The Think Tank

Let’s face it, if you’re reading this then you’re hyped about Fallout 4.

Bethesda did an awesome job teasing the announcement and ended up following through not only with tons of details but also the surprise reveal of the earlier-than-expected release date. So between now and November the natural way to fight your anticipation is to replay the earlier games in the series. (There is also the free Fallout Shelter app but the ultimate end goal of that game is deleting it when you realize that it’s pointless.) As it turned out, I had left my main story in Fallout 3 unfinished for the better part of 5 years. 

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.

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. 

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.