Cons This Weekend 8/3-8/5

Archon 31/NASFIC St. Louis, MO (Scifi/fantasy)

Prophecy Toronto, CANADA (Harry Potter)

Costume College Van Nuys, CA (Costuming)

Diversicon Minneapolis, MN (Scifi)

Fandemonium Nampa, ID (Media)

Lazy DragonMckinney, TX (Relaxacon)

MEcon Belfast, NO. Ireland (SF/Fantasy)

Mythcon Berkley, CA (Myths)

Trinoc-con Raleigh, NC (SF/Fantasy)

Babelcon Baton Rouge, LA (SATURDAY ONLY, media)

Anime Festival Orlando Orlando, FL (Anime)

Atsuicon Houston, TX (ANime)

MechaconLafayette, LA (Anime)

wooh. tired of typing.

yet another good place for comic-con photos.

check this thread on Brian Bendis's forum for soooo many pictures. HERE YOU GO

more comic con photos.

from this flickr site. enjoy comic con photos

Xbox 360 owners get comic-con for free!

Xbox 360 owners (including yours truly) are getting a real treat this weekend from xbox live and Warner Bros. Tons of free coverage of panels, new movie trailers, including Get Smart, and some really neat stuff for pay like a Superman and Batman theme. Im thousands of miles away from Comic-con, but this gets me a little closer.

Nimoy and Quinto

From Trekmovie.com the Star Trek Panel

more links for comic-con

IGN's Coverage page

OC weekly photos

Joker money found on floor.

Cinema blends photos

Neswarama's blogging from the floor

Movie news at SDCC

First showing is doing a good job of reporting the movie panels at SDCC live. check them out Here

some of the games at comic-con

1up has a nice day one report about some of the video games at Comic-con. And a giant action figure. cool.

Photos from Wed Comic Con

Infuze Mag Photo's of the 1st day of comic-con. more coming tonight!

San Diego, What are you looking forward to?

Of all the cons, nothing fuels the geek fires like San Diego Comic Con. No matter what your vibe their will be something announced here that sets you off, be it a movie, a new comic, a new video game, and even brand new got to find on ebay toys. So what are you looking forward to the most? Me Im looking forward to Star Trek 11 news, as I really hope JJ Abrams knows what he is doing.

Cons This Weekend 7/27-7/29

Comic-Con International San Diego, CA (Comics/Media)

Fragapalooza Edmonton, CANADA (Gaming)

Historicon Lancaster, PA (Historical Minis)

Confluence Pittsburgh, PA (literary Sci-fi)

Conversation Novi, MI (Relaxacon)

Con-XtremeSan Jose, Ca (Media)

Libertycon Chattanooga, TN (SCIFI)

OGC Nashua, NH (Gaming)

Steel City CON Pittsburgh, PA (Popculture)

Ai-Kon Winnepeg, ON (Anime)

With Comic-con starting tommorow, figured Id get a early start on this.

link plays for otakon

DDR and Costumes do mix?

He's that good at DDR in costume, he must put everyone to shame out of it.

Comic-con floor map.

Check out this really awesome show floor map of the main room at Comic-con. Just highlight a table and it tells you whos where. Man I may have to break down and use vacation to go next year. We will see.
Comic-con floor map

Connection Review from Daijoubu

Daijoubu provides everyone with a really great review of Connecticon from last week on their blog. Sounds like a pretty good con. Nice convention center.

Penny Arcade says Play Jenga!

The Penny Arcade Expo, better known as PAX a celbration of all things video gaming is coming up next month. So what did they pick for the first round of there awesome Omegathon tourney. None other than Jenga, the actual physical game. Oh the irony. who got bumped from the first round? None other than Pac-man.

