Given that today is my birthday, I thought I’d share some of my favorite comics. Most of these are trade paperback or hardcover collections, but they’re also available in individual issues if anyone feels the need to hunt them all down. They are also in no particular order, aside from the order I found them on my book shelves. Continue reading
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Comic Book Copycats
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, or so the old saying goes. While this might be true sometimes, it is just as often the excuse given to justify taking someone else’s ideas and trying to claim them as one’s own. The comic industry is no exception. From the very early days, once a hero started to become popular, it was only a matter of time before someone else was slapping a slightly different costume on an eerily similar creation and packaging it to sell.
Captain Marvel (Shazam)
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Geeks You Should Know: Dan O’Bannon
In general, a person is rarely considered to be influential when they have contributed only a small handful of works to a particular field, especially when those works are not considered to be complete game changers. I would argue, however, that Dan O’Bannon is one of a few people who are very influential on the world of film.
Dan O’Bannon as Sgt. Pinback in Dark Star
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Geek Fuel Q&A with Kate Stephenson
We’ve been talking to the folks over at Geek Fuel since they were still in the middle of their Kickstarter campaign, which was, of course, completely successful. Since then, they sent us a cool box of goodies, and recently, Kate Stephenson answered a bunch of questions that we had about the service itself, how it distinguishes itself from other similar subscription services, and what the plans are for the future!
Therefore I Geek: How would you describe the mission of Geek Fuel? Continue reading
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Therefore I Geek 