Our upcoming Nerd City guest, Jenn Frank, recently alerted us to the existence of “Kill Screen“, a new, bad-ass video game magazine that she contributes to. With an offbeat, academic philosophy, and a reverance and intelligence applied to the subject matter, “Kill Screen” is one of the dopest actual-print-and-paper magazines published in a long time. The [...]

Straight from Nerd City’s Hell Yeah Department, exclusive for New York Comic Con, comes this bad-ass business: “Booty and the Beast“, from our good buddies Jim Mahfood and Dave “King Gum” Crosland. Any time these two collaborate, it’s always so rad…and this is proof of that. With only a limited edition of 50, these are going [...]

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Ok, I think we can all agree that U2 is not a good band, so it was horrible news when it was announced quite some time ago that they would be creating the music for Spider-Man The Musical when it comes to Broadway. Well after a few years of delays, Spider-Man: Turn Off the [...]

One of Nerd City’s long running dreams has always been to go to Japan. With the Otaku culture, the crazy arcades, an obsession with comics and cartoons, and the toys…oh the toys, we’ve always considered Tokyo our sister city. And until that day comes, where Nerd City can tear through Japan like so much tissue paper, [...]

Our good friends @ NYC designer toy purveyor My Plastic Heart have just released an image of their new collabo with NY street artist Matt Siren, and I gotta tell you, I totally dig it. Inspired by the female form, and the ghosts in Ms. Pac-Man (seriously), this is a must-have for any self-respecting Nerd’s designer [...]

Dear Godzilla,

I am a loyal and devoted G-Fan, but I have a few questions which maybe you could clear up for me.

1. In "Gojira/Godzilla 1985" (1984), the first film after your hiatus and the beginning of the Heisei series, all of your films subsequent to the original "Gojira/Godzilla: Kind of the Monsters" were ignored, invalidating their place in the canon. Why was this?

2. Although initially identified as a personification of America's atomic aggression toward Japan, in later films you became Japan's benevolent protector and friend to all children. Is Japan's assimilation and transformation of you (implicitly "the bomb") similar to gays and blacks using insulting terminology ("queer" and "nigger" respectively)amongst themselves to "take back the term?"

3. In a rematch, do you think you would have a more decisive victory over King Kong?

Thank you for everything. You truly are king of Daikaiju Eiga!

Bobby Mitchum
(AGE TWELVE)
Rochester, New York

Dear Godzilla,

Not for nothing but, uh, I'm from New York. We got King Kong over here and he ain't afraid of you. Oh, and the next time you want to step on our city, you come here yourself instead of sending in your stand-in. We'll treat you the same as we treated him.

Up Yours,
Burton Jarvis
(AGE TEN)
Brooklyn, New York