Well hello there, my fellow nerds! School is back in session. Everybody has on the latest fashions, torrented the required textbooks and finally swapped out that cliche Animal House poster with a Georgia O’Keefe. But some of you are different. You’re gonna sit in the back of the class, maybe wedgie everyone in the math club or maybe your taking part in one of this week’s stories. This week, the Fightin’ Badgers flunk Firefly, an indie game company stuffs your console in the locker and the defenders of comicdom steal the hallpass.
Now please report to the auditorium for some good ole fashioned tank-rippin’ in this week’s Nerd News Roundup!
Video Games
- City of Heroes has joined the ranks of MMOs trying a free-to-play model.
- Your XBox or PS3 just aren’t cool enough to play the next game from the creator of Braid.
- Video games have now contributed to disease research and space exploration. Feel free to call your mother and father and tell them how wrong they were.
- This Oregon School thinks that a shirt depicting Mario and the words “Will work for Mushrooms” endorses illegal activity. We attempted to speak with the school administration about this decision but Principal Bowser declined our request for an interview.
Comic Books
- DC on Starfire changes: Why are you showing kids our spank material, you sickos?
- Maybe, just maybe, you’ll get to see the Scarlet Spider back in action and then everyone can shut up about how they miss the character they hated during the Clone Saga.
- The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund now owns the rights to the symbol of the enemy.
- From this preview, I have surmised that the Silver Star’s power is ripping things apart angrily.
Television
- Everybody hates everybody in Season 2 of The Walking Dead. Oh, and there are some zombies in the show but that’s probably not important.
- The University of Wisconsin is NOT a Browncoat-friendly campus.
Movies
- Surely they can’t shove you AND your Tron motorcycle in a locker. Right?
- The Mortal Kombat web series was such a success that it’s getting a movie deal.
Image courtesy of Willamor Media on Flickr. Remixed by MrAnansi on Crasstalk.
