I Will Tell You #95: Motor City Comic Con 2014 The Motor City Comic Con celebrates its 25th anniversary starting this Friday, May 16, for its annual three-day pop culture convention at its usual home inside the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Michigan. For the first time, the show is occupying the entirety of the…
I Will Tell You #94: C2E2 2014 The fifth annual Chicago Entertainment & Comic Expo (C2E2) opened Friday, April 25 at Chicago’s McCormick Place, occupying the convention center’s south building for the first time after setting up shop in the venue’s other three buildings over the course of the past four years. The large…
I Will Tell You #89: Top Five Reasons to be Thankful for Comics As Thanksgiving approaches, we all have many things to be thankful for, although amidst the business of our daily chores and various challenges we face, we don’t always realize it. While we scramble trying to cope with the stresses of our jobs,…
I Will Tell You #88: Detroit Fanfare Comic Con 2013 The fourth annual Detroit Fanfare, or Detroit Fanfare Comic Con as it’s now officially known, is now underway at the Adoba Hotel Dearborn (formerly the Hyatt Regency) in Dearborn, Michigan. And it’s underway a day early by way of the show’s first-ever Preview Night, held…
I Will Tell You #87: Christmas Lights on Halloween, Doo Dah, Doo Dah A lot of people adorn the outside of their homes with Christmas lights, everyone knows that. And typically, the decorations usually go up in early December, or maybe around Thanksgiving for some of the more eager and anxious Christmas lovers. Problem is,…
I Will Tell You #85: C2E2 2013 The fourth annual Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) is currently taking place at downtown Chicago’s McCormick place convention center this weekend, April 26 – 28. The show features its usual mix of retailers selling comics, trade paperbacks, toys, and other pop culture items, but the emphasis…
I Will Tell You #84: The Boys Are Back Two weeks ago, as you’ll recall, I wrote a piece on what was so wonderful about the onset of spring. If you don’t recall and don’t believe me, or do recall and want to relive the wonderment of it all, you can find said piece here.…
I Will Tell You #79: 5 More Random Thoughts About Zombies and Other Stuff You know, random thoughts about zombies are much like zombies chewing on fingers; you can’t stop with just a few. So, continuing from last week, here are 5 more random thoughts about zombies and stuff that’s sort of related. …
So I’ve been on vacation, did you miss me? Well I missed you! And now that I’m back, it’s on with the show! This week I’ve unearthed The Omega Men # 3, dated June 1983, from D C Comics. It’s got the introduction of a couple of new characters, including one that will make quite a…
I Will Tell You #77: Top 5 Comics NOT From Marvel or DC So, over the past few weeks, I’ve been showing Marvel plenty of love, by gushing over not only what’s happening with Spider-Man, but also in their five best titles. And then, I kind of saw DC sitting over there, looking all jealous-like,…