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 [...]
The Avengers is still forefront in my mind. Yes, I was able to see it last week. And, yes, I wanted to immediately see it again. (I was actually jealous of the people in line to see the later show as we exited the theater. JEALOUS.) Superheroes are just the best form of escapism for me right now. They’re awesome, [...]
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Everyone saw The Avengers over the weekend. Why wouldn’t they? It had a bunch of superheroes fighting a god that is invading the Earth with aliens from the other side of the galaxy by harnessing the power of a magic cube. Why wouldn’t people go see that? However, I’m willing to bet that most of the people that saw it [...]
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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. [...]
If you are anything like me or basically a person at all, you probably saw The Avengers this weekend. It broke some records and and took all of our money this weekend. It also got me thinking. How did we get to this point? It wasn’t too long ago comic books and video games weren’t cool. They were fun, but [...]
Over the years of watching the Star Trek franchise, I’ve always wanted the type of technology they had in each series, whether it be the replicator, the holodeck, the transporter, or even warp speed. Naturally, as a kid I was all about every piece of technology and wanted it all. Now as an adult, and I use that term very [...]
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Marvel’s The Avengers releases tomorrow, so I thought we could look back at the absolute worst members of the Avengers and hope that we never see them on film. Stingray – Walter Newell is an oceanographer who builds a suit so he can be an underwater superhero. He’s like Aquaman, except that he has to put on a suit [...]
I need to talk to you about a video game today. But, my article doesn’t really fit in our Gaming section. It involves some major geekery…or, at least, what I consider to be major geekery. Let’s begin by turning the way-back machine to the glory days of ABC’s TGIF. I was a huge fan of the white bread sitcoms on [...]
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 [...]
With the rapid approach of The Avengers (May 4…Get your tickets NOW!), I’ve noticed an uptick in all things superhero. Now, in no way am I complaining about this phenomenon. Quite the opposite, in fact! As a self-proclaimed geek, I readily admit my excitement. I even love the tie-ins that have absolutely nothing to do with Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, [...]
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I’m now the father of two children. For the most part, it’s pretty awesome (other than the whole “I have a newborn so my sleep time is cut in half” thing). My son is currently three, and one of my favorite things is simply watching him figuring stuff out. From drawing, to putting blocks together, to learning new words, the [...]
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 you’ve been paying the slightest bit of attention to this series, I’m sure you’ve gleaned that I’ve had a child recently. Or, you should have inferred it at least. Suffice it to say, Amelia Regan was born on April 2. She’s a healthy little girl with lusty lungs and big beautiful eyes that don’t focus on anything in particular, [...]
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, [...]
It’s a piece of age-old wisdom that magicians shouldn’t reveal their tricks. You’d think, then, that a magic museum would be a bit of a cop-out, the exact opposite of magic, a place of disenchantment as illusions are dispersed. Yet the Magic Museum of Paris manages to be a temple of deceptions, a hallowed shrine to artifice and trickery and [...]
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. [...]
I seem to have a knack for ending up in shady areas. Not literally shady – this area in particular was lit up by too many neon signs advertising sex shops and strip clubs – but one of those run down, seedy areas, which, through a strange sort of irony, is right next to one of Paris’ more famous landmarks, [...]
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 [...]
So, have you guys heard about this little art house movie, The Hunger Games? Yeah, apparently, it’s a pretty big deal, a la Ron Burgundy. Leather bound books are definitely in the mix. It’s made unsightly amounts at the box office, and I’m sure it will continue to do so in the near future. Fans of the books by Suzanne [...]
[Featured Image by Xer0ne] Finally back to a normal routine. There have been no major developments in the world of comics that I feel I need to go over so this will be just a standard review. First my ratings for the week Green Lantern Corps – 5/5 Batman – 5/5 Nightwing- 5/5 Justice League – 5/5 Red Hood and [...]
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