Free Mythical giveaways to celebrate 20 years of Pokemon

Nintendo are celebrating 2 decades of Pokemon games with free official mythical pokemon events throughout 2016.

Each month from February there will be a new Mythical available for download at various events. Many of these Pokemon are almost impossible to get a hold of so this is an exciting time for those trying to finish the National Pokedex.

Mew is available until February 24th by visiting a Gamestop location and receiving a gift from your Pokemon card. Be sure to take a couple of games with you so you can get more than one! Pokemon X, Y, Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby cards can all accept these mythical pokemon.

More instructions and a release schedule can be found on the Pokemon 20th Anniversary website. Gotta catch em all!

Hot Topic serves up super cute Super Hero dresses

As a goth girl in America going to the Hot Topic can be a little cliche but there's a seemingly endless array of GIR shirts, Portal toys and Batman socks that call me in time and again. This Summer they've added some very cute summer dresses for the Nerd girl at large (and on the beach!)

For the Whovians

Be your own Super Girl!

Be the Good Girl

Or the bad!

There are even more to be had including R2D2, Power Rangers, TMNT, Captain America and Toy Story. At the bargain price of $15 - 35 these could be the easiest convention outfit you find.

My Little Browsies

First we had fashion based on large social networks and now My Little Ponies based on popular browsers. Kudos to ParallaxMLP and friends on Deviant Art for cute nerdy artwork.

Chrome

Firefox

Internet Explorer

Safari 

Manga & Anime 101

We all know manga and anime as those "Japanese comics and cartoons".
Some of us are avid fans and try to consume as much as we can...sometimes with horrific results.

Like most Westerners my first real introduction was Astro Boy...I thought Astro was cute and blowing rockets from his butt was the apex of toilet humour. Please remember I was seven at time.
Then came G-Force or Battle of the Planets which I later discovered was a butchered American adaptation of Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. I say butchered because to edit out most of the violence from the original, the Americans created 7-Zark-7. This little robot who loved oil showers was basically was a C-3PO in a shape of the love child of R2-D2 and a football. He would explain what was going in the guise of worrying.

My family could not understand me and my obsession. My school mates just thought I was werid. I could not articulate how I was waiting for the show's only female character Princess to die...horriblely. In a vain hope that 7-Zark-7 would call me and ask me to take Princess' position as kick-arse-ninja-girl. But I was going to insist on an outfit similar to the show's villian Zoltar.

Things change and so did public programming so I got into ponies instead. My family relieved that I was becoming a normal girl and a result of lots of school friends due to my uncanny ability to draw horses for them.

Then Jap-animation came to town.

As someone who was blown away by Akira when it first hit our shores, I went anime and manga crazy...and I sat through some dreay flicks and read some crappy things but when I found a gem I feverently grabbed it. Anime movie festivals were rare and usually only featured three movies at a time. Most of the time new things were seen via video tape swaping...or going to Chinatown and grabbing the chinese translation and try to figure out what was going on by looking at the pictures...these were the days before DVDs and Madman Entertainment. And they were not that long ago.

So I'm just going to give you a basic low down on the types and genres of manga and anime, for those of you who already know this I apoligise for the re-hash. For those who don't, well this is for you if you are trying to find direction in locating something you like.

Young Justice

I'm a big fan of most of the DCAU (DC Animated Universe) franchises so when I heard about a new series I was pretty excited. Justice League Unlimited was my favourite by a long shot so when I learned that the newest series would be Young Justice I was even more thrilled.

If you're a fan of the Young Justice comic series the changes will probably infuriate you, happily for me I only have a passing acquaintance with the original series so the name changes and trade-outs don't bother me but here are a few of them so you're forewarned.

Aqualad is an original character created for the series then introduced into the comics, it's Kid Flash, not Impulse, and is also Wally West and producers have said that the Robin is Dick Grayson (but this hasn't been said in the series, in fact Batman has told Robin not to reveal his face or name to the others).

The series is cute, and funny. I love Robin's creepy stealth laugh, Wally being the miniature version of the JLU version of the character and Superboy needs a hug and a hot pocket (and a few years of therapy to deal with his Daddy issues). Really, the only thing that missed the mark for me is Miss Martian.

If you've seen the series, I'll just say Helloooo, Megan! and if you haven't, well then you'll understand soon enough as the only girl in the first few episodes bakes cookies, makes moon eyes at boys and sprouts the most annoying catchprase since Excuuuuuuuuuuse me, Princess! Why, writers, producers and directors? Why would all the other characters have cute schticks or personality quirks (Robin hates Prefixes) and you give the often awesome Miss Martian a valley girl headsmack and cringe inducing catchphrase?

I'm whelmed, guys, but hopefully the later season introduction of Wonder Girl (held up due to legal issues) will give me some kickass girly goodness aside from Ditzy and Bitchy over there.