Big Easy Con is the latest addition to the Louisiana comic con scene. It's set to hit Nola on November 1st-3rd, and will be featuring a couple of major "homecoming" appearances.
Shreve Con will have plenty of shopping for that "hard to buy for" geek.Things that you can't find in a big box store, or on a website with free shipping
Are you familiar with a ‘sunk cost’ concept? That’s when a business allocates resources to get a project or product off the ground only to see it struggle to deliver; instead of treating that seed money as an expense they’ve written off and will never recover - a ‘sunk cost’ - the company continues to throw good money after bad in a vain hope of eventually recouping its financial losses. You see this happen in Hollywood every now and then, where a studio spends millions of dollars to market a movie it knows is probably going to fail. Or, in the case of a film like Gambit, a studio keeps hiring people to write or rewrite the film despite zero evidence it’ll actually get made.
As a tagline, “You’ll float too” sounds more like a promise than a threat (maybe it’s both?), and the upcoming adaptation of It definitely seems ready and willing to deliver. Even if you haven’t read Stephen King’s classic horror novel and lack the context for that tagline, there’s something undeniably disturbing about it, especially when taken with this new poster created exclusively for Comic-Con 2017.
Geek'd Con is my favorite thing in Shreveport. Apologies to the Mudbugs and Mardi Gras, but for real, Shreveport's biggest geek event is a magical weekend that can't be duplicated.
When I talk to people about it, nearly everyone gets excited, but some quickly follow that excitement up with some form of the phrase "But what is it really...
Geek'd Con is the fastest growing comic-con-style in the state of Louisiana. In the first year of Geek'd, more than 10,000 people came through the Shreveport Convention Center over the three-day-weekend. In 2016, that number grew to 15,000...