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Musings of a Blerd-Indie Artist Spotlight: Mario Daniel

And here’s another one!  Another new entry for the Indie Artist Spotlight feature that is. Today the spotlight shines on Atlanta artist Mario Daniel.   Tali Adina: How did you get into comics? Mario Daniel: When I was around 5 or 6yrs old my god father who was a long time comics reader would bring…

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Musings of a Blerd- Indie Artist Spotlight: Peggy Wolohan von Burkleo

It’s Wednesday and that means it’s  New Comic Book Day, and there’s a new entry for the Indie Artist Spotlight feature. Today the spotlight shines bright on artist Peggy Wolohan von Burkleo.   TA: How did you get into comics? PB: My Father grew up reading Golden Age comics. He would buy me comics when…

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Musings of a Blerd: JIMAA Throwback-Tali’s Top 8 Sites to View Anime

Welcome back anime lovers to JIMAA! It’s another manic Monday but no worries, I have a list of places where you can go online to watch anime and relax from the chaotic start of the week. This list first appeared on Comics Crux two years ago, but I thought I share it with you again!…

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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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Bachman’s Best – Amazing Spider-Man 2

ATTENTION – SPOILER FREE! The best thing I saw last week was Amazing Spider-Man 2! Yes Amazing Spider-Man 2 was a spectacularly good time. Now as I am going spoiler free on this one it will be kind of short as that really limits what I can talk about, but I can talk about what…

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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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Musings of a Blerd: Welcome to my column!

Hello folks out there in geekspace! Welcome to a new column on Gonna Geek written by yours truly.  I had a few ideas that I thought would make a cool column that I wanted to share with you my fellow nerds and geeks. So here’s what you’ll be reading on this new column. Comicmaniacs:  Previously…

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Bachman’s Best – The Superior Spider-Man #31

HUGE SPOILER ALERT! YOU’VE BEEN WARNED! The best thing I read last week was The Superior Spider-Man #31, the finale issue and conclusion of the Goblin Nation storyline. For those maybe not in the know the series The Amazing Spider-Man ended at issue #700 with a triumphant Doctor Octopus inhabiting the boy of Spider-Man/Peter Parker…

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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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