If you’ve been to Hollywood, you have undoubtedly seen the numerous characters strolling up and down the sidewalks, interacting with tourists and posing for tips. Perhaps you were startled by one of the many Spider-Men, took a picture with an incarnation of Johnny Depp, or ran into the famous Hollywood […]
‘The League of Regrettable Superheroes’ is a Treasure Trove of Forgotten Heroes
The League of Regrettable Superheroes Author: Jon Morris Release Date: June 2, 2015 Publisher: Quirk Books Genre(s): Non-Fiction, Superheroes, Pop Culture Review Spoilers: Low GoodReads | Amazon I am in love with this book. The League of Regrettable Superheroes is pretty much the perfect coffee table book for the everyday nerd. Gorgeously designed and fantastically organized, […]
The Broken Frontier Anthology: An Exclusive look Behind the Scenes with the Brains Behind the Anthology
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tylerchintanner/broken-frontier-the-boldest-comics-anthology-in-th/video_share I had the privilege of sitting down with the two brains behind the up-and-coming Broken Frontier Anthology to get the latest scoop. While Kickstarter campaigns might be a dime a dozen, it is the people behind them that help them sink or swim. In this case, their Kickstarter is swimming with […]
The #NerdsRead Pull List: April 1, 2015
Welcome to the very first edition of our new, weekly series of comic reviews! As you all know, we’ve got a lot of avid comic book readers here at Nerdophiles. There are a lot of series we follow each week but up until now we’ve focused primarily on doing trade reviews. […]
So You Wanna Be a Comics Big Shot?
Make Comics Like the Pros Author: Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente Release Date: September 9th, 2014 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Source: Bloggingforbooks.org Genre(s): How-To Rating: ★★★★☆ GoodReads | Amazon Well, do ya? Then now’s the chance to get some advice straight from the big shots themselves! In cinema there’s the well documented history […]
Brian Michael Bendis’s Words for Pictures Takes Readers Inside Writing for Comics
Words for Pictures Author: Brian Michael Bendis Release Date: July 22, 2014 Publisher: Watson-Guptill, Crown Publishing Source: Blogging for Books Genre(s): Non-Fiction, Entertainment, Graphic Novels Rating: ★★★★☆ Review Spoilers: N/A GoodReads | Amazon So, I’m not going to lie. The only real reason I picked out this book was because it was written by Brian Michael Bendis and […]
3 Tips For Getting Into Comics
Recently a long time friend of mine messaged me on Facebook saying he had a question to ask. He said he’d really enjoyed the Guardians of the Galaxy movie and wanted to get into comics. He’s always been a bit of a geek, but the world of comic books hadn’t […]
Nowhere Men Imagines A World Where Scientists Are Bigger Rockstars Than the Beatles
Nowhere Men: Fates Worse Than Death Vol. 1 Author: Eric Stephenson Illustrator: Nate Bellegarde and Jordie Bellair Release Date: November 20, 2013 Publisher: Image Comics Source: NetGalley DRC Genre(s): Science Fiction, Alternate History, Graphic Novel Rating: ★★★★☆ Review Spoilers: Low GoodReads | Amazon All right, so, Nowhere Men was going to get put into one of my comic book […]
Action, Adventure, and Angst Await in These Comic Collections
All right, so, I’ve fallen painfully far behind on my reviews as of late. Painfully far behind. So to make up for it I’m going to be doing a series of reviews over the course of the next week or so. There’s little rhyme or reason to which TPB reviews […]
Karl Urban Briefly Returns to the Judge Dredd Universe Courtesy of 2000 AD Comics
I have no idea how this has escaped my notice for a good week now because I think it’s pretty clear by now that I am a huge Dredd fan. Also: a huge Karl Urban fan. So when these two things come together you’d think, “Dude, Sam’s all over this.” […]
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