Google announced several weeks ago they were going to select a city for a high-speed internet pilot.  Several cities have done some crazy things to woo the Googleplex to their neck of the woods. Some are pretty funny, and it seems, why should politicians have all the fun? It started with ...

When I first read about Iconica on BrettSpiel, I was immediately struck by the graphic design on the cards, which really looked unlike any of my other board games. (And considering I’ve got upwards of 150 games in my collection, this is saying something.) The norm seems to be hand-drawn ...

I remember the day I learned that the Coreys had a drug problem. My cousin had loaned me a copy of Tiger Beat from a few years before (I jumped on the Coreys bandwagon a little late, being born in ‘81, and by ‘92 everything was all Jonathan Brandis and ...

Happy Comics Release Day! Given that I picked on DC earlier this week for their Cry of Justice mini-series and their continual reliance on gore and death, I wanted to spotlight something they did very right. DC: The New Frontier. When someone asks me why I love superheroes, this is the story I ...

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Why, really, did the 3-D movie trend start? Does anybody remember, before the trend began, thinking “You know the problem with movies? They’re too two-dimensional?” We didn’t think so. 3-D is so entrenched in the movie industry now that commercials for the upcoming remake of Clash of the Titans actually ...

It’s March, which means it’s time to break out the brackets. Time to pit sixteen greats against each other in a few exciting rounds of head-to-head matches and determine, once and for all, who is this year’s best of the best. Oh, you thought I was talking about basketball? No, this is ...

During a recent trip to the comic book store, I came across the first volume of the TPB of this little gem, Age of Bronze: a Thousand Ships. It’s Eric Shanower’s retelling of the Trojan War legend. Volume One begins with Paris’s discovery that he is, in fact, the son ...

It’s nearly six months since I first took the plunge and entered the world of e-Books and e-Book readers in a big way. As an avid reader and book collector (some would say hoarder), has the digital plunge been a game changer, or just another meh experience? I’m of that age ...

Ben Stiller will be on TV again tonight, and I promise he won’t be blue this time. In fact, you won’t even see his face. Tonight on a special prime time Phineas and Ferb, Stiller and real-life wife actress Christine Taylor will voice a supervillain and his nagging wife. To tell ...