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My Comic Book Obsession Part One: Geek Life
Welcome back to ACB’s bi-weekly trip through the past. For this thirteenth, and final, retrospective on the 80s, I decided to get a little more personal with you. This episode is all about discovery...
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My Comic Book Obsession Part Two: Geek Life
As Geek Life kicks off the second half of its year-long run, I enter the 1990s and beyond with part two of My Comic Book Obsession! My Comic Book Obsession Part Two: Re-Discovery So, as the 90s...
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The Avengers: Geek Life
Welcome back for another bi-weekly dose of Geek Life! For number fifteen, I’m going to try to put into words my greatest obsession of them all – The Avengers. My Greatest Comic Book Obsession… The...
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Comics Grow Up: Geek Life
Welcome back to the sixteenth installment of ACB’s bi-weekly Geek Life series. With my birthday coming at the end of this week, I’m constantly reminded I’m a thirtysomething comic collector. Since I...
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Crossgen Comics: Geek Life
Welcome back! ACB’s Geek Life keeps rolling along. For our seventeenth installment, I thought we’d take a look at something that on paper seemed to really be what the comic industry needed, but...
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Conventions: Geek Life
Welcome back to another edition of Geek Life. The number 18 has always been my favorite number. I have no clue as to why but there was always something kinda cool about it. That being said, my 18th...
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The Simpsons: Geek Life
Welcome back to Geek Life! We’re 19 episodes in, and if we count the number of my articles as if they are years, they still don’t equal the number of years my topic has appeared on television. In...
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Becoming a Fan of DC Comics: Geek Life
For the 20th edition of Geek Life, I decided that I would talk about the things that finally got me to buy comics from DC. I grew up on Marvel and, to this day, still know far more about their...
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When the Sci-Fi Channel Was Cool: Geek Life
Welcome back to Geek Life! This time around, I figured I would take a look at a cable television channel that really shaped my tastes in science fiction, horror, and even comedy. You see, there’s...
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The Spider-Man Movies: Geek Life
Welcome back to Geek Life! This week marks the 22nd article in this 26-part, one year project. It also marks the ninth anniversary of one of the most successful films in Hollywood history –...
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The Star Wars Prequel Trilogy: Geek Life
It’s time for a new Geek Life, and for this twenty-third episode, I have a topic that is at the very center of the most geeky of all controversies. It’s a story of a humble boy who grows up to become...
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Comics Get Political: Geek Life
Welcome back to Geek Life! There are only three more to go before my year long trip down memory lane ends. For this installment, I decided that I’d use my soapbox one last time. I’ve railed against...
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Adult Swim: Geek Life
Welcome back to Geek Life! In this penultimate chapter, I take a look at a particular block of programming that usually keeps me up way too late every night. I discovered it on a Thursday night in...
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How Being a Geek Became Cool: Geek Life
This is it… The 26th and final Geek Life. I began my year-long trek down memory lane wanting to have some written record of those things I grew up loving. I’ve always felt that those things helped...
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Flash Gordon (1980): A Geek Life Special
December 5th, 2011 marks the thirty-first anniversary of Flash Gordon. Why not celebrate it with the first “Geek Life” Specials?!? Geek Life Special #1: Flash Gordon (1980) “FLASH! A-AH! He’s for...
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The X-Men Movies: A Geek Life Special
It’s been a while since I have done one of these Geek Life Specials, but, with Marvel about to burn up the Summer movie screens with The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man, what better time than now...
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The Superman Movies: A Geek Life Special
Geek Life returns this Summer with a series of specials revolving around the movies we all loved. Last month, I looked at the X-Men Movies in anticipation for Marvel’s smash hit The Avengers. This...
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Kevin Smith Movies: A Geek Life Special
First, he showed us life as a clerk. Then, we got insight into the world of mallrats. We chased Amy before finding Dogma. He and his pal struck back before finally bringing us back full circle to...
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Godzilla: A Geek Life Special
With a purposeful grimace and terrible sound, he pulls the spitting high tension wires down. Helpless people on subway trains scream, bug-eyed, as he looks in on them. He picks up a bus and he...
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James Bond: A Geek Life Special
We know his name. We know his number. His exploits all across the globe are the stuff of legend. Today, his filmed adventures officially turn 50 years old. He’s Bond, James Bond. He is the...
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