Composers Jon and Al Kaplan have released their latest internet musical and its humorous plea to bring in Karl Urban for Dredd II. Dredd: The Musical points out that there are many more villains in Mega-City One that need to be judged. The two minute thirty-five second song nugget also includes a reminder of why the 1995 Judge…
What’s Your Damage? #WWACNerdMovie This Wednesday Is So Very
For September’s Classic Nerd Movie Club this Wednesday, we will be livetweeting Heathers, the endlessly quotable teen cult classic from the 80’s starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. Are you a Veronica in a world full of Heathers? Or did it at least feel that way in high school? Winona Ryder stars as the reluctantly…
Gamers, Voice Your Thoughts On Diversity in Games
With women in gaming on the rise, student researcher, Jennifer Allaway, is exploring players’ wants for diversity in games and games developers’ understanding of that desire. She’s assessing that gap using two different surveys to create a case study, one survey is aimed specifically at consumers and one aimed specifically at developers. If you are…
The Wicked, The Divine and The Mythology — Part 2: The Morrigan and Baphomet
This series intends to briefly point towards the original mythological material, compare it to the Gillen and McKelvie comic adaptation of it, The Wicked and The Divine, and speculate meanings and foreshadows only available with a bit of background knowledge. Issue #2 ended with a huge cliffhanger: a new god (it is possible indeed, Laura!)….
Review: The Maze Runner Film
For a story that relies heavily on the unknown, The Maze Runner is built solidly on familiar and easily recognizable tropes. But while those tropes are engaging during the course of the movie, neither the characters nor the plot hold up to further scrutiny. I watched it without having read the series, and I left…
Crafting Geeky: Clench Up Legolas
If you know me (heck, even if you don’t), you know I love all things Hawk. My obsession with Hawkeye in particular began at my very first con, Emerald City 2010. I met Chris Giarrusso, picked up his Mini Marvels, and instantly fell in love. The portrayal was a character that everyone else forgot about…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Too Much Deadpool
This Marvel Monday is being written from a train! I am on my way home from a trip to Boston, so you get to enjoy some news composed while gazing out at the scenic backs of factories and vacant lots as I criss-cross this great nation the American way — on Amtrak, with significant delays!…
Sarah Lazarovic Live-Sketched the People’s Climate March in Toronto
Following the People’s Climate Marches from around the world on social media? Illustrator and MacLean’s contributor Sarah Lazarovic’s live sketch blog is my favourite coverage of the event so far. While she doesn’t go deep on the politics of the march, the chances of a new international climate deal, or the possible affects on upcoming elections…
Sunday Art Gala: PONIES
The art gala is back! Yes, after a couple of weeks away, we’re back with our themed sketches. Add yours in comments, or just become inspired by our high-quality output! This week I promised Colleen a pony. I forget why. But it turns out that ponies are quite hard to draw, and I decided my…
R/W: The Original Problem Millennial–Y2K
Word Nerdery This subject was suggested to me by Gibson Twist of Pictures of You. Every century and millennial end comes loaded with hefty dose of end-times paranoia, bacchanalia, and scoffing. Lately there was the fake Mayan doomsday prophecy and only a scant twelve years before that, our first millennial problem child, Y2K itself.
Multifarious: France vs. Impressionism!
Recently I discovered Kriss Stress Art. Very unique, Chicago-based artist. There are a couple different projects going on, my favorite is the “Blank Expressions” series that they do.
Life Geek! – 09/12-18/14
Life Geek! is our weekly lifestyle feature where we offer readers a glimpse into our geeky lives. Ginnis Tonik, Lifestyle Editor I made a peach paprika pie – sounds a little different, huh? On first bite, it tastes like a pretty typical fruit pie, but then it has these slightly spicy back-notes from the paprika…
