Mission Statement: #GeekVent

Let me just start simple: I am a geek. I'm a big geek. If you had to measure it, I would rate 6 short-boxes. But there's something about being a geek that most people don't talk about. Something plaguing geeks everywhere. Geekangst.

What is "geekangst" (other than a word I made up)? Geekangst is that feeling you get when you just read a book, watched a show, played a game, and none of your friends has read/seen/played it. It is frustrating. It is dispiriting. It is painful. It is geekangst.

Although geekangst seems like a harmless feeling, keeping it inside can be dangerous. For most people, it bubbles under the surface, showing symptoms only in small doses: a joke no one at the dinner table understands or an occasional pushiness about the fun everyone else is missing.

But for geeks of a certain intensity, keeping geekangst untreated, can result in crazier effects. Rants about how Skyrim is really better on your second play through. Dragging of a friend or loved one to a screening they had no interest in (thus losing group movie choice privileges for extended periods of time). Taking a vague interest in the movie Spider-Man to be an invitation to talk at length about the best Spider-character to come out of Spider-Verse and how the book is almost an opening act for this summer's upcoming Secret War event, cementing it's place as some of Dan Slott's best..... see what I mean?

So what's the cure? It's simple really: the patent-pending #Geekvent™* The geek must find a way to get it out of his system. A meet up group, a podcast, a convention; there are many options. For me, that's what this blog is about. The bottom line is that I read a lot of comic books and have few people who read the same ones or on the same schedule as me. So, whenever I feel the geekangst building, I'll be here with a geekvent. 

This will often take the form of comic book reviews (sometimes full, sometimes quick, sometimes micro; sometimes new, sometimes from years and years ago). Occasionally I might just rant about a crazy theory for a TV show or upcoming movie (though most of my TV thoughts can be found on my weekly after show podcasts on Afterbuzz TV). 

That's it. Let's jump on in. Thanks for geeking out with me...



*#Geekvent is not at all patented or trademarked. Please use it. Use it everywhere. Make it a thing!