Enter FBOTU’s Costume Catwalk @Bent-Con and you could win your very own Kindle Fire! The perfect web-browsing tablet and e-reader, the Kindle Fire lets you take your favorite movies, TV shows, games, books, graphic novels and comics with you wherever you go! Someone is going home with a Kindle Fire on Saturday, December 3, so why shouldn’t it be you? We also…
If you’ve ever attended a panel discussion with an author, artist or creator, or seen an interview on TV, or read a profile in a magazine or online, you know that inevitably someone will ask, “Where do you get your ideas?” Or “What inspires you?” We ask that not just because it’s an easy question to lob at the interviewee, but because…
The Muppets opens this week, and we here at Fanboys of the Universe couldn’t be more excited. I mean it. We are seriously, seriously excited. Seriously. So, to help pass the time before the first screening, Johnny M and I decided to compile lists of our absolute favorite Muppet moments, then compare notes. Be sure to let us know what your favorite Muppet moments…
You know, I don’t really know how I feel about The Walking Dead at the moment. I go back and forth between feeling like it’s the greatest show ever and feeling more like Shane and Andrea do. I just kind of want to…well, leave. I think the show might have shot itself in the foot recently. It’s apparent in the new episode, and in all the episodes…
Bent-Con is only days away, and Team FBOTU is ready! Our very own movie and music guru Johnny M will be on hand to meet fans and chat about the latest releases, from Breaking Dawn to The Muppets. Joining Johnny will be not one, but TWO former Fanboys of the Month! Rafael and Jake will be talking about comics, toys, games and cute con guys. (And did I mention I’m…
Welcome back, FBOTU Spotlight fans! In our previous Spotlight installment, Jon gave us some insight into how he uses dialogue and narration to control pace and atmosphere. This week, Jon opens up about the important roles sex and sexuality play in his work. Check out his intimate and revealing commentary here! And be sure to tune in next Wednesday for another installment!…
I’ll be honest. I was really excited for this week’s episode of The Walking Dead when I found out it was titled “Chupacabra.” I’m Latino. My grandmother, Mama Lupe, lives in a cement house near a volcano in Mexico. She and my aunt swear they’ve seen a chupacabra, the famed Mexican monster that sucks the blood out of goats. I’m sort of…
This week’s episode of Supernatural, “Season 7, Time for a Wedding!” dares to ask the question, “Would you sell your soul to marry Sam Winchester?” They treat this like it’s a question you’d actually have to think about, which is insane. I’d sell my soul to do Sam Winchester’s laundry. Marry him? Duh. The fact that…
A bevy of Bronze Age beefcakes face off in something that resembles Greek myth if you kind of squint at it. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. WARNING: THE ORACLE FORESEES POSSIBLE MILD SPOILERS! After the Greek Gods were victorious in their war against fellow immortals the Titans, the Titans were imprisoned forever in Mount Tartarus. The brutal king Hyperion…
What would a convention be, especially one produced by and for the LGBTQ community, without a little cosplay? Or a LOT of cosplay, as the case may be. Fanboys of the Universe will be sponsoring the Costume Catwalk at BENT-CON (Saturday, December 3, 6:00PM), and we’re extremely proud to announce that Patrick Fillion (Class Comics), Zan Christensen (Northwest Press)…
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception is like the guy who’s unspeakably handsome, who enthralls you with every gesture, whose hand you just want to grab and whose face you want to touch. He talks, and you watch his mouth move, while you sigh to yourself, “He’s so pretty.” Unfortunately, everything else about him is silly and bland. He thinks he’s smarter and more…
I was leery about moving to New York, because it seemed like nothing cool ever happened there. But move I did, and boy am I glad, because on November 12–13, the International Quidditch Association (IQA) will host the 2011 Quidditch World Cup on Randall’s Island in New York City! This weekend, 95 college quidditch teams will descend on the Big Apple to compete in a…
After “Who do you think you are?” the second most popular question I get here at Fanboys of the Universe is “How old are you…exactly?” I understand the confusion. I write very openly and honestly about giving Shakespeare the idea to write in rhyming couplets, fighting in World War II (sometimes even on the side of the Allies), and handing…
In the third and final truly outrageous installment of our special Fanboys of the Universe series on Jem, we are delighted—no, ecstatic—to present our podcast interview with none other than Jem herself: actress, singer and pop culture icon Samatha Newark! We had a LOT to cover with Samantha, and Johnny M and I were as giddy as two gay geeks could be, chatting with…
The summer con season is over, and Halloween is now behind us, but there’s still one more chance to put on a costume before the end of the year! As you may know, BENT-CON, the LGBTQ comic book convention, is returning to Los Angeles on December 3-4 for its second fabulous year. And if that weren’t awesome enough, your very own gay geek website Fanboys of the…
Only a select few in this world can really wear overalls and make it work. Mario and Luigi. Season three Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Farm boys in Bruce Weber photographs. For some, it just works. They were made to be strapped into a dated, horrid, denim one-piece. Missing from this list, and rightly so, is Shane, but he wears them anyway, in this week’s…
