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- MAY 2014
CONV EN TI O NS So most people would have heard of comic-con, an event for comics, cartoons and games where people dress up as their favorite character and go have a good time buying the merchandise, meeting voice actors, the actors and the creators of the comics, cartoons or games. There are however lesser known events like comic-con such as: ARMAGEDDON - Held once a year Armageddon is a two-day convention showing at the Melbourne show grounds on October 19th and 20th with famous guests such as Kevin Eastman co-creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Wayne Nichols best known for illustrating Marvel comic Giant Sized Incredible Hulk, Dark Horse Comics
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Radical Comics Ryder On The Storm and Abattoir. Terry Brooks author of the Shannara series that covers over twenty books of Epic Fantasy giving real depth into the Post Apocalyptic world he created. William Slayers voice actor of protagonist Rigby on Regular Show he also has had roles in video games such as Mass Effect 3, Captain America: Super Solider and The Darkness 2. David Hewlett also known as Dr. Meredith Rodney McKay in Stargate: Atlantis. SUPERNOVA - Also held once a year
Supernova is open from the 11th of April to the 13th… (So last month ☺) with people such as Lucy Lawless: Xena, Alexander Ludwig from The
Dark is Rising and The Hunger Games, Crystal Reed: Allison Argent in Teen Wolf, Freema Agyeman: Martha Jones in Doctor Who, James Callis: Baltar in Battlestar Galactica also starring in Arrow and The Three Musketeers, Lindsay Wagner the original Bionic Woman, Mark Hadlow: Dori in the Hobbit trilogy and many many many others including voice actors from Adventure time, Pokemon, Futurama and Yu-Gi-Oh. Cover Artists and Comic Authors and Illustrators. On a sad note for Supernova which left me particularly down was that Eoin Macken: Gwaine from Merlin had cancelled on Supernova, he was supposed to go to the Melbourne showing but had to cancel due to a wedding and work commitments. Jessie Cave: Lavender Brown from Harry Potter also cancelled as well as Manu
Bennett: Deathstroke in Arrow and Azog in The Hobbit. Tamora Pierce, Gethin Anthony from Game of Thrones and Rachel Skarsten from Lost Girl and Transporter: The series and Birds of Prey. Of course you couldn’t have an Anime/ Comic/Game convention without the one thing that makes it worth going… Dressing up as a character you know, it just brings out all the childish joy you have when you get to dress up and mess around for an entire day with out anyone thinking it’s inappropriate or weird, whether you’re dressing up as Dimatello from TMNT, Kyoya from Beyblade Metal Masters or Erza Scarlet from Fairy Tail it’s a good day to just mess around and have fun. SHANNON DENNING