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Dorkgasm.com’s Villain Of The Year

Folks, 2007 has just ended. We can look back upon those interesting 365 days with a wiser eye now, as hindsight is usually 20/20. It was hard to pick only one person to be our villain of the year. There have been many abominations committed in the Dork Culture landscape this past year, many of which still leave a bitter and rancid taste in my mouth. However, in the closing days of 2007, one person reared his ugly head and stood up to accept this “honor”. One man destroyed the dreams of hundreds, no, thousands, of people. I am referring to, of course, the scoundrel known as Matthew S. Harrison, the former producer of Death Walks The Streets.

            Herein lies a few surprises, as we chronicle the best and worst to hit theaters in 2007. Agree or disagree, and some of you will strongly do both. As with anything we publish, feel free to share your opinion! Notice, however, that the films on the Best list aren't all high-brow mularky and not all the films on the Worst list are genre films. Better yet, we've got a middle list, because that's how we roll. Read on and see if we're full of it or not!

            2007 was a banner year for the comics industry, which only made this list more difficult. Both of the big companies released great trade collections, and continuing series at both indie and major companies were top notch all around. Some of this list may surprise you, some of it may infuriate you. Good. Maybe your favorite obscure title, the one that made the TIME or NEWSWEEK lists, isn't on here. Go yell from the mountaintop about how no one's reading it, but maybe there's a reason for that. Maybe there are a few titles here that you disagree with entirely, that's fine too. Let the debate begin!

            2007 was a great year for DVD, and it was excruciatingly hard to pick only twenty. While I was bored, I waded through two hundred and eleven pages on 2007 releases to refresh my memory and pick out the best twenty out of all of them. While it did turn out to be a multi-day process, I am proud to share with you my favorites of this past year. Here they are, in no particular order.

            When approached with the idea of writing something for Dorkgasm, I tossed around many ideas, ideas such as, my deep hatred of the Underworld Series or maybe even Electra. But those will have to be saved for another day, as today one of my greatest and most powerful pet peeves reared its ugly head. Consequently, I had no choice but to address it, as the blinding rage that it induces will push all other coherent and civilized thought out of my brain.

            Many of our readers are aware of two of the most famous dork magazines in this world. Fangoria and Starlog both cater to the dork culture crowd with horror and science fiction coverage respectively. Both are owned by Kable News Co., which keeps a warehouse in Oregon, IL., or rather “kept”.

Chapter Two of the DORKcast is now live!

Wondering about whether there's going to be another Constantine movie? Is Hellboy 2 ever going to be seen? What about the strike?

All there questions and more are answered in this week's DORKcast.

            When it comes to movie theaters, sometimes it feels like a hassle. Get a crappy parking spot; wait in line for forever to get a ticket to a show where you might not get to sit with your friend or significant other; pay too much for your popcorn; wait for the movie to start in a cramped theater watching crappy trivia for half an hour, all the while lamenting that the strongest libation you can ingest is watered-down soda. Yeah, it really is that bad! Throw in dinner before, teenagers during, and nothing to do after and it all seems like more trouble than it is worth. Then an IPic Entertainment opens in town and the rules change.

You've been waiting for it. You've been praying to myriad gods and goddesses for it. Well, now it's here.