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New Ancient Greek Action Novel Sons of Zeus
Noble Smith’s Sons of Zeus, on the walls of the citadel of the archaeological site of Plataea, Greece. (Image: Noble Smith) I’ve been following Noble Smith’s career ever since the publication of The...
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“Worlds Within Worlds”: Shattering Conventions Explores and Exposes Con Culture
Posing with a hero: Bob Calhoun (right), the author of Shattering Conventions: Commerce, Cosplay and Conflict on the Expo Floor, at the 1992 Comic-Con with legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby....
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Dark Crystal Comic-Con News: Panel, New Fan Site with Production Images
September 5, 1982: Another time, another con. Left to right: Jim Henson, designer/artist Brian Froud, unknown and producer Gary Kurtz present at the Worldcon Fantasy Convention in Chicago, (Image: (C)...
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Blockbuster Stew of Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Twilight: A Review of...
Into the cauldron that is her debut urban fantasy novel, The Bone Season, Samantha Shannon has wisely sprinkled every element for potential success. There’s a feisty 19-year-old protagonist named...
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At Conventions, Skywalkers, Bagginses, Batmans and Lannisters Provide...
Sci-fi geeks and comic book nerds offer a model of tolerance and acceptance we all can learn from. (Image: Flickr) Now, perhaps more than at any other time in recent memory, we are afraid of “the...
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Trailer Released
Spiders, bears, elves, dwarves, dragons, rings. It’s here. The official trailer for the December 13 release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is now out there in the Internet-verse. Watch it,...
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Giveaway of New Illustrated Edition of The Hobbit
The past week or so has been good for fans of The Hobbit. First, we got a sneak peek at the new trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Last week also marked the release of a new, fancy,...
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Congratulations Hobbit Giveaway Winners
Some days ago, we announced a contest to give away three copies of a new, fancy, illustrated version of Tolkien’s beloved classic The Hobbit, thanks to the generosity of the publisher, Houghton Mifflin...
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Remember Myst and Riven? Cyan Kickstarter to Fund New Game Obduction
[Updated] Remember Myst? That amazing, groundbreaking, mind-bending game that mystified you back in the 1990s? Then came Riven in 1997. The two were the best-selling computer games of the 20th...
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Make Polyhedral "Gingerbread" Dice for the Holidays
(Image: ournerdhome.com) Roll for … wait, maybe don’t actually roll these dice. We were tickled pink, red and green, when we saw this post over at ournerdhome.com about how to geek up your holidays...
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Q&A with 101 Things I Learned Author Matt Frederick
Matt Frederick is an architecture and design geek. As an architecture student and later a teacher, he found the important lessons of architecture constantly getting lost in the shuffle. So he turned...
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Facebook for Middle-earth: Six Degrees of Sauron, Another Project from LOTR...
The LOTR Project is serious — OK, crazy — about Tolkien. They’ve been quite busy charting, mapping, graphing and family-treeing (yes, this can be a verb) all the creatures and places populating...
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D&D “Officially” Turns 40 Today
The original Dungeons & Dragons, also called OD&D, looked like this. It was a small boxed set of three booklets, originally published in January, 1974. When exactly is the 40th anniversary of...
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Five Amazing TV Moments from D&D History
In honor of the 40th anninversary of Dungeons & Dragons, which is being celebrated non-stop here at GeekDad’s Saving Throw Headquarters, we present Five Amazing TV Moments from D&D History. In...
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Watch This: Imperial AT-AT Walkers Vs. Sochi Moguls Skiers
We never thought the IOC would let the Empire field a team at the 2014 Olympic games, let alone allow them to take up defensive positions with their snow-walking AT-ATs. This might explain why the...
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Nintendo Video Games as Classic Little Golden Books
(Image: jo3bot.com) Our friends over at Laughing Squid brought this to our attention. Here’s a Los Angeles-based artist named Joey Spiotto (who also calls himself “Joebot”) taking a look back at...
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Kid’s Imagination + DreamWorks Animator Dad = Action Movie Kid
What if the living room rug really were lava? Or, if you picked a light saber off the shelf at a toy store, flipped on the switch, and it worked? Or if that pretend rocket ship at the playground could...
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How to Be a Father and a Filmmaker: Interview with Jeff Stern, Director of...
Creative parents know the struggle: be good fathers and mothers, be good spouses, bring home the bacon, and then in their spare time — Ha! — find time for their passions. No problem, right? Alas,...
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Video Games, D&D, and Farting on the Bus: Bad for You Is Good for You
You’ve heard of the scares, the parental worries. You’ve probably experienced the witch-hunts and moral panics led by the older generations. Skateboarding is bad for you. Video games, rock and roll...
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New Book on Super Mario Bros. 2, the “Black Sheep” of the Mario Bros. Franchise
If you’ve read the 33 1/3 book series about record albums, but you love video games, then Boss Fight Books just might be for you. The publisher has released several brief “critical, creative,...
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