Announcements!!!

Lake Charles, LA

In January, the Lake Charles Film Festival announced that its first guest of honor would be none other than Michael Gray, Billy Batson from the 1974-1976 CBS television series Shazam! The series celebrates its 45th anniversary this year and the character of Captain Marvel, now referred to as Shazam, will be getting his own feature film on April 5th starring Zachary Levi. This announcement alone should make festival attendees excited.

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The festival wasn’t done surprising us, however, as today it was announced that John Davey, Captain Marvel from the TV series, will also be attending the film festival! Davey portrayed the character starting in the second season and remained with the series until it ended in 1976. This film festival is turning out to be a big celebration of Shazam! Both gentlemen will be on hand to talk about their careers, how to navigate through the film industry, and to sign autographs and take photos with fans. Last year’s festival was a fun event, and I can’t wait to attend this year!

As I mentioned above, DC and Warner Bros. will be releasing Shazam! on the big screen in April. I plan on checking the film out and reviewing it as soon as possible, so be on the lookout for that later this year.

In more DC news, DC Universe will be releasing the first episode of Doom Patrol on the streaming service on this Friday, February 15th. Fans that aren’t familiar with the oddball team of heroes can either check them out at local comic book stores or catch a glimpse of them in DC Universe’s Titans series episode #4, “Doom Patrol.” The series will star Brendan Fraser and Riley Shanahan as Robotman, April Bowlby as Elasti-Woman, Diane Guerrero as Crazy Jane, Matt Bomer and Matthew Zuk as Negative Man, Joivan Wade as Cyborg, Timothy Dalton as the Chief, and Alan Tudyk as Mr. Nobody. Hopefully the series will keep the lighter tone of the characters set in Titans.

Don’t forget that I’ll be attending Louisiana Comic Con in March. I’m hosting a panel that I still don’t want to announce at the moment, but I hope that it ignites a certain group of collectors to become more vocal about their collections. I’m still waiting on other conventions to reply to me about either media passes or panels. As soon as I hear from them, I’ll announce when and where I’ll be at the conventions.

Well, that’s all for now. I can’t wait to see some of you at Louisiana Comic Con next month. If you’d like me to attend any conventions in your area, tell the convention about me! I’d love to meet my readers and hang out with all of you!

As always, thanks for reading. I’ll be posting about the Doom Patrol episode over the weekend and plan on making at least one more post this week.