This past Sunday, with the company of a very understanding cohort I had the opportunity to engage in some live sci-fi via Gideon Productions Advance Man, the first part of Mac Rodgers’ HoneyComb Trilogy.
Full Story »About JR Pepper
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JR Pepper has written 17 articles so far, you can find them below.
It’s Time To Get Things Started
The Muppets is an amazing attempt to bring the gang to the year 2011- so kids of another generation can associate the characters with the same love as folks my age. The film does just that, but it definitely calls out to the people who grew up with them in the first place.
Full Story »Why I’m A Fan
Being a fan means your favorite characters become like friends and family, we become attached and they become a part of us. Being a fan produces an automatic feeling of excitement; a rush that feels like you ate an entire pint of ice cream as fast as you could and did a hand stand right after. You feel full, happy and dizzy at the same time. You feel like Lil’ You again. Meeting Robin Williams outside of Bengal Tiger, even for a few brief moments, made Lil’ Me and I meet for the first time in a very long time.
Full Story »Hope of The Gods, Or Who Gives a Nordic Heck About Thor?
Frankly- even though I have the cups from 7/11- I don’t. When Iron Man came out I was all about it. Iron Man was always one of my favorite Marvel characters. The blend between asshole and super-scientist that is Tony Stark just clicked for me. Even though it is a bit formulaic and similar to [...]
Full Story »Evangelion 2.0: Everything You Know Is Wrong
By JR Pepper
I know, the American release date for this film isn’t for another a few days, but like an addicted anime fan I had to sneak a peak at this fine reboot.
Ten sneak peaks actually.
Full Story »Being Human: “So, A Ghost, A Vampire And A Werewolf Get An Apartment Together…”
By JR Pepper – For some reason the idea of a vampire wandering around an IKEA just makes me giggle. We expect something glamorous from these legendary beings, like they gallivant on these globe trotting wild adventures everyday. Going to an IKEA, working a $h!tty job, making coffee- all sound so mundane- so normal not something a vampire or a werewolf would be doing.
Full Story »Synapse: A Free Character-Driven RPG
RPG-creator Greg Christopher argues that RPGs for consoles are limited because you are still restricted by someone else’s world, thereby limiting your choices. Your characters as well as the world around them can only evolve and change according to the settings prescribed by the person who designed that game. Greg saw this limitation and created Synapse, which allows players “to take all the ideas that you have about how you wish your console games would actually work, and actually play them.”
Full Story »Surviving Your First J-Rock Concert
Based on my observations of the fainting, fawning, fervent crowd at Miyavi’s recent New York concert, here are Pepper’s Rules for Surviving Your First J-Rock Concert.
Full Story »Safe for Work: Letting That Geek Flag Fly
By JR Pepper – If you had of asked lil’ geeky me at age 17 if I would be working in an office ten years later, I would have likely said something sarcastic and gone about my day. Thing is, ten years after high school and that’s exactly what I’m doing. I try my best to make sure my clothing is ‘work safe’. I drink caffeine like a fiend. Hell, they even have me sporting a crackberry. But, it seems like only yesterday that I was wandering around college with my Sailor Moon pencil case and Trigun notebook.
Full Story »Looking Forward to 2010
By JR Pepper – The Internet is littered with count-down posts, so I figured one more couldn’t hurt, right? Here’s Pepper’s list of tasty geek treats she is looking most forward to in 2010.
Full Story »Steampunk: A Look Behind the Goggles
By JR Pepper – A few years back I had stumbled into a then little known convention called Salon Con. The convention was smaller then most I’d been too, but it was three days filled with corsets, gears, ballroom dancing and great company. I had been invited by photographer Tyrus Flynn, an old friend from my anime days. He told me I would be amazed by the outfits. I’d seen some really good anime cosplay in the past (the entire cast of Legend of Mana one year at Big Apple Anime!), but nothing prepared me for the creative blast that was Steampunk.
Full Story »If Ain’t Broke Don’t Fix It: A Message to Hollywood
By JR Pepper – When is too much too much? That seems to be the question that the folks in Hollywood just can’t seem to answer when it comes to remakes, prequels, and sequels. Well, I suppose the answer is “when it stops making money”. And that just burns my biscuits.
Full Story »Welcome Back the Boys from the Dwarf!
By JR Pepper – I’ll admit it, the entertainment world has screwed with me for the last few years. Somehow they manage to get my fan girl hopes up, (X-Files sequel anyone?) only to see the shows and characters I love get destroyed like that damn pagoda in every Godzilla flick, (damn you X-Files film, you broke my heart!). So when rumors of new Red Dwarf episodes surfaced on the internet, I was not excited. Frankly, I was absolutely terrified.
Full Story »Updates Straight from the Venture Compound
By JR Pepper
Whether you were a Whedon fan or a Star Wars geek, comic book geek or a fantasy reader, New York Comic Con was the place to be last weekend.
Full Story »Don’t Know Much About Miike
By JR Pepper
I’ve been devouring various aspects of Japanese pop-culture for years, ranging from anime to J-pop, to the visceral world of Japanese horror to brilliant pop-culture nuclear color explosions that are the works of Takashi Murakami. And throughout all these things I’ve noticed one major concept.
Full Story »Once A Gamer Girl, Always A Gamer Girl
By JR Pepper
When other girls were asking for a big Sweet 16 party, I asked my folks for a PlayStation.
Full Story »The Real World Vampire: Let the Right One In
By JK Pepper
Since the HBO show True Blood began a while back, the vampire has been en vogue. It’s likely to get even worse when the first of the Twilight films debuts (you know there are going to be more).
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