Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

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Promo Bits: The Hermetica of Elysium by Annmarie Banks

Some interesting stuff is flying through my email.  I can’t read it all, so I’ve offered to toss up some information for all of you who might be interested. Here goes: 1494 Barcelona. As Torquemada lights the fires of religious fervor throughout the cities of Spain, accused heretics are not the only victims. Thousands of […]

Guest Post: Smackdown: Pangrelor vs. Middle Earth by Robert Louis Smith

(I first must apologize to Mr. Smith for the lateness of this post.  The email containing the guest post below got buried, which has happened far more times than I think is fair.  This will be resolved ASAP.) ——————————————————- In 1954, J.R.R. Tolkien published the first of a breathtaking series of books that would go […]

Things Like Mythical Unicorns: Female Comic Book Readers?

The title is intentionally provocative.  Why?  Because I think it is utterly ridiculous that an organization claiming to be about “the news” needs to do a story about a guy who threw a party to prove female comic book geeks exist in order to put this whole B.S. argument to rest.  And here’s why I […]