Every so often, Nerd City gets to do the awesomest shit, and today is no exception. We present to you, Nerds, a preview of IDW’s brand new Dungeons & Dragons miniseries ‘Cutter’ due out in comic shops and digital this Wednesday, April 10th. With D&D and sword and sorcery’s popularity ever-on-the-rise, plus IDW’s winning formula [...]

Nerd City came across San Jose-based artist Emonic while stumbling around Long Beach Comic and Horror Con, and his work is out of sight. The man does monsters well: His sketchbook work is particularly impressive: His art is also currently featured in very-cool-indie comic publisher Ferric Press‘ Gevaudan: Learn all about Emonic (and get his [...]

One of the major contributors to the Nerdiest summer in movie history,”The Amazing Spider-man” swings (get it?) on to Blu-Ray and DVD this Friday, Nov. 9th. Combatting origin fatigue with fresh, from-the-ground up reinterpretation, “Amazing” is well-cast, well-told, and awesome. By sticking closer to the source material (web shooters, first love Gwen Stacy, no weird [...]

Nerd filmmaker extraordinaire Wes Anderson’s most recent masterpiece, “Moonrise Kindgom” is looking to be recognized this Oscar season, and they want your help with an amazing art contest. Your Moonrise Kindgom art could be featured in a “For Your Consideration” print advertisement campaign, plus $500 bucks. The submission period ends Nov. 26th, so get on [...]

If there’s one thing Nerd City likes, it’s tasting different types of booze. That’s why Second Glass’ Wine Riot is right up our saucy alley.  Featuring over 250 wines from all over the world, Wine Riot is a tasting event of epic magnitude…and it’s coming to Los Angeles this Saturday, Nov. 10th! This is Wine Riot [...]

Comic publisher Art of Fiction has recently released two exceptionally cool throwback books, “Dames in the Atomic Age” and “All Crime Comics“. Capturing the spirit of classic pulp, with an impressive bag of visual tricks, both books are definitely worth your comic book dime. “Dames” is b-movie noir at it’s best and “All Crime” is, [...]

Somehow, it has been ten years since “Firefly“, Joss Whedon’s sci-fi television masterpiece (immediately cancelled) hit the airwaves, changing the landscape of Nerd forever. To celebrate this important (and depressing) milestone, the Science Channel is premiering “”Firefly: Browncoats Unite“, Sunday, Nov. 11 @ 10 p.m. A round-table form discussion featuring Whedon and the entire Serenity [...]

“The Devastator: The Quarterly Comedy Magazine for Humans” is awesome. Based in Los Angeles, The Devastator features original comic and comedy work from a true variety of funny indie creators, and the results are hilarious. Each issue features a specific theme (Indie, Arcade, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Cats) and an eclectic collection of contributors including Tony [...]

Check out the insanely cool, exceptionally cute, and totally hand-made art by Nerd piñatist Chibi Sen: I mean… c’mon. Check out these mini piñata piggy banks: Full sized and articulated X-men piñatas? Don’t mind if I do! See all of Chibi Sen’s Piñata art (and get yours) here.

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Keep the spooky good times rolling, with the Long Beach Comic and Horror Con this weekend. With scheduled appearances by creepy-character-extraordinaire-turned-comic-creator Lance Henriksen (Aliens, Millennium, Stone Cold), and our main man Jim Mahfood (Saturday @ From The Land Beyond Booth #825 from 3-7pm), LBHCC is shaping up to be utterly rad. Did we mention there [...]

In case you hadn’t heard, Nerds like the ThunderCats. And now, they can bring the fearsome roar of Lion-o and gang to their sweaty, melted candy filled pockets with the new ThunderCats game for Nintendo DS. Based on the modern interpretation of the beloved ‘Cats, the game looks to be promising, you know, it’s the [...]

“John Dies at the End“, the new film by Phantasm and Bubba Ho-Tep director Don Coscarelli, has been on Nerd City’s radar for a while. A surreal, genre-bending plot, sci-fi drug use, and Paul Giamatti, “John Dies at the End” looks to be a winner and the newest trailer only confirms our “this is gonna be cool” [...]

A tradition in itself, Doritos “Crash the Superbowl” video contest is once again upon us, and this year’s competition combines 3 things Nerds love : making short films, the Transformers and, you know… Doritos. This year DCSB is exceptionally cool, with contestants creating unique Doritos ads in an attempt to win a variety of prizes [...]

If there’s one thing that Nerd City likes, it’s drawings of primates acting like people. With that in mind, we present to you “The Monkey King: 72 Transformations of the Mythical Hero”, an insanely cool art book featuring work highlighting the mythical Chinese hero. A wide arrange of artists tackle the subject matter with zeal, [...]

One of the best things about being a Nerd is the ability to endlessly gloat amongst your friends (those that you have) about having been “the first” to discover something. Whatever the medium, there is nothing quite like the thrill of dropping an “uh…yah” on the uninitiated, before it was, you know, cool. With that [...]

There is no movie Nerd City is currently more excited for than the RZA directed, Eli Roth co-written, and Quentin Tarantino presented “The Man with the Iron Fists” (dropping Nov. 2). With a guaranteed unique perspective and aesthetic (both in-film and promotion), the most bad-ass movie soundtrack in years (listen to it here), and Kung [...]

Opening this weekend at the brand new 101/exhibit Contemporary Art Gallery in Los Angeles, Jason Shawn Alexander‘s {sic} New Paintings and Graphic Works is a truly great (and exceptionally important) show that blurs the line between pop and fine art in a way Nerd City has never seen before. Although Alexander’s background is heavily rooted in illustration [...]

Recently, Nerd City’s very own Mike Haynes and Max Minor descended upon Universal Studios Hollywood, and I’ll tell you right now, “we’ll be back”. Legitimately righteous, Universal is the perfect destination for a well-deserved Nerdcation (tax-return related or otherwise). The place is just chock full of shit Nerds like (present company included). A truly hilarious [...]

Last weekend, Nerd City got a chance to hang at the world’s premiere (and only) open-air, independently developed video game symposium, Indie Cade, and it was mad dope (right, teenagers?). Although still a very young convention (with accompanying growing pains), Indie Cade demonstrated it has it’s collective fingers on the pulse of the indie game [...]