Here’s a taste of the geeky curiosities from around the Web that I posted to my Twitter profile this week.  Follow me on Twitter for the four-course meal. You might even find a between-course palate-freshener of mint sorbet.  But I’m not promising anything. Or giving up on this “meal...

The only thing I enjoy almost as much as indignant nerd rage is shameless commerical pandering to geeks.  Since the cosplayers profiled in my WonderCon coverage have been annoyingly-good sports in the GWS comments, I guess I’ll have to settle for Amazon’s latest DVD sale. For an unspeci...

The hits just keep on coming.  If you understand “hits” to mean more well-intentioned costumes with questionable execution from WonderCon 2009. And, yes, a few examples of excellence here and there.  But what fun are those? Hey, Phoenix.  Don’t just stand there, let’s get ...

The underlying theme of costumes at this year’s WonderCon 2009 seemed to be, “In spite of the recession, cosplay geeks are still eating well.”  You’ll see what I mean. Also, in spite of the protests of my heart, mind, soul, and remaining kidney, I couldn’t entirely avo...

Here’s a taste of the geeky curiosities from around the Web that I posted to my Twitter profile this week.  Follow me on Twitter for the full meal. Brace for nerd backlash: “Bob Fett’s Ship” groom’s cake http://is.gd/jVCE Russian TMNT comic books. Not surprisingly, there i...

Anyone who’s followed my robustly-photo-logged comic convention coverage knows that I don’t have the attention span or the desire to figure out the differences between the various Japanese animes.  When I see a themed cosplayer, I call it “Naruto” and move on with my life. H...

This is what happens when you gamma-irradiate a scowling, Sicilian meathead.  All-around handsomeness. The Hulk doesn’t need firearms any more than Christian Bale needs a bad case of ‘roid rage, but nevertheless, the minds and hands at custom-toymaker Boskoes Toys have posted on Ebay th...

As anyone not suffering from head trauma or from Japanese-school-girlism knows, there’s no good Hello Kitty except a dead Hello Kitty.  Or an undead Hello Kitty.  Or a Hello Kitty banished to the Phantom Zone. Right. But mostly an undead Hello Kitty. Hello Kitty Hell featured this Hello Kitt...

Earlier today, aspiring comic book artist Chris Hunt delivered this tale of bemused exasperation to my digital postal receptacle: A while ago, I came across a drawing I had done of Dr Doom in High School, so I thought I’d go ahead and ink it and color it in PS for sng’s. A few days ago, ...

Pretty sketchy, even for a ski mask, isn’t it?  This is right up there with the Dark Knight Disappearing Pencil Action Toy Pack from Mattel. Which doesn’t exist yet, but give the product development guys over there another month or two to squeeze the final drops of delicious merchandisi...