As unlikely as Newtie’s Moon colony suggestion was, I couldn’t help but nod my head and growl, “Yeah! What happened to the America that can?”
Full Story »Zombies Usher in 2012 Comic Convention Season
Amazing Arizona Comic Con January 6-8, Mesa Convention Center Mesa, Arizona One of the best things about living in Arizona is that I don’t have to wait until summer for my comic convention fix. Amazing Arizona Comic Con is the first con of the year and it’s right in my backyard. This is only A2C2′s second [...]
Full Story »Chuck vs Raygun Robyn
Raygun Robyn continues her hard-hitting investigation/ resuscitation of NBC’s Chuck this time in a conference call with Joshua Gomez, the actor responsible for Chuck’s best friend, Morgan Grimes.
Full Story »Letters from a Concerned Zombie: Dear America
Congratulations on not going all Barbara on this odd-numbered election year. Remember, a healthy nation is a tasty nation.
Full Story »Letters from a Concerned Zombie: Dear Oakland PD
I thought we zombies would be the ones to make the United States look like a third world country on the news. You beat us to the punch, Oakland PD. Well done.
Full Story »Cute and Weird Star Wars at NYCC
The littlest cosplayers and Boba Fett, in a sport coat, playing the Superman theme on an accordion.
Full Story »NYCC Dudes in Costume
With the proliferation of photos of women in cosplay at conventions, it’s easy for me to forget that dudes wear costumes to conventions, too.
Full Story »Moms and Dads and Kids and Brains
Earlier this summer, the fabulous Mary Higgins, her husband, and her children embarked on the kind of epic project that puts quality time in the annals of awesome: they wrote, produced, and filmed a zombie period piece as a webseries. Here, Mary talks about the concept for the series, the challenges of working with loved ones, and the advantages of removing everyone’s heads while filming.
Full Story »Letters from a Concerned Zombie: Dear Tea Party Zombies
It is my pleasure to inform you that this Concerned Zombie does not support the game, Tea Party Zombies Must Die, and plans to boycott it.
Full Story »Jane Espenson: Cheeks, Beau, and Buffy
How long have you know Cheeks? How did you meet him? I met Cheeks a while back – maybe two years ago. I found his material on YouTube and thought it was hilarious. I didn’t just admire the performance and the presence, but the writing, too; it blew me away. Strangely, though, my first thoughts were about [...]
Full Story »Jane Espenson on Producing
“Just like on broadcast TV, you just have to write like a sane person – don’t write stuff you can’t afford. That only got easier when the money was mine!”
Full Story »Jane Espenson on Writing Husbands
Last week, Pink Raygun crowdsourced questions for Jane Espenson on her new webseries, Husbands. Today, we have the first wave of answers from Jane herself.
Full Story »Interview: Wendy Powell
To me one of the best things about anime “celebrities” – voice actors, directors, producers, artists – is that they are so accessible to the fans. They participate in conventions, hosting panels about themselves as well as anime related topics. They sign autographs without charging fees, they take part in silly activities, and they don’t treat convention goers like idiots (even if they are wearing cardboard clouds, sparkles, a sign that says “Free Hugs” and not much else). Anime celebrities are real, down-to-earth people who we can relate to and like, even in real life. And one of the most down-to-earth of all is Wendy Powell, she of the deep voice and southern drawl, that hails from Texas and provided the voice of Envy from both popular Fullmetal Alchemist series.
Full Story »Letters From A Concerned Zombie: Dear Michele Bachmann
Here’s the thing, Michele. No one is going to blame me for ripping out my neighbor’s liver and making fois gras with it. My neighbor is a racist anti-Semite who puts her garbage out on the wrong day, anyway. But you, Michele. People might think you’re racist because of this pledge. And that’s way worse.
Full Story »Letters from A Concerned Zombie: Dear Andrew Breitbart
You’re being awarded with the elite status of Honorary Zombie.
You’re already a figurative zombie, a soulless shambling shell of a man, feeding an insatiable hunger for attention and washing it down with a mimosa mixed from Democratic tears. I literally am a festering sack of rotting humanity and you make me throw up a little in my mouth.
Full Story »Low-fi Sci-fi with Mia Trachinger
A couple in bunny suits are employed as “comfort strangers” to the city at large. Government agents who are walking contagions in an effort to mass-immunize the population. Humans who are born without the ability to delineate time.
This is the low-fi sci-fi world of director/screenwriter Mia Trachinger.
Full Story »Letters From A Concerned Zombie: Dear Congressman Rohrabacher
Certainly, Mr. Rohrabacher, you could have had an intern Google this for you. I’m a zombie, and even I have an intern. He’s an MBA from Colgate. I’m quite looking forward to eating him later, unless he can find some tossed out Boar’s Head cold cuts in our immediate vicinity.
Full Story »Appetites: Not Your Mother’s Cookbook
When you look at the Appetites app, it looks less like something out of Star Trek, and more like something out of Harry Potter. I imagine that the pages of Hagrid’s cookbooks have a similar aesthetic; however, I’m sure Appetites could have made his treacle fudge, rock cakes, and bath buns slightly more edible.
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