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Wizard World Minneapolis 2017 Programming

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Wizard World Minneapolis is back in the Twin Cities for the fourth time this year. The event will take place this May 5-7 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. I haven't seen any details about a free kick off event, but that traditionally had been held at the Mall of America on Thursday, May 4th.

This year, Wizard has brought Doctor Who’s current doctor Peter Capaldi and popular side kick Jenna Coleman.

That’s not all, Wizard also reunited three of the cast members from Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Xander (Nicholas Brendon), Spike (James Marsters), and Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter).

Fans of Star Trek series should be ecstatic to see that Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) and ST:TNG’s Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) will be in attendance.

Of course, who could ignore Two and a Half Men’s winning tiger blooded Charlie Sheen? We’re just as curious as you are.

Music fans may want to check out The Monkees’ Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz. We love the Monkees and still sad that Davy Jones died in 2012.

Comic book-related guests include Guy Gilchrist (The Muppets), Jordan Gibson (Howard the Duck), Phil Ortiz (The Simpsons), Bob Camp (Ren and Stimpy), Rob Schamberger (WWE artist-in-residence), Colleen Doran (A Distant Soil), Tom Cook (He-Man), Arthur Suydam (Marvel Zombies), Mark Kistler (The Secret City), Danny Fingeroth (Spider-Man), Victor Dandridge (The Samaritan), Jim Mehsling (Into the Void), Clinton Hobart (licensed Disney fine artist), and many others.

Like previous years, we will be providing full coverage of the event.

Read our past coverages:

Wizard World Minneapolis 2014

Wizard World Minneapolis 2015

Wizard World Minneapolis 2016

More guests and complete full programming listing can be found on wizardworld.com. Below are some of the programming... More info at news.weheartmusic.com:

Friday, May 5, 2017

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM Creative Stage
Funny Folks: How to Draw Humor Comics! with Ren & Stimpy’s Bob Camp, the Simpsons’ Phil Ortiz & Nancy’s Guy Gilchrist

5:30 PM - 6:15 PM Room 101D
VIPS of Self-Publishing with Victor Dandridge

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Room 101B
Superhero Movies, Past, Present & Future with Dave Schrader

6:00 PM - 6:45 PM Creative Stage
Paint the Rob Way with WWE artist Rob Schamberger

6:30 PM - 7:15 PM Room 101D
Marvel v DC: Infinity War with Tony B Kim

7:00 PM - 7:45 PM Room 101H
First They Came For Batman…Then They Came For Chuck Berry And Prince: Comics, Rock & Roll And Censorship with Alex Lubet, Danny Fingeroth and Barbara Schulz

7:00 PM - 7:45 PM Creative Stage
Drawing Disney with Clinton Hobart

7:30 PM - 8:15 PM Room 101B
Name That Pokemon with SuperKayce and RealBreakingNate

8:00 PM - 8:45 PM Creative Stage
Cosplay 101

8:00 PM - 8:45 PM Room 101H
Creatures Of The Night with Dave Schrader

6:30 PM - 7:00 PM Entertainment Stage
7days A Capella, a cappella group at the University of Minnesota

7:00 PM - 7:30 PM Entertainment Stage
The Minnesota Hot Dishes Presented By Uptown Swing

Saturday, May 6, 2017

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Room 101B
Only Sheep Eat Rotten Tomatoes, A DC Films Discussion

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Auditorium
His Whoniverse: A Conversation With Peter Capaldi And Jenna Coleman, moderated by Tony B Kim (Crazy4comiccon, Hero Within)

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM Room 101H
The Art Of Saturday Morning Cartoon Production with animator/director Tom Cook

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Auditorium
Hot Takes with the Hot Shot: A Conversation With Charlie Sheen

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Creative Stage
You Can Learn To Draw In 30 Minutes! with Emmy award winner Mark Kistler

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Room 101B
Cosplaying On A Budget with SuperKayce

1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Room 101H
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Guardians Of The Galaxy But Were Afraid To Ask With Guardians’ writer Sam Humphries and Spider-Man’s Danny Fingeroth

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Auditorium
20 Years In The Buffyverse with Charisma Carpenter and Nicholas Brendon, moderated by Victor Dandridge (Vantage Inhouse Productions)

