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Musings of a Blerd-Indie Artist Spotlight: Sarah Neila Elkins

In honor of it being New Comic Book Day, I’m introducing a new feature to my column titled Indie Artist Spotlight which focuses on independent artists who are doing their thing in the comics community who you ought to pay attention to. Today the spotlight shines on artist Sarah “Neila” Elkins. Tali Adina: How did you…

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Musings of a Blerd: JIMAA: Mite Kudasai Yonde Kudasai #1

Musings of a Blerd Presents: Journey Into Manga and Anime (JIMAA): Mite Kudasai, Yonde Kudasai. Welcome to the first Mite Kudasai! (Watch!) Yonde Kudasai on the new column! Once a month, I’ll pick one-three anime series or films for fans to watch and give my reasons why. One pick will be a classic anime while…

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Spotlight & Review: Southern Bastards #1

Release Date: April 30th, 2014 Rating: 5/5 Stars Publisher: Image Comics Written By: Jason Aaron Art By: Jason Latour Price: 3.50, Dig. 2.99 Review: Finally, there’s a seemingly good comic book about the South put together by creators with some substantial notoriety in the industry. With Jason Aaron and Jason Latour involved, that means this…

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Musings of a Blerd: May the Fourth Be With You! 8 Things You Can Do For Star Wars Day

I originally wrote this for my personal blogsite, but I thought it would be a great piece for my column so enjoy! May 4th is quickly approaching and that means Star Wars Day will be upon us!  In honor of this special day where we take time to celebrate a long time ago in a galaxy far,…

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Thor & Loki: The Tenth Realm

A while ago, I did a review of an issue of Guardians of the Galaxy that featured a character I didn’t recognize. I later found out it was one I had forgotten even existed from Image. Her name was Angela and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out why she was in a…

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Musings of A Blerd: Women In Comics Are Here To Stay

I wasn’t going to write about this because other folks have written about it way better than I ever could, but after reading some tweets this afternoon, I thought I just give my two cents. About three weeks ago, former DC Comics editor Janelle Asselin-who also has a lot of experience in the comic book…

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Interview: JAMES TYNION IV talks his new series, THE WOODS

Writer James Tynion IV, known for his DC work on titles like BATMAN ETERNAL and TALON, has a creator owned series called THE WOODS coming out from BOOM! Studios. I read (and loved) a preview copy of the first issue, a kind of coming of age, sci-fi, adventure, mystery,  which hits the stands on May 7th.  James found the time…

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April Fools from Respawn

I almost came close to wanting to buy an XBox One just so I could play Titanfall and buy this DLC. Titanfall game developer Respawn released a teaser trailer for their latest DLC for the megahit game featuring the Autobot commander as a playable mech. This just happened to come out on April 1st. Damn…

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Megacon 2014 Recap

So, I attended Megacon in Orlando, Florida this weekend for the 2nd year in a row and got the opportunity to rock my brand new GonnaGeek t-shirt and even snap a few pics with some actors and one legend. While I wasn’t technically there in any official capacity, I worked it out with our fearless…

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GONNA GEEK’s own Sebastian Piccione to debut new comic at MEGACON

Gonna Geek writer Sebastian Piccione, host of the new F3G2 Comic Book review show, poster of news and press releases, and apparent fan of writing about himself in the third person will be at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando for MEGACON Fri. March 21 – Sun. March 23. He’ll be debutung HEROIC TALES…

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