SPOILER WARNING! BEYOND THIS POINT, THERE ARE SPOILERS! READER BEWARE! Action Comics #1 – Grant Morrison reboots Superman back to his roots as a rough and tumble Champion of the Oppressed. I approve. Superman, in reference to the corrupt billionaire in his grasp: “Sure, officer, I’ll put him down…just as soon as he makes a… Read More DCnU – Week 2 Mini-Reviews
ETA: I have played it now, and it is every bit as fun as it looked. I still suck at controlling the camera and the character at the same time, but I’m getting better. Ok, I don’t usually review games I’m not playing myself, but I don’t think I’m going to be able to get… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #188 – Mother Humping SPACE MARINES!!!!!
One of the most frustrating things about being a female geek is the tendency for everyone to disappear you from the discourse. As I said in the caption of a photo for my last post, in the first forty entries for Geek on Wikimedia Commons, two had women in them. TWO. People still have a… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #187 – Seriously, We’re Standing Right Here.
SPOILER WARNING! BEYOND THIS POINT, THERE ARE MAJOR SPOILERS! READER BEWARE! Flashpoint #5 It all ends here. The DC Universe as we know it. The DC characters as we know them. As finales go, this is a big one, and writer Geoff Johns delivers a game-winning grand slam, concluding with our first glimpse of the… Read More Reviews: Flashpoint #5/Justice League #1
Amanda Marcotte suggests, in her response to the Alyssa Berznak debacle, that the majority of the outcry surrounding it is the province of a brigade of “Nice Guys” and their enablers focusing on the wrong part of what was wrong with the original article. And for a portion of it, she’s definitely correct. However, from… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #186 – Geek Baiting and Why We Don’t Just “Get Over It.”
Ok, so by now you’ve all heard of the infamous Alyssa Bereznak. She went on essentially a blind date with a guy she met on OKCupid, who turned out to be Jon Finkel, a Magic the Gathering World Champion. This, in and of itself, would not be worthy of note, except that she followed up… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #185 – And this is why mixed marriages don’t work.
Everything old will soon be new (or at least newish) again in the DC Comics Universe (DCU). It’s been months since DC announced that its fictional universe would be rebooted in September, and now it’s almost upon us. The final days of the old DCU have played out through August. It’s a wrap. The lights… Read More Here Comes the Nu DCU
So, I’ve been re-watching X-Men Evolution on Netflix, and it’s a pretty good show, opposed as I usually am to the “youthening” of characters. But there’s one thing that has been bugging me while watching it, and I just put my finger on it. While they’ve got a relatively good mix of ethnicities in the… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #184 – Class in X-men Evolution
Fright Night is a remake of a 1985 film of the same name, and can be summed up thusly: solid cast, lifeless remake. After teenager Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin) discovers his new neighbor Jerry Dandridge (Colin Farrell) is a vampire, he recruits stage magician Peter Vincent (David Tennant) to help him put a stake in… Read More Review: Fright Night
So, The Mary Sue has an awesome article on the brouhaha about the first female pro-Starcraft player. And honestly, between Becky Chambers, who wrote the article, and someone in the comments who appears to be a dude calling himself EclipseGc, I don’t really think I can add much to the discussion. I applaud Becky and… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #183 – Get Over It.
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