FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention (Spring 2019)

Once again, that which cannot be shortened to be called a comic-con has come and gone in Salt Lake City. The Spring show was billed as being smaller, and it was. Fewer vendors, panels, and crowds. Occasionally FanX has done smaller Spring shows, kind of to give everyone a breather, and then they bounce back with a huge show in the fall. Interesting tidbits from the show:

Zachary Levi Spotlight Panel

It turns out that Zachary Levi is a pretty funny guy, and his panel was full of laughs and fun throughout.

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Avengers: Endgame Predictions

Avengers Endgame is the most anticipated new release for the week of April 25th, if not for the whole month of April. There are a lot of rumors, theories, predictions, and secrecy around the film, and here are the Agents of Nothing’s predictions.

HALT!

This is all unsubstantiated hearsay guesses, but if even one thing is right and you feel like that is a crime and a spoiler, then you should stop reading now.

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Highlights from 2019 – 1st Quarter

Stats

Top Question and Top Viewed:

The top question was “Why is Shelob considered evil?” asked by Misha R with an accepted answer by wcullen, although there are several competing answers, two of which have more votes by Valorum and Paul Johnson.


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Top Answer:

The top answer was to the question “Does any Looney Tunes character ever use any fictional brand-name product that isn’t ACME?” asked by TheAsh and answered by Valorum.


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Most Controversial:

Are there any examples of feminist works in the Sword and Sorcery genre?” asked by vallismortis.


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Bounties

28 bounties were awards for 4450 rep.

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Jack’s Bad Movies: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

IMDB’s description:

After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer HAL 9000.

The movie has literally had a black screen now for 3 minutes with just music. I stopped the movie twice to make sure there wasn’t something wrong with the video (like it wasn’t streaming correctly). Also the “musical” notes are not pleasing to the ear.

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