As Nerdvana alumnus Chris “KeL” Adams wrote in January, Valley comic book chain Atomic Comics is featured heavily in the upcoming superhero movie...
March 2010
Several names have been added to the guest list of Phoenix Comicon. Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is an award-winning American voice actress best known for doing...
The Dune Sea Garrison of the 501st Legion, a Star Wars costuming organization , will hold a meet-and-greet hosted by Atomic Comics’ Metrocenter location...
GateWorld reports that Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, the Mesa-based developer of the recently released third-person shooter Stargate Resistance and the long...
How to Train Your Dragon 3D isn’t your typical swords-and-sorcery dragon fantasy fare. There are no sorcerers or cursed rings or Sean Connery dragon...
Tucked in the southeast corner on the lower level of Metrocenter was the Gamekeeper, a little store that had the power to inspire wonder and fear -- and fun.
Forget Cad Bane. Boba Fett is coming to a Star Wars television series — sooner than anyone expected. USA Today reports that the bounty hunter will appear...
Thrash metal band Exodus will visit sign their comics and DVD noon to 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 30, at Atomic Comics in Mesa, 1120 S. Country Club Dr. For more...
Nintendo announced today that it will begin selling a 3-D version of its handheld gaming system within a year, called the Nintendo 3DS. There were few details...
Geeky Seattle rock band Kirby Krackle is the latest act to sign up for Phoenix Comicon this May at the Phoenix Convention Center and Hyatt Regency. With songs...
A receiver has been appointed to oversee things at Mesa-based video game developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment as it goes through Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
The casting rumors have heated up in recent weeks and now The Hollywood Reporter says that the role of Captain America has been offered to and accepted by...
TheForce.Net reports that Daniel Logan, the New Zealand actor who played a young Boba Fett in Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones, will be...
Publisher Oni Press and writer/artist Bryan Lee O’Malley have confirmed the release date for the sixth and final volume of the Scott Pilgrim series...
When Joan Jett picked up an electric guitar and decided to start her own all-girl rock group in high school, the tough, leather-clad chick from the LA valley...
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A defunct WB television series about powerful female role models battling the forces of darkness is coming back...
Some entertainment industry honchos seem to be regretting their choice in terminology when referring to online copyright infringers as “pirates.”...
If you love those meddling kids of Mystery Inc., but don’t like the direction the franchise has taken in recent years, check out my first-ever guest post...
A mission poster commissioned to commemorate the final voyage of the Space Shuttle Endeavor — and the next-to-last shuttle flight ever — has been...
The following text was found inscribed on a magical ring posted in the filmography section of actor Ian McKellen’s website by The Hollywood Reporter: THE...
A post on Tom Baker’s official website reveals that the longtime iconic Doctor Who star has been in talks to record a story for Big Finish Productions...
GateWorld has picked up on an Examiner.com interview with Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment and Firesky president and CEO Tim Jenson about recent confusion over...
Well, it’s official. Facebook has dethroned Google as king of the Internet. According to Hitwise, an Internet traffic tracking site, last week Facebook...
Phoenix Comicon is hosting a film festival and taking submissions through April 1. For those struggling to finish their projects, organizers have arranged a...
The next Worldwide D&D Game Day event on March 20 will celebrate the launch of a new rulebook for the fantasy roleplaying game, Player’s Handbook 3...
The comic book convention season began last weekend with Seattle’s Emerald City Comicon. Among the interesting news to come out of the con was Geoff...
The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog broke the news this weekend that a couple of New Zealanders have been cast in the Green Lantern film. Taika...
It has been known for a while now that the first batch of downloadable content for Modern Warfare 2 was approaching soon. This bundle promised new maps for the...
Several groups of local Star Wars fans are taking pledges for the East Mesa Relay for Life, 1 p.m. to 6 a.m. April 17-18 at Red Mountain High School. Their...
If you missed “Star Wars in Concert” when it came to the Valley last fall, you’ll have another chance when the show takes over Tucson Arena 7...
Evermore Nevermore, downtown Mesa’s geek-centric clothing and collectibles shop, has a creative solution for all those winter gloves that holiday...
Today — 3/14 — is National Pie Day, celebrating the magical mathematical constant approximately equal to 3.141593. Jess Harter has the scoop on...
“Pretty much anyone who plays Dungeons & Dragons also plays World of Warcraft,” declares a twentysomething woman covered in pitch-black makeup...
