YGW on Guilded Age!

So, the awesome Phil Kahn of Guilded Age (not our dear monotone friend from the YGW Podcast) asked me a few weeks back if I wanted to do a guest strip for his amazing comic, and I was more than happy to oblige. Unfortunately, it turned into a week and a half of me staring at photoshop and praying for a punchline to descend from the heavens, and the night before I promised to have it for him, I slapped something together and made a bad World of Warcraft joke. Ah, well!

In Phil's newspost accompanying the guest strip, he mentions YourGeekWorld (specifically this blog) and also OtakuBooty.Com, where we met. Contrary to the name, the site is really more of a subscription social networking site for all sorts of nerds, not just the animu folks, and not really a dating site per se (though I know some pretty cool folks who have ended up in relationships or even getting married to people they met through the site). Their forums are probably my favorite haunt on the web, and worth a look if you're ever bored, though you can only access one tab without a paid membership.

the comic of the day has a permanent home here.

Phil just informed me that the comic was also featured in the weekly comic roundup on WoW.com

Matt Smith: not just a Doctor

also, apparently, something of a rock star.

What exactly HAS the Doctor been up to?

WARNING: THE VIDEO CLIPS IN THIS ARTICLE ARE EXTREMELY NSFW

So, Tyler and I were having a discussion about Paul McGann and how much we loved him in the Doctor Who feature film. While I was on the phone with him, I took a quick peek at McGann's IMDB page, hoping to find something we might have heard of, or that we would be able to find on Netflix.


And then we found this.



The funny part? We've seen this one before. Lesbian Vampire Killers was easily one of our favorite films of 2009, a horror comedy on par with Slither and Shaun of the Dead in terms of high-budget hilarity. Did you spot him?

How about now? (skip to about 1:30, or for a longer scene featuring McGann, jump to about the 7 minute mark)




That's right, he's the fabulously deadpan Vicar. And disturbingly enough, doesn't look any older than he did in 1996 as the Doctor.


Now, the movie is absolutely worth watching even without him. The stylish editing and cinematography could make it fascinating to watch paint dry, but the humor (which varies from disgusting and slapstick to deadpan wit) remains consistently entertaining from start to finish, even if the female leads are some of the worst actresses to ever deliver dialogue onscreen outside of a porn.

But if we needed any confirmation that McGann was the coolest Doctor, we've certainly got it now.

Star Trek TOS and Ke$ha go together pretty well, actually,

oh. my. lord.



further proof that I need a life: I can identify almost every clip in here by episode title.

the greatest tumblr in the history of tumblr

Nimoy. Sunset. Pie.

that's right, folks. The entire tumblr is a collection of images involving Leonard Nimoy (mostly as Spock), sunsets, and pies.

be still, my heart!

Have we mentioned how much we all love Doctor Who around here?

Because we really, really love Doctor Who.

I had vague recollections of having watched the old show on PBS with my grandma (who is also the amazing woman who introduced me to Star Trek), but I didn't even know about the new series until after David Tennant took over in season two. A friend and I watched most of "Tooth and Claw" on the screen over the bar at T.G.I. Fridays and even without the sound, we were hooked.

I really enjoyed Tennant's run on the show, which comes as no surprise, as I was one of the very, very few who preferred Davison over Baker in the original show (Tyler and David Tennant himself being pretty much the only other people I can think of who felt likewise). When I got around to watching the backlog of Eccleston episodes that I'd missed, I wasn't surprised to love him, either. After all, I'd enjoyed him on Heroes, and in Elisabeth and Gone in 60 Seconds (shut up, I have a weak spot for movies with awesome cars in them).

So far, I'm a little underwhelmed by the writing quality of pretty much every episode of the new season that veteran writer and new executive producer Steven Moffat hasn't personally written, but I have faith. Mostly, because I absolutely adore the characters of Amy Pond and her bumbling fiance, Rory, but also because I've been really, really enjoying the performance of Matt Smith, and have faith in his continued ability to make terrible writing watchable.

Pretty much the only complaint I have about him is that I'm having a difficult time drawing him. I think it's his general lack of eyebrows that throws me off. Ah, well. Perhaps I just need more practice.

for those of you unsure of where you stand

here is a handy flow chart, courtesy of fellow nerd bloggers Opaque Lucidity. you can view the original here.


Sorry about how quiet the blog has been as of late. PAX and Anime Boston took more out of us than we'd anticipated, and I've been busily digging through boxes of old photos in preparation for a cosplay retrospective that should be going up soon, prompted by some of the silliness in the YGW Review for Anime Boston, which will be up here as soon as Tyler finishes censoring our terrible language.