B.D. Wong Cast as HUGO STRANGE for Gotham Series

Actor B.D. Wong (Jurassic World, Law & Order) has been cast as Professor Hugo Strange for Fox's Gotham, according to ComicBook. One of Batman's earliest villains, Strange will be introduced as the administrator of Arkham Asylum.

"[Professor Hugo Strange] appears altruistic, but he harbors a dark secret [that will make him] Gotham's greatest theat," said an unnamed Fox representative.

ComicBook reports that Strange will be eventually revealed as the mastermind behind the recently introduced Indian Hill facility, which experiments on some of Gotham's villains.Professor Hugo Strange is one of Batman's earliest adversaries, debuting in Detective Comics #36 in 1940.

There's no word yet on when Wong will debut in Gotham

 

source: Newarama


Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist (Manga Review)

Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist (Manga Review)

Set 16 years after the "Law for Public Order and Morals in Healthy Child-Raising" banned coarse language in the country. Tanukichi Okuma enrolls in the country's leading elite public morals school and is soon invited into the Anti-Societal Organization (SOX) by its founder, Ayame Kajō. As a member blackmailed into joining by Ayame, Tanukichi ends up taking part in obscene acts of terrorism against the talented student council president Anna (for whom Tanukichi has a crush). 

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Street Fighter Unlimited #1 (Comic Review)

Street Fighter Unlimited #1 (Comic Review)

Street Fighter monthly comics are back! Gearing up for the release of Street Fighter V in 2016, UDON launches an all-new monthly comic book series that will pack in more adrenaline, more battles, and more characters than ever before! A new era for the undisputed king of fighting games begins here!

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Ash vs Evil Dead Conference Call with Bruce Campbell

Ash vs Evil Dead Conference Call with Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell and the good folks at Starz held a conference call for press to discuss Evil Dead. Otakus & Geeks we're invited to participate in this one hour session. You can listen to the full conference call below. Make sure to check out Ash vs Evil Dead on Halloween on Starz. 

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Chris Pine Confirms he will be in Wonder Women, but didn't reveal who he is Playing

Image Credit: Paramount 

Image Credit: Paramount
 

Chris Pine has been rumored to be a part of the upcoming Wonder Woman film for months, and he has now confirmed his involvement in an interview with French entertainment website Premiere. However, he stopped short of saying who he would be playing in the film.

"I do not really know what I'm allowed to tell you. I'm super excited, of course, Gal Gadot is super talented, Patty Jenkins will direct, and we will shoot in traditional film," said the Star Trek star. "What excites me most is to work on a movie with a female superhero; with a woman in the lead role. I am part of a team with this intelligent, beautiful and strong woman to destroy the wicked and save humanity."

Premiere speculates that Pine will play Wonder Woman's longtime partner and love interest Steve Trevor, though this remains unconfirmed.

 

 

Wonder Woman is set to hit theaters June 23, 2017.

Source: Newsarama and Premiere
 

Preview: GwenPool in Back-Up Story in Howard The Duck #1

image credit: Marvel 

image credit: Marvel
 

Hey O&G fans, GwenPool is coming off the Variant Covers and into her own story appearing in Howard The Duck #1 November 4th. Gwenpool's back-ups will appear in Howard the Duck #1-3, written by Christopher Hastings with art from Danilo Beyruth.
 

Marvel Zombies Fan made Trailer

image credit: Alex Luthor 

image credit: Alex Luthor
 

Hey O&G Fans, YouTube user Alex Luthor has created a fan-trailer for a Marvel Zombies film that uses footage from existing movies to unite the Avengers, the X-Men, Deadpool, and Spider-Man in one universe. Unfortunately, it's a universe where they're all doomed. Check it out:

Marvel Zombies Epic Trailer (Rated R)! It's Zombie apocalypse time for Marvel! How will the Marvel heroes will handle the Zombies? Who will survive and who will turn? It's time for Marvel Zombies! The Amazing music in this video is: Think Up Anger - 'Apollo' (For What It's Worth Vocal) ft.


source: Newsarama
 

Preview: Justice League DarkSeid War Batman #1

Hey O&G fans, What happens when the worlds greatest detective obtains Mobius Chair? He  become the God of Knowledge, capable of traveling across space and time in order to stamp out crimes before they ever occur.

synopsis:

“As the Darkseid War rages on, Batman’s role in Gotham City—and the world—alters drastically as he’s forced to accept his new role as a God of Knowledge.”

Justice League: Darkseid War: Batman #1 is available on Wednesday, October 29. Check out the complete preview gallery below via Nerdest:

source: Nerdest
 

Retro Game Look Back: Sonic Adventure

Retro Game Look Back: Sonic Adventure

After series villain Doctor Eggman releases an ancient monster, protagonist Sonic the Hedgehog vows to stop him collecting the Chaos Emeralds. The other playable characters are flying fox Miles "Tails" Prower, love interest Amy Rose, Knuckles the Echidna, who plans to reassemble the Master Emerald, angler Big the Cat, and E-102 Gamma, one of Eggman's robots.

