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2015 was a great year for nerd culture, which is great for us–the better the movies and comics are at any given time, the better our articles will be. I haven't been with this team very long, but I've been here long enough to pick out my…

It’s 1973, and Joe Simon is slowly losing his mind. This isn’t the America he fought for in World War Two. It’s not the America that he personified, along with Jack Kirby, in the pages of Captain America. Richard Nixon is embroiled in…

The Serpent Society is one of the best-organized, most successful coalitions of superhuman criminals in operation today. If Comcast customer support could have operated with half the efficiency of the Serpent Society, then I wouldn't have…

Everyone knows that instead of the prequels the 90s should have brought us the Thrawn Trilogy. That should have happened. Why didn't that happen? Possibly Cold War politics? I dunno. The point is that the Thrawn Trilogy was a…

Have you ever had your favorite television show cancelled? As a nerd, I have lived through it all. Some of the cancellations in retrospect weren’t such a big deal. (I still miss you, Alf!) But some were severe miscarriages of justice.…

In the summer of 1988, a fresh graduate of middle school, my family picked up and moved a couple hundred miles from the Atlanta area to Augusta, Georgia. My dad had recently finished college, had a great new job and it was time for us to go…

One of the great things about comics books the allowance it creates for impressively wild and fantastical displays of future technology. And comic book technology isn't just little doohickey gadgets with the beeping and the blooping and…

It would be so terribly easy to populate this list of seven animal themed Marvel characters with A-listers we all know and love or know and despise. There's not much easier when it comes to superhero or super villain design than saying,…

All Image Comics publishes are #1 issues. I asked Robert Kirkland a question on his AMA and the next day there was a Speedy Courier at my door with a contract for me to write my own Image Comics #1 issue. That's how many #1 issues are…

Nerds on Earth discuss the best comic book podcasts.