Monthly Archive:: February 2015
Feb 28 2015
Meet Minnesota Cosplayers: Mako Senpai, Alana Profit, Tre’ Da Marc, and Jonathan Palmer
After Briana’s great article, “The Importance of #28DaysOfBlackCosplay,” we thought you might like to meet some of the local black cosplayers here in Minnesota. This is the third of three posts over three days celebrating #28DaysOfBlackCosplay by introducing you to some awesome Minnesotans …
Feb 28 2015
Crossing the Streams: Fido
Crossing the Streams is a regular column that highlights exciting and enjoyable movies that you can find streaming on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and VOD, providing you with plenty of great movies to add to your queue so you don’t waste time searching for something worthwhile. Typically these movies…
Feb 27 2015
Meet Minnesota Cosplayers: Cyril Cosplay, Master Trekkie, Ninjabearbear09, and Brichibi Cosplays
After Briana’s great article, “The Importance of #28DaysOfBlackCosplay,” we thought you might like to meet some of the local black cosplayers here in Minnesota. This is the second of three posts over three days celebrating #28DaysOfBlackCosplay by introducing you to some awesome Minnesotans …
Feb 27 2015
Field Trip: Disney’s Aladdin on Broadway
Disney’s newest classic animated film to be reimagined into a Broadway show, after the tremendous success of Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Tarzan, and The Little Mermaid, is Aladdin. It debuted at New York’s New Amsterdam Theatre in the spring of 2014.
I was incredibly lucky to be able to attend…
Feb 26 2015
Meet Minnesota Cosplayers: Solsounder, Rawiyah, and Anthony Garnett
After Briana’s great article, “The Importance of #28DaysOfBlackCosplay,” we thought you might like to meet some of the local black cosplayers here in Minnesota. This is the first of three posts over the next three days celebrating #28DaysOfBlackCosplay by introducing you to some awesome…
Feb 26 2015
Weirdo to Watch: Andrew Troth, Comic-Book-Slinging Theater Geek
Andrew Troth lives a life many geeks dream of: he helps run a successful theater company, the Chameleon Theatre Circle, and is the owner of a comic-book store, Mind’s Eye Comics. I recently talked with Andrew about his good fortunes, the metro-area suburbs, and all manner of geekiness.
Duck Washington…
Feb 26 2015
Rebooting the Black & White Past with KodaChrome Future, Part 3: The Bronze Age of Comics
Previously: “Rebooting the Black & White Past with KodaChrome Future, Part 2: The Silver Age of Comics”
The comic-book Bronze Age is perhaps the most aptly or ironically named period because it had the widest range of introductions: the first Black superhero to have his own comic…
Feb 25 2015
Rat Queens Issue #2: Ahh… [expletive deleted] Buckets
I’m back writing, today, Valentine’s Day, to review of the second issue of Rat Queens (October, 2013). When we last left our heroines they had just witnessed an assassin be reduced in a single blow to a gooey fluid by an angry rampaging troll… and now Violet and Hannah are arguing and trading…
Feb 23 2015
Rebooting the Black & White Past with KodaChrome Future, Part 2: The Silver Age of Comics
Previously: “Rebooting the Black & White Past with KodaChrome Future, Part 1: The Golden Age of Comics”
It would take nearly 20 years after the debut of Superman before the first black comic book main character was introduced. Still maintaining the “mysterious and noble…
Feb 23 2015
Geekbaby’s Bookshelf: MORE Great Geeky Books for Your Little Geek
I am of the opinion that there’s no such thing as a bad book to have on your Little Geek’s bookshelf (unless it’s that book that you’ve read over and over and OVER again because someone about their size and about their height can’t get enough, and you’re too much…