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It’s been a long slow road to acceptance for us geeks. Years of ridicule and marginalization, wedgies and swirlies and generally being relegated to the background. But then, slowly, we began to break through…

I think it started when Samuel L. Jackson said in an interview he was a comic book fan. It was a moment of validation for us. The guy whose wallet said “Bad Mother Fucker” on it was into comics. No one was going to give Sam Jackson a wedgie, not unless they wanted to enter a world of pain.

Then Lord of The Rings came out to universal praise and HUGE box office numbers. Now the D&D / sword & sorcery crowd had something to brag about. All of a sudden all the cool kids were talking about…