Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: More Swords Please – The Booths of Salt Lake Comic Con

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: More Swords Please – The...
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Salt Lake Comic Con has come and gone yet again, packing masses of costumed dweebs into the Salt Palace to view panels and dig through the hundreds of booths on the show room floor. Amidst the hundreds of sabre vendors there were some real high lights and low lights, and we figured you’d want a run down. … read more

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: Tabletop Games and RPGs Day Three

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: Tabletop Games and RPGs Day...
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Phil Kilcrease has been publishing games locally under the 5th Street moniker for a number of years, and he makes his passion for board games known through his gregarious attitude and extreme enthusiasm. … read more

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: Battlefield Live

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: Battlefield Live
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Jeanie Burdie and her family take the looming threat of a zombie apocalypse seriously. So seriously, in fact, that they founded Battlefield Live, a mobile laser tag arena dedicated to helping civilians deal with the living dead. … read more

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: Film Festival

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: Film Festival
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For folks who wanted to get away from the hustle and bustle of Comic Con and sit in the dark for eight to ten hours, the Salt Lake Comic Con Film Festival was up and running at the Gateway Megaplex all three days of the convention. … read more

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: Cosplayers – Erick Van Uitert, Daniel Gray & Breanna Wiggins

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: Cosplayers – Erick Van Uitert,...
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Here’s something fairly exclusive to the 21st century – professional cosplayers. These are folks, mostly women, whose whole livelihood is based on dressing up as comic book, movie, TV, cartoon, and video game characters, and showing up at events like Comic Con. … read more

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: Tabletop Games and RPGs Day Two

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: Tabletop Games and RPGs Day...
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Day two of the Reaper Paint & Take booth was a whole different animal than Friday’s slow trickle of interested novices … read more

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: Eliza Dushku

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: Eliza Dushku
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I have loved Eliza Dushku since in Bring it On. I wish I could say it was from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but sadly, I was a latecomer to the Buffy fandom.  … read more

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: Tabletop Games and RPGs Day One

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: Tabletop Games and RPGs Day...
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My draft started off pretty weird, and I was forced to switch colors with surprising frequency. However, with the aid of a few off-the-wall conspiracy cards, I was able to make a Bant (White, Blue and Green, for the uninitiated) deck with a strong Selesnya-fueled token theme. If I’ve already lost you, then just think of my deck as a random assortment of zoo animals bursting out of the trees and stampeding over my opponents. … read more

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: Starts With a Quirky Bang

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: Starts With a Quirky Bang
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Bryan Brandenburg and Dan Farr, introduced by Lou Ferrigno, kicked off Salt Lake Comic Con 2014 with a bang. The two packed the opening presser with celebrities from every genre of nerddom they could get their hands on. From Jason David Frank to Neal Adams: artists, voice actors, costumed heroes and television stars came popping out of the Tardis to start the the engines of fan celebration. … read more

Fear No Film: Historical Boundaries

Fear No Film: Historical Boundaries
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These films explore the limits that we all share as humans, from “traditions” that we can’t quite shake, to hypothetical next steps as a species. … read more