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Free Comic Book Day

Annual event for vet comic fans & newbs

By Bryan Young
POSTED // Apr 30,2013 - Back in 2002, I owned and operated a small Utah comic-book store, and I was asked by the distributor from which I received my comics if I’d be interested in participating in the first-ever Free Comic Book Day.

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Brian K. Vaughan: Saga

Ignore the controversy around comic master

By Bryan Young
POSTED // Apr 22,2013 - If you haven’t read a comic book written by Brian K. Vaughan, you’re doing it wrong.

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21st Century Classics

Best new video games are old ones

By Bryan Young
POSTED // Apr 9,2013 - I’m a curmudgeonly old man who frequently wishes that the kids would get off of his lawn, and I come from a different era of video-gaming ...

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Goodbye to The Clone Wars

Disney's new direction for Star Wars

By Bryan Young
POSTED // Mar 26,2013 - For anyone who has been following this space, or my ramblings online, you’ll know that I’m of the opinion that Star Wars: The Clone Wars is—well, was—one of the best shows on television.

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Justice League of Utah?

DC Comics shakes up Justice League

By Bryan Young
POSTED // Mar 12,2013 - If you head to your local comic-book store to pick up the latest issue of DC Comics’ Justice League of America, you won’t be blamed for doing a double take.

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Comics Controversy

Orson Scott Card hired to write Superman

By Bryan Young
POSTED // Feb 26,2013 - “Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No! It’s a homophobe!”

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Pulp Novels

A flashback to earlier age of geekdom

By Bryan Young
POSTED // Feb 18,2013 - As a young lad, I read every book I could get my grubby little hands on. I blew through The Hardy Boys books in first grade, and graduated to Sherlock Holmes by the second.

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Burning Video Games

Violent games aren't cause of gun violence

By Bryan Young
POSTED // Feb 5,2013 - In the wake of recent shootings, a group in Connecticut decided that they wanted to hand out $25 gift cards to residents so they could buy up violent video games and bring them to a good old-fashioned video-game burning.

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Shatner's World

One-man show comes to Kingsbury Hall

By Bryan Young
POSTED // Jan 15,2013 - As the intrepid Captain James T. Kirk from Star Trek, William Shatner has visited different planets across the galaxy. As himself over the years, he’s lived on one of his own.

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Geek Resolutions

Kick off 2013 with worthy goals

By Bryan Young
POSTED // Jan 1,2013 - How many times have you made New Year’s resolutions that you let fizzle a month or two into the new year?
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