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First Look: Silk #1

Image Credit Marvel 

Image Credit Marvel
 

Press Release

This November, meet the Sinister Silk. That’s right True Believer, Cindy Moon is back – and she’s running with the Black Cat and her gang?! Today Marvel is pleased to present your first look at SILK #1 – the new ongoing series from writer Robbie Thompson and artist Stacey Lee! Since she escaped the bunker and returned from the universe-hopping Spider-Verse her one mission has been to track down the missing members of her family. But her quest has taken her down a darker path than she ever expected, and now she’s found herself on the wrong side of the law, and in league with Marvel’s most ferocious feline, the Black Cat. What could have happened in the eight months since Secret Wars to get under her skin? Is there any redeeming her, or is she already lost? Find out this November in the all-new SILK #1!


Dreamscape Chapter 2 : A Journey of A Thousand Miles...

I hope you enjoyed the story so far. Here is chapter 2 of Dreamscape. If you haven't read the Prologue and Chapter 1, click here

Enjoy!

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                                                                       The story goes on...

 

Recap

As we last left our motley crew, Pike had a nightmare that could be a vision of a new threat that may be coming or staying at a mysterious emerald castle on the water. Our heroes set off separately to find more information about this castle and perhaps the entity that may have started the trouble...

 

Pike, Scanlan, Vex, and Vax, made their way to Lady Kima's residence. Vax knocked on the door three times before the huge wooden doors opened. Standing in the entryway was Lady Kima in a long light blue silk dress, that was form fitting to her body. The group was stunned and .rightfully so. She always seemed to have her battle armor on, even at council meetings. Her hair, normally in a long fish tail fashion, is loose. Her hair falls over her shoulders and single local flower is within her hair. The look on the group's face was priceless. Lady Kima was turning a shade of pink as the group keeps on staring at her. Lady Kima wanted the group to say anything than to keep looking at her. The flustered and shock Scanlan couldn't make out any words and the twins Vex and Vax stood as statues. It was up to Pike to speak for the group. Pike asked if Lady Kima had time to talk and Lady Kima made a gesture to her outfit. Pike gulped and apologize for interrupting however it is an important question they must ask.

Lady Kima sighed and asked what this question might be...under one minute. Pike quickly explained her vision and asked if there was a name to the emerald castle she saw. Lady Kima ponders for about a second and said that she heard of something like that in passing with a few of the council members. It seems as if this castle appeared out of nowhere east of here. Pike asked if she heard it was surrounded by a huge lake. Lady Kima shrugs and says that she only heard about the castle in passing and nothing else. However, Lady Kima suggested that a local huntsman came over from the east and is here in town to drop off his bounty. She suggests to Pike that they should start at the Quiet Mountain Tavern. Pike thanked Lady Kima and Lady Kima returned the gesture with a little smile and wave and called out to the departing and wide eyed companions to next time send a messenger before coming into her place of dwelling again.

Meanwhile Tiberius is in the study hall of Graystone Keep, trying to piece together the mysterious dwelling that was known only as the emerald castle. From what he has gathered, the castle lies east of their current standing. He tried looking into the arcane books to see if there was any magical ties to the castle. None were found and so Tiberius kept searching, eventually coming to the conclusion that maybe the castle is depicted in folklore or children stories. He found a book that he hadn't noticed before. Its very large in size and thick with 1000 pages or more. Tiberius knew that reading this will take him all day or all week, depending on if his short attention span could be tamed long enough to read. And since Tiberius can overlook the most simplest of things like looking into the index and see if he could find keywords to find what he's looking for, he spent about two hours searching for the story that would help him. After hour two, he stumbles upon an old nursery rhyme that may hold some answers to the questions the group is having.

As Tiberius was reading away, Keyleth, Grog, and, Percy are at a tavern known as "The Quiet Mountain", questioning about the castle. Well that is to say, that Keyleth and Percy are asking around. Grog is at the bar, drinking what looks like a mug on steroids, as people around him are chanting either his name or the deviation of chug instead of Grog. Grog only converses with things that are a part of his namesake so the questions that he has for anyone around him, is only asked in his mind and even with that may be drowned by the casks of ale. Percy asked many drunkards who only wanted a drink for information and Keyleth was quite....uncomfortable to say the least. Awkward in conversations already she had not been at a bar that was this rowdy before and occasionally she would look over to find Grog, who seems to make himself at home with everyone else. "The Quite Mountain" was not living up to the name and Keyleth wondered if the tavern's name was to convey a sort of irony.

 Suddenly Vex, Vax, Scanlan, and Pike walked in and saw how lively it was. Surely one of these people will have other information. Then they locked eyes with Keyleth and Percy and both groups (except for Grog) convened at a table and started telling the others about what they found. Keyleth and Percy agreed that the bar here is full of drunkards and no one would remember the question that they asked anyway. Pike told Keyleth and Percy about their interesting encounter with Lady Kima and that they only had the direction to base their mystery location and also someone in this bar knows about the castle. Pike looked at her hands, downtrodden that this bar where they needed to find the man, was either too drunk or at another tavern. Grog has no idea of this meeting and continues to drink from this massive mug (he is gong to have the longest pee in history at this point in time).

