Category: comics

  • Top Creators Announced for Wizard World Chicago 2019

    Industry veterans Christopher Priest (“Black Panther,” “Batman”) Carl Potts (“Venom,” “Punisher”), Stuart Sayger (“G.I. Joe.” “Xena: Warrior Princess”), Gerry Conway (“The Punisher,” “Ms. Marvel”), Kurt Lehner (“Gargoyles,” “Marvel Action Hour”), Mostafa Moussa (“Superman,” “Fantastic Four”), Jeremy Clark (“Grimm Fairy Tales,” “Day of the Dead”), Thomas Estrada (Disney, DreamWorks), Tim Lattie (“Ghostbusters,” WWE), Joe Wos (“Mazetoons”),…

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  • Prepare for the Comic Con Revolution!

    Friends, we are excited to attend the first ever Comic Con Revolution in Chicago. Now while this event has happened in other cities, it is great to have another comic convention in the Chicagoland area. We will be there on Saturday covering the event and sharing with you all of the amazing things we see.Atomic…

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  • Time to get your scare on with Halloween Comicfest 2018

    Disclaimer: The Fandads were given review comics and giveaway items in exchange for promoting Halloween Comicfest. It’s that time of year again, where local participating comic books stores give out free comics the week before Halloween. This year we have teamed up with our friends at Diamond Comic Distributors to review two of the comics that…

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  • Captain Marvel Production has Began!

    Just announced yesterday was that production has begun of the filming of Captain Marvel by Marvel Studios. While I have not kept up on Captain Marvel in the comics like I have other characters, I am excited to see her on the big screen and see how her story will play out in the Marvel…

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  • Captain Marvel Production has Began!

    Just announced yesterday was that production has begun of the filming of Captain Marvel by Marvel Studios. While I have not kept up on Captain Marvel in the comics like I have other characters, I am excited to see her on the big screen and see how her story will play out in the Marvel…

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  • Ant-Man and The Wasp trailer is out and it’s huge!!

    A few days ago on our Facebook page, I asked our followers, which movie from the 2018 Disney/Marvel line-up were they excited to see. Some of the answers were for Infinity War but my answer was Ant-Man and The Wasp. Lo and behold, it looks like someone heard me because a few days later we…

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  • LEGO Unveils New York Comic Con Exclusive

    This coming weekend is the East Coast’s largest pop culture phenomenon New York Comic Con and although the Fandads will not be there we are able to show you the LEGO NYCC Exclusive set that they will be selling there.  Yes my friends, LEGO and New York Comic-con are going to be selling an exclusive…

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  • Things to do!

    The Fandads have been thinking about doing these type of post for a while and here is the debut of a new section where we will highlight things to do in Chicago over the weekend. Depending on what activities are going on we will highlight a few things that we think you and your family…

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  • Steve Dillon

    I’m not sure any of us are going to make it out of 2016. I just found out that Steve Dillon passed away. For those of you that aren’t familiar with his work, you may have heard of the new AMC show Preacher based on the comic he co-created with Garth Ennis. I grew up…

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  • Get ready to be engulfed in Hasbro’s Cinematic Universe

    When I was younger, I remember playing at my friend Jose’s house with his Visionaries figures. In our story, his character, Darkstorm, captured all of the staffs from my characters giving him ultimate power. I had to figure out a way to get my staffs back, but if I remember correctly, his brother quit playing…

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