At the end of each year we like to round up lists of our staff’s favorite movies, TV shows, and video games from the past twelve months. We realize not everything will be hugs and puppies, though, so this year we’re also taking a look back at our biggest disappointments in geekery from 2011.

Here in the US today is Thanksgiving, and we’re taking the day off from posting to spend time with our families and friends. We’ll be back tomorrow, but in the meantime here are a few posts we’ve had from Thanksgivings past, to keep your holiday geeky.

Instead of being clumsy, she’s a predator. Instead of sparkling, he smells. Instead of the Pacific Northwest, it’s Minnesota. In The Twilight of Lake Woebegotten, a parody of the Twilight saga, Harrison Geillor takes the popular story and inserts new twists.

Before reading this book, I thought of myself as a misanthrope. Shopping, for example, always finds me grumbling under my breath at the idiots who park their carts in the middle of the aisle then stand there for ten minutes trying to decide whether to buy the store brand of cereal of the name brand that’s on sale. And don’t get me started on the abuses of the “express” lane.

I generally expected to get about the same level of enjoyment out of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt – The Worst Album as I did with the show’s first soundtrack. Did I? Not as much as I might have liked.

Earlier this week we put out a call for new writers, and we’ve had a great response! We’ll be getting in touch with some of the applicants this weekend to follow up, but we still want to hear from more of you.

Ever wanted to see your name on Fandomania? Now is your chance! Fandomania is putting out a call for folks with a passion for fandom and writing to join our staff.

Based on Gregory and his family’s own experiences battling with meth addiction, Fly blends fantasy and reality into a world where the super powers bestowed on people by the drug Fly are symptoms of a much bigger problem for the series’ characters.

Overall, I think that this was a great issue and a great introduction to the World Of Flashpoint. Johns did a wonderful job of giving us information while all at the same time keeping information from us.

Not to be a downer, but get ready for a month full of civilization gone bad. We’re launching into April with a celebration of dystopian fiction, all about the ways humankind’s best laid plans can go awry.