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We’re done with resolutions to eat healthfully and quit our vices. This year we’re resolving to reconnect with our nerdolicious self — basically to let our geek flag fly. And it looks like we won’t be alone. 2010 is shaping up to be the year of the geek, with scores of filmmakers, software companies, sci-fi cons and game developers clamoring for our attention.
Here are just a few of the geeky happenings we’re looking forward to experiencing in 2010.
5. Free Comic Book Day (May 1)
Free. Comic. Books. Those three little words should be enough to lure any adult who remembers huddling under a tent of blankets after “lights out” reading back issues of Superman or X-Men at Camp Whatamayahoochee (not that we’re admitting anything, mind you).
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The deal: Initiated in 2002, Free Comic Book Day started as a way to help small indie shops and comic publishers attract new customers. Every year a couple dozen publishers sign up to sell select books to stores at cost, which the stores give away on FCBD in early May.
The lowdown: You’re not gonna land a copy of Marvel Zombies or Blackest Night, but this year’s titles include a cool Iron Man/Thor pairing, War of the Supermen and Fearless Dawn. Not every comic book store participates (and most won’t let you hog every title) but Samurai Comics, Atomic Comics and a few other locals usually get in on the action.
2. Sony’s 3-D Television (Late 2010)
We may not have flying cars or hoverboards and no one’s landed on Jupiter last we heard, but our televisions at least kick millennial ass. The base technology’s nothing new — our parents
It works like most other MMORPG’s: You register online, design a Sith or Jedi character and start your journey through the Star Wars universe. The cool thing about TOR is that it continues the storyline from the previous Knights of the Republic games (some 3,000 years before the flicks) and is heavy on plot — something we didn’t get with the games based on Episodes I-III.
2. ComicCon 2010 (May 27-30)
No, we’re not talking about the mother of all comic book conventions, i.e. the famed San Diego Comic-Con. We love SDCC, but what we don’t love is the thousands upon thousands of sweaty, tired fans crammed on top of one another, the gargantuan lines or the big-name corporations pimping TV shows we don’t care about.
We’re happy with our much smaller and more accessible Phoenix ComicCon, which draws decent celebs and tons of indie comic book artists like Chew’s John Layman. This year’s PCC, scheduled to be held at the Phoenix Hyatt Regency, is hosting Star Trek: Next Gen‘s Levar Burton and Wil Wheaton, Smallville‘s John Schneider and Dr. Horrible leading lady Felicia Day (a bonus for the Whedon-ites in town). Sweet!
1. Clash of the Titans (March 26)
