(image) Those wacky Japanese are at it again with their love of robot women. The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology has created...

While all D&D characters begin as a collection of numbers (on paper, my Eladrin Avenger is 14,12,14,14,16,12) those numbers don’t mean anything without...

In times like these, you would think that now wouldn't be the best time to try to sell a vintage comic book, especially one as rare as "Action...

I have a strange fascination with servants. I’m not saying this as a blue-blooded person who thinks that the “help” are quaint. I’m fascinated with...

(image) I divide my time between two towns that I call home, Boston, MA and Charleston, SC. Both towns are near military bases and both, back in the big-haired,...

Years ago, I had a conversation with my son about my record collection, and he couldn’t believe that we used to put records in crates that were heavy and...

The biggest story at New York Comic Con turned out not to be. I didn't hear a single fan whining that the headlining guest, J. Michael Straczynski,...

(image) President Barack Obama is a nerd. A geek. A dork. Last March, he said: So, yeah... even though through scientific mishaps and misadventure, John...

Long before he was the most dangerously incompetent governor California has ever had, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the biggest action superstar on the planet,...

(image) I have come across many Top 10 lists predicting what is going to happen in 2009. Top 10 Celebrity Marriages, Top 10 Videos That Changed the Music...

I admit it. I love my Amazon Kindle. Yes, I'm anti-DRM and I've never been interested in ebooks before. I used the argument of wanting to enjoy...

Last week, I spent an entire day playing Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition with some of my friends. Big whoop, you say. So did I. Ah, but I played in...

(image) This time of year, if you're in the western world, you're gonna see a certain red dressed someone hanging around the malls getting his...

This week the world of science fiction lost three of its greats. On December 4th Forrest J. Ackerman, founder and first publisher of the magazine Famous...

When my husband and I went house shopping for the first time we weren't sure what we were looking for. We found one house that I really liked, only...

Hey, remember me? My name’s Wil, and I used to write about geek stuff once a week. Well, now I’m doing it once a month. It’s good to be back. My extremely...

(image) The apocalypse will not be come in the form we expect. It will not be from the Zombie Outbreak feared by many. Nor from the infiltration of the...

Wars are going badly, the global economy is tanking, we just had possibly the most bittersweet election results ever, and yet the very real, close to home...

I love comic books. I've been into them my entire life, have spent hours reading and thinking about them, have even felt nostalgia for books I read...

(image) Some of you might have read or heard in the news that the Hubble Telescope is in need of repair again. NASA has capped spending on other projects...

I normally don’t like to do two trailer reviews back to back… however, I don’t normally get emailed the greatest trailer of all time. I’m not kidding.

(video) Winner in the category for "Most Promising Horror Film with the Lamest Sounding Title" is clearly this low budget film called… Splinter?

Hi, I’m Mur. I’m a geek. While I have embraced this geekdom for the past fifteen or so years, it was terrible to go through high school when my girlfriends...

Vampires are awesome. Everyone knows that. And that's a fact that's unlikely to change anytime soon. For some reason the vampire genre never seems...

I have always been a creature of habit. I will watch a beloved TV show or movie multiple times, like slipping into a favorite pair of fuzzy socks. When...

It's no secret Brett Ratner (Rush Hour, Rush Hour The Second One, Rush Hour Again, and the worst X-Men movie) is an awful director. Sure, he's...

(image) Suicide Girls just learned of NoKnownSurvivors, a new viral experience that allows visitors to explore the narrative world of EA's new survival...

Do people still like Westerns these days? Good old, solid, straight up Westerns? I do. And I hope I'm not alone. (In general, obviously, but here...

I’m so often feeling “Kumbaya” about the aspects of my geeky lifestyle that it hits me like a train every time two aspects don’t quite mesh. In this...

This week’s Watchmen festival is finally wrapping up for me. I’m done. How much Watchmen can one guy take? Upon arriving, I thought this was a Comic...

One does not know terror until one walks the floor of Comic Con San Diego. There are poor bastards walking around dressed like Wookies, many soldiers from...

Wherever I go this year, all I hear is what the Comic Con used to be. My friends, strangers on the street and even Hollywood writers who used to come here...

Well, I was supposed to arrive in San Diego today and make my way to Comic Con. The powers that be at SG paid my way and in exchange, I am supposed to...

For those of you who don't know, SG will have a booth at Comic Con in San Diego this week, July 23-27. Suicide Girls will be manning (wow, that was...

That awesome title is compliments of my pal, the fellow dragons-vikings-aliens loving Drake. It's the title of the email she sent me which delivered...

I suppose I should be happy. I wrote a story back in January that lamented the current sad state of the ninja. His once fearsome image abused, parodied,...

Teens with powers! A concept that's launched a thousand great comic books, numerous hit films and at least one best show of all-time. Dating, homework...

Back in the day, people would mark time by the passage of the seasons. Later, they turned this passage of time into “years” and “months”. Some Roman...

John Kanzius is a retired radio executive living out his retirement in Florida. He may also be the man responsible for curing cancer. At first, when you...

From Slashdot’s crowdsourcing-justince department comes the heartwarming tale of a stolen car, the idiots who stole it, and a posse of car enthusiast-slash-forum-posters...