Comic book deaths are almost laughably temporary. They’ve served as an easy out for a creative team sketched into a corner or to freshen up a character so ripe they make hákarl look fresh. Bonus points: 5 internets to the first person to tell me in the comments what hákarl tastes in their experience. You will also be named Food [...]
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There are few things in life as fantastic as The Avengers. Among those things are cookies. After moments of careful scientific study in my fiancé’s kitchen, I have found a way to do the impossible – to combine them! Like the A-Team or….um…The Avengers … baking is all about items or um…people….with different abilities coming together to accomplish something great. [...]
There is no one in the world with better survival skills than a four-year-old girl with an older brother and a legion of boy cousins. She’s fast to outrun errant flicked boogers. She’s loud to shout that you can’t hit a girl and if you try she’s telling mom! And, above all, she’s adaptable. That isn’t just a My Little [...]
The Avengers is coming out in a couple weeks (or Marvel’s The Avengers if you’re not into the whole brevity thing, but still feels like one article too many to me), and I’m more excited than Agustus Gloop in the chocolate mixing room. I’m avoiding all spoilers. I’ve stopped watching snippets leaked online. Nope, I want to go into this [...]
If Twilight is Taco Bell and C is for Cookie, then Pinterest is smuggling a pint of ice cream home on a warm day and eating the entire thing yourself. Let me explain, and don’t judge. We’ve all done it. One scoop turns into half the carton since it’s so comically small and the spoon is so big. And then, [...]
What is a geek? Am I really a geek? I’ve always felt geeky, but lately I’ve been wondering. I have pictorial evidence to prove the presence of several awkward years (which, it could be argued, continue to this day). But we all know that the old stereotype of a geek as an awkward perpetual teenager is not true. Well, mostly. [...]
While researching this article, I actually googled “fan fiction,” not realizing that it was about as specific as searching “pornography,” “Kim Kardashian,” or anything normally found in an entry on Urban Dictionary. In 0.14 second I had 44,600,000 sites to choose from. As the star of Zardoz would say, the game was on. As you can probably guess, I don’t [...]
From 16-21 I worked in a movie theater selling tickets. While the uniform was a pure polyester nightmare of maroon and ill-fitting vests, the perks ruled. Free movies for myself and a few friends with me. Yeah, any popularity I had during those years can almost be directly attributed to free moves (I say almost because, as you probably already [...]
Lately, two things have happened that have overtaken my previously varied and delightful conversation: I got engaged, and I started writing for this fine and geeky publication. Now, I have weddings on the brain, and I’m desperate for a fresh audience to foist all of the awesome things I have seen on the Internet. Seriously. I knew there was a [...]
If you’re anything like me, you’re waiting with baited breath for the Hunger Games to open next Friday. Oh sure, tell me I’m just like the Twilight fans I despise, but I’ll straight up own you in my rebuttal. Katniss is an ordinary girl put in extraordinary circumstances, and she handles the crap out of it. Bella practically dies because [...]
The voice of Superman has a YouTube series, and it is awesome. Tim Daly and his son, Sam have this series, The Daly Show (Get it?). This series follows their antics as Sam tries to break into show business, and Tim is insane. Side note: Tim looks too young to have a son who is 25. I have several theories [...]
I’ve been a superhero enthusiast for years, but the first books I actually bought were a couple trades of Amanda Conner’s run on Power Girl. I’ve already discussed the absurdity of PeeGee’s costume, and others have done it at greater length and much better. But, despite her signature window to her triple e-cup soul, Power Girl was intelligent, independent and [...]
As you probably don’t know, I am a young lady betrothed to a swell fella’. (Unless you’re one of my friends reading this because I paid you to.) But, as you probably do know, I am a geek. Mike is a geek, too. It’s all very sweet and matchy-matchy. Seriously, we’re adorable. Like a puppy and a baby panda splitting [...]
When you were in fifth grade, you had to tell everyone in class that you cho-cho-chose them. But, now, you’ve grown up. You only need to give cards to some people, sometimes just one. And there’s the rub – what do you want to say to your special someone? There’s nothing more personal than a mass-produced, $3.99 Hallmark card that [...]
Love. Wars have been fought for it. Religions have spawned for it. Heck, 500 miles have been walked for it. And you’re going to prove yours by going to toe to toe with all the other desperate love struck fools out there in a battle royale for the last Whitman’s Sampler. And you better be ready to throw merciless elbows [...]
So, apparently my last deathmatch was a little slipshod. I just went in there like a European colonist and divided comics up into two groups without regard to the delicate differences found across genres. I never looked closely enough to see if there were any warring factions that found themselves sharing territory. (Please see paragraph 3 on the last article, [...]
When I was in college, I had a strategy for dressing for the gym. I’d get all dolled up and then put on a t-shirt from my days working at Skyline Chili. For those of you not blessed to grow up in the glorious greater Cincinnati area, Skyline is a chain of chili parlors (restaurants) that sells Cincinnati chili. That’s [...]
On Wednesday, I attended a physics lecture, as we intellectual journalism types are wont to do. I polished my good monocle; lint rolled my tweed jacket, and, for good measure, viciously criticized the grammar of friends to boost my academic ego. Truth be told, I went and saw James Kakalios’ eminently entertaining lecture “The Physics of Superheroes.” And I was [...]
Is one type of comic fandom better? Since I want you to keep reading, and alienating readers is a poor strategy, I will let you in on my heartwarming conclusion – we’re all a group of kickass, stone cold freaks. That aside, I do love a little bloodsport, and thought I’d still pit mainstream and independent comics against each other [...]
There are some things in life that you’d be a fool to dispute. Gravity. The usefulness of penicillin. That the 5 Second Rule becomes a 10 Second Rule when you’ve dropped an entire Snickers. But, above all, the thing that brings all of humanity together in agreement, the undisputed awesomeness of the Muppets. Those felted creations are pressed on us practically [...]
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