I’ve got a big bowl of geek yogurt topped with fresh links just for you! Christian Bale traveled to Aurora, Colo. to visit with recovering victims of the massacre at a midnight show of The Dark Knight Rises and to attend a memorial service for those who died in the attack. Joe Peacock says that causal lady-geeks like me are [...]

The Dark Knight Rises was fresh in my mind when I spoke to Dr. Travis Langley, author of Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight. Actually, the movie is the main reason I sought out an interview with the tenured Henderson State University (HSU) psychology professor. Langley tweets from @Superherologist, and that was how I found him.   “It’s [...]

Needless to say, this article probably contains spoilers about The Dark Knight Rises because I really don’t feel like censoring myself. This is also an article about spoilers, so it works in a meta way. I’m just that good. Consider your mind blown. I’ll take the fact that you’re terrified of peanut butter and sleep with a Power Rangers night [...]

Early this morning, a gunman opened fire on a packed movie theater where people had gathered to see a midnight show of The Dark Knight Rises. No jokes on this one, folks, just thoughts for those affected. The third season of Game of Thrones will feature the storyline that George R.R. Martin is most dreading, and it has the initials R.W. I’m [...]

Frank Castle is the Punisher. And, to me, no one has ever played him better than Thomas Jane. Sorry, Dolph Lundgren and Ray Stevenson. It’s the truth. I haven’t even seen Punisher: War Zone. Although, I’ve heard I’m missing some seriously over-the-top violent hilarity. Meh. Recently, a love letter to the Punisher surfaced online in the form of a great [...]

So The Matrix: Reloaded was on television the other night, playing in the background while I watched YouTube videos and caught up on the news. For whatever reason, I stopped long enough to notice that the Merovingian was douching it up as the perfect French stereotype: promiscuous, pompous, rich, and slightly metrosexual. I was momentarily reminded that someone once told me he was [...]

Charles Dowd is an independent publisher on top of being writer and illustrator of the all-ages digital graphic novel Lilith Dark (as well as illustrating a lot of other stuff). Don’t let all those modifiers scare you, the comic is fun in a twisted sort of “If Calvin and the Goonies and the Monsters from Labyrinth Had a Baby Girl and [...]

Gather round, friends. It’s that time again – time to take your weekly dose of Vitamin G(eek). I don’t know if you’ve heard, but San Diego (A word that no one really knows the origin of) is holding Comic-Con this week. If this is your first time on the Internet, this means sa-weet costumes, awesome examples of geek grandeur for [...]

In my house, we like to call him Jake Spiderman. The last name runs together. Say it in your head. “SpIderMun.” Actually, my husband doesn’t call Spider-Man that. Nor, really, does my son. I guess it’s just me. *shrug* My son does, however, really like Spider-Man right now. If I was able, I’d redo his room in an over-abundance of web-slingery. [...]

Ok, consider this your spoiler warning since I’m too lazy to try to edit myself and think about what might be a spoiler. But, seriously, people, it’s already been out a week. Also, Bruce Willis has been dead the whole time, she drops the necklace in the ocean at the end, and the next villain is Thanos. I drove to [...]

When Spider-Man and Batman share a subway car in Toronto, you have to wonder who screams, “My parents are dead!” best. Speaking of the web-slinger, Peter Parker may be perpetually between 16 and 30, but his title turns 50 this year. In honor of a half a century of power and responsibility, Blastr checks out 50 great Spidey covers. Hey, [...]

By: Mike Padgen The discovery of the Higgs boson (a.k.a. the God particle) made headlines throughout the world. Major news outlets reached out to experts to help explain the importance of this discovery. The Cool Ship has turned to… a guy in an unrelated field. What is this Higgs boson thing and why should we care about it? This is [...]

I learned this week that Marvel Comics monthly books were being semi-rebooted with the new Marvel NOW line.  Reboots are one of the reasons I have all but stopped reading comic books; I don’t have the time, or money, to keep up with every story in every book. When I finally do get caught up, most of what came before [...]

This is really a case of it doing what it says on the tin. Bill Nye “The Science Guy” has been doing a series of videos for The Planetary Society (which totally sounds like some galactic alliance of superheroes). Mental note: Start writing the adventures of the Planetary Society – I didn’t capitalize the “The”, so it’s totally different. No [...]

Ace of Bass is a tribute band to ‘90s Swedish pop group that performs entirely on…wait for it….upright basses. Didn’t see that coming, did you? You probably did; I telegraphed it pretty clearly. It’s a good question, and one I don’t hear asked enough – Why is rape worse than death in video games? Maybe now that Atari is 40, [...]

I was more upset than Phil Collins this morning to discover Doc Brown didn’t set June 27, 2012 as the future date in Back to the Future. It’s all been a pack of lies! I’m not usually one to fall for Interwebz hoaxes. Seriously. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. Here’s what normally happens: “TJ, OMG! Look at THIS! It’s totally [...]

Preschool was the prime of my life. I weighed like 100 pounds less than I do now. Jem and the Holograms was on right before ballet class. And other than my mother’s constant refusal to buy me a workout leotard (Totally different from a dance leotard) and leg warmers to accessorize my spontaneous acts of aerobics, life was perfect. But, [...]

If you’re like us (And, you should be. Why wouldn’t you be? We’re awesome!), you finished A Dance With Dragons with a groan and an insatiable lust for more. The fifth in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice series, Dance left us practically shaking with need like a pubescent kid at his first boy/girl dance. AND if you’re like us (See above: RE: We’re [...]

The first images of Angelina Jolie as Maleficent have leaked. Well, they’re either from Maleficent or the hardcore Goat Boy reboot. Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper art is apparently based on real life. Here is a video of a whale sneezing a rainbow. You’re welcome, Internet. It’s Gabrielle’s birthday, and if she wants to eat the Avengers in cake form, she [...]

Actually, I’m in a pretty good mood. I’ve come to terms with the soul-crushing truth of my impending death heralded by the yearly occasion of my birthday. *Sigh* Plus, it’s always a good time. (FYI: That’s a link to the new Owl City/ Carly Rae Jepsen song. I’m currently obsessed with it.) So, in celebration (ahem) of the day of my [...]