“Ready, get set… talk!” And so began the most interesting entry I’ve ever seen in the schedule grid: “Buffy/Angel Speed Dating.” More than 50 voices fill the room with the cacophony of more than 25 separate conversations. Each person talks to the person across from them. It’s a way to overcome the inevitable impersonalization that has occurred as Dragon*Con became… Read more →
Fans of The Prisoner fear sharing the same fate as Firefly. Plans for a Prisoner movie stalled last summer though new and old fans are buying DVDs of the 1960s TV series. It depicted one man’s struggle for individuality after being kidnapped from his London flat and imprisoned on a well-guarded island. They called him No. 6. The character played… Read more →
Looking for answers about what happened on Andromeda, I depended on a Saturday panel to do more than live up to its name, “Andromeda: The Final Verdict.” Though still unsure of the concrete explanations behind the episode plots, I learned I wasn’t the only one struggling. Andromeda is even more complicated than I thought. First, there are three Andromedas. And,… 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 →
Did your card game pass the Drunk Test? Game designer David Harmer, 38, of Marietta made sure both his new The Four Horsemen: Hand of Death and his Faerie Haven, available at mushroomcirclegames.com, soared through the Drunk Test before allowing public use. The Drunk Test involves two drunks and two sobers. Harmer admitted that making the participants drunk was a… Read more →
Eric Etebari was no “Dark Knight in the Morning” on Friday afternoon. Wearing bright yellow tennis shoes and a bright green jacket, the actor from the popular TV movie and series Witchblade hardly resembled his mesmerizing character, Ian Nottingham. The name resulted from a scheduling shift from Sunday morning to the Friday date, but the timing seemed as perfect as… Read more →
Joe Grillot, 59, left his home in Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parrish with only the clothes on his back and a few dollars in his pocket. Because of the impending arrival of Hurricane Katrina, Grillot did not plan to attend Dragon*Con although he’s been a member for decades. Her disastrous path pushed him here, flooding his entire apartment. But he’s not… Read more →
