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Jun

Friday Five – Fictional Jerks

Friday Five on June 7, 2013 at 1:49 pm by

Not everyone is a good person. In fact, a vast majority of people tend to be downright jerks. But often times, watching bad things happen to jerks can be incredibly entertaining. I believe the Germans call it schadenfreude.

For this week’s preview, I bring you an awesome new all ages title from Boom Studios, Herobear and the Kid #1

It’s Picture Day at Tyler’s school, and naturally he’s forgotten! But before Tyler can pick his good side, he has to sneak out of class with his best friend Herobear to stop an attack on the Simpleton Bridge from the mysterious Von Klon and his Sub of Doom! . . . and he better not lose his hallpass in the process.

Don’t miss as creator Mike Kunkel relaunches his Eisner award winning creation at KaBOOM! with a brand new original adventure!

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May

Friday Five – Heroes

Friday Five on May 31, 2013 at 2:36 pm by

Everybody needs some role models, someone to look up to. Someone who does heroic deeds selflessly for the good of others. Making the tough choices that no one else can for the greater good. Even if they themselves don’t get to partake, and have to rename nameless and faceless. As someone once said, sometimes the needs of the many, outweighs the needs of the few, or the one.

A few weeks ago, writer Jim Stalin revealed that DC almost killed Jimmy Olsen from AIDS back in the 80’s in an attempt to be hip and trendy. Fortunately, someone told them that was a horrible idea. To commemorate this news, we’re sharing a bunch of AIDS PSAs we found in old DC comic books.

Check them out after the jump, they are pretty hilarious.

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May

Happy Geek Pride Day!

Captain's Log, Star Wars on May 25, 2013 at 10:26 am by

Thirty six years ago today, a landmark film was released in the science fiction genre. It’s a little film you may have heard of called Star Wars. In celebration of that glorious day that changed geekdom forever, today is Geek Pride Day, so wear it proudly!

But also, don’t forget the hardships your geek forefathers bore. It wasn’t always as easy to be a geek as it was today. Besides the daily beatings in school, we had it hard. Nowadays you can transfer files just by touching your phones together, that’s insane!

Back in my day we used floppy disks, and hundreds of them, or those horribly designed Zip disks. Or if we wanted to download an image from our favorite BBS (not the Internet, but BBS, the Internet wasn’t even a thing yet) it would take like 30 minutes, not .08 seconds. My first hard drive was 235 MB. MEGAbytes. Now my laptop has 2 Terabytes by default. That’s a million times bigger! Don’t believe how hard it always was, check out this timeline on the History of File Sharing to see how far we’ve come in just over 40 years.

A hero is only as good as his rogues gallery. Breaking up muggings and robberies is all well and good, but taking down a super villain and his diabolical machinations is an entirely different story.

With today being the release of Star Trek: Into Darkness, I’m celebrating with a sci-fi list. Not best series or anything, but best elements from sci-fi.

OK, I know I’ve been a little lax here with the the Tuesday Previews of late, but I bring you a good one this week. The first issue of the comic adaption of the hit Cartoon Network show Regular Show.

Cartoon Network’s powerhouse series now has its own comic book series! Hot on the heels of the smash hit adaptation, ADVENTURE TIME, KaBOOM! unveils the next all-ages comic phenomenon! Join Mordecai the Bluejay and Rigby the Raccoon, a couple of best bros in their twenties just tryin’ to chill for a bit, man. But when you’re livin’ in as crazy a world as they are, no day can be called . . . Regular!