You might remember all last year, everyone on the planet seemed to be counting down to one very specific date. For reasons most people didn't understand, December 21, 2012 was a very important day. It was the day the world would end, as it had so perfectly been foretold millennia ago by the Maya, an extinct, but brilliant race of people from somewhere in South America? It was all very fuzzy, but the fact re ...

There are plenty of movies out there about dating, about getting married, and about breaking up. What there aren't, are a lot of movies about what comes next. How do you have a relationship, especially a sexual one, once the magic wears off, and you have to deal with screaming children? How do you keep the spark alive after your kids have grown, and moved out? And how do you date as a single parent? These a ...

Over the last few years, Kickstarter has become one of the best resources for comic fans looking to explore the world outside the big two publishers (Marvel and DC), so it's no surprise that I found our newest spotlight project while perusing the site. Terrance Grace, a veteran in the film and television industry, is in the final weeks of a campaign to publish his very first full length graphic novel, 'The ...

Several months ago I came across a Kickstarter campaign for a web series called Squaresville. It was about two teenage girls who were stuck in their weird little town, due to the fact that they were teenagers, and therefore couldn't really do anything about it. Just from the trailer I could tell that this was a series that not only looked good, but sounded good - it was witty, offbeat, and charming - and th ...

Being a geek is one of those things that is simultaneously one of the simplest and one of the most difficult things to do. On the one hand, you can geek out about virtually anything: comics, books, movies, tv shows, music, games, etc. On the other, with geek culture so pervasive in our society, and so very, very vast, it can be a bit intimidating to anyone looking to join a new fandom (just ask anyone who t ...