Monthly Archive:: December 2017
Dec 31 2017
This Week in Geek (1/1/17–1/7/17)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, January 1st to Sunday, January 7th.
Game-A-Thon 2018
What: Gaming, Family
When: Monday, January 1st at 10:00 a.m.
Where: Buffalo Community Center
The Wright County Geeks, a geeky Minnesota…
Dec 30 2017
The Movie Ratings Parents Really Need
As the parent of a kindergarten-aged geekling, I’m having to learn how to navigate the minefield of pop culture that is the PG-13 movie. If either my spouse or I have a chance to see it before we show it to our daughter, that’s great! We can go into the experience knowing what to expect and which parts might…
Dec 29 2017
One Piece Is the Magnum Opus of Battle Shōnen and Completely Worth Your Time
For many anime enthusiasts, Eiichiro Oda’s monster story One Piece represents a mountain that one has neither the time nor the energy to traverse. After all, Oda’s been writing this story for 20 years with no sign of ending it. The manga is close to a whopping 900 chapters, and the anime isn’t far behind…
Dec 28 2017
Netflix’s Bright Is a Dim Urban Fantasy
Bright, the new Netflix original film starring Will Smith, has a promising premise, with its merging of fantasy elements into an urban setting. Unfortunately, far too often during its run time, it takes us out of its spectacle.
Sometimes it’s with the blunt racial allegories that wallop the audience…
Dec 25 2017
Subversive and Godly? As the Crow Flies Proves You Can Be Both
Web comics are a dime a dozen these days, it seems. Yet occasionally, out of the depths rises an occasional bright star. A few years ago, that star was Noelle Stevenson’s Nimona—a graphic novel that often gets described with words like “quirky” and “subversive.”
Total…
Dec 24 2017
Tower 57 Adds Modern Flair to 16-Bit Shooters
The gaming community has a seemingly insatiable appetite for games that remind players of yesteryear, and Tower 57 is just one of the latest attempting to make its mark.
This release is a top-down, twin-stick shooter set in a dieselpunk world, born of a successful Kickstarter project launched in August…
Dec 24 2017
This Week in Geek (12/25/17–12/31/17)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, December 25th to Sunday, December 31st.
It’s a Wonderful Life
What: Film, Family
When: Monday, December 25th at 3:00, 5:30, and 8:00 p.m.; Tuesday, December 26th at 7:00 p.m. and…
Dec 23 2017
Love Your Geekdom and Love Your Differences
I love what I love, and I love what I do. I’m also the only me on this earth, and in the same way, you’re the only you. Being different is truly is a wonderful thing because that’s how there are so many different geeky things to get into—and we, as geeks, in case you didn’t notice,…
Dec 22 2017
It’s Afrofuturism for the Win in Nnedi Okorafor’s Black Panther
After a widely reported major misstep in April 2017 wherein Marvel’s vice president, David Gabriel, suggested that sales had slumped due to too much diversity, the publisher is being very savvy about who it hires, particularly to write Black Panther titles. For Black Panther: Long Live the …
Dec 21 2017
Farewell, Mary Jo Pehl (Until the Next Time)
If you’re a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000, you surely know the manic and maniacal Pearl Forrester, played with incessant intensity by the hilarious Mary Jo Pehl—or you’ve spotted Pehl in one of her smaller parts, like Jan in the Pan, Magic Voice, or Minnewegian Amazon. Her presence has been…