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Action Flick Chick ~ May 19, 2012
Dallas Comic Con is this weekend! If you’re in north Texas, get ye to Irving and check it out. Some of you remember a much smaller DCC from only a couple of years ago. The show has grown like wild. This weekend sees the biggest DCC yet. As if they didn’t already have enough amazing [...]
Action Flick Chick ~ May 18, 2012
If you read comics and hang out with fellow comic book junkies then there’s a good chance at some point in time you’ve had a conversation about how kickass this character is in this comic or how hot that character is in that comic. It’s only natural. Now you can compare your top 100 lists [...]
Action Flick Chick ~ May 17, 2012
God Bless America seems like it could stir up some controversy considering it’s about ordinary guy Frank (Joel Murray) going around killing people who annoy him. Along the way, he picks up a 16 year old accomplice, Roxy (Tara Lynne Barr), who thinks what he’s doing is awesome and wants to join the party. The [...]
Action Flick Chick ~ May 16, 2012
At last! GeekNation launches at Wizard World Philadelphia the first weekend in June. We waited for the perfect launch event and is this one a doozy. Stan Lee! Thor! A fleet of Star Trek captains!!!! Some of our personal favorites and the favorites of so many of this site’s readers also include The Boondock Saints [...]
Action Flick Chick ~ May 15, 2012
Courtesy of writer Ken Denmead (@fitzwillie), Wired.com shared its list of “100 Geeks You Should Be Following on Twitter.” Not top 100. Not #1 to #100 ranked. Just “100 awesomely geeky-geeks” those of you on twitter should check out. It includes Action Flick Chick Katrina Hill (@ActionChick), pals like Bonnie Burton (@BonnieGrrl) and Marian Call [...]
Action Flick Chick ~ May 14, 2012
When you’re told to check out a show that airs late Friday night on Cinemax, the first thought is always going to be that the show is campy and basically full of sex, especially when you hear that the title is Femme Fatales. However, Cinemax – like HBO and Showtime before it – is in [...]
Good to Be a Geek ~ May 12, 2012
Welcome to the Storm of Words Podcast! Each week, Doug Gross and Jessa Phillips will break down the week’s new episode of the HBO series, discuss the novels and bring you any news the raven may bring.
Available on iTunes!
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Good to Be a Geek ~ May 12, 2012
Writer Gemma Bedeau and Artist Lee Fenton-Wilkinson combine forces to form Kromatron Comics, the indie publisher of the comic Afroella. There are few strong characters of minority in comics these days, so when I saw cover art that featured a black woman in outer space, I was drawn in.
Action Flick Chick ~ May 12, 2012
Action Flick Chick: Which video game most brings out your need to swear?
Related topics:
* Most Addictive Video Game? And the Most Annoying?
* Which Video Game Would YOU Appear In?
* May Mega Mayhem: 31 Games in 31 Days
Answers on Facebook
Chris Spider Mureiko: Super Nintendo’s Street Fighter II. That was the most cheatingest game I ever [...]
Action Flick Chick ~ May 11, 2012
For oh so many reasons, I’m looking forward to covering Wizard World Philly at the start of next month. Here’s a press release on it. I’ll have presently-secret things to share about the con soon myself.
Press release
Fans Can Meet, Get Sketches From More Than A Dozen Artists Who Have Worked On The Blockbuster Franchise [...]
Action Flick Chick ~ May 11, 2012
Most people can’t even remember their phone number let alone a list of numbers a mile long. There are those gifted people, though, who can memorize anything. You know the type: the ones that never had to study in school and still made 100’s while you’d studied all night and barely pull off a B…or [...]
Action Flick Chick ~ May 10, 2012
Nick Langley, creator of my Action Chick avatar and artist/co-writer for The Action Chick webcomic, has joined an amazing group of creators working together on ShiftyLook.com’s DIG DUG 30th anniversary webcomic collaboration project. Along with Marko Head and Greg Fisher who have also contributed art around here, this awesome assemblage includes creators from Penny Arcade, [...]
Action Flick Chick ~ May 9, 2012
Now that The Avengers is out the next film I’m willing to sell a kidney to see is The Expendables 2! The first full trailer has just been released and it is full of explosions and muscles, two things I can never get enough of. Just in case you forgot, this film stars: Sylvester Stallone, [...]