Then a human man walked away from the spectacle Grog was giving from the bar. He wore big gold armor which looked very nice from afar. However as the twins looked closer, the seemingly gold armor looks dulled. Dents are scattered across his breastplate. On closer inspection, dry blood is smeared all over armor which has made the vibrant gold to a almost ruby color. The smell that is emitting from him seem fresh. Fresh sweat and blood. The human man looks at Vox Machina and Vex asks if they could chat, maybe buy him a drink. The man looked at the group from Vex down, looked at Pike and stopped. His emerald eyes met her blue ones and for only a second, Pike could see a hint of recognition and pity. He nods towards Pike and sat down next to Vex. 

To be continued in Chapter 3. 

 

 

Celebrating the Month of Halloween: My Halloween Picks

Hello everyone. The month of October is the time when the leaves fall and change color, the air gets crisper, I get sick with allergies because of the change of weather, hot chocolate, tea, and of course Halloween specials, anime, (maybe) video games, and cosplay. Here are my top picks of spending down time during the month of Halloween. Enjoy. ^-^

 

Halloween Town and Pridelands- Kingdom Hearts II

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Some people may have seen this one coming. Its no secret that the Kingdom Hearts series is my favorite series in video games (next to Sly Cooper). Whenever I visit the Pridelands I feel so happy and free. Yes the Pridelands is not really a "Halloween" trope though I can argue that the Elephant Graveyard and the lands itself, give off that dark, Halloween feel, since its barren and gray. Plus the boss you fight on your second visit was pretty cool. Halloween Town speaks for itself, for Sora, Donald, and Goofy's outfits are perfect and the Heartless in the level also fit within the spooky theme. 

 

Ghost Hunt & Ghost Stories

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                                                                     That smirk though... ^-^

So in the early days of O & G, one of my first anime reviews was Ghost Hunt ( I may do a revised one since have grown in my reviewing capabilities). I would definitely put this anime on the list of the most  underrated animes that I love. If you are okay with gore and eriee, spooky ghosts, then this is for you. Voice acting is top notch and the mystery of a certain main character, perhaps is the greatest mystery of all (I'm looking at you Naru!) On the flip side, if you want a horror anime with alot of humor try sinking your fangs into Ghost Stories. Trust me the voice acting in this one is hilarious and the story behind the weird dialogue and plot line of the anime, is also funny as well. 

 

Hocus Pocus/Halloween Town/House of Mouse Halloween/Nightmare Before Christmas

Disney, Disney, Disney. I cannot make a list like this and forget to put Disney. Yes this is a lot and yes my nostalgia is showing. I couldn't resist and admit, some of these movies you may have seen many years ago. 

So first we have Hocus Pocus. 25 years ago this movie came onto our T.V sets and left a spell unto many of our childhoods. Hocus Pocus was indeed a great joy to watch. Binx was always my favorite and the song "Come Little Children" is one of my favorite Halloween songs that are out there. The sisters are great, quirky, characters  and the plot isn't so bad for an early Disney movie. I can see the 90's logo for when a movie was about to come on. Kids jumping over Mickey's ears and the logo saying Disney Channel Original. Good times. Good times. 

Next we have Halloween Town. The first is probably my favorite one of the series. I think once the kids went off to high school/college, it didn't feel the same as the first. I always get hyped whenever it came on Disney Channel and I was always intrigued with the concept of having a town that was Halloween 24/7. Ok, yes Nightmare Before Christmas did have that as well but it wasn't as vibrant or colorful as Halloween Town. 

Remember the show The House of Mouse? No? Well it was a show on Disney channel that gathered all Disney characters (all the characters except for the new ones from 2009 on). It  showed animated shorts and had a Christmas special too. The Halloween special was awesome and it filed my heart with glee as I watched it. 

 

Scooby-Doo and the Witches Ghost and Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island

In my opinion, these were the best two Scooby-Doo movies that I remembered from my childhood that really held the essence of what a Scooby-Doo movie is. *Spoilers* The two movies actually involve  real life monsters and provide much more scares and imagination than just dudes in masks. Plus, as I remember, these two movies have villains that are women. 

 

 

And Finally....COSPLAY!!!!

                                         Me at Otakon this past August as Fem-Link 

                                         Me at Otakon this past August as Fem-Link 

 This cosplayer was from Anime Mid-Atlantic in 2012. She was awesome and she's Ichinose Tokiya from Uta No Prince Sama 1000%

 

This cosplayer was from Anime Mid-Atlantic in 2012. She was awesome and she's Ichinose Tokiya from Uta No Prince Sama 1000%

Enough said about cosplaying. I love it and during Halloween, its the perfect time to get your costume on.

What's your Halloween tradition or picks? Let me know in the comments.

Halloween Rules!!!!