We're back.
Writing hasn't always been easy with all the Big Life Stuff that went on this year, but we overcame our creative and logistical hurdles in December to produce (in one blogger's opinion) some of the most thoughtful, nostalgia-inducing, and unexpected posts of the year.
Just because we like you, here's a handy guide to everything we wrote in December:
- A recap of my November and December contributions to videogame humor website GameCola.net
- Alex's cathartic weekly comics news and opinion feature, Waiting for Wednesday, Volume 2:
+ Issue 48: The Walking Dead and Winter's Edge
+ Issue 49: The Goon in USA Today, and mainstream holiday cheer
+ Issue 50: Losing weight and gaining something occult
+ Issue 51: Comics shipment overload, and more mainstream holiday cheer
+ Issue 52: The retrospective conclusion of Volume Two
- A guide to buying comics for comics fans both from casual to hardcore
- A guide to free gifts for the geek in your life
- A review of Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier, a humorous sci-fi adventure game
- A review of the first season of AMC's The Walking Dead, a television adaptation of the survival horror comic where the zombies will get you
- The story of how this Nintendo fanboy became an XBox groupie
- An impassioned demand: I want my obscure fandom back.
- Philosophical thoughts about the enjoyable ridiculousness of holiday shopping
- Why bookstores are like a summer romance, or a t-rex
- A stream-of-consciousness experiment in spending less than 30 minutes writing a post
- An introduction to the unconventional stand-up comedy of Eddie Izzard
- A rational twist in Alex's comics collecting
- A video of the Flash game Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar (TM)
- A reflection on the geekiest time of my life
- Warm and fuzzy holiday nostalgia
- Why brownies are bad for your health, and other tales of RPG Game Overs
- An excuse to blow up this blog
- A story of Alex's showdown at the drive-up ATM
- A discussion of geeky and heartwarming holiday traditions
- A silly parody of a popular holiday tune
- A variety of Christmas-themed comic book covers
- A discussion of the day after Christmas, just to be different
- A link to (possibly) one of the greatest commisioned art works ever
- The finest screenshots of Mega Man 3 you're likely to find
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