Given our love for Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings, it’s no secret that we here at Therefore I Geek have a propensity for sword and saddle material. (Or now that I think about it, we might just have a fetish for watching Sean Bean die on screen.) Anyway, I have been lucky enough to take a dive into a uniquely styled, fantasy epic called Luminae from Magnetic Press. The brainchild of French artist Bengal, Luminae brings a European sensibility to comics that is refreshing and unexpected.
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Editorial | I’m not a “Star Wars Geek”
I spent the vast majority of this past weekend in the recording studio/Therefore I Geek office prepping and recording for upcoming podcast episodes and planning out the next three or four months. One of the big projects that we are undertaking is a non-sequential series of episodes with an all geek girl cast, which is incredibly exciting, since it has been a naturally occurring phenomenon that most of our podcast guests and blog writers are male. In the course of hanging out with the group of girls that will be the guests for these podcasts, and subsequently recording with a couple of them, I found myself getting excited about and reaffirming my affection for a part of geekdom that I had slowly abandoned as I grew up and got away from it. Continue reading
Filed under Editorial, Geek Life, Tracy Gronewold
Around the Web March 20, 2015
This week the new comic solicitations came out, much as they do every month. This month however, they came with considerable controversy. Among the many titles in Marvel’s line up is X-Men ’92 written by Comics Alliance’s Chris Sims. This announcement touched off a very quick and unexpected downward spiral in conversation on the internet. Things started with an impressive Twitter rant by comic writer Valerie D’Orazio. Going back about ten years ago, Sims was part of a very vocal group that significantly harassed D’Orazio over one of the comics she was currently writing. Sims’ comments in particular went beyond just commentary on the book and often became personal attacks. In response to this coming back into the spotlight both Sims and Comics Alliance have issued statements in which Sims apologized for his previous actions, though well after the fact.
This serves as a potent example for why people should be both careful and civil in what they say and do online. Continue reading
Filed under Around the Web, Weekly
Blockbusters that Weren’t
With the release of Jupiter Ascending, the movie-going public was once again subjected to a big budget film that didn’t quite live up to expectations. While I haven’t had the opportunity to see it (though I intend to at some point soon), I began wondering what it is that causes these movies to flounder at the box office.
As it currently stands, Jupiter Ascending has made $171 million according to Box Office Mojo, which, while impressive, is still five million short of the production budget, which doesn’t even include any marketing costs—which can often run nearly as high as the production budget. That is a lot of money that the studio to be out. Two years ago a similar trend was making its way through the beloved summer blockbuster season. Movies like The Lone Ranger, featuring proven hit making creators or cast members, were bombing left and right. By the time July rolled around, movie and entertainment blogs were all declaring the death of the blockbuster. In hindsight, that was obviously a bit of an overstatement, but at the time it seemed like a perfectly logical conclusion. The summer of 2012 was almost a non-stop hit parade, but 2013 was painful to watch. What is it, then, that causes a movie to fail so miserably? Continue reading
Filed under Andrew Hales, Movies
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