Archive for the ‘Comics’ tag

All Hallow’s Read-A New Tradition, courtesy of Neil Gaiman

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on October 24, 2011 at 5:29 pm | No Comments

All Hallows Read Tradtion

Neil Gaiman and HarperCollins are beginning a fiendishly delightful Halloween tradition, beginning now: All Hallow’s Read. The premise is simple: give a scary story – a wonderful, soul-shivering tale of terror, or a humorous, playful monstrous romp of a read – to someone you love, or someone you like, or someone you’ve never even met, [...]

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DC’s New 52-Your Handy Checklist

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on September 3, 2011 at 4:25 am | No Comments

DC's New 52

We wanted to make sure you can easily get your mits on the New 52 from DC, as they’re released, this month. So we’ve prepared this handy checklist for you – just print it out, and check off the one’s you’ve bought. We’ve even added the release dates for each one. Yeah, we know, we’re [...]

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The Mighty Thor Gets a Mighty Movie

Posted by GeekSpeaker | Posted on May 6, 2011 at 3:55 am | 2 Comments

Thor is in theaters now and you should really go see it!

As a life long comic book reader, I can honestly say that I never thought in a million years I would ever say, think, type or articulate in any way shape or form the following words: Thor is the new standard for how all comic book movies should be made. Seriously. Look, I was never [...]

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Green Lantern Hi-Def Full Length Official Trailer!

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on November 17, 2010 at 2:55 pm | No Comments

No evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might Beware my power--Green Lantern's light!

Everything is better in green….Especially Ryan Reynolds. Here’s your first high def glimpse of our favorite ring bearer… Now…go find some trouble….

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BlizzCon or Bust! Tenacious D to Play! FourSquare Up with GSB in Anaheim!

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on October 11, 2010 at 9:58 pm | No Comments

Tenacious D at BlizzCon

As I may have mentioned, I’ll be at BlizzCon this year, along with thousands of my closest gaming buddies. If you’ll be at BlizzCon, too, you can say “Mok’ra!” or “Bal’a Dash, Malanore!” (I’ll even be nice if you come up and say, “Ishnu-alah!”) Simply find me through FourSquare; I’ll be posting locations throughout the [...]

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Stalking R2D2 at Star Wars Celebration V

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on August 15, 2010 at 6:29 am | No Comments

Target Acquired - Geek Speak Blog at Star Wars Celebration V

Just a tip of the visual Hoth iceberg from my day at Star Wars Celebration V, yesterday…. Here’s a quick – and very low tech – film clip of one of the many fabulous R2D2 droids rolling amok at the convention, this weekend. I secured this covert footage using the iVideoCamera iPhone app. If it [...]

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The Force is Strong in Orlando Florida this Weekend!

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on August 14, 2010 at 3:42 am | No Comments

Star Wars Celebration V

The Fifth Star Wars Celebration is happening this weekend right here in Orlando, Florida. It’s convening at the Orange County Civic Center. In GSB’s continuing search for new lifeforms, and new…oh, ummm, wait…channeling the wrong stars…..let me try a new strategy….er, uhhh, star system, that is….. Geek Speak Blog’s Geek Gyrl (that’s me!) will be [...]

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Be a Real Life Hero (No Capes Required)

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on July 29, 2010 at 11:06 pm | No Comments

waiting_for_superman_make_the_pledge

Waiting for Superman, filmed by David Guggenheim, reminds us all that we can’t do enough for the next generation – that education is not a privilege, it’s a RIGHT in this country. Too many children in the US are not receiving the basic education anyone should have, much less the sort of education that goes [...]

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