Category Archives: Good to Be a Geek

The Circus Pulls Up Stakes: Dr. Lucy’s SDCC 2013 Slideshow

The Circus Pulls Up Stakes: Dr. Lucy's SDCC 2013 Slideshow

Well, cats, as Porky Pig struggles to declare, “Th-th-th-that’s all, folks!”. San Diego Comic-Con 2013 is a wrap. The big burg with the filthy mayor and the small beachtown chill is back to it’s groovy, mellow, peaceful ways. (Save for trying to oust said-filthy mayor. What a loony, dangerous maroon!) The air around the Convention Center smells like salt air once again; the trademark smell of The Con hovering somewhere over Santa Fe by now. What is that smell, New Mexicans might wonder? It’s a si… Read more..
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When Tom Cruise Stops Singing: Comics Quietly Continue to Float SDCC 2013

When Tom Cruise Stops Singing: Comics Quietly Continue to Float SDCC 2013

If San Diego Comic-Con was a geologic feature, it would be the Grand Canyon: strata upon strata of distinct, well-defined, colourful variants comprising an arresting, alluring travel poster for destinations Geekward. Every summer, America’s Finest City hosts Hallowe’en in July wherein layers of sci-fi, fantasy, history, science, IT, comics, gaming, cosplay and countless other substrata converge on the San Diego Convention Center to make each year’s Con more popular, more profitable and more prohibitive to en… Read more..
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Bartbarians at the Gate: 20 Years of Bongo on the Digital Frontier

Bartbarians at the Gate: 20 Years of Bongo on the Digital Frontier

So, for those whom did not make it to San Diego Comic-Con this year, or did and unwisely tossed your official Souvenir Guide, my pally, author Jennifer Susannah Devore, made it into the book once again! She tells me this year’s is her favourite thus far: article and Souvenir Guide in toto. Sandman, the cover art commemorating twenty-five years of Neil Gaiman’s Got… Read more..
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