Action Flick Chick ~ May 7, 2012
Sweet googa mooga! Marvel’s The Avengers, just finished it’s opening weekend in the United States. It did pretty well…you know, only raking in $200.3 million putting it at the top of the charts for “All time opening weekend” revenue! It surpassed the previous number one spot held by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part [...]
Good to Be a Geek ~ May 6, 2012
Join us on our maiden voyage across the Narrow Sea. Welcome to the Storm of Words Podcast! Each week, Doug Gross and Jessa Phillips will break down the week’s new episode of the HBO series, discuss the novels and bring you any news the raven may bring.
This episode we discuss Season 2, Episode 5 – “The Ghost of Harrenhal.”
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Good to Be a Geek ~ May 6, 2012
Ciao, cats. Summer’s a-comin’ fast and the Hotel del Coronado is prepping for San Diego’s best season of sun, surf and soirées. Springtime’s sweet, but summer’s sizzling. You know we ghosties are cold all the time; even the tiniest rise in surrounding temperature is a beautiful thing. Plus, folks are up to here with their winter blues and springtime antsy pants. Ergo, it’s the best time to throw a swanky hotel riot. The only issue with a summer splurge, besides whether to host it at the pool or on the beach, is what theme? Real… Read more..
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Action Flick Chick ~ May 6, 2012
Never have so many superheroes been on screen at one time! And never has a movie been more awesome than The Avengers! Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr), The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) all come together to form a team of badasses [...]
Action Flick Chick ~ May 5, 2012
Action Flick Chick: Which Avenger stole the show?
One particular Avenger won this vote by a landslide. He probably caused the landslide himself by headbutting a mountain.
Answers on Facebook:
A Quinn: HULK!!!!!!!!
Aaron Joel Pleat: Hulk, by far.
Adam Poynter: HULK/Bruce Banner!
Alan Sizzler Kistler: You.
Alfred Alfie Norris: Hulk
Andrea Levine: Hulk and Agent Coulson.
Arthur Moy: Hulk!
Carter Friend: Hulk.
Christopher Morgan: The [...]
Action Flick Chick ~ May 3, 2012
One name came up much more than any other when the Action Flick Chick (@ActionChick on Twitter) asked, “Most annoying Buffy the Vampire Slayer character death?” A couple of them came up a lot, including one played by an actress Katrina interviewed at the end of WonderCon (an interview that will run soon at MTV.com), [...]
Action Flick Chick ~ May 2, 2012
The idea that Fast Five was coming out seemed a bit silly at first (being the fifth film in a series that seemed to have been played out), but then it rocked the box office so hard they had to get hurricane insurance, which is a good thing because The Fast and the Furious 6 [...]
Action Flick Chick ~ May 1, 2012
Prometheus is coming! What is the secret behind Prometheus? Is it a space ship? Aliens? Some kind of sandwich? Who knows, but with sci-fi legend Ridley Scott finally making a return to a genre he helped revolutionize one things for certain: Prometheus is going to be one hell of a show!
This is the Action Flick [...]
Action Flick Chick ~ April 30, 2012
Here’s a look at what May, the official beginning of summer (as far as movies are concerned) will bring!
Will kill a man to see:
May 4: The Avengers!!!!
Pumped to See:
May 25: Men in Black III
May 25: Chernobyl Diaries
Mixed Feelings:
May 11: God Bless America (limited)- Intriguing, yet not sure what kind of message this movie is sending.
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Action Flick Chick ~ April 30, 2012
“The next best thing to being a sci-fi or action hero has to be shooting a sci-fi or action hero with a gun. Or maybe being shot by one.”
(Houston, TX) – “The next best thing to being a sci-fi or action hero has to be shooting a sci-fi or action hero with a gun. Or [...]
Action Flick Chick ~ April 29, 2012
Here’s a look at what May, the official beginning of summer (as far as movies are concerned) will bring!
Will kill a man to see:
May 4: The Avengers!!!!
Pumped to See:
May 25: Men in Black III
May 25: Chernobyl Diaries
Mixed Feelings:
May 11: God Bless America (limited)- Intriguing, yet not sure what kind of message this movie is sending.
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