Comicsgate supporters have come up with a new term for people who don’t support their movement: NPC. It stands for “Non-Player Character.” It comes from table-top roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons. The term later migrated over to video games. An NPC is a character in the game who looks and acts like another player … Continue reading “NPC: Comicsgate’s new slur for non-Comicsgate people”
Tag: Comic Books
Yasiel Puig is ready to bash Glenn’s head in
Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig received a prop from the TV show The Walking Dead. It’s a replica of Lucille, the baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire used by Negan to kill Glenn. I stopped reading The Walking Dead comic with issue #100. It was the issue that Negan killed Glenn with the barbed wire … Continue reading “Yasiel Puig is ready to bash Glenn’s head in”
So you want to punch a Nazi in the face?
Some people are actually talking asking if it’s ethical to punch a Nazi in the face. It started when a protester punched white separatist Richard Spencer in the face. Some misguided folks described it as punching a Nazi in the face. Social justice Warriors (SJWs), people on the control-left, got a kick out of this video. Too … Continue reading “So you want to punch a Nazi in the face?”
Carrie Fisher 1956 – 2016
From the Los Angeles Times: Actress and writer Carrie Fisher, who rose to global fame as the trail-blazing intergalactic heroine Princess Leia in the “Star Wars” franchise and later went on to establish herself as an author and screenwriter with an acerbic comic flair, has died. Fisher suffered a cardiac incident on Friday during a … Continue reading “Carrie Fisher 1956 – 2016”
Otakon to move to Washington DC in 2017
Otakon, the annual anime and manga fandom convention is taking place this weekend at the Baltimore Convention Center. It will be Otakon’s final year in Baltimore. The Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC will begin hosting Otakon starting in 2017. Why the move? Because the Baltimore Convention Center hasn’t aged gracefully. From the official Otakon website: The primary … Continue reading “Otakon to move to Washington DC in 2017”