MegaCon Orlando 2019 was four days of pop culture, comics, games, and more smack dab in the middle of Orlando, Florida. This was my first time returning to MegaCon since 2013 and I was more than excited to see how much had changed since the last time I’d been. Going from Friday to Sunday was…
Greg Pak Wants to Help You Make Comics
Earlier last year, comic writer and movie director Greg Pak took to Twitter to share his experience and expertise regarding writing comic book scripts. To his surprise, the tweet garnered almost half a million clicks. Clearly, there’s a hunger for this kind of information. The response to the 2018 Twitter thread blew Pak’s mind, he told…
I Shouldn’t Mention Thunderbirds: Pop Culture References in Dialogue
It’s easy to be cynical about pop culture references in dialogue. It’s easy, and often enough, it’s fair. I don’t much need to explain why. What I do want to consider is an example of the opposite, when a pop culture reference in a piece of written dialogue becomes intensely concentrated communication, contextually useful and…