Jason Sansbury, Author at Nerds on Earth

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Jason moved to Atlanta to take a job to fund his nerd obsessions. Put best, he loves stories and the best genres that tell them, be it movies, comics, books or video games. It all started when his dad used to pick him up from daycare and take him to see "Star Wars" when he was only 4 years old. Proud owner of a Marvel No-Prize.

Teenaged Superheroes: Marvel’s Young Avengers

In the early 2000s, Marvel scored quite a coupe when it convinced Allan Heinberg, a writer and showrunner for many youth television series to team up with artist Jimmy Cheung to create a new, younger version of the Avengers. While it might…

Teenage Superheroes: Runaways by Brian K. Vaughan

If you have never read the Brian K. Vaughan written Runaways, you are missing out on an older example of what BKV does well: an excellent elevator pitch that gets built out into a great, longer story. Runaways begins as a group of…

A Review of The Force Awakens

In case you missed the onslaught of merchandising that started back in January, or the trailers, or the full blown hype machine of the past few weeks, a little film called Star Wars: The Force Awakens set box office records over the…

Characters You Should Know: Cloak and Dagger

In the early 1980s, New York City was a much different place. Crime rates were high, people felt unsafe, and that is the world where the Marvel Comics offices were located. And at the same time, the First Lady of the United States had set…