Top LBGT Comic Book Characters: #10 Daken
10. Daken – Daken: Dark Wolverine Back-story: As the son of James Howlett (Wolverine), one of Marvel Universe’s most formidable superheroes, Akihiro is snatched out of the womb of his dead birth mother by Romulus—the man responsible for much of the memory loss, brainwashing, manipulation, and tragedy that strikes the two through the course of...
Nerd Rage: Idris Elba
Idris Elba is one of the more talented black actors to being crossing over into major motion pictures, so you’re probably wondering why he’s the focus of my nerd rage. Well, as I was canvassing the interwebz for topics to discuss on Rainbow Creamsicle Explosion, I read about someone getting cast in the new Ghost...
Intellectual Gushing: Mars of Destruction
An insightful anime produced by two people recently came to my attention. Entitled Mars of Destruction, the short film is a chilling take into the origins of our species and our impact on the environment. The Destruction that this anime depicts in a fictional 2010 is heart-wrenching, yet thoughtful; and though the temporal setting has...
Nerdgasm Interview: Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho is one of the few recognizable female comedians in America, and has lasted decades by injecting her brand of funny into everything from scripted sitcoms to reality television. So, when given the chance to ask The Cho a few questions during her preparations for the Grammys on February 13, we here at Gay-Nerds...
Nerd Rage: The Moefication of Anime
I can remember a few years ago, when I ran into the word “moe” for the first time. I suppose I was on Wikipedia, and the best description that I could find anywhere was that it was a current trend in shows where one character (usually female) would be different from the rest in that...
Introducing: Nerd Rage/Nerdgasm Week!
Here in the spacious back-alleys of Gay-Nerds lots of ideas get tossed out into the e-ether with nary a spark to follow through. But then, lots of ideas strike a wildfire in the minds of the contributors, opening the floodgates for potential articles. Nerd Rage/Nerdgasm Week is the fruit of our flippant thoughts earlier this...
Nerd Premiere: Wolverine
Last fall, Madhouse began airing the first of four Marvel adaptations for the Japanese audience with the release of Iron Man. With the Winter season in full swing, it’s now James Howlett’s turn for the anime treatment. Is Wolverine better than it’s predecessor starring Tony Stark? And how will anime and comic book fans react...
Nerd Premiere: The Cape
Last spring NBC gave the ax to the one-time cultural phenomenon, Heroes, despite the fact that the channel was desperate for any random TV show due to Jay Leno failing to get the ratings that local affiliates needed for their evening news. During this time of serious upheaval at the corporate level, NBC decided that...
First NYC Nerd Meet-Up!
As advertised before on the site and on gaygamer.net, gay nerds and gaygamers from throughout tri-state area descended upon the Chinatown Fair Video Arcade for fun with…you guessed it! Video games. For the first two hours of the get-together we blended in amongst other gay and straight nerds offline inside the satisfyingly cramped arcade and...
Deconstructing Soul Society
In October, I decided that I would celebrate my resolve to cease my continued torture in the form of watching Bleach on a daily basis, with the date set for the eventual time that the show goes into its early-fall-to-late-spring filler arc. Despite my overwhelmingly neurotic desire to finish what I start because it represents...
Growing Up Gay: parchita
Growing Up Gay is the thread here at Gay-Nerds where members can share about how dealing with their sexuality during adolescence and beyond has affected their outlook on life and various aspects of their personalities. The second thread highlight comes from one of our newer members, parchita.
Gay Anime This Season: Togainu no Chi
The second of the two gay anime this season is Togainu no Chi. Akira, an undefeated, stoic street-fighter, is framed for murder and sent to jail. Confronted by a mysterious woman from an unknown organization, Akira is given a chance at freedom. The catch is that he must participate in Igra, a game of death...
Gay Anime This Season: Kuragehime
It’s time again for Gay-Nerds’ seasonal peek at the gay shows currently airing in the fair nation of Japan. Unfortunately, Fall has been depressingly less gay than the other seasons this year, despite more shows airing compared to Summer. As always, keep in mind that our fabulous rating system doesn’t grade quality, but rather gayness. ...
Celebrating 25 Years of Mario
I decided that I would go to the Nintendo World Store this past Sunday, November 8, 2010 to wish Mario and Super Mario Brothers a happy birthday. All I knew was that there would be free cake and a Grand Re-Opening of sorts for Nintendo’s shop in Rockefeller Center. I left the festivities as exhausted...
Nerd Premiere: The Walking Dead
AMC, the channel that brought us Mad Men, surprised comic book fans last year when they announced that they were adapting Eisner Award-winning comic book, The Walking Dead into a serialized television series. More shocking was that it would be helmed by Frank Darabont, scribe of The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and The Mist. ...
Growing Up Gay: fishingthesky
Growing Up Gay will be a regular feature that profiles the stories of various members of the Gay-Nerds community. Taken from the thread of the same name, a personal account will be chosen to be published on the front page to give insight to the backgrounds of other LBGT nerds. Many of us grow up...
Nerd Premiere: Iron Man
At Comic Con 2009, Marvel announced four comic-book properties that would see translation into an anime format by Madhouse, one of the largest studios, and probably one of the more eminent producers to casual audiences. The studio has been behind critically acclaimed hits like Black Lagoon, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and all of...
Gay Metaphor: Natsume Yuujinchou
Since I started watching anime on a regular basis a few years ago, one series has remained in the back of my mind: Natsume Yuujinchou. What often brings my thoughts to the show is the mature way that the main character’s coming of age is told and how the entire series develops as a metaphor...
