Organizers of Wondercon, one of the major comic conventions in the country, announced that this year’s event has been… postponed. This from the official Wondercon website: To protect public health and slow the rate of transmission of COVID-19, the California Department of Public Health announced a recommendation that gatherings and events of more than 250 …
Considering how Seattle seems to be a hotbed for COVID-19, a person would have to be nuts to fly to Seattle and attend the Emerald City Comic Con.
Walmart is slated to sell a special black and white version of the standard Babe Ruth figure. It will be exclusive to Walmart. It’s intended to mimic a black and white photo. Before you try to pat Funko on the back for this creative version of the standard figure, Funko is not the first to …
The Goodreads winner for Best Science Fiction is Recursion by Blake Crouch. I have not read it, but I ordered a copy on Amazon yesterday.
A judge ordered former anime voice actor Vic Mignogna to pay $223,042.42 in attorney fees to the parties he sued in a failed defamation and tortious interference lawsuit. He was also ordered to pay an additional $15,000 in court sanctions. Mignogna lost his jobs with Funimation and Rooster Teeth after an internal investigation concerning sexual harassment …
Funko announced it will make pop figures for the movie Major League. For some strange reason, the figures lack the Cleveland Indians logo.
Osprey Games released game designer Mike Hutchinson’s new, updated version to Gaslands called Gaslands: Refueled.
Alec Holowka, a video game developer Zoe Quinn recently accused of sexual and verbal abuse, took his own life.
Loot Crate, a nerd-centric subscription service that sends customers a box of junk every month, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
In the wake of a mass shooting at a Texas Walmart last weekend that killed 22 people, Walmart sent a memo to store managers instructing them to remove all violent video game signs and displays. Not the games, just the signs and displays.