Montgomery Community Media

  Valiant Comics is back!  The indy publisher that debuted in the late 1980’s and featured such titles as X-O Manowar, Doctor Solar Man of the Atom and Turok Dinosaur Hunter relaunched its line in the spring of 2012.  Patrick Michael Strange caught up with Valiant publisher, Fred Pierce, at The Baltimore Comic Con. We’ve […]

Season 4 is well underway! The first three episodes have aired and we taped in late January on location at Victory Comics in Falls Church, VA.   I love community media television!  The location taping is a huge success thanks to Arlington Independent Media’s mobile production van.  Access to mobile studio equipment allows this show […]

The long wait is over for fans as 21st Century Sandshark Studios’ latest release, The Reptile and Mr. Amazing: The Return of Kat Carson, hit the web. The sequel to the 2002 webcomic, The Reptile and Mr. Amazing: The Origin, this story returns to the world of heroes Roger Tyler and Carter Talbot. Mr. Amazing […]

I was recently asked to review RAW Studios’ graphic novel version of Dark Country. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the work, Dark Country is a 2009 feature film from Stage 6 Films and Hyde Park Entertainment, directed by Thomas Jane (The Punisher, The Mist, Hung) and written by Tab Murphy (Batman: […]

FANTASTIC FORUM recently traveled to Annapolis, Maryland for the Annapolis Comic Con – Halloween Edition! Our friends at Awesome Cons run this show along with the Southern Maryland Comic Con and the upcoming Awesome Convention in Washington, DC in April 2013. Awesome Cons knows what they’re doing so it’s always a good time. I was […]

FANTASTIC FORUM was in attendance at this weekend’s Baltimore Comic Con! The 13th Annual show featured special guest Stan Lee, The 25th Annual Harvey Awards, a Costume Contest, panels galore and more fun and excitement than you can shake a stick at! Among the many guests were actor Phil Lamarr, DC Comics publisher Dan DiDio, […]

I was in attendance at last weekend’s Baltimore Grand Prix. Geppi’s Entertainment Museum at Camden Station was a base for the event which enjoyed its second annual running. I had a blast hanging out in the VIP with Baltimore Bachelorette Gina Geppi and her dad, Diamond Distribution’s Steve Geppi. Another old friend that I ran […]

For anyone in the area who couldn’t make it to San Diego this weekend, The Southern Maryland Comic Con;was Saturday before last in Waldorf, Maryland.  This one-day con packed quite a punch!  There were some great artists in attendance including Steve Conley, Greg LaRocque, Matt Slay, J.K. Woodward, Louis Small Jr., Carolyn Belefski, Dan Nokes and Chris […]

On Friday, co-host Billie Rae Bates and I visited Geppi’s Entertainment Museum where we met Steve Geppi.  Steve is one of the most influential men in the comics industry through his position as president of Diamond Comics Distributors.  Diamond has cornered the distribution market and if you are a publisher who wants their books to […]

We enjoyed a terrific location shoot at Victory Comics in Falls Church, VA yesterday evening. Thanks to AIM (that’s Arlington Independent Media not to be confused with Advanced Idea Mechanics) and the mobile production van FANTASTIC FORUM was able to tape the discussion portion of two complete episodes from the sales floor of the store! […]