Here’s a sign that the movie version of Red might be pretty good: director Robert Schwentke has already been snatched up to direct RIPD, one of Ryan Reynolds’ many upcoming geek-friendly projects. Adapted from the Dark Horse comic of the same name, RIPD features Reynolds as a cop killed in the line of duty before being given the chance …
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Geek Heaven at Burning Man
I spent last week in the greatest, weirdest, geekiest city in the world. Burning Man is the annual, weeklong art and culture festival that’s been going on in one form or another since the mid-’80s. It happens on a very hot, very dusty prehistoric lakebed in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, the week leading up to Labor Day; upwards of 50,000 …
Comics on Our Pull List 9/9/10
When you make your way to your Local Comic Shop this Thursday you should really bring a list. Experts agree that you shouldn’t buy comics when you’re hungry for nostalgic war stories or the exploits of a boozed up astronaut. With that in mind here are some titles to keep an eye on and as always look out for the Comic Book Club and Panel …
The Saga of Admiral Ackbar’s Bid to be Leader of the Ole Miss Rebels
In college football, your mascot is key. You want a strong symbol to represent your school, like a bruin (a ferocious, yet lovable giant brown bear). Who wants to rally under a banana slug (sorry UC Santa Cruz) or a condom (not so sorry USC)?
The poor students at the University of Mississippi, better known as Ole Miss haven’t had a …
Your Quick Guide To September TV Season Premieres
It’s September! And, for those of us who watch far too much television, that can only mean one thing: the return of most of your favorite shows (And the disappearance of some, too; I’ll miss you, Leverage. Come back soon, okay?). But if you’re not sure when you’ll be able to catch up with Fringe‘s Parallel Earth Olivias or meet Chuck‘s …
T-Mobile Launches ‘Kids Are Free’ Family Plans
As any parent can tell you, kids are actually NOT free. Unless you have at least eight of them, at which point you can get your own TV show or a cool comic book name like Octomom.
For everyone else, kids are expensive to raise. T-Mobile is hoping to appeal to that inevitability with its new Kids Are Free promotion, which allows new …
Top 10 Bug Infestations We Still Cringe At
Exclusive Previews: “Cuba: My Revolution” and “American Vampire”
Courtesy of Vertigo, we’ve got two exclusive previews of titles coming out this week. First up, we’ve got an excerpt from Cuban-born painter/writer Inverna Lockpez and artist Dean Haspiel’s original graphic novel Cuba: My Revolution, a semiautobiographical story of a young woman coming of age during Fidel Castro’s rise to power in the …
NBC’s Chuck Returns Early Online And On Xbox
Fans of NBC’s Chuck won’t have to wait until September 20th for more of the nerdy spy show after all; the series is launching a daily web series spin-off for the next week, tying into the launch of the videogame Halo: Reach. Who said this isn’t the era of unexpected cross-promotional marketing efforts?
The five-part series, Chuck …
Who Will Direct The Hunger Games?
With The Twilight Saga and Harry Potter both winding up their cinematic runs in the next couple of years, it’s no surprise that a lot of attention is being focused on the movie version of The Hunger Games, the first book in Suzanne Collins’ YA sci-fi crossover trilogy about a teen girl forced to fight for her life in reality television …
App of the Week: Nike+ GPS
Nike’s Nike+ GPS will finally let you untie that monitoring device from your shoe and run free with your iPhone or iPod Touch, the way nature never intended.
The Nike+ App tracks your distance, speed and route with the help of the iPhone’s GPS. (If you get the app for iPod Touch, you won’t have the mapping function.) You can brag …
New Comics 9/9/10
The coming of another national holiday landing on a Monday puts us all in the familiar territory of new comics Thursday. So let’s all just dig in and hold on. We can make it. In the mean time here’s the list of new comics dropping on Thursday. Tomorrow we will dive a bit deeper and look at the featured pull list.
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