Halloween Comicfest 2022 in DFW

October 29th is approaching fast. For comic book fans, we start looking forward to Halloween Comicfest! Usually celebrated the Saturday of or before Halloween, it is a time for comic book publishers to reach out to the fans, old and new, and give them a treat for the season in the form of seasonal comic books.

When the shop was open, we looked forward to this time of year, in addition to Free Comic Book Day. We always planned for a big crowd and had fun with games, drawings, and a costume contest. The Kid and I look back on those days with fondness and with a longing to hang with our friends and customers again.

Follow the link below to see what comics will be available this year. Also, be sure and let us know in the comments what comic shops you will be visiting this year? 

Halloween ComicFest Website

FenCon Returns!

Fencon XVIII returns to the Dallas-Fort Worth area September 16-18 at the Sheraton DFW Airport located at 440 W. John Carpenter Freeway in Irving, Texas. The fan-operated science-fiction and fantasy literary and Filk convention has been a staple in DFW since 2004 and is readily anticipated after taking a hiatus during 2021.

For those new to FenCon, it is a fandom of scifi/fantasy with a hodge-podge of other interests thrown in for good measure. Everything from Filk (folk music with scifi/fantasy themes, or as I call it, fictional folk), science programming, a charity auction, writers workshop, costuming and maker programming and guests from all of these topics and more.

I visited FenCon for the first time in 2009, but my most memorable was in 2011 when I got to meet some of my favorite authors such as Tee Morris, Pip Ballantine, Gail Carriger, P. N. Elrod and the late Rachel Caine.

This year the Guest of Honor is Larry Correia author of MONSTER HUNTER NATION published by Baen Books. In fact, he will be part of a pre-FenCon signing and meet & greet at the Half Price Books Flagship store on Northwest Highway in Dallas. More info below.

Have you visited FenCon before? What was your favorite part? Let us know in the comments!

From the Baen Books website:

David Carrico, Jason Cordova, Larry Correia, Steve Diamond, Charles E. Gannon, Robert E. Hampson, John Van Stry

September 15 7:00 PM | 5803 E NW Hwy Dallas, TX

Baen Books Pre-Fencon Signing & Meet and Greet

Half Price Books

Sci-fi Timeline

Glow New Media is a UK-based graphic and web design company with a love of sci-fi. Here they've put together a sci-fi timeline of some their (and hopefully your) favorite titles. Check it out below!

 

We're all used to seeing movies and games set in the future, but often the date can seem a bit abstract.

We've brought together some of our favourites to show you the timeline and where they all fit. There were some surprises!

See for yourself, and decide if the writers got it right!

The Sci-Fi Timeline

Celebrating National Science Fiction Day 2021

Since about 2011, January 2 has been set aside as National Science Fiction Day. The date is significant as it is the birthday of Isaac Asimov, one of the most prolific science-fiction writers of the 20th century. He coined the term 'robotics' and developed the '3 Laws of Robotics' and contributed many more terms, ideas and stories over his wonderful career.

I've been a fan of science-fiction since I was a kid. Born a year before the moon landings, I watched Saturn V's launch and saw the USS Enterprise every week in syndication. I watched 'Battlestar Galactica' on the tube and 'Star Wars' on the silver screen. Tom Baker was my Doctor in the early 80's. I loved old sci-fi B-movies on the late late show such as 'Twenty Million Miles to Earth' and 'Forbidden Planet'. Science-fiction even showed up in music from Sheb Wooley's 'Flying Purple People Eater' to Billy Thorpe's 'Children of the Sun." Comics added another medium to enjoy with titles like 'Starblazer', comic adaptations of 'Lost in Space' and a story of an alien come to Earth in 'Action Comics' Superman. I read the newspaper strips of 'Flash Gordon' and 'Buck Rogers' and used to clip them and then glue them into spiral-bound notebooks to make my own comic books. This all has molded me into the sci-fi lover I am today.

I continue to read novels, classic and new, comics and I collect spacecraft, robots and space pistols. I have a small collection but I'm always looking to add to it.

There are many ways to celebrate National Science Fiction Day. You could do a marathon of your favorite movies or TV shows. You could relax with a good book or some comics. Even better, share your love of sci-fi and tell some one about your favorite book, show, etc. Whatever you do, take time to enjoy!

What is your favorite book, show, movie, franchise? Tell us and share that love!

I finally finished THE MANDALORIAN

 

Okay. I finally got around to watching the last episodes of The Mandalorian. OMG! ! ! What a phenomenal ending to this season and the promises in the credit scene just made me giddy with delight!

It's been so hard dodging all of the reviews and reactions on FB and the interwebs but I think I did pretty good and was genuinely surprised at all of the Easter eggs and revelations. I can't wait to see what the future holds with this show and the others that are coming in the near future.

If you haven't watched the final episode, have you been able to steer clear of all of the hype?