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Planet Comicon to feature professional make-up artist
Are you ready to take your cosplay to the next level? borg.com and Planet Comicon are excited to bring a professional make-up artist to Planet Comicon for the first time. Make-up artist Gene Flaharty...
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Grimm: Below the Surface–New insider’s guide goes behind the scenes of the...
Last week’s episode of Grimm may have been one of the best on TV this year, bringing together threads formed since the beginning of the show. The result proved the old adage “the enemy of my enemy is...
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Second volume of “Voyages” even better than the first
Review by C.J. Bunce Marc Cushman’s second volume of These Are the Voyages, his unprecedented treatise on Star Trek, the original series, is an improvement on his first volume, reviewed last year here...
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A look behind Weta Workshop’s work on Amazing Spidey 2
Although The Amazing Spider-man 2 has received mixed reviews, as with last year’s sci-fi flick Elysium, the Weta Workshop was one of the special effects companies that added another dimension to the...
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Thanks for making borg.com hit the 1 million mark!
Just a quick thanks to YOU, regular and new readers, for coming back and making the borg.com odometer tip over the 1 million benchmark today! Every day since June 10, 2011, this site has been about...
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Struzan documentary looks beyond the movie posters
The best of the new documentary on the life and career of Drew Struzan is not what you might think. You’d expect Drew—The Man Behind the Poster, now available on video and digital release, to include...
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Warner Bros. releases Major Crimes Season Two on DVD
Review by C.J. Bunce If you’re keeping up with the third season of Major Crimes on TNT, you’ll have seen last night’s episode, “Frozen Assets.” Set up with a preposterous plot–a multi-millionaire who...
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Artist spotlight–Ryan Sook, comic book publishers’ #1 choice for cover art
We’ve delved into some great cover artists at borg.com in the past three years, from Alex Ross to Mauro Cascioli to Frank Cho and Mike Mayhew. With his cover run on the DC Comics New 52 series...
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SDCC 2014–Comic-Con releases complete panel and event schedule
It’s less than two weeks until 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International will host more than 150,000 fans of sci-fi, fantasy, superheroes and other pop culture, and SDCC has now released the entire panel...
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Preview–BBC America releases Orphan Black Season Two on DVD and Blu-ray today
Review by C.J. Bunce In her 1995 view of the future, Remake, Connie Willis predicted a future where anything could be digitally created on film, where modern-day actors could be digitally stitched...
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Motion capture is explored in Planet of the Apes: The Art of the Films
Review by C.J. Bunce We all know the apes win and rule the Earth from the original novel and film Planet of the Apes. But how do they get there? Not intended as a post-apocalyptic story as much as a...
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Many reveals at first full day at SDCC 2014
Whether or not major genre properties are hosting panels or booths at Comic-Con 2014, studios released some great images on Wednesday preview night and the first full day of the show yesterday. The...
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Nerd HQ streams live panels again from San Diego
In its fourth year operating across from San Diego Comic-Con, Nerd HQ will be streaming live panels on the Web with archived panels available for viewing after the panels each day as they have done...
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SDCC 2014 unveils new Wonder Woman armor, Marvel Star Wars news and plenty of...
More big news emerged from San Diego Comic-Con this weekend. A new comic book series for Haven and Galaxy Quest… a sneak peek at Arrow Season 3, a Star Trek crossover with Planet of the Apes… details...
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Super Grover unmasked–Simm, Maslany, Fillion headline Saturday panels in San...
Nerd HQ offered up a great variety of panels from the best of TV Saturday. Here are some great panels to check out. After four years of 45 minute panels offered just yards from San Diego Comic-Con,...
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Saturday at Comic-Con – The Great, The New and The Tasty
WELCOME TO EARTH-4 A Weekly Column with J. Torrey McClain I got to drive 125 miles south and east yesterday to visit the horde of awesome that is Comic-Con. As usual, it was a blast and I wish I had...
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Comic-Con weekend–Even more Nerd HQ panels
Nerd HQ wrapped this weekend’s panels for charity with some good Q&A sessions. If you haven’t seen earlier Nerd HQ panels, we at borg.com have been covering them since 2011 here when we saw Scott...
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Review–Third Bionic Man trade edition a great read packed with extras
Dynamite Comics’ The Bionic Man series, especially Issues #17-26, was among the best comic book reading of 2013. They are now available in a trade paperback: The Bionic Man Volume Three: End of...
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What is the most iconic Star Trek prop?
It’s a question die-hard Star Trek fans ask themselves: If you could own one favorite Star Trek prop, what would it be? This weekend a Star Trek Facebook page asked thousands of followers to comment...
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Review–New book chronicles work of movie poster artist John Alvin
Back in early 2012 we reviewed one of several books released on movie poster artist Drew Struzan, a useful and interesting resource called The Art of Drew Struzan, reviewed here. It chronicles the...
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