I, literally, could not be any more excited for tonight. Why you ask? Because the best written, smartest, nerdiest, most compelling, heart-wrenching, laugh out loud comedy on TV returns with all new episodes after a dark time of indeterminate hiatus since Christmas. “But The Big Bang Theory has been on for weeks I thought?” I can almost assuredly hear you saying dear reader. While this is a nerd website, and I’ll admit, I’ve liked BBT in the past, you know what I have to say to that? Fuck You, that’s what I have to say to Big Bang Theory. I can’t be the only nerd who has heard a hundred times at work something along the lines of “Oh you like Star Trek / Star Wars / Comic Books / Laser Tag / Other Nerdy Endeavor, you must love Big Bang Theory” from some spinster housewife who doesn’t have a clue. While I am a nerd, and a great deal of what BBT says it true, it does not speak for me. I’m sure you all love BBT, but let me disabuse you of notion that it is the better show in the 8pm Thursday timeslot after the jump.

Today while surfing around in Wikipedia, like I tend to do, one of the footnotes in the article I was reading was a link to a GeoCities page in the Wayback Machine. It was my understanding that individual GeoCities sites did not get archived, so imagine my delight when I did a search and the first website I ever designed after teaching myself HTML using AOL’s online tutorial back in the summer of 1994 was still available. What was that site? It was the Original Amy Jo Johnson Webring. I was originally going to steal and rewrite like the one good Amy Jo Johnson website because it was all frames and had a horrible layout, but halfway through he beat me to it, so I decided to make a Webring and have his site be the inaugural member. Yes, it’s embarrassing, but I’m not ashamed. I listed it as an extracurricular activity on my application to the National Honor Society, right along with Knowledge Bowl and being JV Chess Captain. Needless to say, I did not get in. That’s all the setup we need for today’s look back to the very dawn of the internet, where I shall endeavor to answer: Whatever Happened To Webrings?

Any good game should give the player a list of spells or abilities to use to take out the rampaging horde of random no named enemies in between them and ultimate victory.

Jonathan Hickman is all over the place, or so it seems. In addition to his awesome runs on both Fantastic Four and FF (which brought me back to reading comics in general and The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine in particular after a 15 year absence), and helming the new Ultimates, now he’s starting a new series over at Image called Secret. A noir espionage thriller from a great sci-fi writer? Sounds pretty cool to me. They need to work on the creepy cover though. Read the press release from Image after the jump.

Happy Leap Day everyone! In a Leap Day miracle, Marvel released a new trailer for The Avengers today that you can watch after the jump.

Welcome to a new column here at InsufficientScotty, Whatever Happened To. . . ? where I examine all those cool things from back when you were a kid that were totally awesome, but which you’ve probably since forgotten. This won’t necessarily be as nerdy as our other columns, but it should still be fun. If it doesn’t elicit at least a few “AWWWWWWW YEAHHHHS, I remember those, they were awesome!”, you had a very sheltered childhood.

My first Whatever Happened To. . . entry is on the Wendy’s Superbar. If you’re too young remember, there was once a time when in addition to Frosty’s and the best fast food fries (before they changed to the new recipe recently), Wendy’s dabbled in also being an Old Country Buffet, and they had a buffet bar called the “SuperBar”, pictured below.

It may be hard to believe, but there was a time when Nickelodeon wasn’t just reruns of SpongeBob and Dan Schneider tween-sitcoms. Not that either are bad, I actually like both of the just fine. But when I was a kid, Nickelodeon was in the middle of a children’s television renaissance, redefining the very nature of what a childrens’ show was and could be. Some of the greatest shows ever came from the slime factory in the late 80’s and early 90’s.

I was never much of a gamer, the list below is pretty much every console game I ever played. This is mostly because my console collection went from Atari 2600 when I was a kid, to NES for like my 8th birthday, and then I didn’t get anything else besides a Game Gear until I bought myself a PS2 my Junior year of college, and that was just so I could practice DDR at home before making an ass of myself at the arcade. And when I did get a game it was like one from the clearance rack once a year at christmas. So I missed a lot of good games. But those few I did manage to play had some great music. My list is all things I can hum off the top of my head.