Pokemon Propitiation: Day 283
I have faith in you, Magikarp.
Read moreThe Think Tank
Welcome to the D-List: Pyro
He’s not evil. He’s too happy to be evil
Pyro was one of my first connections to the world of comic books. When, as a child, I saw the cover of X-Force, Vol. 1 #5 I understood that Pyro was a villain. The cover showcases The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, led by Toad. Say what you will about Rob Liefeld’s art (are feet really that important?), but I knew immediately that no one on that cover was a super-hero.
Read moreVilification of Tony Stark
Hero or villain? Marvel can’t decide.
Everyone knows and loves Robert Downey Jr.’s portrayal of Iron Man. However, the same cannot be said of his comic book counterpart. In the movies, Tony Stark is charismatic, endearing, and everyone’s favorite party guest. He has long been my favorite hero in the comics, but for the past decade, Marvel has been pushing him further and further into villain territory, sullying a legacy that goes back even before his role as a founding member of the Avengers.
Read moreSatoru Iwata: 1959-2015
Nintendo’s president will be missed
To say that I’m a Nintendo fan would be something of an understatement. The worlds that they created have always had a special kind of hold on me in the best possible way. Those worlds are more to me than just a distraction. They’ve inspired me, comforted me, and fueled my imagination for as long as I can remember. There are many people responsible for those worlds, but at the end of the day, it was one man’s job to take responsibility for them. I’ve thought a lot about what I would say to that man if I ever got the chance, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized I would only need two words.
Read moreClariel by Garth Nix: The Ten Year Late Prequel
Can Garth Nix recapture the essence of the Old Kingdom?
I have had a passion for fantasy since I first started to read- anything from Tamora Pierce to J.K. Rowling was on my bookshelf. If there was something magical or a sword on a book cover, I wanted it. Especially if it featured a badass looking female character. I know it’s said never to judge a book by its cover, but I did that plenty growing up (hell, I still do) and it rarely failed me. In fact, judging the book by the cover is how I discovered the author Garth Nix and his Abhorsen trilogy, a series that proved to be one of the literary comfort foods of my middle school years through to present day.
Read moreCreating Ballerina Cupcakes
Why did I agree/offer to do this?
Step 1, the day of baking something I’ve already committed to and absolutely cannot back out of: I don’t want to bake. I don’t have time. I’m going to make a mess. It’s going to come out horribly. I’m so bad at everything. I’m tired. I’m grumpy. I hate this. Why did I agree/offer to do this? I hate baking.
Step 3, I should quit my job and open a bakery! Everything is awesome!
Read moreCrossing Nerd Culture
Do anime nerds really differ from any other nerd?
I started collecting comic books at the age of 6 and abruptly stopped at the age of 12, starting again at the age of 22 (I call those years in between the “Dark Ages”). When I say collecting, I don’t mean I was simply buying newly released books every week. I spent most of my younger years finding issues of specific titles I had missed, as well as issues containing some of my favorite characters. While I’ve also been heavily into playing video games for the majority of my life (You can tell by how good I am at almost every classic Mega Man game, and those are not easy!), I’ve always considered myself a comic book nerd first.
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TooManyGames 2015 Wrap Up
There’s no such thing as too many
TooManyGames 2015 has come and gone, and we here at Geekade had ourselves a blast. Here’s the rundown of what we did.
Read moreDan reads Worlds of Power
Prepare to be entertained
Remember the Worlds of Power novels? Those Scholastic paperback novelizations of classic NES games? No? Well we do, and we’re going to read them to you.
Read moreGood Grammar Saves Lives
The English language is slowly disintegrating.
This is not a new thing. With the advent of the Internet and the ubiquity of texting, both good things to be sure, written language has gotten the short end of the stick. The immediacy of written communication has made the speed of composition more important than the accuracy of what is composed. Twitter threw a major wrench in the works and/or was a godsend for communication, depending on what side you’re on. By limiting the character count of a post, it legitimized the use of single letters to represent words, abbreviations, and acronyms in written communication.
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