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YESSSS: Penn State Band Honors Batman, Star Wars, Superman at Half-Time

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

This is absolutely glorious, people. Behold the Penn State Blue Band during the Eastern Illinois Game halftime show last month(?*), playing the themes of geek favorite movies Batman (starting at 0:14), Rocky (1:48), Back to the Future (3:10), Star Wars (6:24), and Superman (8:40).
The familiar, beloved, marching-bandified tunes provide half the joy, but just wait [...]

Custom Toys Present Homer Simpson as Marvel Superheroes

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Well… to be more specific: custom toys featuring Homer Simpson as two Marvel superheroes and one supervillain.

Toycutter found this seller on Ebay who created Homer Hulk, Homer Thing, and Homer Doc Ock.
Made in Mexico, with “free shipping from Texas,” these scream “toy smuggling ring.” But who am I to complain about a little bit of [...]

Geek Steal: Superhero DVDs up to 57% off!

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

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 unspecified amount of time, you can find tons of [...]

WonderCon 2009 Costumes – Part 2

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

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 to it. Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it.

No, Predator, I do not [...]

WonderCon 2009 Costumes – Part 1

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

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 avoid taking a couple of pictures of anime cosplayers.  Of [...]

Top Ten: What Would Wonder Woman Twitter?

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

I like to think that when Wonder Woman isn’t polishing her indestructible bracelets and picking star-spangled wonder-wedgies out of her Amazonian derriere, she enjoys kicking back with her official Justice League-assigned BlackBerry to micro-blog her life on Twitter.

If you’re unfamiliar with Twitter, it’s a service that allows you to publicly notify your friends and [...]