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Old Classics: Adolf

Adolf, written by the father of manga Tezuka Osamu, is not your basic average manga.  Rather than using fluffy shoujo plot devices or muscly shounen characters, Adolf ties together three different worlds in a political thriller both intelligent and captivating. Synopsis Adolf, by father of manga Tezuka Osamu, is a microcosm of three distinct societies during the

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Book Review – The Black Prism

I myself had all but given up on reading. Not finding too many titles that interested me, I felt I needed to be a tween to enjoy any of the current medium. (Not to knock Potter or even the Twilight series; I understood the fan base and I was glad that someone was writing for

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Nintendo Details Wii U Launch – November 18, 2012

We know what, where, and when, but did Nintendo really address the concerns and answer the questions they needed to?

Assuming you haven’t been living under a rock for the past 27 years (29 if you reside in the swanky, get-every-awesome-piece-of-electronics-first Asian market), you will be fully aware of the fact that an impending Nintendo console generation launch is a big nerdy deal.

Well, it’s big nerdy deal time again. Nintendo will be launching its questionably-named Wii U Console in North America on Sunday, November 18th. This news comes as a result of a well-publicized meet-and-greet thrown by NOA earlier this week in New York, and broadcast via Nintendo’s increasingly impressively effective website, www.nintendo.com

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Movie Issues Podcast
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Radioland Murders

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! This week, the boys travel back to 1939 in days of old-time radio. We watched 1994s Radioland Murders, a flop produced by a little-known fellow named George Lucas before he ended up working on this little movie called Star Wars you may have heard of

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Comic Issues
Andrew Plein

Comic Issues #83 – Back to School Special

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Fiction-land features plenty of Schools and Teachers. Which was your favorite? This week on Comic Issues join our heroes and heroines on their journey back to school. But not just any school, the “best-of”s of Geek Fiction. There’s plenty of magic and

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Source Filmmaker Making Gamers Into Animators: Some Personal Favorites

In connection with the release of “Meet the Pyro“, Valve also released the same video-making program previously utilized for their cinematic trailers and videos by Valve animators for years.  The program is called Source Filmmaker and available for free download on Steam.  According to Valve, many of their popular videos such as Portal 2‘s Cave Johnson

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Valve’s “Big Picture” – Steam to be Available on Your TV

Valve announced a major addition to their game management client Steam today: “Big Picture”. This new aspect of Steam allows users to access their PC/Mac Steam games on their HD TV.  Interface with game controllers will also be available too, though it seems that right now only the XBox 260 controller is compatible. Big Picture

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Movie Issues Podcast
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Mannequin

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! This week the guys travel to 1987 to relive the class masterpiece that is Mannequin. Staring Andrew McCarthy as a an artist who falls in love with a store mannequin played by Kim Cattrall, who comes to life when only he’s around. Which

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The Dark Knight Returns Presents: The Mutants

Hot off the heels of the last clip released for the quickly-approaching Dark Knight Returns animated movie, we are again graced with more teases. Although the new clip lacks a certain “Bat” element, it offers a great look at Part 1’s protagonist, the Mutant Leader – and it greatly improves over its lackluster predecessor. Oh,

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