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Creative Stage
Wigs 101 With Wizard World cosplay guest Hannah Eva

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Room 101B
Art as Resistance: Agents Of Shield and The Rest Of The MCU’s fight against Hydra

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Auditorium
Out For A Bite, A Conversation With James Marsters

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Creative Stage
Drawing Disney with Clinton Hobart

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Room 101D
J. Jonah Jameson (Karl Brevik) Returns To Wizard World Minneapolis And He Still Hates Spider-Man

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Room 101B
I’m Not A Sidekick: A Diversity In Pop Culture Discussion

3:30 PM - 4:15 PM Room 101H
Anime Trivia with SuperKayce

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Auditorium
John Barrowman’s One Man Show (Rock Horror Picture Show)

4:00 PM - 4:45 Creative Stage
Secrets Of Visual Storytelling: Top Artists Draw Comics With A Distant Soil’s Colleen Doran, Star Trek’s Gordon Purcell, Tangled’s Clinton Hobart and MCAD’s Barbara Schulz

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Room 101B
Doctor Whoniverse Fan Panel by Dave Schrader

4:30 PM - 5:15 PM Room 101H
Intro To Cosplay With Wizard World with Hannah Eva

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM Room 101B
Nerd Off with RealBreakingNate

5:30 PM - 6:15 PM Room 101H
The Marvel Saga: The 78-Year History Of The House Of Ideas, From The Beginning To Logan To Guardians Of The Galaxy with Danny Fingeroth

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Entertainment Stage
The Last Gold Leaf (guy girl nerd pop harmonies)

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM Entertainment Stage
Rock It Man Entertainment Dueling Piano Show

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Entertainment Stage
7Days A Capella

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Entertainment Stage
The Minnesota Hot Dishes Presented By Uptown Swing

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Entertainment Stage
Hudson Master Magician

Sunday, May 7, 2017

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Creative Stage
What’s Under Your Skirt? (Or Bodysuit, Or Costume… with Mogchelle

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM Room 101B
How To Build A Geek Brand (And Get Paid!) hosted by Tony B Kim.

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Creative Stage
Let’s Draw Muppets And Ninja Turtles! With Guy Gilchrist

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Room 101H
U Cre-8 Comics Presents: Character Crafters hosted by Victor Dandridge.

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM Room 101B
Security Gaps At Hogwarts

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Creative Stage
You Can Learn To Draw In 30 Minutes! with Mark Kistler

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Room 101H
Spotlight On Ren And Stimpy’s Bob Camp with Danny Fingeroth

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Creative Stage
Drawing Disney With Clinton Hobart

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Room 101H
Saturday Morning (Cartoon) Fever And New Comics Day Flu: Animation And Comics Of The ‘70s And ‘80s with Tom Cook and Danny Fingeroth

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Entertainment Stage
Rank And Style Brass Band

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Entertainment Stage
Nick Sharpe Magician

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Entertainment Stage
The Last Gold

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM Room 101D
A Conversation with Micky Dolenz & Peter Tork of The Monkees, moderated By Dave Schrader (Darknessradio.Com)

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Entertainment Stage
The Minnesota Hot Dishes Presented By Uptown Swing

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM Room 101D
A Conversation with Star Trek The Next Generation’s Marina Sirtis, moderated by Tony B Kim (Crazy4ComicCon)

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM Entertainment Stage
7 Days Acapella

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Entertainment Stage
Hudson Master Magician

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Entertainment Stage
Victor Johnson (solo piano and synth interpretations of fun songs)

1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Room 101D
A Conversation With Barry Bostwick, moderated by Victor Dandridge (Vanatge Inhouse Productions)

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Kids Stage
The Splatter Sisters

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Wizard World Comic Con at Minneapolis Convention Ctr (08 May 16)

Read More Wizard World Minneapolis It is pretty much all-Wizard World all weekend! W♥M will be bringing you extensive coverage of the three-day event - plus the traditional kick-off free event at the Mall of America on Thursday. …

Wizard World Minneapolis ended on Sunday, May 8th, at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

Like Friday’s show, Sunday’s Wizard World show is only a half day: from 10am to about 4pm.

Here is the recap on Sunday’s show:

Victor Dandridge

U-Cre-8 Comics Presents: Character Crafters With Victor Dandridge: Writer, artist Victor Dandridge talk about how you can create and design your superhero... and take it to the next level of storytelling and backstory.

