It’s a LIVE panel from Dragon Con 2016!
A presentation of the American Sci-Fi Classics Track – Larry Hama answers questions about GI Joe, the universe, and everything!
Friday, September 30, 2016
Needless Things Podcast 127 – Dragon Con 2016: GI Joe: A Real American Hero with Larry Hama
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Thursday, September 29, 2016
Embrace, Promote, and Defend What You Love. Support Your Friends' Works and Others. It Can Pay Dividends – Jerry Chandler
Support what you love. Promote what you love. Those seem like pretty basic concepts. They also seem like easy things to do. But if you spend any time at all on social media you’ll see that a lot of people use their time “socializing” by doing things other than this. As a matter of fact, a lot of people- and I am guilty of this myself from time to time when it comes to the realm of politics –seem to spend as much time or more essentially promoting the examples of what they don’t like than they do promoting things they like. That really is something a lot of people should work on changing.
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Toy Review – Marvel Legends X-Men Series Kitty Pryde, Rogue, & Wolverine from Hasbro
I’ve been giving twelfth scale mass market figures a hard
time lately. I think they deserve it. Twenty bucks apiece for what we’re
getting from the average Marvel Legends or DC Multiverse release is not a good
value. Especially when you compare those figures to what Star Wars fans are
getting from the 6” Black Series (although I understand the quality is dropping
there, as well).
However, on the rare occasion that you can find some
Marvel Legends for a few bucks less
than twenty, they might be worth it. Especially if they’re my beloved X-Men.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Beth's Dragon Con Recap - Part Three
Monday, September 26, 2016
Phantom at Dragon Con 2016 – Day 3
If you haven’t read Day
1 – Thursday or Day
2 – Friday yet, click those links and do it!
Saturday was the big day.
As excited as I am for all of the things that I do at
Dragon Con, The Dirty Dirty Con Con Game
Game Show Show is my baby.
But prep for that didn’t start until 7 PM and I had a
morning panel to attend to first!
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tales from the troublemaker,
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Friday, September 23, 2016
Needless Things Podcast 126 – Dragon Con 2016: The Shining vs. The Shining
It’s a LIVE panel from Dragon Con 2016!
A presentation of the Horror Track - Phantom Troublemaker, authors Karen E. Taylor and Clay Gilbert, and Thomas Mariani from Horror News Radio discuss Stephen King's book and its various adaptations!
A presentation of the Horror Track - Phantom Troublemaker, authors Karen E. Taylor and Clay Gilbert, and Thomas Mariani from Horror News Radio discuss Stephen King's book and its various adaptations!
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Thomas Mariani

Thursday, September 22, 2016
Slowly Watching the Monsters Die Off – Jerry Chandler
I’m in my mid-forties. Among the various other things
that this statement can represent, it means for this topic that I’m from the
generation who was born into one of the biggest monster and paranormal mania
explosions into pop culture of the last four or five decades. My elementary and
junior high school libraries were stocked with “nonfiction” books about the
Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman, ghosts, U.F.O.s, and the
various compilation books looking at all the other “real” monsters and
mysteries out there. Roughly a quarter or more of the selection of our school
book fairs would be similar books to buy and own. Turn the TV on at any time of
the day in the late 1970s and early 1980s and the odds were you’d channel surf
into more than a few TV shows on cable and network television dealing with the
paranormal and cryptozoology, and all of them treating the matters as if they
had the scientific authenticity of a documentary on the making of the first
atomic bomb.
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Christina's Days of DragonCon Delight: Part One
We've
all felt it. That sensation the day
after DragonCon where we are technically back in the real world yet we still
feel like we are”back there.” It still isn't over in our minds; it's just
way too fresh. Tis the day after the
2016 DragonCon as I'm writing this and I can tell you that I'm feeling that
right now. I look at the pics people
took late Monday night or before check out Tuesday morning of a freshly cleaned
and empty Peachtree Center or Hyatt/Sheraton/Westin/Hilton/Marriott, and it
just leaves you feeling hollow. So how
does one fix this problem? How do you
fill the void? With pictures, panel
videos, DragonCon's Youtube goodies, DCTV stuff, and of course the fabulous
Needless Things post-DC coverage.
It's
time for me to once again deny the real world access to my being and dive back
in to the 2016 DragonCon.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Beth's Dragon Con Recap - Part Two
Oh Saturdays at Dragon Con. I both love and hate you. Love because it's when the best panels, costumes, and parties happen. Hate because it's when everyone in the entire world seems to show up and often slows things down to a crawl. I'm not complaining - I wouldn't give it up for anything. It's just a test of patience for those of us who get overwhelmed easily.
Monday, September 19, 2016
Phantom at Dragon Con 2016 – Day 2
It is, unfortunately, inevitable that every year I will
start at least one of these recaps by saying I didn’t feel very good in the
morning. To one degree or another.

