Archive for the ‘Comics’ tag

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In a paranormal literary landscape rapidly filling with vampires, zombies and shapechangers of varying sizes, descriptions and fur lengths, Vicki Pettersson’s Sign of the Zodiac Series is a refreshing breath of air for readers. Leaping paranormal writing conventions in a single bound, Ms. Pettersson reminds us why we so loved our Saturday morning cartoons and [...]

Your favorite chatty geeks (yes, yes I do mean us!) introduce a new regular feature to the site later this month. However, knowing how geeks love their sneak previews, we present to you now, for your entertainment and titillation, a peak at attractions to come here on GSB over the next couple months. New Book [...]

Entertainment Weekly is putting out their annual Comic-Con preview issue and are giving us our first look at Ryan Reynolds in costume from the upcoming Green Lantern film. My first impression: YUCK! I will say that it’s just a photo and that in the movie, with special effects and movement, the costume might work, but [...]

I’ve never been a huge fan of fanfic. I understand the appeal, and I know there IS such a thing as “good fanfic.” (Although, in my experience, you weed through an awful lot of dross before you find the gold. And DAMN, but there are a lot of people that seem to use it as [...]

Lots of happenings in the city of Smallville this week. First up, some casting news that makes me pretty darn happy. EW’s Michael Ausiello is reporting that Annette O’Toole, who played Martha Kent until season six, will be making her way back to the Kent family farm before the end of the season. It …