Amazon has a Gold Box Deal of the Day in effect until midnight tonight. Get it now before it expires and you summarily regret not taking the advice of one Strider Q. Awesome. Check back for more Amazon gold box deals as we’ll be sure to tell you all about the good ones as we find them here at the village because, well, we’re awesome. Continue reading

The Expendables has been in release for a couple of weeks now and so it would appear that your friendly neighborhood Strider-Man is late and that he considered this review…expendable (cue rimshot and pained groans). See, that joke is kind of what this movie is like. It’s obvious and you might get some enjoyment out of it, but for the most part, you’re head will hurt if you consider how much money went into making what is basically a set of random action sequences thrown up onto a screen and loosely connected by dialogue. Continue reading

Many die-hard gamers will scoff at the idea of “gimmick” platforms having success in the gaming industry. The Wii is an example of a concept that took on a life of its own and whose success as a console has prompted a glut of unbearable software churned out to make a quick buck that overshadows developer efforts at using the console’s unique properties to fashion high quality games. The same can be said for the iPhone. Continue reading

The title says it all. Fallon returns to his roots of laughing through comedic bits. Continue reading

Many people are unaware that Arnold Schwarzenegger was originally supposed to be Darth Vader. Her we present the footage of him in action as the dreaded, dark lord of the sith. Continue reading

A Marvel prop flies under the radar, but means bigs things for Thor fans. Continue reading

Your friendly neighborhood Strider-Man is definitely a shameless, Robert Kirkman fan and his series The Walking Dead and Invincible are at the top of my must-read list every month. With Frank Darabont adapting the comic into a television series, we here at the village have been keeping your posted with images and screenshots. Now it’s time to see them moving. Enjoy. It’s isn’t the best quality but as we get better, so will you. Continue reading

He’s got 99 problems but a Jedi ain’t one. From collegehumor.com Continue reading

Entertainment Weekly released it’s cover today for it’s comic-con issue. It bears an important image. Continue reading

Fan favorites, Maroon 5 have been working on a new studio album since coming off their 2008 tour. The follow up to 2006′s It Won’t Be Soon Before Long is scheduled for release on September 21st and will be called Hands All Over. Continue reading

Hear the lamentations of the women. Continue reading

The Onion News reports. You decry. Continue reading

The first official image of Frank Darabont’s television adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead. Continue reading

The interwebs are abuzz and confirmation has apparently been given that these images are the real deal. So feast your eyes on the costume Chris Evans will wear as Steve Rogers, Captain America. Continue reading

So, your friendly neighborhood, Strider-man stumbled across this video for those of you Gleeks that can’t get out to one of their tour stops. Enjoy. Continue reading

The American Civil War is a source of constant fascination across all forms of media. There is no shortage of romance, drama, or action from the period. Historians will tell you that has a lot to do with the notion of brother against brother or that we should remember it so that we don’t repeat it. All you have to do is watch the news to see that repeating it is not too far out a concept. Thats why Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli’s DMZ works. Continue reading

In the fallout of the soon to be concluded The Siege mini-series, Marvel Comics is canceling all Avengers titles and relaunching them as new series. One of the most talked about, due to a teased at mystery roster, is Ed Brubaker and Mike Deodato’s Secret Avengers. The series will find Steve Rogers, former Captain America and now code-named Super Soldier, leading a team of Avengers with a unique skill set including War Machine, Moon Knight, Valkyrie, and Nova. Continue reading

Paramount Pictures has released the first official photo of Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek) as Thor in the upcoming Kenneth Branagh directed film. The image from the film based on the popular comic book looks like the film used the recent issues of the comic for influence showing Thor in his latest costume. Enjoy. Continue reading

J. Michael Straczynski’s run on The Amazing Spider-Man was a long, and controversial one. His tenure held as many acclaimed elements as it did bones of contention for fans including Aunt May discovering Peter Parker was Spider-Man, a mystical slant put on the title character’s power set, the revelation that his long dead love had fathered a set of twins with his greatest enemy, and finally the story arc titled One More Day.

When Greg Rucka announced he’d be leaving main stream comics to focus on creator owned work, many fans had one question on their mind…what happens to Batwoman? Continue reading

There are times when a woman exceeds the bounds of traditional “hotness” and becomes a sheer force of nature. For the geek world, that is particularly evident in the form of Ms. Olivia Munn. Munn co-hosts the G4 Network program Attack Of The Show every weekday, appears in magazine pictorials, acts in films, and makes your average geek want to speed up cloning science so there can be one of her in every home. She’ll get your Star Wars references and she has an unnatural love of pie…who am I kidding? Pie is delicious. Continue reading

In a move that fires a shot across the bow of Gamefly, the ailing company known as Blockbuster will begin to offer game rentals to its online subscribers for an additional $7.99 a month. This makes the company the first to offer both games and movies through one service. Continue reading

Matt Idelson, Superman Group Editor, announced today on the DC Comics website that writer Marc Guggenheim, originally slated to be writing Action Comics after James Robinson’s departure, would not be writing the title. Guggenheim was set to take over the title in June with interior art by Pete Woods and cover art from the recently DC exclusive artist David Finch. The choice to replace Guggenheim is said to be an organic one. Continue reading

Kids…they say the fudging-est things Continue reading

The comic book industry lost one of its fondest faces as Dick Giordano passed away Saturday at the age of 77. Giordano, who had been suffering from leukemia and was recently hospitalized, died from complications of pneumonia. He leaves behind an industry he was an integral part of an in which he held many roles. Continue reading