Earlier this year, geek goddess Felicia Day drew her hit webseries to a close… or did she?
by Kellie Sheridan
For anyone who has somehow not yet heard, The Guild is a geektastic webseries that follows the “real lives” of a guild of six socially awkward gamers as they interact both in and out of their favorite online video game. You can even argue it is the web series, as it was one of the very first to reach large scale popularity, and is even credited as being part of Joss Whedon’s …

Ah, another month, another heaping helping of letter-y goodness from you lovely, lovely folks.
First, let’s kick off with KickAss88, and his (her?) take on last month’s Top 13… Genre TV Couples:
Sappy, soppy stuff in this whole issue but like the big ups for Mulder/Scully and Olivia?Peter. Except aren’t they just different variations on the same couple?
Now, now.
MJ Marlin also had some thoughts on that particular list:
Are you serious? NO MAX AND LIZ? Come on, they really had a thing going on. I miss Roswell! So disappointed not to see them …

From Number Six to Rosie the Robot to False Maria and beyond…
by Rachel Hyland and Jason Murdoch
Way back in Issue 11 of this fine publication we presented to you the Top 13… Robots, Male Division. Dominated by Optimus Prime and seeing kudos given to artificial dudes the likes of Data, Marvin and Bender Bending Rodríguez, we mentioned at the time that a similar homage to these worthies’ female counterparts would soon be forthcoming.
Cut to more than two years later, and at last we are fulfilling our promise. But first, to …

“The Simpsons as conceived by a singularly sophomoric mind that lacks any reference point beyond other TV shows.”
– Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly.
I used to like Family Guy. I mean, the premise of Stewie and the dog has potential. The jokes at times made me laugh out loud.
But then it started to grate on me. I really didn’t like Peter or Chris. Why do they exist? Why are they such large goobers? How can an unattractive nitwit like Peter land Lois? Why are they telling the same joke over and over? …

I am a Family Guy fan. I have been a fan since its premiere. In 1999 I happened to catch an episode of Family Guy and to be honest I had low expectations. I had thought it was another cartoon from Fox, similar to The Simpsons which I had not enjoyed nor watched in years. I was incredibly wrong in my assumptions. Family Guy was a blast of comic brilliance that came out of nowhere and went unheard by an audience still enraptured by the antics of Friends. At first …

Now in its second year, the organizer of Australia’s latest large-scale “pop-culture event” explains how it all came to be…
by Rachel Hyland
For many fans of genre in all its many, many forms – sci-fi, fantasy, horror, anime, gaming, comics, TV, film, so very etc. – the highlight of any given social season will very often be some form of Convention. Even now, long after the advent of the internet and when members of even the most obscure fandoms can easily find a website or mailing list through which to connect …

Twitter followers – along with corporate sponsor Blackberry – help create a year’s worth of magic.
by Geonn Cannon
Neil Gaiman is one of my favorite authors, but even I have a hard time quantifying him. Sure, he’s an author, but of what exactly? Short stories, comic books, novels? Yes, all of the above. But he also writes children’s books, and he provided at least one song for his wife Amanda Palmer’s 8-in-8 album (the amazing “The Problem with Saints”). If it’s made of words, Neil has either written one or will …

A look at what has made the great man so great for so long.
by Amy Sharma
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger
Born: July 30, 1947 in Thal, Styria, Austria
“You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.”
Oh Arnold. Where to begin? A few years ago, The Daily Show named Charlton Heston “Man of the Century” (good gravy that was in 2000 – I am old!). I wouldn’t go so far as to give that title to Arnold. But he is so versatile of an actor as to be able …

The Horde vs. the Alliance, PVE vs. PVP and so much more: leveling with the novice on how to level up.
by Kellie Sheridan
Massively multiplayer online games (or MMOs) are the epitome of social gaming. Thousands of players gather together on one server to live out their fantasy lives together, questing and being the heroes they may never get to be in real life. For almost ten years now, World of Warcraft has ruled the MMO scene, despite being a game that many subscribers are not even willing to admit they …

With Brandon Sanderson’s A Memory of Light at last rounding out the series, a look back at the fourteen books in Robert Jordan’s work of Epic Fantasy.
by K. Burtt
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the halls of Geek Speak Magazine. …