Category Archives: Nerd Prom 2007
Gimp Rage
Give me a break, will you? I took a fucking picture of a featured model at Comic-Con. It’s not like I skulk around the prosthetics unit at Mass General with lamp black on my face, a telephoto lens and a pocket pack of Kleenex to hammer off into… [read more at link] Continue reading
Tod Browning’s Comic-Con
“And as I remember, it wasn’t that much fun when that Greg boy from up the street was beating you up for wearing Spider-Man Underoos.”
“Oh Mom, stop reminding me of my twenty-fifth birthday.” [read more at link] Continue reading
San Diego Comic-Retcon
“And the next thing you know, you’re wiring home for bail money, and by this afternoon, the front page of Comic Book Resources and Newsarama will be running giant pictures of Warren Ellis and me kicking Darth Vader across the convention floor.” [read more at link] Continue reading
Freaks On a Leash
Well, I wish I had a bunch of nifty Hollywood news to bring you from Comic-Con, but I’m sad to say that after a Saturday walking the floor, I have almost nothing to report besides chafing, and nobody wants that… [read more at link[ Continue reading
Nerdpocalypse Now
This year, for the first time, Saturday tickets for Comic-Con sold out weeks ahead of time, which means that 125,000 geeks have planned ahead to be here. Granted, I am one of those geeks, but if last year was any indication, I will be one of the few who’s forward planning includes a shower. The main convention floor will be more clogged than Dick Cheney’s arteries, but with even more exposed, disgusting fat globules. Only these globules will be filling my brain with jiggling visions of ill-advised bare-midriffed Huntress costumes instead of the sweet release of a massive aneurism… [read more at link] Continue reading