Patrick Cassels’ ill-conceived junior high love letter. Because nothing pulls at the heartstrings of your average teenage girl like talk of Boba Fett and S-Dub canon.
USA Today feeds fanboy egos
Fanboys are powerful. Yeah, I’ve seen the heaps of Slave Leia merchandise, too.
Cancel the Fanboy Olympics…
We have a winner! At least it’s only his middle name…
March of the comic book guys
Fanboys a force in Hollywood, says Time. “Though there are some fangirls,” huh? Nice.
There are larger issues at work here, of course: Do ‘alpha fans’ really have power? Should they (we?) have power? And what about overpronounced backlash ala ‘Jar-Jar raped my childhood?’ Time certainly isn’t breaking new ground or going in-depth with the issue, but I can’t help wondering when someone is going to bother to address the obvious gender divide in fandom. Because, hi, we’re here too. And that doesn’t mean we’re all making pink websites or mooning over the geekthrob du jour.
Stupid shit on the Wookieepedia
Breast. Way to break those stereotypes, fanboys.
I saw a Kevin Smith movie like this once
The Onion’s ‘Tony Waltman’ is no Larry Groznic, but one can gather from “Don’t Tell Me You’ve Never Wondered What Yoda’s Penis Looks Like” that they may have waited in the same line more than once. (Thanks, Beth!)
This is awesome
Boston conventions have a Hygiene Ninja. Okay, yes, the link is a wank report about how the Hygiene Ninja offended someone, but still. The Hygiene Ninja. Think we can get him or her to come to GenCon? Pretty please?
Lowest common denominator
Did fanboys kill film criticism? Quick survey… Does anyone actually take AICN’s movie reviews seriously? Mostly I just miss Roger Ebert.
Weird Things on the Wookieepedia
Bantam/Dark Horse invasion storyline. Sue Rostoni denied it at starwars.com a week or so ago (see the article’s talk page) as did Shelley Shapiro back in 2003 and Randy Stradley in a recent interview with TFN but as we all know, fandom loves a conspiracy theory.
You! Out of my fandom!
I’m just going to agree with Bonnie: Worst Star Wars Themed Political Ad Ever.