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Highlights from Planet Comicon 2013 Day One
The biggest and best pop culture and comic book convention in Kansas City’s history was held this weekend as Planet Comicon 2013 filled the Bartle Hall at the Kansas City Convention Center with...
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Highlights from Planet Comicon Day Two
After a crazy day of an insane volume of fans storming Bartle Hall in Kansas City Saturday for the biggest Planet Comicon event in more than a dozen years of events, it seemed like everyone came back...
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Patton Oswalt’s crossover filibuster and some pointers for J.J. Abrams
If you have any doubt Patton Oswalt (Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Starsky & Hutch, The King of Queens, Dollhouse, Community, Caprica, Burn Notice) is a genius, or comedian, or improv...
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Best of the Best retro review–The theatrical release of The Best of Both Worlds
Last night at 7 p.m,. across America theaters showed a one-night only event–the world premiere of the remastered release of Star Trek: The Next Generation two-part episode “The Best of Both Worlds,”...
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Fandom–John White, Sam Johnson, Shane Felux, Tim Russ and the creative spark
When does the creative spark begin, and when do you follow through with it? We chat at borg.com each week about some of the best artists, authors, writers, actors, makers and doers around. Every...
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Original comic art gallery–Green Arrow & Black Canary and the Bionic Man
This year I continued my Comicon season by commissioning sketches from comic book artists of my favorite characters, Green Arrow and Black Canary. I always like to let the artists do whatever vision...
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Review–Weta goes behind the scenes with creatures and characters of The...
If you haven’t seen the incredible bestselling book The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey Chronicles: Art and Design, check out our earlier review here at borg.com. It’s a superb behind the scenes look...
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Major Crimes returns next week with Season 1 on DVD and premiere of Season 2
TNT’s first season of Major Crimes was the surprise win of 2012. It accomplished something very rare, taking a series–The Closer–that might otherwise have wound down after seven seasons, and used a...
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Harrison Ford to return to Comic-Con, to promote Ender’s Game July 18 in Hall H
Huh? San Diego Comic-Con is only 20 days away? The Hollywood studios are in “engage” mode releasing details on their plans for this year’s big show. One of the bigger draws will be the Ender’s Game...
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borg.com–800,000 views and our second anniversary
We kicked off borg.com as a way to catch up on entertainment news, books and movies back on June 10, 2011. We’ve posted what’s new each day to provide “your daily science fiction, fantasy, and...
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Duchovny and Anderson reunite for X-Files 20th anniversary event
Mulder and Scully will be back together again, at least for thousands of fans attending The X-Files 20th Anniversary Panel in Ballroom 20 at San Diego Comic-Con later this month. In interviews in...
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Nerd HQ returns to San Diego for third year on Comic-Con weekend
Matt Smith! Eva Green! Aaron Eckhart! Tatiana Maslany! Joss Whedon! Nerd HQ returns again for its third year as an added stop for Comic-Con attendees next week from July 18-21, this time changing...
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Nerd HQ Day One–Watch today’s panels from your favorite shows right now
If you didn’t get to San Diego this year for the annual pilgrimage, or you just missed out on getting tickets to Nerd HQ, then borg.com will get you caught up right now. Nerd HQ Day One, held at San...
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Nerd HQ Day Two–Watch Friday’s panels from your favorite shows right now
Following up on yesterday’s rundown of all the Nerd HQ panels, borg.com has all of today’s panels in full from Nerd HQ for you to watch from home if you weren’t one of the 250 people who saw it live...
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Nerd HQ Day Three–Watch Saturday’s panels right now
Nerd HQ continued its panel series today at San Diego’s Petco Park, opposite San Diego Comic-Con International. borg.com’s own Jason McClain attended the enlightening and fun Doctor Who panel...
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Comic-Con Day Three–The Beauty of Work
By Jason McClain (@JTorreyMcClain) in San Diego In contrast to an upcoming post about Concrete Volume 1: “Depths”, I saw the magic of work on display Saturday at Comic-Con. I attended three panels...
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Nerd HQ Day Four wraps with four panels
Well that’s it! San Diego Comic-Con International wound down today. Our roving reporter, borg.com writer Jason McClain saw some great Hall H panels. And Nerd HQ finished up four days of great...
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Lines: Doctor Who and Community in Comic-Con Hall H
By Jason McClain (@JTorreyMcClain) I’m not sure anyone likes to wait in lines. When you wait in line at a restaurant it just means more time to get hungry and cranky. When you wait in line to...
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Comic-Con 2013–Vikings invade San Diego
The History Channel pulled out all the stops at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend for its Vikings series. If you didn’t catch the first season of Vikings, which we previewed earlier this year here at...
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First look–Veronica Mars, the Movie
San Diego Comic-Con goers got to see a sneak peek at the first view of the unprecedented, Kickstarter-generated, 91,000+ fan-supported Veronica Mars movie last weekend. Even more cast members than...
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