X-men is the property which truly began our society’s current obsession with comic book based films. Sure, we flirted with the genre before with Batman and Superman films, but it wasn’t until 2000′s X-men that the world really took notice. The timing could not have been more brilliant. Those of us who were avid watchers of the 1992-97  animated Fox version of [...]

The temperature this week has had more ups and downs than a drag queen’s wigs during a show. I may have run out yesterday in a fleece, but I shivered home in the snow. Fortunately the weather wasn’t the only interesting thing that happened this week!  Want to be perceived as a hipster but hate all the going to dive [...]

According to my phone, Albany is currently 11°F. That means that only reason I’m leaving my house is to get a haircut (Because my long hair is mad aggravating, yo.) and buy a sofa (Fun fact: Five years after college is the international time limit for owning a futon instead of a sofa bed. Sure, we can call what’s in [...]

Director Bryan Singer tweeted yesterday that Sirs Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen have deigned to join X-Men: Days of Future Past! Behold:   Will this make the next installment of the rebooted X-Men franchise EVEN better? You bet your sweet asp! I can’t wait to see James McAvoy’s Professor X on the same screen with Stewart’s! And the same goes [...]

You may have added pumpkin spice to everything you’re eating and drinking, but I’ve got some geeky spice to add to your weekend! (Not my strongest opener,  I’ll grant you. I just got back from the dentist. I’m traumatized; cut me some slack!) Edgar Wright screened test footage for his finally confirmed Ant-Man. Thanks to talented Deviantartist Samurai Jack, who [...]

Pardon me whilst I rant for a moment. So what does DC have now that Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is done? Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel? A Justice League movie? That seems to be about it. What does Marvel have? Sequels to Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Avengers, plus a Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Advantage: Marvel. Even though I’m [...]

After a brief absence where I unsuccessfully unplgged, I’m back with all the nerd news that’s fit to put on a PG-13-friendly website. Woe be to the gentleman on Craigslist who asked for a “Back end programmer familiar with Magneto,” for he shall meet an X-Men troll of the first order. The Oatmeal’s Matt Inman has a Tesla cannon and [...]

The Green Lantern is gay. That was the headline seen across webisphere earlier this month. Journalists, commentators, and geek pundits calmly rose as one, nodded together at a secret signal, and all lost their friggin minds about how they shouldn’t be losing their minds. Now, to clarify, it isn’t Hal Jordan (Though that shake up would make future Green Lantern [...]

After years of carefully making science in my hidden laboratory with Tesla coils, beakers, and a souped up Easy Bake Oven (Sciencing can work up a mighty hunger), I have determined the greatest plague to human civilization- nay – the UNIVERSE! What did I discover while delicately imploring nature to provide better clues – like the $10,000 Pyramid with lab [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Let’s start with my admission that I will always choose Marvel over DC. Always. X-Men characters have been my favorite brand of superheroes since Fox’s engrossing cartoon introduced me to the absolute need to watch a show in linear progression. Seriously, if you missed one of those shows, you were totally lost when it came to the story line. Even [...]

The end of the year is the time when everyone starts putting out lists of things that were either awesome or awful. Hey, I’m no different. Here are some of the reasons why it was great to be a geek in 2011. 5. Comic Book Movies While not all comic book titles were winners (Green Lantern, Green Hornet, Priest), others [...]

On a budget? Sure you are; everyone is! One of the best and cheapest gifts you can give your friends is the gift of friendship. Friendship and free booze. By that I mean throw a holiday party! “But, The Cool Ship,” you say, “I am a busy young professional. I don’t have time to plan a party or go all [...]

My life’s an after-school special. Just like in “a very special episode of ‘Saved by the Bell,’” I learned to be myself. I slowly shared my fangirl side with my significant other throughout our first year together, meting nerd nuggets out over several months. I didn’t want to scare him off or surprise him too much because, you see, I [...]

I’m going to generate some controversy today. I was originally going to just publish a list of comic book releases, but I realized that other places did it better than I could, and I didn’t think a list would be very interesting. So, instead, let’s have a discussion. You and me. You love comics. I love comics. Maybe you love [...]