Geek Couture
Wooo Captain! That is one sweet jacket!
Early on Mother’s Day this kid comes in and tells me he found this jacket at a thrift store for 15 bucks… with The Enterprise already painted on the back! What luck.
Star Trek
Comic Reviews
Indepentent Comic Publishers With Amazing Stuff
By Unkiedev Oh good grief, here we go again. One thing I LIKE about independent comic book publishers is they have to have better ideas to stay afloat. If the small presses can’t tell stories […]
Comic Book Movies
Trailer Trash: Green Lantern
The official trailer for 2011’s Green Lantern movie was revealed earlier today and, well… um… Kilowog, Sinestro and Abin Sur look good. Let’s take a peek, shall we? CGI suit, huh? Ryan Reynolds as a […]
Dark Horse
Berfday
One of my favorite cartoons from Nicholas Gurewitch. This and Wrath of Khan are the first things that come to mind on the anniversary of anyone’s birth.
Horror
No Win Scenario
We Trekkies have fought many battles throughout the years (social stigma, Ringers, post-nasal drip, and excessive chafing from our Klingon wigs all come to mind), and not all of us are equipped with an Ahn-woon. […]
Comic Book Movies
Vulcan Haircut in My Mind! Vulcan Haircut in My Mind!
Seeing this this morning on Blastr immediately provoked memories of Pavement: On another note, I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve spent well over twenty years attempting to grow Trek sideburns to disastrous effect. Which […]
Science Fiction
Yaphet Kotto as Picard, Wesley Snipes as Geordi LaForge? The Star Trek TNG That Might Have Been
Letters of Note has discovered and posted this intriguing internal Paramount communiqué from 1987. The casting memo, summarizing potential actors in the running for various roles in the studio’s then-forthcoming relaunch of the Star Trek franchise, […]
Events
Robert Picardo Signing @ Forbidden Planet NYC 6/5
Hey!!! In a rare NYC appearance, Robert Picardo’s gonna be signing at the shop on Saturday the 5th at 1pm! Robert’s genre credits are numerous (to say the least… Smallville, Stargate’s Richard Woolsey, The WonderYears’ […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
What to get after Free Comic Book Day…
Good ole’ Free Comic Book Day has come and gone. What do we have to fill up the void in our hearts that it has left behind? How about this upcoming Wednesday, a day so […]
Science Fiction
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
What little free time I’ve had since this past Monday has been occupied by just one thing: Baseball. It’s one of the only forms of entertainment I enjoy more than comics, SF and other geeky […]
Other Topics
Today in owning your part of geek culture.
The very first Mac Plus, owned by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, is on sale now. The original creators of the Mac presented Roddenberry with the computer, to which he featured in Star Trek 4: […]