Friday, September 16, 2016
Needless Things Podcast 125 – Dragon Con 2016: Toy Stories
It’s a LIVE panel from Dragon Con 2016!
A presentation of the American Sci-Fi Classics Track - Phantom Troublemaker, Rebeccah Hunter, Noel Wood, Sean Reid, Gary Mitchel, and members of the audience share Toy Stories! Tales of Masters of the Universe, GI Joe, and creepy 80s toys share the spotlight this time around.
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Thursday, September 15, 2016
Why Ghostbusters 2016 Went Bust – Jerry Chandler
(Okay, a bit past its prime as a topic, but this was
being written before the Dragon Con coverage on the site started. Besides, from
conversations I heard at Dragon Con it’s still a topic of discussion in fandom.)
Why did the Ghostbusters reboot fail? It’s actually an interesting question. It’s actually a
question I’m seeing a lot of articles on, and that in and of itself should be
seen as a part of the film’s problem. Yes, I understand that there’s a bit of
unintentional humor in stating that in an article meant to discuss why the film
failed. But there is a reason I cite it as a part of the problem. The focus on agendas over entertainment by so many likely did the film no favors. But that was also only a tiny problem for the film.
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Comic Book Wednesday – Previews September 2016: “More Old Than New”
If you don’t know, Previews is the catalog that Diamond Comic Distributors use to offer the products they distribute to comic book stores around the country. This is where you can view and order (through your favorite Local Comic Book Shop) comic books, trade paperback collections, t-shirts, books, media, and toys and other collectibles from hundreds of different vendors that deal in geek-oriented merchandise. The genius part is that you actually have to pay for your copy of Previews for the privilege of ordering other things to pay for. It’s like the Ren Fest except without the horse poo smell.
So every month a new edition of Previews is sent out to comic book stores. Contained in the pages
within are products that might be currently available or could be released
anytime in the next year; but are typically about three months away. Most of
this month’s offerings are scheduled to ship in December.
Now it’s time to discuss a few of the weird and/or
wonderful items offered in this month’s edition!
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Marvel Comics,
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Beth's Dragon Con Recap - Part One
It's the 30th year of Dragon Con, 25 years-ish since I first attended, and my third year as a reporter. You might be expecting big things from me this year. If you were you were expecting too much you may be disappointed. I didn't get approved for any interviews or chosen for any panels. But that's their loss because I still had an awesome time. I didn't get the "con crud" (Emergen-C works guys), and although I was tired I didn't want to die. Today I'll go over the first 2 days of the con, by which I mean Thursday and Friday since official stuff starts on Thursday now.
Monday, September 12, 2016
Phantom at Dragon Con 2016 – Day 1
77,000 human beings - the final official attendance
number for this year’s Dragon Con. That’s just crazypants. And yet, it didn’t
seem quite as crowded or hectic as it usually does. I discussed this with Mike
Gordon on the last Needless
Things Podcast, and I’ll be taking a look at it here, as well.
But I’m not here just to talk about numbers and
statistics. I never want to talk
about numbers and statistics. I want to talk about fun and hard work and living
the dream of entertaining people at the greatest science fiction, fantasy, and
pop culture convention known to man!
It’s time for my annual recap of what went down at Dragon
Con.

Friday, September 9, 2016
Needless Things Podcast 124 – Dragon Con 2016: Wrap-Up w/ Mike Gordon

Thursday, September 8, 2016
I Miss My Tribe
I sit here in the late afternoon, the Thursday after
Dragon Con, organizing my various notes and thoughts about Dragon Con 2016. It
can all be summed up in a simple line- It was a big show, and it was a lot of
fun. Of course, I’m going to expand on that a bit more.
One thing that doesn’t need much expanding upon though is
the headline. I miss my tribe. So many people I see at Dragon Con are family at
this point, and still more become more and more like family each time we see
each other. The first two weeks after con are the worst. It’s withdrawal that has
no fix, no cure. Well, at least not until next Dragon Con.
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Phantom at Dragon Con 2016 - Cosplay Wins
Welcome to what essentially serves as a filler article until I can get some real writing time in this weekend!
Before I get to the pictures, I want to urge you to check out SupportPhantom.com - the only source of income for Needless Things, the Needless Things Podcast, and any convention-related entertainment I provide like The Dirty Dirty Con Con Game Game Show Show.
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And now, on to some of the best cosplay I saw at Con!
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Dragon Con is...
It’s kind of an interesting sentence starter. What is Dragon Con? What do you write to tell people what it is? What do you write when you’ve already written thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of words about Dragon Con in the past? I’ve written many words about it here on Needless Things as well as on my own blog over the years after all. Dragon Con is…
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