The Camden Comic Con

Last Saturday I attended the best comic con I have ever been to - the Camden Comic Con.

You can read my report on the con at Biff Bam Pop! here, or listen to the first of three episodes of The GAR! Podcast recorded live at the con here.

The con, the guests, everything was awesome, I can't wait until next year.

Avengers Chat This Weekend

'reaperradio' presents... AVENGERS CHAT!

Covering the new movie: Captain America The Winter Soldier among other topics.

When: Saturday, April 12, 8:00 PM EST

Where: http://avengersinternational.weebly.com/awr-chat-room.html [Note the change of location for the chatroom. This is a brand new website for the chat group's group's use.]

And introducing:

A Second Round Chat Wave for Late Comers @ 9:30 PM EST

How to use the chat room: You will show up in the chatroom with a random name. To change the random name to your name or ID, just click on the random name and a box will pop up allowing you to change your name and choose an avatar for the show. Type your name in choose your avatar and click the okay button and you're all set!

Hope to see you there.

Captain America Vs. SHIELD

This has been a very big week for the Marvel Cinematic and Television Universes as they merged with the events of Captain America The Winter Soldier having a shattering effect on "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."

If you're having trouble keeping up, here's a nifty guide from Biff Bam Pop! to what's been going on.

My weekly episode-by-episode reviews of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." can be found here.

Last week's episode of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." is here.

That leads into the events of Captain America The Winter Soldier, which is reviewed here.

And is continued in this week's episode of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." here

I also wrote an article about the ramifications of the movie on the TV series here called "S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Dark Secret."

This week's episode of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." will be repeated on Tuesday night, before the next new episode, and Captain America The Winter Soldier is currently the number one movie in the world, in theaters everywhere.

And if you can't get enough talk about the Captain America movie, it's also the main topic of conversion on this week's episode of The Bride's and my Disney-focused podcast Make Mine Magic, which you can hear here.

RIP Mickey Rooney

This weekend we lost Mickey Rooney at the grand age of 93. The man was a Golden Age Hollywood legend - an award-winning actor, singer, dancer, comedian, star of stage and screen - like I said, a legend.

I was first introduced to Mr. Rooney by his not small part in the mega comic opus It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Soon I discovered Andy Hardy and the rest. The man was at home on the screen, silver and small, and on the stage. I most recently discovered his performance in Quicksand.

Always entertaining, and someone I thought would always be around, as he was, from the silents to today. We have lost another legend, Mickey Rooney will be missed.

Arrow S01 E18: "Deathstroke"

We pick up right where we left off last week. After Roy broke up badly with her, Thea is picked up by Slade. He's thoughtful and comforting until the car reaches a bad part of town, when he screams at her to get out. She runs away down an alley, right into the arms of Brother Blood.

Yeah, forgot about him, didn't you? That's kind of the theme of this episode, it's old home week. Not only is Brother Blood back, but so is his secret identity Sebastian Blood Aand his run for office. Summer Glau also rears her head as Isabel Rochev, the mean girl turned executive at Queen Consilidated.

People are calling Thea, but no one seems worried until the mayoral debate is interrupted by a video ransom note of Thea pleading for help. Felicity tracks Slade down where Team Arrow apprehends him, but it all seems too easy. Slade of course walks away, he has an alibi, and he even offers a reward for Thea's return. Something's up.

What's up is that Slade is playing the long game. He's been planning this a long time, and watching Oliver a long time. His kidnapping of Thea forces Roy off of Team Arrow distrusting Oliver. His arrest costs Quentin Lance his job, and gets himself arrested. And Isabel? She was working for Slade all along and now controls Queen Consolidated. Long game, baby.

To ice the cake, Slade is creating a Mirakiru bus load of criminals for Brother Blood to control, he also told Thea that Malcolm Merlin was her father, and as a final salvo in his mind game of suffering - he tells Laurel that Oliver is the Arrow. Boom.

We get some really nice acting moments both with Susanna Thomson's Moira, and with the rest of Team Arrow when Roy revolts. There's also a nice Barry Allen reference from Felicity early in the episode just to let us know that iron is still in the fire.

One can only assume, that next week, things only get worse.