I’m well versed in the campy ridiculousness of Batman’s adventures in the ’60s, but nothing I saw there prepared me for the full blown and awesome weirdness of the Legends of the Super Heroes DVD from the Warner Bros. Archive Collection.

Paul Dini, the amazing writer/producer of most things you’ve ever loved — things like Batman: The Animated Series, Tiny Toons, and LOST — was kind enough to answer some questions from an admitted hardcore Paul Dini fan.

As a comic book fan, I’m always interested in seeing new films come out that are based on my beloved arcs. When I heard about the voice cast of this particular film, however, it definitely kicked it up a notch. I get the feeling that there will be a lot of new-to-comics fans coming on board to see this film and to them I say welcome!

It’s Earth Day 2010 and we haven’t quite reached the point of colonizing other planets or living on space stations. We’re stuck here on Planet Earth, so let’s take care of it! Here are 12 reusable tote bags featuring all kinds of geekery, from sci fi to gaming to comics.

In honor of this week’s release of the superhero movie Kick-Ass, I’m counting down the greatest self-made heroes that human ingenuity and imagination has to offer. Today we’ve reached the inevitable end — and what many of you saw coming since day one — the greatest of the self-made heroes: The Batman.

Better than a plain, boring hoodie is one that allows you to (literally) wear your fandom on your sleeve, and even better than that is something unique and different from the usual Hot Topic fare. That’s why these ten fans made their own hoodies, either from scratch or reconstructed from other clothes.

The amazingly talented ShowLola at Craftster had an old storage cube trunk, but she used Mod Podge to découpage ’60s-era Batman comics all over it to revamp it into an entirely new and geeky creation.

There is one common ingredient among the truly great heroes of fiction. It’s that ingredient that makes us keep coming back, year after year, decade after decade, until they become true icons of the fictional landscape: the greatest heroes have the greatest villain pantheons.

It’s that time of year when it gets to be pretty chilly in many parts of the world, so people start to bundle up. Here are ten pairs of geeky gloves and mittens — fingerless, because while you want to keep your hands toasty, geeks still need their digits free for those touch-screen smart phones, computer keys, and video game controllers!

The Oughts are almost over and there’s one word that sums up this year’s video game releases: sequels. As much as I hate to see the same concepts revisited over and over, I can’t deny that many of this year’s best games are built upon fantastic formulas. My list is full of games followed by numbers, so let’s get to it!