Geek Fuel is a subscription service that sends you a Monthly Mystery Box filled with everything you need to feed your geeky lifestyle. Each box contains an exclusive t-shirt, collectibles, and toys plus a downloadable Steam game. Each box runs you $24.90 (including shipping and handling), and you can also choose a 3, 6, or 12…
It’s no secret that the titles, characters, and games that are popular at comic conventions aren’t necessarily the same as what the general public is into. Never is this more evident than when you see the reaction the stars of Firefly and Serenity get when they enter a room full of their faithful convention fans….
The nerd world was all abuzz as news broke last week that Firefly/Serenity alums Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk will be reprising their roles from the beloved series for a new TV show…well sort of. Over the past decade or so, the world of Firefly and Serenity has become the very definition of cult legend….
When most people hear the phrase “con man,” their first thought is of a suave, well-dressed, slick-talking man who deceives people into giving him money. This is not the case, however, for Nathan Fillion (Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly) and Alan Tudyk’s (Hoban “Wash” Washburne, Firefly) new series Con Man, which is about two actors (actors playing actors, hmm…), named…
Hello there, geeky fashionistas! Today, I want to go ahead and steal the looks of a few of my favorite women of all time: the Firefly ladies! This show was so wonderful for so many reasons (which I’m not going to get into now because we will all start crying), but one of my top…
One’s an emotionally unavailable robot, one’s your nice regular everyman–or maybe they’re both big teddy bears, either way, you’ve laughed with them, squealed at them and maybe even cried about them. Bromance is a bit difficult to define, there are a lot of different interpretations of the word. Here I am defining bromance as a…
Before I talk about Amazon’s recent venture into the mobile phone industry, I’d like to be the first to announce Geek Insider’s new product, the Geek Phone. It looks like an iPhone and works like an iPhone because no one can come up with a better design than rectangle. It will have weird Geek Insider…
Joss Whedon, otherwise known as god of the nerds, is famous for his complex characters, fascinating storylines, and amazing action scenes. But what really sets him apart is his dialog. Snappy, smart, and sarcastic, Joss’s characters’ one liners are the stuff of legend. Here are some of the most memorable quotes from all of the…
You heard that right, Browncoats. Quantum Mechanix, a studio well known for making show-quality prop-replicas and maquettes for Firefly fans and Sparkplug Games, an independent game developer experienced with producing games for iOS, Android, Mac, and PC platforms, are collaborating under Fox to release Firefly Online this summer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y364b2Hcq7I Find a Ship, Find a Crew, Keep Flying…
Joss Whedon is by no means a one trick pony. In the very least he’s a writer, director and composer who works across a variety of artistic mediums. Those that love his work really love his work. Except for maybe Waterworld, but let’s not speak about that. To say that Whedon fans are passionate would be…
With a show like Firefly, choosing the five most memorable moments out of dozens is like deciding which of your fingers you love most. The short list was certainly over a dozen. Here we narrow down which scenes stick in our mind the most- the moments that throw you out of the journey you’d expected…
My girlfriend is an outdoors person. She’s an adept tree-climber, in her life she has ridden everything from horses to tractors everywhere from Zimbabwe to Washington DC. I, on the other hand, spent my formative teenage years streaming Battlestar Galactica. When we started dating almost three years ago, two things were likely to happen: 1) Her…
These are the ladies of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror that make fanboys hearts go all a’twitter, or least inspire posts on Twitter. We at Geek Insider know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That being said, we feel most geeks would be hard-pressed to deny that the following characters embody feminine attractiveness in…
It happens fairly often. You’re watching a show, minding your own business, and someone with that face comes on screen. You know you’ve seen them before. They were in that show, with that plot, and those other actors. You know the one. Right? You might be thinking of one of TV’s most underrated stars: Gina…
With an online game, role-playing game, and even a board game on the horizon, is this the rebirth of the beloved franchise? The Year Of The Firefly “A captain’s goal is simple. Find a crew, find a job, and keep flying…” These words not only described the ethos of Captain Malcolm Reynolds, but also the…