It’s been a busy week in the geekdom with exciting Mother City comic convention announcements, the loss of a musical icon and the premiere of one of our favourite returning Netflix series!
Let’s get into it:
Comic Con Cape Town x FanConCapeTown is coming in 2023!
Two of the Mother City’s biggest geek conventions are teaming up to bring locals a festival that celebrates our wonderful community. Dust off your capes, don your masks and get ready to geek out at the DHL Stadium in Cape Town from 27 to 29 April 2023!
Leonie, Tendai and I have collectively decided we are skipping Comic Con Africa in Johannesburg in September (on account of work commitments and still being wary of big spreader events) and we were not particularly impressed with Reed Exhibitions’ lame attempt at hosting a multi-venue and event Comic Con Cape Town last year. We bitterly miss the excellent events FanCon Cape Town hosted from 2016 to 2019, with each year being better than the last. This team up between the giants in the industry sounds like a good idea, in theory, and so we’ll be suiting up for it. Look, if it doesn’t work out in this timeline, Doctor Strange can just reset it, right? Or Ms America can teleport us to another multiverse.
If nothing else, we are EXCITED to see the Artist Alley and excellent speakers FanCon is sure to bring to the table, as well as the movie and series celebrities Comic Con Africa (parent event of the Cape Town edition) is renowned for hosting. Something equally exciting to look forward to is seeing how the Stadium is adapted for a geek convention.
Get all of the super helpful info about this mega event at https://comicconafrica.co.za/comic-con-cape-town/
Goodbye to Olivia Newton-John:
It’s been a sad week for all Grease fans as we say goodbye to our original Sandy D 🙁
The star lost her battle with cancer on Monday 8 August 2022. In addition to Grease, the 73 year old actress was known for her hit album Physical, her role in the 80s classic Xanadu and being a cancer awareness activist.
Rest in peace, Dame Olivia – we’ll always be hopelessly devoted to you.
Never Have I Ever returns!
Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) and the gang are back for more teenage angst, the realest look at what growing up in an Indian family is like and ALL of the love triangle drama we could possibly handle. The third season of this Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher created series debuts on Netflix today so you know what I’m doing this weekend 🙂
This season of Never Have I Ever is all about Devi sprucing up her social status and image, chiefly by going public with her smoking hot boyfriend Paxton (Darren Barnet). Knowing our lead character as well as we do, she is going to find some way of Deving it up but we’ll still love her for it. As always, Devi’s cringeworthy life is narrated by tennis legend John McEnroe.
That’s it for this month, folks! Join us next week on all of our socials and right here as we begin our watch of the Game of Thrones‘ prequel series House of the Dragon. In need of a Marvel fix? Check out Leonie’s epic Thor:Love and Thunder review!
