So You Want to Throw A Comic-Con Party?

Geek Girls United! | September 30, 2010

Some tips by guest writers @ArkhamAsylumDoc and @GeekGirls from the Geek Girls Network.

Perhaps you envision the final product: It’s a well-attended, successfully promoted, raging geekfest bursting at the seams with a few hundred of your closest real life and internet friends. Everyone has a drink in their hand, a nerdy tee, and a grin on [...]

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Reasons to Love Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)

Ash | September 9, 2010

Action Flick Chick Katrina met Lloyd Kaufman, head of Troma Entertainment (home to The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke ‘Em High, Tromeo and Juliet), during this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International. “Speaking of action CHICKS,” Kaufman asked later, “have you reviewed the Brown Ray DVD of POULTRYGEIST? Or even the 35mm print?”
Who could refuse? [...]

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Coming Attraction: AMC’s Original Zombie Drama “The Walking Dead”

Action Flick Chick | August 25, 2010

AMC LAUNCHES NEWEST ORIGINAL DRAMA THE WALKING DEAD WITH A 90-MINUTE PREMIERE EPISODE ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 10PM
Series Stars Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, Jeffrey DeMunn, and others. Written, Directed, & Executive-Produced by Frank Darabont, Executive Produced by Gale Anne Hurd.
New York, NY – August 2010 –  AMC’s newest original [...]

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San Diego Comic-Con 2010: Sergio Aragones Is King!

Action Flick Chick | August 4, 2010

During my SDCC visit, I had some down time between all the action stuff and happened upon a Quick Draw panel that turned out to be one of my favorites. This panel was hosted by Mark Evanier (Writer, Comics Historian, Groo the Wanderer, Kirby: King of Comics) and featured three very talented artists, Sergio Aragones [...]

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Comic-Con Panel: Best Superheroine Movie? No, the ONLY Theatrical Superheroine Movie

Action Flick Chick | July 29, 2010

In our “Where Are the Action Chicks?” panel at San Diego Comic-Con International, we examined the dearth of action heroines in movies and comic books, including an examination of the reasons why there are so few despite the great popularity of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xena: Warrior Princess, Aliens‘ Ripley, Terminator’s Sarah Connor, and certain others. [...]

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Wired Interviews the Action Flick Chick: ‘Action Chick’ Looks at Comic-Con’s Geek Girls

Action Flick Chick | July 26, 2010

Hugh Hart of Wired.com interviews Action Flick Chick Katrina Hill about Wired’s choices for the “26 Most Awesome Female Ass-Kickers.”
From Wired:
Fierce female characters are gaining traction in the pop-culture landscape, but even in 2010, guys still outnumber women in starring roles for movies, TV, comics and videogames. Several Comic-Con International panels this weekend look at [...]

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Comic-Con: Geek Girls vs. Sly Stallone, Bruce Willis, Michelle Rodriguez, Joss Whedon, Morgan Freeman, & Angelina Jolie!

Llama Mama | July 22, 2010

True friends and fans of this site who are attending San Diego Comic-Con International may find themselves torn between our fellow geek girls and an amazing series of panels to be held in Hall H. The Action Flick Chick has said more than once that outside her responsibility to her own “Where Are the Action [...]

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Gauge Comics’ Comic-Con Entertainment Line-Up with “My Damn Tweeter Buddy” Sean Patrick Flanery

Action Flick Chick | July 22, 2010

Press release:
I’m BUSY BUSY with San Diego Comic-Con International. Today is packed with amazing panels, as I’ll explain in the morning; tomorrow I finally have the “Where Are the Action Chicks?” panel. The list goes on and on. And, oh yeah, I hear Sean Patrick Flanery is expecting me. I can’t see him today (Thursday – it’s [...]

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