Cons This Weekend 7/20-7/22

NeconBristol, RI (Writers)

Dexcon East Brunswick, NJ (Gaming)

ConestogaTulsa, OK (SF/Fantasy)

Creation Star Trek Cherry Hill, NJ (STAR TREK)

Flashback Weekend Chicago, IL (Horror)

Hollywood Collectors Burbank, CA (Media)

OtakonBaltimore, MD (Anime)

VidconTampa, FL (Fan Fiction)

Con Games Tampa, FL (Gaming)

Super Mega Show Seacaucus, NJ (Comics)

JapanEx LONDON, (ANIME)

That's more like a summer weekend. Next week the goliath that is COMIC-CON International. Note about the two cons in TAmpa. They share the same hotel but you'll still need to register for both.

stormtroopers need sun too!

was doing a search for shore leave pictures when i came across this and couldn't resist.

GAMERA!!

GAMERA!, PLease save us GAMERA!

Furries at a tug of war.

One of the best parts of doing this site is I get to search out stuff like this from Anthrocon last week in PA. The only thing better than this madness, is well, not much.

Japan Expo in pictures.

Well lookee here, it's a french anime convention. looks alot like an American one, except with french people!

CoNvergence 07 review.

CONvergence is by far still my favorite convention. It offers enough of the big events most conventions offer and it's very unique in it's presentation of it's room parties. I think most of that is a benefit of the layout of the hotel as the Sheraton lends itself very well to the the masses at CONvergence. We had a longer than expected trip to get to CONvergence on Friday but once there everything was fun. Saw just a few panels on Friday before heading to the opening ceremonies. Then it was off to the room parties. Some of the best ones worth noting, were Willy Wonka's night out (AGAIN) Dystopia 2007, and the Mos Icee cantina. Saturday we got to go to alot more panels, and then the Masquerade as well. Didn't feel like the Masquerade was as good this year. Partied a little bit but not too late like most of the con. Got up sunday and attended a few more panels, saw a few luke ski songs, and thanks to staying one extra night got to go watch Serenity in Cinema Rex. What a great weekend. Can't wait to go again in 2008, for FOUR DAYS!

CoNvergence picture set 2

CONvergence picture set 1.

Cons This Weekend 7/13-7/15

ConneticonHartford, CT (Anime)

Shore Leave 29Baltimore, MD (SF Media)

VulkonColumbus, OH (SF Media)

Sac Anime Sacremento, CA (Anime)

Northern Anime Festival Oshawa, Ontario (Anime)

Kind of a light week. We just got back from CONvergence and it was great. We will put up pictures tommorow!

CONvergence here we come!

Con-News will be gone until about july 12th as we head out for CONvergence and then spend a few days in Minneapolis for vacation afterwards. When we get back you can look forward to a Convergence report and more and more CON-News!

Cons This Weekend 7/6-7/8

CONvergenceMinneapolis, MN (Media SF)

AnthroconPittsburgh, PA (Anthromorphs)

OriginsColumbus, OH (Gaming)

Pulpcon 36 Dayton, OH (Pulp)

Anime Next Meadowlands, NJ (ANIME)

HorrorHound Indianapolis, IN (Horror)

Inconjuction Indianapolis, IN (SF/Fantasy)

Polaris 21 Toronto, CAN (Media Sf)

Readercon Burlington, MA (Literature)

Heinlein Centennial Kansas City, MO (Robert Heinlein)

Japan Expo Paris, FRANCE (Anime)

Metrocon Tampa, FL (Anime)

Wow, another great week. Why would Indianapolis have two cons in one weekend. That's not fair to either Con's guests. Shame on them both. Not that I mind as I'm going out to CONvergence early friday morning. Yipee!

gizmodo at botcon

well. it looks fun.

S.K.I.N. concert at Anime Expo looks insane.

I know anime expo is huge but that's an arena sized concert that many bands who have radio songs could not fill. Good for Anime Expo.

Botcon photo's are fantastic

Photo's are going up day by day on the Botcon website. Check out the whale tour. I have a feeling that next year's Botcon will explode with the movie coming out next week and rekindling all that nostalgia as well as making new fans. Hope you all got your exclusive figures.