Geek Monthly Magazine

Geek Monthly is a magazine that's perfectly geared toward techies, movie buffs, music experts, science fiction fans, television junkies, gamers, and yes, all-around geeks. Geeks have become more prevalent over the past few decades thanks to the internet and a general improvement in communication. Gone are the days when geeks had to languish away in their parents basements, alone or only existing in small groups. We now officially have our own media. We're even present in primetime as featured on the CBS show, "The Big Bang Theory". That's what I think many people would enjoy most about Geek Monthly. It's like National Geographic for pop culture aficionados.

If you want to get a better feel for what Geek Monthly features, take a look at the list of past names appearing on its covers. Tina Fey, Ron Pearlman, Joel McHale, Paul Rudd, Zach Braff, Jon Favreau, Sarah Silverman, and Janeane Garofalo. That's just to name a few. This magazine doesn't abuse or parody its titular subject matter, it backs it up with each issue that hits stands. In other words, it puts its money where its mouth is, so to speak. Geek Monthly is a fitting title, not a trick to get you to buy a magazine.

Generally appearing in every issue, you'll find feature articles on anything from comics to movie sets to gaming conventions. You'll find movie reviews, opinion articles (known as "rants"), product reviews, celebrity interviews, music recommendations, and more. I would recommend this magazine to any geeks with tunnel vision. By that I mean, if you are a geek and you're only interested in one thing, (gaming, for example) than this magazine could open new doors for you. You could be missing out on things you'd truly enjoy, in the dark simply because you only visit certain websites that have become your favorites. This magazine can help you become more well-rounded while still staying in your own personal comfort zone.

The photography in the magazine is typically excellent, usually creative, and sometimes sensational. (See Sarah Silverman's cover photograph.) The layout of the magazine is refreshingly different than most, there's something about this magazine that manages to feel like a website as far as how it reads. Gone are the typical formats, present is a more "blurb" oriented style of writing and presentation more specifically tailored specifically to meet our shorter attention spans. You can read the magazine front to back or you can simply open it to a random page and you'll find something worth reading right away.

Outside of all that, the writers for Geek Monthly, both staff and freelance, actually get to use their own unique voice. Gone are the days of impersonal news-style magazine articles. In Geek Monthly, you'll find first person accounts of almost everything within its pages, leading it to feel like a very personal experience. Like you're talking to an old high school friend.

On top of everything else, the ads are actually fairly entertaining as well. Many people hate magazines today because they don't appreciate the assault on their eyes from the ads. How many shaving cream ads can one person look at in a lifetime, right? But sitting here and writing this review, as I thumb through the March issue of the magazine, I find ads for a Star Trek Captain's Chair, action figures, and the website www.roddenberry.com. So as you can see, Geek Monthly lives up to its name. If there's any room in your budget for a magazine, consider getting rid of one of your more generic publications or celebrity tabloids and investing in this monthly guide to what a geek should know. (Also, makes an excellent geek gift.)