Welcome to the very first edition of our new, weekly series of comic reviews! As you all know, we’ve got a lot of avid comic book readers here at Nerdophiles. There are a lot of series we follow each week but up until now we’ve focused primarily on doing trade reviews. […]
UFOlogy #1 from BOOM! Studios Makes Me Want To Believe
UFOlogy #1 (of 6) Writer: James Tynion IV and Noah J. Yuenkel Artist: Matthew Fox Release Date: April 1, 2015 Publisher: BOOM! Studios Source: BOOM! Studios DRC Genre(s): Science Fiction Rating: ★★★★☆ Review Spoilers: Moderate BOOM! Studios had me at ‘James Tynion IV’ with this one. The Woods has been my favorite on-going series […]
Sleepless Knight is a Super Cute Introductory Graphic Novel for Kids
Sleepless Knight Author: James Sturm, Alexis Frederick-Frost, Andrew Arnold Release Date: April 14, 2015 Publisher: First Second Books Genre(s): Fantasy, Children’s Graphic Novel Rating: ★★★★☆ Review Spoilers: Mild GoodReads | Amazon Sleepless Knight is an adorable, short all-ages comic that’s half children’s picture book and half graphic novel. The titular knight and her trusty stead Edward head […]
The Nerdist is Throwing the Ultimate Marvel Movie Marathon – And You Can Go!
Announced mere moments ago at WonderCon, the Nerdist is teaming up with the historic El Capitan Theatre to host an epic two day, twenty-nine hour, eleven film Marvel movie marathon ending with an advanced screening of Avengers: Age of Ultron. Yes, you heard that right. 29 hours of Marvel movie […]
#VeryRealisticYA Let’s Us All Poke Fun at Our Love for YA Books
For the past two months one of my absolute favorite Twitter accounts has been @DystopianYA. The account good-naturedly lampoons the stereotypes so prevalent in young adult literature. The account is helmed by writer Dana Schwartz who also runs the popular @GuyinYourMFA account and brings the same sort of humor to […]
A Thousand Pieces of You Shows that Perhaps Love Really Does Transcend All
A Thousand Pieces of You Author: Claudia Gray Series: Firebird #1 Release Date: November 4, 2014 Publisher: Harper Teen Genre(s): YA, Science Fiction, Romance Rating: ★★★★☆ Review Spoilers: Mild GoodReads | Amazon This book had me hooked from the moment I first read the title. A Thousand Pieces of You. It’s just one of those titles that […]
Go “Into the Woods” from the Comfort of Your Own Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H03Nu98qAEQ Into the Woods [Blu-Ray] Release Date: March 24, 2015 Cast: Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski, Johnny Depp Director: Rob Marshall Studio: Walt Disney Pictures, Lucamar Productions Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Genre(s): Musical, Fantasy, Fairy Tale Extra Feature Rating: ★★★★☆ Rating: ★★★★☆ Review Spoilers: Low Amazon […]
Half Bad Is a Great – If Depressing – Read
Half Bad Author: Sally Green Series: Half Bad #1 Release Date: March 4, 2014 Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers Genre(s): Modern Fantasy, Young Adult Rating: ★★★☆☆ Review Spoilers: High GoodReads | Amazon Half Bad is a kind of weird book for me to review. I liked it for the most part, but at the same time a whole […]
The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence is the Perfect Start to Stan Lee’s Epic Middle Grade Series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUJBGtpwRR4 The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence Author: Stan Lee, Stuart Moore Illustrator: Andie Tong Series: The Zodiac Legacy #1 Release Date: January 27, 2015 Publisher: Disney Press Genre(s): Science Fiction, Action/Adventure, Mythology, Middle Grade Rating: ★★★★☆ Review Spoilers: Low GoodReads | Amazon When I first heard that Stan Lee was writing a middle grade novel I couldn’t have […]
Brandon Sanderson Turns the Superhero Genre On It’s Head in Steelheart
Steelheart Author: Brandon Sanderson Series: Reckoners #1 Release Date: September 24, 2013 Publisher: Random House Children’s Books Genre(s): Science Fiction, Young Adult Rating: ★★★★☆ Review Spoilers: Mild GoodReads | Amazon I am a sucker for anything superhero related and I had been wanting to read Steelheart for a really, really long time. While I really do love superheroes, […]
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