Author: Dorian Reyes Black

Dorian Reyes Black is a writer, filmmaker, and geek blogger based in Los Angeles.

Since 1973, Orange County has been home to one of the most iconic haunt events of Halloween season; Knott’s Scary Farm. Though the park is mostly known for inventing the delicious boysenberry (and it’s Snoopy merch), Knott’s Berry Farm has another claim to fame; it’s shockingly impressive horror mazes.  While the pandemic may have shut down the long-running annual Halloween haunt in 2020, Knott’s Scary Farm is back for 2021, and the park spared no expense in bringing back the scares. From award-winning horror mazes to spooky stage shows, Knott’s remains the gold standard of Halloween theme park haunts. If…

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For non comic book readers, their first introduction to the character Deathstroke, AKA Slade Wilson, may have been his animated portrayal voiced by Ron Pearlman (Hellboy) in the 2003 Cartoon Network series Teen Titans. For others, it would be a decade later on the CW show Arrow, where New Zealand actor Manu Bennett portrayed the legendary sword-wielding assassin in 36 episodes. Still, for others, their first time seeing Deathstroke the Terimator (his villainous codename revealed in issue No. 2 of The New Teen Titans, December 1980) was in the end credits scene of the 2017 feature film Justice League, where the killer-for-hire…

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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is known for showcasing a wide variety of bleeding edge technology; from the newest generation of virtual reality goggles to the newest generation of smart cars. But their latest show is generating buzz in a not-so-great way over an exhibit CES decided to ban from the showroom at the last minute — a high tech vibrator. Created by Lora DiCarlo the robotic vibrator, called Osé, is a sex toy that uses micro-robotics and biomimicry. It is so technologically advanced that CES gave it an innovation award in their robotics category. But before the company had…

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Shopping for your nerdy friends during the holidays can be tough, especially if you do not share their love for a particular fandom. Thankfully, if your friend happens to be a fan of Batman, the DC Universe, or just hard sci-fi in general, “Anatomy of a Metahuman” is a gift that is pretty much guaranteed to please. Written by S.D. Perry and Matthew K. Manning with illustrations by Ming Doyle and colors by Scott Holladay, “Anatomy of a Metahuman” reads like a medical journal full of the Dark Knight’s contingency plans against the DC Universe’s highest profile metahumans. The book’s…

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Like many other TV watching nerds, I was skeptical about DC Universe’s Titans series. I was made even more skeptical after attending San Diego Comic-Con, where Starfire’s gaudy fur coat and unflattering wig were on display at the DC Universe installation in the Gaslamp District. But apparently a well-paced superhero mystery ensemble set in a charmingly gritty DC Universe is enough to overcome one or two poor wardrobe choices. The first episode of Titans dropped on the DC Universe app Friday, October 12th, and already critics are raving over how well the live-action adaption of the Marv Wolfman/George Perez “New…

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