Superheroes in a Drop of Water

Earlier this month, I discovered a photographer whose work stopped me in my tracks. Even the most jaded of people might even agree with me in saying that German photographer Marcus Reugels stands above the rest with his photographs. The work that caught my attention features drops of water refracting the earth, or at least [...]

Etsy Find: Geeky Crayons

You have got to love sites like Etsy, which provide an outlet for people to express their geekiness creativity and allow them to make money while they’re at it. While some things may tend to be on the pricey side, I do like to check out Etsy for interesting stuff. Here’s something worth your while. [...]

Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark Preview Night Falls Apart

I’ve been bitching and moaning about Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, the Spidey musical from U2 founders Bono and The Edge for the last month, mostly due to a bad first song preview and costume designs that left me baffled. Well if the very expensive to produce Broadway show ends up at all like the [...]

Spiderkid

A British boy genius named Hibiki Kono has transformed himself into a real-life wall-crawler. So enraptured of Spider-Man was 13-year-old Kono that he constructed a device that allows him to scale walls by crawling up them. Entirely on his own, he spent five months working on a gadget that connects two vacuum cleaners to a [...]

Superheroes Solve World War II

I know that this is not totally new but while I have imported some entries from my former ‘geek’ blog to FG, I thought this deserved to be highlighted more than just being there, in the archives. Deviant art member TOYIB has published his image edit, catapulting some of our most loved loved super heroes [...]

Marvel Televisions – Yes, You Read That Correctly

You know, I’ve been saying to all my friends for years now, “Why don’t they make a hi-def TV with my favorite Marvel comic book characters on it?” Guess what? They’ve finally done it.It’s like the peanut butter and chocolate combination of this century. That’s right, Marvel Comics has teamed up with RTC23, to release [...]