Category Archive: Geek Rant

Avengers Month: Why Captain America is Key to the Avengers

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Throughout the forty year history of The Avengers the hero who has become the most synonymous with the team is the Star Spangled Avenger himself, Captain America. His sense of loyalty has lead to him… Continue reading

Best of Geekery: Why Gamers Have a Public Image Problem

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Once again Australian gamers have been left without a game the rest of the world has been enjoying. This time around it was the downloadable game based on ‘The Walking Dead’ that has… Continue reading

Geek Dreams That Will Never Be Fulfilled

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Geeks are a fickle bunch. No matter how much awesome stuff we get there’s also something else we want. Even when something we want gets given to use on a silver platter most… Continue reading

Avengers Month: Why Joss Whedon is Perfect to Direct the Avengers

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As an earlier article pointed out we geeks LOOOOOOOVVVVEE Joss Whedon and if you don’t you really have to assess why you came to this site. Because we have already covered why we… Continue reading

Avengers Month: The Argument Against Joss Whedon

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As some of you may have managed to deduce we here at the House of Geekery like Joss Whedon. He has given us so much from vampire slaying teens to love-sick mad scientists.… Continue reading

Gone But Not Forgotten TV: John From Cincinnati

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Gone But Not Forgotten is a new column at the House of Geekery where I will take a look back at TV shows that were cancelled way before their time. Number of seasons: 1… Continue reading

10 Things Comic Writers Cannot Be Trusted With

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There are some comic writers who can be trusted with almost any material. If I see the name Ed Brubaker, Paul Dini, Neil Gaiman, Brian Michael Bendis on a cover I trust them… Continue reading

The Movies I’ll Never Finish Watching

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No matter how bad a movie is, I’ll stick it out until the end. Sometimes just so I can write a review explaining how awful it is. Often it’s out of spite –… Continue reading

10 Reason’s Tim Burton Has Gotten Boring

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When Tim Burton came out of the woodwork during the late 1980s he was a uniquely dark voice in a technicolor industry. Having quickly established himself as a creative talent with a solid… Continue reading

The New ‘Sherlock Holmes’ May be the Worst Thing Ever

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For a while I knew what the worst thing ever made for television was. It was the U.S. remake of Spaced. For those unfamiliar with Spaced (shame on you) it is an immensely… Continue reading