Who knew there was a zombie sub-culture out there? Obviously, zombies are getting a lot of attention in films and comics, and the upcoming Walking Dead TV show on AMC is only going to add to that, but “live” zombie events like the Zombie Beach Party are completely new to everyone here.

Held at the Trocadero on Friday Night, the Beach Party was the official opening night event for Wizard World‘s 2010 Philadelphia Comic Con. Read more of this article »

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If you’ve been paying any attention, you know that we spent our weekend deep in geekiness.  The Philadelphia ComicCon, formerly known as Wizard World, took place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  I tagged along because I wanted to be a good reporter and because the boys needed a cub photographer.  Luckily for me, comics seemed to be one of the last things on the agenda at the convention.  I felt a little silly passing out cards that clearly stated my dislikes included comics, but was redeemed by the many people enjoying my title of “token girl”.   There will be more to follow on everyone’s thoughts on ComicCon tomorrow, but I needed to sneak a post in tonight because I had an agenda. Read more of this article »

The MLD Team spent the afternoon at the opening day of the 2010 Philadelphia Comic Con. The day mainly featured vendors and entertainment personalities vying for fan attention, and I don’t even know if there was a single panel held on the site. Our new Twitter feed was a big part of the action so come follow along tomorrow and Sunday.

A lot of costumed characters were running around including rival groups of “Jedi” from Pennsylvania and New York. Hopefully, things will remain civil. We even had some great lunchtime entertainment at the Reading Terminal Market from a guy playing video game themes on the piano. The highlight of day one was easily taking a spin with KevinMLD in the George Barris Batmobile.

The evening entertainment was provided by the PhilyZombieCrawl.com in the form of a zombie beach party at The Trocadero. The official opening night after party featured zombie face painting and music from Bauhaus, The Misfits and other death obsessed moaners. Just two blocks away from the Convention Center, The Troc will also host Kaiju Big Battel as part of the weekend activities tomorrow night.

Look for more detailed posts with more pictures over the next few days. Also check out our show preview if you haven’t yet. In the meantime, do your best Isaac!

Things have been very focused on comic books here this week and it’s about to get worse. The annual Philadelphia Comic-Con sponsored by Wizard Entertainment comes to town today and we’ll be all over it.

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Our discussion of the new Avengers titles launching as part of Marvel’s Heroic Age continues with Secret Avengers #1. This was a book both of us were looking forward to for different reasons that you’ll see below along with spoilers for the issue.

PTB: I liked this. It wasn’t what I was expecting, but to be honest I wouldn’t know how to describe what I was expecting.

Steve Rogers plan to eliminate threats that the world doesn’t or can’t know about could be a great spin on the character and the Marvel Universe. I was questioning whether this was something that made sense for the character, but the reference to Cap’s experiences in World War II and having just read The Marvels Project got me over that.

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