Author: Leah Miller

Paul F Tompkins is recording a new special on June 6th at the Palace Theater in Los Angeles, and tickets are on sale for the ludicrously low price of $10. PFT is a geeky comedy …

When I first heard Iceman was gay, I thought it made a lot of sense. If you weren’t aware, some pages of All-New X-men #40 leaked earlier this week. They contain a scene where teenage …

Volume one of Thomas Sidell’s excellent Gunnerkrigg Court came out this week, and you should definitely pick it up. It’s engaging story set in a thoroughly intriguing world, and the characters are some of my all-time favorites. …

Last week, BOOM! Box released the first issue of Giant Days, a new miniseries written by John Allison and drawn by Lissa Treiman, with colors by Whitney Cogar. It’s a fun little college story of …

  I’m still recovering from the cold I got at PAX East, so I might as well write a con report about it. To be fair, I probably actually got the cold at GDC, which …

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP — Leonard Nimoy (@TheRealNimoy) February 23, 2015 This was Leonard Nimoy’s final tweet. While we were all …

“Just make a listicle of stuff geek girls want for Valentine’s Day.” They said.   That’s harder than it sounds. Girls aren’t a monolith, and gift-giving is an art. You can’t just checklist your way …

I don’t know if I should even categorize this as “cultural commentary.” I’m not commentating, so much as I am just along for the ride. Really it’s more like found poetry, or a transcript of …

I watched the Christmas episode of Two and a Half Men. Now, you must suffer as I have suffered. The show is notoriously awful, and this particular episode featured a solid minute of Santa Claus …

In 1978, two Sesame Street Christmas Specials aired. One was a star-studded, big-budget network spectacular that almost nobody remembers, because the other one was PBS’s Emmy-Award Winning Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. Christmas Eve on …