As you may or may not have guessed by the lack of recent updates, the time to say good-bye to Avengers Tower has finally come.

Don’t be sad, however; the spirit of this little blog will continue — just in a different way. Although I’ll no longer be updating this blog, I will be working on my new site, Geek Life — along with DarkSakura, Rob Kidman, and a whole group of fantastic people.

Geek Life will be a site that’s different from this one, with a wider variety of content that revolves around the geek lifestyle. There are way too many sites that are about defining what “geek” is by shoving everyone into a category like “gamer”, “comic book fan”, or “techie” — but I really don’t feel that everyone fits neatly into one of those packages, and that being a “geek” can be about embracing pretty much anything with enthusiasm. For me, it’s a lifestyle, not a label.

So, I hope you’ll give the new site a try. To those that have been visiting this site since the beginning, thanks for almost two years of putting up with my crazy comic book and geekery ramblings! And to those of you coming here for the very first time, please feel free to look around the site; I’m going to leave the content up. When you’re finished, head over to Geek Life and help us to help you embrace your inner geek.

It was always inevitable that I would feel a need to grow beyond what I do here at Avengers Tower. There is more — much more — to the life of a geek than comics and video games. As time goes on, words like “geek” and “nerd” have rejected their negative connotations, and shedding the status of social pariahs, we have begun to embrace our quirky geek ways — and so has the rest of the world, at least a little bit.

Being a geek isn’t just about hobbies. It’s a lifestyle. That’s why — with the help of Robert Kidman of the Kidman Project, DarkSakura of Orange Lounge Radio, and a few other awesome geeks — I’ve begun to put together a new site called Geek Life. Geek Life is a site that is launching on June 1st that will be dedicated to geek culture and lifestyle. There will be comics and video games, but that’s not all that we’re about. Geeks out there are going to awesome places and doing amazing things — and we want you to know about them so that you can get out there and have a great time, too!

We can’t do it ourselves, though. We want Geek Life to be about community, and that’s why we need you — geeks and aspiring writers and artists alike — to make this project come to life.

Is there a pub around the corner that has the best trivia nights? Is there a little-known museum that science geeks would love in your town? Is there a thriving arcade that geeks in your area need to know about? Is there a vacation spot that you’ve been to that no geek should miss? Have you always wanted to write a how-to about making your own steampunk jewelry? Do you know all the secrets to making the best out of your Renn Faire experience? Is there a book you absolutely adore that no one else seems to have heard of? If so, then we want you to write for us! If you’re an aspiring cartoonist that wants to have your geek-related, editorial-style cartoons published, then we want to see them!

What will make Geek Life successful? You, the reader. This is your chance to shine — to be the one to tell your friends and the whole world about your geek lifestyle experiences, and to learn about and embrace geek culture.

If you’re interested in learning more, please go to http://geek-life.com/about/ (keep in mind that the site doesn’t launch until June 1st, so please excuse the generic template). Please spread the word! Maybe you’re not much of a writer, but you might know someone who is and who would want to participate — and even not, there are thousands of geeks out there who are looking for something new and different, a place where they can read about geek culture and lifestyle, and that’s exactly what Geek Life aims to be: culture for geeks, by geeks.

Another busy week. It seems like I never get around to doing those things I want to do, like writing comic and book reviews. Well, hopefully I’ll have a lot more time now since I’ve graduated from college. Yep, it was a pretty exciting weekend. You know what else is exciting? Comics! There are so many great comics coming out this week that it was hard to decide what I’m most excited about for this Wendesday. Let’s take a look at what’s coming out, shall we?

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It’s Monday again! And a rather hectic Monday, at that. As you know, I usually like to ponder my comic picks over the weekend so I can have them ready for you early Monday morning. With Free Comic Book Day this past weekend, however, I was thrown for a bit of a loop with extra comics to read. Finals are this week for my university, as well, so as you can imagine it’s a time of utter chaos! That said, what can bring a little bit of zen to the hectic life of a geek girl? Why, comics, of course! Let’s see what’s on the pull list for this week. Read the rest of this entry

I knew that all of the excitement over my new iPad got me distracted from something. Funny that it took reading comics through the Marvel Comics app to realize that I hadn’t yet taken the time to blog about my picks for this week. Shame on me! There are so many good comics coming out, too! Let’s take a look at this week’s top five picks.

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