru won’t be responding to any more pleas from dead bodies in the morgue. Fans who gathered Friday to commemorate and mourn the demise of Tru Calling agreed they have little hope of a resurrection, even if Tru could turn back the clock again. “We’re small, but we’re loyal. There are just not enough of us,” said a resigned Lilly… Read more →
If you wandered into Regency Hall at 7PM Friday, you may have wondered if you’d wandered too far due to the wrestling ring in the center of the room. The zombies and samurai were reassurance that you were still in Dragon*Con territory. Though wrestling isn’t the biggest draw of the con, a crowd began gathering early, and by the start… 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 →
