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The Modern Geek Chronicles:
What I Learned from Video Games & Comics
I saw a writing prompt on a certain website–which shall remain nameless because I’ve got a few bones to pick with them–that posed the question: What have we learned from video games & comic books?
Well, here’s what I have to say about that:
Asking what the modern geek has learned from video games and comic books is like asking what the A-Team learned from having plan. In the realm of Geek, video games and comic books are the whole reason for uprooting our wife and son and heading to Arrakis.
Modern Geek Rule #1: “The Geek must flow!”
I can still remember waking up on that fateful Christmas morning long, long ago, a morning drenched in the swarthy scent of Nintendo Entertainment System. A morning of sore thumbs and blurred vision and my mother yelling that I was on my way to becoming a zombie. Decades later I’m a poet and a fiction writer, but still no closer to zombiedom.
Modern Geek Rule # 211: Dammit, Ma!
When I was nine years old the Silver Surfer showed up in the laundry room of my aunt’s house Dive deeper…
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