PopCultHQ Comic Book Review – “Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat” #1 From Project-Nerd Publishing

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PopCultHQ’s Comic Book Review today features Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat #1 by Andrez Bergen and Project-Nerd Publishing. When I heard of an opportunity to review this new series by Bergen, I jumped at the chance. I had recently wrote up a review on another one of his creations, Magpie #1. For his new offering, Andrez partnered with relative newcomer to the indie scene, Project-Nerd Publishing, and it seems like the perfect fit for both! “Our Manager of Acquisition and PR Guru, Galo Gutierrez, had previously turned us on to Andrez Bergen’s work,” stated Iggy Michniacki, Founder & CEO of Project-Nerd. “Now

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PopCultHQ’s Cosplay Spotlight – Elisa Espinoza #cosplay

PopCultHQ is glad to feature Elisa Espinoza as our Cosplay Spotlight of the Week. This lover of all things geek and chic loves her craft and the experience that comes with it. In the cosplay scene for a little over 5 years, the New Jersey native tends to keep things fairly local to her region for conventions which to attend… except for New York Comic Con. Who can blame her? That’s big time! I had the blessed opportunity to reach out and speak with Elisa to find out a little more of her love for cosplay, her beginnings into the scene,

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That Time Blade Movies Almost Used Morbius The Living Vampire and Werewolf By Night

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Update: 11-14-17: This is old news, to see the latest news on Morbius, the Living Vampire, Click here. Remember that time in the 90’s, when New Line Cinema, brought one of Marvel comics first superheroes to screen and made him into a superstar (thanks in large part to actor Weasley Snipes)? New Line Cinema, at the time owned the rights to use Marvel’s vampire based characters (very similar to the way Fox’s deal with owning the word “mutants”) which included Blade, Deacon Frost, Hannibal King, Whistler, The Blood Pack, Lilith, Dracula and two other classic Marvel characters. But It also seems New

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Real Life Steampunk from the 1800s

A gun small enough to be worn as a ring, seems like something out of James Bond. Visually, this ring looks like something designed for steampunk. Amazingly, this is a real gun. In the 1800s mechanization and factories where taking the country by storm. It was the Industrial Revolution and everyone wanted a piece of this new modern technology.

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Geek Girl Chicago’s Controversy in the Cosplay World

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There has recently been an article posted on Geek Girl Chicago by one of their writers that has caused significant controversy in the local cosplay community. Unfortunately the article is very one sided as it has been written from the perspective of the victim. There was no third party perspective and the accused was not provided an opportunity to defend themselves in the same forum. The article has already done significant damage to the reputation, hobby, and career of the accused.

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Strayer #1 By Justin Jordan and Juan Gedeon from AfterShock Comics: Comic Book Review

In a place where the land that used to be inhabited by huge populations of people, a place with structures used to reach the skies – but that time has been long lost and forgotten. Now the people of this new era are living off the land trying to survive in the world now ruled by those in power and the monstrous Titans that roam the Earth. But there is one small girl, Mala, who has the ability to use magic and is looking to bring back the days of old, the days of towering buildings and the good times. She

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AfterShock Comics Replica #3 From Paul Jenkins and Andy Clarke: Comic Book Review

PopCultHQ Review: Really? REALLY?! Can s*** get any worse for Trevor Churchill, the Earth-born peacekeeping agent who resides on the intergalactic hub planet known as The Transfer? When Trevor mistakenly gets himself replicated into a number of identical looking copies of himself, he decided to make lemonade out of lemons. By using all his multiples to take over all his unwanted, mundane. mediocre agent work, Trevor thinks this will now be a breeze. Too bad Trevor never realized all the different sides of his personality which are now walking and talking but mostly very annoying versions of himself that would be driving him

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PopCultHQ Comic Book Review – “Zana” #1 From EMET Comics

What if apartheid never ended?  What if in the near future, Africa is divided into a three-class system? Set in 2084, the postmodern, near-dystopian future of Zana shows a world of oppression, racism, and survival. Zana, a young mixed-race girl (an Urban), is coming of age in a land divided into sectors where restrictions are placed as to population.  The white “Royals,” overseers of the nation, monitor each district.  If the number of citizens in a region exceeds the Royals limit, a cleansing or purge is demanded or supplies given to each village will be reduced.  Even though those who are not

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PopCultHQ Comic Book Review – “The Wendy Project” From EMET Comics

  PopCultHQ continues our spotlight on EMET Comics with The Wendy Project #1.  The story follows Wendy Davies, a teenager struggling between fantasy and reality.  The young girl is involved in an accident, while driving her two brothers, that sends their car off a bridge into the water below.  As Wendy and brother John float to the surface, the titular character looks up in the sky and sees what appears to be someone floating off with her youngest brother Michael.  She begins to hear voices, sounding as if from the heavens, beckoning to her to follow. The ordeal put young Wendy

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Phasma will be Back, But is it Worth it?

It seems that the big Star Wars news at the moment is that the character Captain Phasma, played by Gwendoline Christie will be returning in the next episode. This was a character with a lot of potential, you saw hope in her first few scenes as she follows orders and has her troopers decimate the place, then later in the movie those hopes were crushed.

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