NERDSociety: Hello! I can’t thank you enough for agreeing to be interviewed for NERDSociety. Could you start off by giving us the name you go by?

Steampunk Cylon: Folks online may know me as Steampunk Cylon but my actual name is John D’Antonio.

NS: First off, you just got back from Katsucon. Share with us about what that event is and how was it? (Check out some photos of one of his recent costumes at the con: an Umbrella Agent) 

SC: Katsucon is an anime convention held in the D.C. area once a year and is usually the first anime convention …

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Now on DVD is Iron Man: Armored Adventures, Season 2 Volume 2 brought to you by Gaiam vivendi entertainment. This 6 episode DVD continues the adventures of Young Tony Stark and his friends James Rhodes and Pepper Potts as they face the evils who stole Stark’s Iron Man technology. The series features familiar characters such as Doctor Doom, Hawkeye and Black Widow; along with Nick Fury, Mandarin and others—allowing Marvel fans to see their favorite heroes and villains.

Iron Man: Armored Adventures is shown on the Nick Toons channel and is animated in mostly flat CG with 3D …

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From Marvel, Madhouse and Sony comes the Blade Anime on DVD July 31st. This 2 disk set features all 12 episodes of the series and comes in a clam shell case with a disk on each side.

The Blade Anime has a very Japanese style story with a samurai theme to it. This is found more-so than in X-Men, Iron Man and even Wolverine—other Marvel series’ made into Anime.

Characters return cross-over style with an appearance by Wolverine and new characters are introduced such as Makoto, a vampire hunter who helps Blade in his quest for revenge against Deacon Frost.

Here …

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I’m probably the LAST person to rate something related to Iron Man, I’m not big on most of what Marvel does, however I am an old school fan of Anime and so I looked at it through the eyes of an Anime fan and man, I was very impressed.

Written by Marvel’s Warren Ellis and re-written from that story by the writers at Madhouse in Japan, the Iron Man Anime takes the viewer into a later stage of Tony Stark’s career. Tony travels to Japan with nothing but peace in mind after years of manufacturing and selling weapons. In order to …

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In recent week news has surfaced that both Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire will not be involved with the new Spider-man movie.  Disagreements between Raimi and Sony Pictures in the early production resulted in Raimi withdrawing from the project and the studio deciding to move forward without him.  This is not the first time the two butted heads, in the production of the last film, there were similar disputes.  Sony pushed for the character Venom to be apart of the 3rd film, Raimi expressed no interest in the character but gave into the studios demands.  The result lead to a backlash …

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