Nerdery

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According to Comic Book Resources, DC Comics has canceled their Minx line.  The Minx line was introduced last year to attract young female manga fans to American comics.  Minx was created by Vertigo’s Shelly Bond and partially inspired by the digest-sized collection of My Faith in Frankie (which, by the way, if you haven’t read [...]

Let me start off by sharing my thoughts on Heroes as a whole.  It was one of those shows that got a lot of hype with the comic and sci-fi crowd before it aired.  I know the first episode premiered at Comicon and was fairly well-received.  I know that once it was broadcast, it had [...]

I did watch the second episode of Fringe (thank you, Hulu!) and decided that my snarky reactions to the first episode aren’t really going to fit so well with the rest of the series.  The second episode was a marked improvement, though it was by no means perfect.

Back in 1986, Frank Miller showed the world his vision of Batman’s last case.  The Dark Knight Returns told us the story of a fifty year old Bruce Wayne,  retired as Batman ten years ago.  But Gotham needs its hero again.  Bruce dons the cape and cowl again and returns to the streets of his [...]

Every Saturday afternoon, I get together with my good friends Bill and Josh to play either Mage or Dungeons & Dragons. I’ve always kind of been baffled at the parents who shield their kids from RPGs because they’re “full of Satanic rituals,” and all that crap. I remember my dad telling me the same thing [...]

These reviews are going to short and sweet. I’m posting them in my reading order (which means my favorite books/writers are towards the bottom of the stack) and not any logical order.
Scalped #21 - I read through eight months of this Vertigo series a month or two back because my comics budget had been [...]

A lot of you have probably already seen this super-hot, super nerdy Nintendo bikini by John Nouanesing. The Geekini, as he calls it, is just a prototype and isn’t for sale yet, but may be available by next summer for your favorite geek girl to wear.
We’ve all seen the standard t-shirts featuring Mario, Princess, Bowser, [...]

I decided to take a look at the pilot episode of J.J. Abrams’ new series, Fringe, on Hulu. I know it aired last week, but I’m just now watching it. I may keep this up if the show grabs me.
Or if I have a lot of good jokes.

“The story of an aging warrior, dragging himself from a restful retirement to fight once more: possibly senile, definitely psychotic, obsessed with reclaiming past glories with no thought to the consequences.”
One part politics, one part nerdery and 100% awesome.