An interesting week in comics this time around, not as many high-profile books as last week, but there’s a wide variety of good stuff. Usually, I favor...
Comic book scribe Brian Azzarello, the scribe behind mature DC Comics imprint Vertigo’s hardboiled crime series 100 Bullets as well as DC’s First...
USA Today reports that a grassroots Facebook movement to draft veteran screen actress Betty White to host Saturday Night Live has paid off. She’ll host...
Christian Youth Theater is urgently looking for storage space for costumes, props and set pieces. The nonprofit education arts organization is hoping someone...
Bigpoint has announced the development of Battlestar Galactica Online, a massive roleplaying game based on the Syfy series. It will launch in the fall...
J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of TV’s Babylon 5 who has also had writing stints on Marvel’s Thor and The Amazing Spider-Man as well as...
The Arizona Science Center in downtown Phoenix is starting construction on a new entrance and lobby complex that will offer a larger, air-conditioned waiting...
Mesa-based video game developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment said it fired its chairman and CEO around the time it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
Former Arizona Diamondbacks and Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s online fantasy roleplaying game now has a code name: Project Mercury. As of...
Last weekend PC gamers trying to play Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed 2 found themselves unable to connect to the company’s servers and thus...
Earlier this year we learned Syfy was looking to classic dark fairy tales for inspiration for its next batch of Saturday night movies. (They recently kicked...
Lowell Observatory photograph The Associated Press reports that engineers are putting the finishing touches on an ultrathin mirror that is a vital part of the...
Ben Stiller … in the Na’vi (Mark J. Terrill, The Associated Press) Many were saying this would be the year sci-fi ascended to a proper art form in...
Surprising absolutely no one, Valve has announced the sequel to the ground-breaking hit video game ‘Portal.’ As a precursor, Valve had been...
This coming weekend (March 12-14) is the 2nd Annual Tucson Festival of Books being held on the University of Arizona Campus. The first one held last year was a...
Update: Well, I hope you were checking out Nerdvana early this morning since it looks like the opportunity has passed. Amazon finally got wise to what was...
Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe on Saturday is hosting a “Mad Hatter’s Un-Birthday Party” for kids and tweens to celebrate the release of...
Tim Burton’s re-imagining of the classic Alice in Wonderland story is a delight, and is sure to please movie fans of all ages with its quirky characters...
The CW has made it official: Smallville has been renewed for a 10th season. The network had recently announced the return of The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl...
There’s a lot of great books out this week, so it was tough to choose a winner. Dave Lapham’s Sparta U.S.A., Kevin Smith’s Green Hornet...
Fantasy author George R.R. Martin will be the guest of honor at this year’s LepreCon, May 14-16 at the Phoenix Marriott Mesa. His best-known work, A Song...
Excerpts from John Williams’ legendary scores for the Star Wars trilogies and Close Encounters of the Third Kind — as well as Gustav Holst’s...
The Phoenix Fan Force will hold an informational meeting 1 p.m. April 3 at Mesa’s Riverview Park to gauge interest for a “relaunch” of the...
Ben Templesmith and Ben McCool will sign copies of the first two issues of their new Image comic series Choker 10 a.m. to noon March 17 at Atomic Comics at...
Scottsdale-based Taser International wants everyone to know that despite references to “Taser” in reports of a stun gun in the home of Michael...
Wired magazine is preparing an electronic version of its print publication for Apple’s forthcoming iPad tablet. According to an internal memo, the tech-savvy...
Move over, Buffy, and say “hail to the chief.” Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was released today in hardback. It’s a novel by Seth Grahame...
Where are all the bees going? Mystery solved! The Arizona Science Center is giving six lucky (?) winners the chance to wear a beard of live bees on March 20...
In a sad case of art imitating life, Peter Parker, the photojournalist alter-ego of Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man, has a new nemesis: Unemployment. Marvel...
There’s more than toons at Phoenix Comicon. There’s also tunes. Organizers announced in November that international “horror punk...
Buzz Aldrin, the second human to set foot on the moon (pictured), will be strutting his 80-year-old stuff in full Earth gravity for the 10th season of Dancing...
Laurie R. King will wrap up the signing tour for her new book The God of the Hive May 19 at The Poisoned Pen, 4014 N. Goldwater Blvd., Scottsdale. It’s...
The Challenger Space Center in Peoria has issued a statement on the passing of renowned space artist and Arizona resident Robert McCall, reported here Sunday:...
