There’s no denying it. Comic books and science fiction have more than their fair share of “only for geeks.” While I would be hard pressed to deny who I am, I will say that my love for science fiction goes far beyond just pure escapism. Now, I could talk about how I think comic books [...]
Like any other comic book fan, I’ve oftentimes wondered if our “real world” (that is, if we’re not all plugged into some sort of Matrix already) could house the stories from comic books. What if there were costumed crime fighters out there, taking on the injustices of the world that the government cannot (or chooses [...]
I had a rough week last week, so this weekend, to recuperate, I: had a double-date with my girlfriend and another couple went to a party with an old high school friend watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine – not a great film by any means, but fun (Gambit, Deadpool, Sabertooth, Agent Zero, Wraith, Emma Frost, Silver [...]
My good friend and Bench Press partner-in-crime Anthony pointed me to this trailer which, although not comic-book related, still excited me as it casts the perfect voice for what must be the most awesome over-the-phone threat of all time: I have no idea if this movie will be any good, but I like Liam Neeson, [...]
Who knew the UK kept such good track? (HT: Guy Kawasaki) Things I consider to be awesome (with my commentary in italics): • He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics (he likes comics? hell yeah) • He was known as "O’Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball (that is a kick-ass nickname) [...]
The big comic-book nerd in me can’t resist posting this bit from webcomic Evil Inc. (hat tip: A. Phan): Seeing how I intend to attend the Comic-con this year (and given all the recent controversy over the abominable Marvel Spiderman story One More Day [how abominable will be left to individuals on blogs far more [...]
I’ve just updated my Blogger site to Blogger Beta which includes numerous new features such as dynamic loading of pages (it will generate pages on the fly as opposed to creating and pulling up static pages), integration with my other Google accounts, the conversion of the archives from a static list of months to a [...]