I am a word nerd. I love words and language. I love to read words, I love to write words, and if you get to know me well, you’ll discover fairly soon how much I love to say words. I have nothing against visual art — I can happily spend hours wandering around a museum, after Read More

Poor Cornelius. The further this story progresses, the more he gets sucked into a wasp’s nest. Or stumbles into a wasp’s nest. Or maybe he’s poking a stick in it. Whatever the metaphor, each issue pushes the dude closer to the center of the catastrophe, whether Read More

We're both back for a new episode this week, and we're talking about the beginnings of the new seasons for Dexter and Under the Dome, the new Terminator reboot, and some video games including Animal Crossing: New Leaf! Read More

The Black Widow has a long and storied history with Marvel Comics, but her appearances in the Iron Man and Avengers movies are what rocketed her into being a household superhero name. She’s the focus of this week’s Fan Art Friday, and be sure to follow the links below Read More

Kirby Krackle’s new album, Sounds Like You, takes them in some different directions without losing the spirit of their previous releases. In fact, there’s a hint of that right there in the title: pretty much anyone can relate to the songs, geek or not (hence it “sounds like [it’s Read More

We all have our favorite fandoms, and most of us love diverse things across various forms of media. TV and books are two staples of the geek diet, and wonderful things can happen when there’s an intersection between them. Today’s Fandom Tumblr of the Week lives Read More

There are bus ads around LA that say “honk if you love minions” and while I haven’t heard any response, I’m sure they meant well. Minions, you know? Those Twinkie-looking things from Despicable Me? Well, that only came to mind because this week we celebrate one of the leading Read More

This year Space and BBC America debuted what has become one of the most critically acclaimed science fiction series currently in production, Orphan Black. Tatiana Maslany has garnered praise for her brilliant performance on the show, and the series recently got a renewal for a Read More

TNT’s alien invasion drama Falling Skies has some more stories to tell, and it will get the opportunity to do so, thanks to a fourth season renewal. The press release confirms that the Steven Spielberg-produced series will be back for an additional season: Read More

Paradox is a company well known and beloved for their slate of grand strategy games, and one of their chief titles is Europa Universalis, a historical empire builder. Today Thomas Johansson, the project lead for the upcoming Europa Universalis IV, released a new developer diary Read More

Homeland star Damian Lewis has been a rising star for a long time, and he’s become something of a household name since the Showtime drama cast him in his pivotal role as Nicholas Brody. Today BBC announced that they are going back to Lewis’s early career to assemble a Read More

The Game Critics Awards recognize the best upcoming games shown at the annual E3 video game expo with awards selected by a panel of judges from key game journalism outlets. This year’s winners have been announced, and Respawn’s new mech-based first person shooter Read More