Here at Binary System Podcast we’re all about recapping the latest and most recent pop-culture phenomenon. And by that we mean a vampire TV show that wrapped up two years ago this month. We’ll get to Captain Marvel soon, we promise. (And by soon you mean early next year? ~ Elizabeth) (Quiet, you. ~ Kathryn.)

Listen in this week as we spoil ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING about the final few episodes of The Vampire Diaries. The doppelgängers, the callbacks, the wedding toasts, the brothers trying to out-selfless each other, the Bennett Witches, the last human standing, the epic love stories, the sunken ships, and the freaking Cure For Vampirism Musical Chairs; it may have been an over-the-top CW show about teenage vampires, but we loved it and we wouldn’t change a thing.

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Hey! Welcome back to the Spookeasy Podcast, formally known as The Halloween Street Podcast. Some major changes and redressing. Same show, new name and voices. This week Leland and new host Shane and Matt discuss the differences in the classic 60s TV shows: The Addams Family and The Munsters. So please enter the Spookeasy and enjoy! Read On

After months of waiting it’s finally here: the first issue of the brand new, completely rebooted Transformers from IDW.

Just for the record, I’m going to try really hard to not compare this new series to the IDW comics that came before it, because I don’t think that’d be fair: I loved those comics because they were very good, but also because they were familiar. I’m going to try to judge this new series on its own merits, instead of holding it up to something that had thirteen years to win me over.

Keep reading for a review of Transformers #1. (The 2019 incarnation.)

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Only a few more days until NC Comicon:Oak City starts Friday, March 15th! This year’s convention is bigger than ever, with three days of new exhibits, more guests, and lots of new workshops and panels to attend including, get this, hands-on longsword demos (sword and gloves provided, don’t forget to sign the waiver.)

Click the jump for a rundown of the schedule so far.

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Only a few days till Emerald City Comic Con! Keep reading for the schedule of creator panels and signings from Image Comics!

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I’ll walk along the shore collecting shells,

read all the books I’ve never had the time for,

and study witchcraft. What should women do

when they grow old and useless? Become witches.

It’s the only role you get to write yourself.

Hungarian-born author Theodora Goss has several novels to her name (including The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter and European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman), but she’s also been writing a steady stream of short stories and poems over the years. Snow White Learns Witchcraft collects eight short stories – most of them previously released but a couple of them brand new to this collection – surrounded by twenty-three poems that echo the themes of the tales and then braid them into new meanings.

Each of the stories and poems here are are based on a traditional fairytale that’s retold from a different point of view, or a different time period, or a completely new motivation for the main characters, all with Goss’s characteristic imagery of feathers and rose petals, lace and snow (and sometimes blood).

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There was a time when I couldn’t even imagine going to see a movie based on a Marvel comic book character. Let alone going to see their 21^st film! That’s right! It’s time for another Marvel Cinematic Universe movie release: first up for 2019 is Captain Marvel. Set in 1995, the story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes Captain Marvel after the Earth is caught in the center of a galactic conflict between two alien worlds. One-part origin movie for the character and one part moving the universe forward with filling in blanks from other films in series, another great movie in the Marvel film series.

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Visit Dark Horse Comics at Emerald City Comic Con to meet some of your favorite creators and get your hands on some free swag, such as comics, pins, posters, and more! Get colorin’ on our communal coloring wall! The wall will feature pages from the #DHColors Coloring Book line! Canvases will vary throughout the weekend but include pages from Steven Universe Coloring Book Volume 1, The Legend of Korra Coloring Book, Avatar: The Last Airbender Coloring Book, Jurassic Park Coloring Book, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Coloring Book.

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It’s time for Pioneer Days in Night Vale again! Wow, has it already been a year since the last festival? The answer is: no, it hasn’t, because Pioneer Days happen at random times whenever the Night Vale Utilities company shuts off all the power and water in the town, leaving everyone to sit in the dark while all the food in their refrigerators spoils. It’s festive.

Listen in as the Binary System Podcast talks this week about the Night Vale festival with time-traveler photographs, an Interactive Boardwalk in the desert, and a truly horrifying recipe for Cherries Jubilee. Plus, we’ll ramble for a bit about fever dreams, photo exhibits, cosplay issues, and our very favorite podcasts (other than this one, naturally).

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It’s Rivendell meets Casablanca, Oz in No Man’s Land, wrapped up safe in its indestructible snowglobe…

…It only gets more ominous as we get closer…

Keep reading for a review of Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans’ Die #4.

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