As previously mentioned, Dandridge’s comic company Vantage:Inhouse Productions launched in 2011 and publishes The Samaritan, Origins Unknown, The Trouble w/Love and 8 Mins.

Secrets Of Comics Writing Revealed! With Superman’s Dan Jurgens, The Red Hook’s Dean Haspiel, Albert The Alien’s Trevor Mueller & Spider-Man’s Danny Fingeroth:

Secrets Of Comics Writing Revealed

The group described the basics of storytelling, script writing and dialogue and delved further into differences between writing comics “full script” vs. “Marvel-style” which just fleshes out a plot for the artist, to be followed by dialogue insertion after the artwork is drawn.

James Marsters

Out For A Bite With James Marsters: Buffy’s favorite English-accent vampire-with-a-soul Spike (James Marsters), talked about his early, humble beginning. He initially turned down his role in Buffy, as he thought it sounded absolutely terrible. When his agent pressed him to at least watch the (then-unaired pilot), he caved in and loved it so much he did everything he could to become one of the greatest villain-turned-friendly Spike.

Dan Jurgens v Danny Fingeroth

Batman V Superman: Threat Or Menace? With Superman’s Dan Jurgens & Spider-Man’s Danny Fingeroth: The pair explained their reactions to the DC/Warner movie, differences between it and the recently released Captain America: Civil War, and previous incarnations of the DC heroes.

Jurgens (admittedly DC-biased) explained the admiration of adapting his Death of Superman storyline form the comics while admitting a few character flawas of the movie, while Fingeroth (Marvel-biased) compared and contrasted the approach the Marvel Studios movies take to their characters and stories, vs. DC/Warner.

Whether or not each was age-appropriate for children, possible future direction for DC/Warner movies, and what changes each would have made, were also discussed.

Brichibi

Love Your Cosplay Body: Cosplayers Brichibi talk about the challenges of being a nerd, black, gay, and the wrong bodytype. Instead of shying away from the discouragements, she is spreading her message of equality and ‘love your cosplay body’. Love and peace, and most of all, have fun.

Their Time Is Now: Falk Hentschel And Franz Drameh: The pair from CW’s Legends of Tomorrow showed they get along famously, with UK-born Drameh wearing goofy Wonder Woman glasses and Hentschel holding up and spinning Drameh “Dirty Dancing-style” at one point.

Drameh knew of the Firestorm character before getting the role and grew up reading comics, while the German-born Hentschel began his career as a dancer and choreographer before crossing over into acting.

Legends of Tomorrow has been renewed for a second season, but the actors are still waiting to hear a start date for filming.

Legends of Tomorrow (Falk Hentschel And Franz Drameh) at Wizard World Minneapolis (08 May 2016)

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Buffy - I've Got A Theory/Bunnies/If We're Together

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Buffy - I've Got A Theory/Bunnies/If We're Together

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

So, today's entry is on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Although they've used good music soundtracks, such as Echobelly, Curve, and Angie Hart (Frente), I'm going to just focus on their musical episode, "Once More, With Feeling". This episode showed up on the sixth season, it's probably one of the best-loved episode in the Buffyverse.

I won't give away the plot too much, but basically one of the Scooby Gang conjured up a musical demon, so Sunnydale was cursed to sing their lines... It's quite funny, actually.

The CD soundtrack was released one year later after the episode aired, it was limited to 100,000 copies. That's actually a pretty large number... and the artwork is by Adam Hughes, who seems to enjoy nothing but drawings of semi-naked women.

So, a bit of trivia, although the television show ended with the seventh season, it's "eighth season" continues on comic book form, published by Dark Horse Comics. The series is written by Joss Weldon, who is the primary writer and creator of Buffy.

W. B. Mook wrote: Apr 21, 2007 at 2:47 PM

[this is good] I know I posted about this myself, but I trust that y'all have seen Once More With Hobbits!, the LotR versions of all the Buffy songs.

Also, while I'm thinking about it, the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA, used to do screenings of "Once More With Feeling" with audience participation, a la Rocky Horror Picture Show. I think I still have my copy of Marti Noxon's parking ticket from the one time I went to it. So very fun.

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