A few months ago, I attended a convention panel on the resurgence of the anthology in which the panelists asked attendees what motivated them to buy anthologies. Answers ranged from famous contributors, to well-known serial publications, such as L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future. This highlights a huge problem that I see in anthology collections: it is difficult to page through them and purchase them on a whim.
Editorial | The (re)Rise of the Anthology
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Come Fly With Me
Hey folks, Tracy and I are headed to my home town of Phoenix for Phoenix Comicon. As a result there will be no new posts until we get back on Monday. However, we are going to leave you all with an insightful article from Comics Alliance to pass the time. Be sure to check out our Facebook and Twitter for updates straight from the con floor.
Filed under Blog Announcements, Comics
Random Thought Generator Episode 6, Summer Blockbusters
***** SPOILER ALERT *****
This review will be discussing plot points which may be considered spoilers. Consider yourselves warned.
In which, the staff of Therefore I Geek discuss why summer blockbuster movies exist, some especially memorable summer movies they have seen, and the most exciting movies of this summer. Also, there are lots of spoilers and things, so watch out for those.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Death of Big Summer Blockbusters?
The Death of Gwen Stacy
Hugh Jackman Cosplaying Wolverine
Transformers 4: Age of Extinction
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
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Editorial | Six Reasons Supernatural is a Terrible TV Show [updated]
A few months ago, I wrote an editorial post that listed several reasons that Supernatural is a terrible TV show. While my assessments of the faults of the show were correct, they were not complete. Since that post still seems to get viewed daily (which we mentioned in Episode 5 of Random Thought Generator), I am updating my list. So here is the new and improved set of reasons that Supernatural is a terrible TV show (and why I will continue to watch it).
Le Geeky Soap Opera
1.) Every adversary that Sam and Dean Winchester face is supposedly bigger and badder than the last adversary, but actually seems easier to kill. This whole show started with John Winchester’s lifelong search for Azriel, the yellow-eyed demon who killed his wife. John has been praised over and over (even posthumously) as being one of the best hunters who ever lived, and yet it took him a lifetime to find this demon and kill it. These days, his sons discover big baddies and polish them off in the course of twenty episodes or so with relatively little effort. Continue reading
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