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PopCultHQ’s Comic Creator Spotlight: Ram Venkatesan of BRIGANDS from Action Lab: Danger Zone

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PopCultHQ had the privilege in chatting with comic book creator/writer Ram Venkatesan. Largely known in the States for his recent work with Action Lab Entertainment‘s Danger Zone imprint, the 2016 five-issue miniseries BRIGANDS. The author originally from Mumbai, India now resides in London where he’s staying quite active in the comic book industry. Aside from the recent BRIGANDS, the writer wrapped up an original graphic novel titled BLACK MUMBA, which is scheduled for a summer release. Ram also has an ongoing series AGHORI and currently has the project GRAFITY’S WALL in a crowdfunding campaign with Unbound. <Writer Ram V Launches GRAFITY’S WALL w/ Crowdfunding Publisher Unbound> The

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PopCultHQ Comic Book Review: BLACK EYED KIDS Vol. 1 TPB from AfterShock Comics

PopCultHQ received a review copy of BLACK EYED KIDS Vol. 1 TPB from AfterShock Comics. Available now, the creative team for this series features writing from Joe Pruett, artist Szymon Kudranski, colorist Guy Major, lettering by Marshall Dillon, and featuring cover art from Francesco Francavilla. ~~~~~ Here’s PopCultHQ’s Spoiler-Free Review of the first five issues collected into the first volume trade paperback of BLACK EYED KIDS… Allow me to preface this review by stating that I’ve been a fan of BLACK EYED KIDS since I first picked it up and I am all the way current through issue #11. This review, however, will not take any

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PopCultHQ Cosplay Spotlight: Lady Victorious Cosplay

Lady Victorious Cosplay is a Midwest cosplayer that has been on the scene since 2014. Her cosplays cover several genres and she wears each one spectacularly.

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Brazos Valley Comic Con – A Con That Knows How to Treat Their Vendors

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I typically end up covering what I call the “con job” cons or the ones where something was handled poorly. The “con job” cons are conventions where management walks away with your money through either deliberate or accidental mishandling of funds; some of the biggest I covered were Daytona 2020 and IfCon Victoria (I’m still waiting to see if Rewind Con falls totally into this category.) I also cover the conventions where they just plain screw something up, such as security at Anime Midwest. When there is a decent convention, I normally don’t do much for them except show cosplay

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Cosplay Spotlight – Victori Belle

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I think I first met Victori Belle earlier this year at the DuPage Mighty Con, where she had a small table and was dressed as Harley-Quinn. Since then it seems I have run into her at every convention I attend. Maybe she’s following me? I suppose there are worse stalkers I could find. Victori is fairly new to the cosplay scene and, like many of us, she almost ended up here by accident. She started out with a pretty good college basketball career and a Media Studies degree. Like many of us, once she got out of college she had

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The Comic Book Community Pays Tribute To PopCultHQ’s Manny Popoca

When the creator of PopCultHQ passed away one week ago, the tragedy was felt by a great many people. Manny Popoca had touched many individuals through his kindness and generosity. Some were moved or inspired by his determination, his drive, and his passion for the pop culture world. Through his 16 months running PopCultHQ, his writing for Movie Pilot, buying/selling/trading comic books in Facebook groups, the convention scene and on message boards, Manny left an impression on a great number of people. Just as we did with all the writers of PopCultHQ paying tribute to our founder, we wanted to give the pop

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Guests Not So Happy at the Villains Con

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It's not as often that you hear about celebretires walking away disgruntled with a con. They tend not to voice their dissatisfaction in the fear that it will give them bad press and ruin further invitation to events. They also don't want the negative publicity that could ruin their careers..Villains con, left many with a bad taste.

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PopCultHQ Artist Spotlight – Brandon McKinney

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This past weekend, PopCultHQ stopped by Flying Colors Comics & Other Cool Stuff in Concord, CA for Free Comic Book Day 2016. Joe Field, owner of Flying Colors, had a couple of guest artists at his store signing for the event. Brian Hess was on hand with his FCBD offering Awake #0, which we’re putting together a review for it now. I was introduced to Brandon McKinney, artist of the current series Bruce Lee: The Dragon Rises from Darby Pop Publishing. Brandon, a UCLA grad with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts, has a lot of credits to his name of

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PopCultHQ Comic Book Review: Hellchild #3 (of 5) from Zenescope (Out 5/18)

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PopCultHQ received a preview copy of Hellchild #3 (of 5) from Zenescope Entertainment. In stores on May 18, the creative team for this new mature readers series features writing from Pat Shand, artist Vincenzo Riccardi, colorist Eleonora Bruni, and lettered by Jim Campbell. Here is PopCultHQ’s spoiler-free review of Hellchild #3 (of 5)… PopCultHQ’s Comic Book Review: Hellchild #3 (of 5) The Story So Far… thousands of years ago, Hades, the god of the Underworld, had a daughter named Angelica. Because of his own foolish schemes, Angelica was tragically killed. But present day Hades is a changed man. in a committed relationship with vampire hunter, Liesel Van

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Top 5 Movies of 2015: #4 – The Hateful Eight

We continue our look at 5 films of 2015 that are worthy of award season, so number 4 on this list should be no surprise. Love him or hate him, Quentin Tarantino is the filmmaker of our generation and has been one of the few directors that continues to put out movies that are highly anticipated. Tarantino is rare in that even his mediocre films are better than most directors best work. So with that, I wanted to talk about number 4 on our list, “The Hateful Eight.” The Hateful Eight is the latest from the mind of Quentin Tarantino

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