Beyond My Geeky Life

A standard challenge for the geek communities is to pit two characters from different franchises against each other and then debate who would win in such a battle. The Magazine 'Wizard' did this fairly regularly and there is a series of youtube videos called 'Death Battle' that do this. There is also a card game based off this concept, called 'Superfight'. These debates can get really intense and detailed, as we geeks have way too much knowledge of our characters at times. I have seen some people get way too passionate about, overwhelmed with certain biases that make it hard to have real debates with them. Sometimes these can get really crazy. At Denver Comic Con a few years ago Larry Hama was there. He is famous in the comic book world for basically creating G.I.JOE as we know it today, having written most of the original run of the Marvel Comic Book. He also wrote Wolverine for a time.  On his table he had a sign going over commonly asked questions, one wa...

Just watched the first two-part adventure of the new Thundercats Roar... I seriously am unable to describe just how awful it is. From horrible dialogue, complete lack of plot, insanely stupid fight scenes and nothing in the way of  actual characters. It is pure crap with no real entertainment value to it. I think it is supposed to be humorous, but there is not a single joke that is funny in it. The writers clearly believe they are being witty and clever with some of the self aware jokes, but it all falls flat with every scene. When I saw a clip for it some time ago, I predicted it was going to be bad, but I was truly not ready for the awful, unamusing mess they put out there. It really lacked any spark of quality. I do not see this attracting anyone to the shows. Old fans like me are going to check it out and find it lacking. Potential new fans are going to see it and be puzzled by how it ever got made. There might be those out there who will enjoy it (I've seen a lot of bad ...