Over the weekend, thousands of fans filled the halls of Planet Comic Con Kansas City, moving between panels, vendor booths and clusters of costumed characters brought to life from screens and pages.

The gates of the anime and cosplay convention scene will open once again to unveil another epic adventure! Resonate with the unending merriment from the all-new Cosplay Mania Event series, ...

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Tempe Public Library, already a haven for book lovers and pop-culture obsessives, got exponentially more nerdy this past weekend. On Jan. 31, hundreds of Valley residents turned out for Tempe FanCon, ...

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The sweet and dreamy arpeggios that introduce opener ‘Echoes’, for instance, are deceptive, the song gradually darkening until it erupts into a blast of epic distortion. Closer ‘Jive’ starts so sombre ...

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MANHATTAN — When I meet up with Daphne at New York Comic Con, she’s in disguise — though she’s one of the most recognized people in the room. Wearing a blond wig and a black-and-white spandex costume, ...