ATL Comic Con 2025 with the Only Guy to Get an F-Bomb from a Young Gun
Either celebrity involvement has finally come to "I Dig Crazy Flicks with CatBusRuss" or cease and desist letters are in the podcast's future. As they say, any press is good press.
Friday, the podcast professional CatBusRuss was a panelist for just one panel, "Knives in My Eyes: 20 Years of 'Brick'". Saturday, he got to sleep in because the only panel he "needed" to get to was "Young Guns Spotlight with Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips". When you ask the only question that gets one of the stars to say the four-letter F-word, you would call the day a win. But the Peorian went on to conquer his shyness by meeting Bai Lingand hopefully learned some new means to still make "Main Event of the Dead" a thing as he attended a panel about selling a comic book to the movies studios with Producer Rick Alexander and Comic Book Legend Steven Grant.
To not seem too nerdy, Russ also attended the Atlanta United vs. Charlotte FC match at the Mercedes Benz Dome. Of course he bough a custom CatBusRuss jersey. He had not spent too much on the show floor, so a souvenir was needed from this trip. That would at least fit in his suitcase.
Sunday was CatBus's big day, and of course it started early. Caffeine and sugar were needed to recover from the soccer match and early morning rewatch of "The Crow". Was he going to be prepared for the "30 Years of the Crow Panel" having not watched the 2024 remake? How much anxiety would this bring him with that being his last panel?
CatBus did his best to hang with "Star Wars" experts when discussing "20 Years of Revenge of the Sith" with the crew from the "Full of Sith Podcast", but left feeling he might not be as attuned with the force as he thought. He got his momentum back with the debut of his new panel "1985 Triple Threat Match: Stallone vs. Schwarzenegger vs. The Cannon Group" with the help of director Mario DeAngelis and novelist Hollis Jo McCollum. With that kind of confidence, he was sure to kill at "The Crow" panel with Streamer Faydra Black...until...
FanX decided since they had the creator of the comic book creator, James O'Barr, and actors Bai Ling, Rochelle Davis, and Laurence Mason to represent the film at the convention, this became a spotlight panel. Could the CatBus hang with this level of talent, or at the very least, not make too much of an ass of himself? Was his "Fire It Up" chant too much?
This ended up being a very heavy weekend for a middled-aged podcaster in the best kind of way. He had to take a break in this recap to catch his breath and gather all the business cards of the coolest vendors from the show floor. Hopefully, you will enjoy his review of 1987 sci-fi action classic, "The Hidden". Please excuse his mispronunciation of Kyle MacLachlan's name.