Doctor Who returns to our screens on Saturday March 30th on BBC America at 8PM/7C in The Bells of St. John. The BBC have released a special prequel webisode written by Steven Moffat, set just after the Christmas Special The Snowmen and prior to the first episode of the second half of Series 7. The [...]
Attention geeks everywhere! Brought to you by the creative minds of writer and RPG-designer, Monte Cook and Dead Gentlemen Productions veteran, Jen Page comes Geek Seekers, a brand new web-series guaranteed to entertain the pants off you. Meant to be a parody of Ghost Adventures and other similar ‘reality shows’ in which a team hunts down [...]
The hard-working nerds at Word of the Nerd want you to stay up to date on the new adventures of The Doctor in the BBC’s seventh series of Doctor Who! If you have missed the first two episodes of the new series, you may want to click away before you get SPOILED rotten! [...]
TODAY IS ZERO DAY! DOCTOR WHO RETURNS TO OUR TELEVISION SCREENS TONIGHT! While you still have time, enjoy the final installment of our countdown to Asylum of the Daleks! Word of the Nerd has been honored to have been your host on this journey through the best of Doctor Who on the internet! Be [...]
When William Hartnell’s First Doctor made the difficult decision to leave his first companion and Granddaughter, Susan Foreman, behind on Earth, he delivered this iconic speech: “ONE DAY I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, [...]
Only TWO DAYS left until the TARDIS flies again, and Word of the Nerd is leading you on a timey-wimey trip down Doctor Who memory lane! Join us as we countdown the unique viral fan-made content, the official web material created by the BBC, and internet moments that every Whovian should see. Do you [...]
We are now one day closer to new Doctor Who than we were yesterday! We are traveling in time…just in one constant direction. ONLY THREE DAYS until we find out what terrors lurk in the Asylum of the Daleks! To make your time spent on the “slow path” seem more exciting, Word of [...]
To tell the truth, I run a pretty loose ship here at Stately Driscoll Manor. Especially when it comes to television watching. Besides the obvious “age appropriateness” rules, we really only have one other rule: NO MUPPET BABIES, NO A PUP NAMED SCOOBY-DOO. While the rule only names two shows by name, it is an [...]
FOUR DAYS TO NEW DOCTOR WHO! More essential Doctor Who viral videos, fan-made content and official bits and bobs to help pass the time until Asylum of the Daleks premiers on Saturday night (DAY ZERO). If you have no fear of spoilers, then please join us on this “timey-wimey” road to new Who! (At [...]
Once upon a time, I know that I was one of three hardcore Doctor Who fans in Springfield, MO. I knew this because the Barnes and Noble randomly got four or five copies of the Virgin Publishing/Sylvester McCoy New Adventures of Doctor Who book series, and they only ever sold three of them. Every single [...]
OMIGOD! OMIGOD! OMIGOD!! I am SO frakking excited about what my husband found and then shared with me that I just had to share it with all of you! Now, if you recall from one of my earlier posts, Stephanie Brown is my favorite Batgirl despite how much I love Barbara Gordon, and that the [...]
Everyone on earth knows that James Bond, 007, is the toughest and most ruthless of British agents. Now imagine if his Grandmother was even tougher than he is, on the verge of Alzheimer’s and currently living in a nice suburb of LA. That is, in very basic terms, the premise of Agent 88, a new [...]
Hello nerds and nerd ladies! Here’s this month’s edition of Adventures of The Nerd, which deals with everybody’s favourite thing in the whole wide world: Zombies!. The inspiration for this one comes from a little show called The Walking Dead, maybe you’ve heard of it? More importantly however, I would say the inspiration for it was my [...]
In mixed company, if you mention the Dr. Horrible Sing-Along Blog you could judge pretty quickly who you could talk to and who might not be on your nerd level. Based on an announcement made during the “Joss Whedon: Dark Horse” panel at San Diego Comic Con on Friday, that’s all about to change: Dr. Horrible will be [...]
Just when you think you have seen all the hype possible over a Halo game they go and do this. The following is the trailer for a live action, digital Halo series that will set the stage for the next massive Halo game. This five part series, brought to us by 343 Industries and Microsoft, [...]
Hear ye, hear ye! Gather ’round, good lords and ladies! The day is coming! The day is coming! The day in which Season 2 of JourneyQuest premiers is FINALLY drawing near! For those of you who have not read my previous posts (found here and here) about this awesome web series, JourneyQuest is a hilarious, adventurous romp that [...]
Zenescope Entertainment brings to you a web series called Comic Company, a series designed to depict the inner workings of their comic book company. The characters who inhabit this office are just like the ones you know, and have to deal with internal office politics as well as deadlines, office romance, and missing staffers. The [...]
Attention nerds and nerd ladies! Here we have this month’s edition of Adventures of The Nerd, which puts us on #3. This month’s strip was inspired by three things: Star Wars VI: A New Hope, San Diego Comic Con and Cosplay. All three of these are uber nerdy, and I think these elements have worked well [...]
The Nerd is back! Hey there Nerd fans! After the success of Adventures of The Nerd #1 (or more likely “a lack of complaints”), comes the second installment of The Nerd’s adventures! The idea for this one came to me based on how I, myself, think I would react in this sort of situation. The [...]
Hey there nerds! I have decided to try to do a regular “Nerd-related” comic strip for Word of the Nerd! But first I’m going to tell you a little bit about how it came to be… So here’s where it started: If you guys have been following me on Twitter or Facebook you’ll know that [...]
