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Comic Issues
llyzabeth

Comic Issues #151 – 2013, the Year of the Geek

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! When you get right down to it, every year is a good year to be a geek. But 2013 was an especially good one, both for geeks in general and Comic Issues in particular. Join our heroes and heroine as we wrap

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Gaming
James Trauben

Giving Violence Weight

If I was so pretentious as to try and ascribe themes to my random musings – and believe me, I am– then I’d have to say a growing theme in 2013 for me has been giving game violence weight. No, wait! Come back! I’m not going to go all Jack Thompson on you! Let’s be

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Books
llyzabeth

Elizabeth’s Top Five Books of 2013

When I look at all the science-fiction/fantasy books published in 2013, I tend to shake my fist at the bookshelves: there’s not enough hours in the day! I want to read all the books! I barely scratched the surface! Out of all the books I did read that were published in 2013, the following five

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Top Movies of 2013

Earlier this year it could have been said that the movies of 2013 weren’t great, but after going back and relooking over the films that did come out, it turns out 2013 wasn’t full of terrible films. There were a couple here and there, but overall not terrible movies, just a year full of disappointments more

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Gaming
Jordan Pollock

J.Bear’s Top 10 Video Games of 2013

The end of the year is finally upon us. It feels like just yesterday we were booting up copies of Telltale’s “The Walking Dead”, “Far Cry 3”, “Borderlands 2”, and “Mass Effect 3”. But here we are, 2013 is coming to a close. This year has been one of the best year’s in gaming, not

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review: Empowered Volume 8

After almost a year and a half of waiting I finally got my hands on Empowered Volume 8, the newest book in Adam Warren’s “sexy superheroine” series. To tide us over during that time, Warren gave us several stand-alone issues, written by himself and illustrated by various guest artists. I enjoyed those, and my only

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Comic Issues
Anthony Silva

Comic Issues #150 – Christmas Issues

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Merry Christmas everyone! To celebrate the season of sharing the Ci Crew invited old friend and past guest Sal Makar. Together the mysteries of Christmas are exposed as we talk about the weirder traditions from around the world, from the “Poop Log”

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Ben Stiller directs and stars as Walter Mitty a daydreamer who escapes his boring life by disappearing into his own world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. He works for Life magazine and with the world changing to digital and print media becoming a thing of

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Grudge Match

In the new sports comedy movie, Grudge Match, staring Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone as aging boxers who step back into the ring for one last bout 30 years after their last match. Directed by Peter Segal (Get Smart, 50 First Dates), takes these two acting icons that previously have had successful boxing films,

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