Posts Tagged “comic con”

Below is the leaked footage from Comic Con of the upcoming Thor movie.  I’m not a big fan of Thor but I was planning on seeing the film when it’s released next summer.  After seeing the footage though, I don’t know that I can wait that long.  Hurry and watch before it gets taken down.

Marvel got to all the uploads pretty fast. This is courtesy of io9.

Tags: Awesome, comic con, footage, movie, Thor

Unfortunately, I was not able to attend San Diego Comic Con this year.  Or any previous year for that matter.  This is something that I hope to remedy sometime in the future but by then I’ll probably be in my forties and be called by guys in the comic book store Captain Sweatpants.  Or Captain Sweat Stains… I’m not sure which…

Anyways, being the geek that I am, I have been valiantly trying to catch up on all of the news that has been leaking out over the past week.  Last week I started hearing rumblings about Ryan Reynolds reciting the Green Lantern oath for a little kid but I just finally found some footage of it.  If it doesn’t put a smile on your face, then you have a heart of pure darkness.  I can only imagine the joy that this kid must have felt.  Of course, I’m a bit biased since I’m a Green Lantern fan and can’t hardly wait for the movie to come out.

Tags: comic con, footage, Green Lantern, Ryan Reynolds, san diego comic con

Since it was Zuke who made the promise on a reduction of video awesomeness, I am still free to post as many videos in a row as I like because he’s not the boss of me.  Now that I’ve exercised an act of defiance…

Below you will see the reason why every geek must go to San Diego Comic Con at least once: the exclusive toys. As geeks, we all love toys; that’s no secret. Our collections probably drive our spouses insane.  We especially love toys that other people are unable to acquire. This is where getting your hands on some of these convention exclusives comes into play. (I think that it’s something to do with our desire to see others want. Probably because we all wanted something, be it girls or the whole collection of Star Wars toys, as we were growing up.)

Tags: Awesome, comic con, geek, geeks, san diego comic con, Star Wars, toys

Earlier, zohner posted on the hierarchy of geeks from an old chart created by the Brunching Shuttlecocks. While it mainly centered on items that typically might identify geeks, it did leave a big one out: video games.

Gone are the days when playing video games in your basement was a sign of social rejection. In today’s world, there’s something WRONG with a child who has no interest in gaming. Men play video games in social settings in the same manner as their fathers would have poker night. Teenagers use them as their way to pretend they are someone else (and actually try and convince other people over voice that they really ARE as badass as they claim).

Tags: action figures, brunching shuttlecocks, comic con, comics, conventions, Fantasy, geeks, Halo, hierarchy, manga comics, Nintendo, otaku, playing video games, playstation 1, poker night, social rejection, social settings, soundtracks, video games, wall scroll, Zelda