Day: October 11, 2013

Art, Music, Strength in NUMBERS2 Comments

EXCLUSIVE: Strength in NUMBERS Featuring DUMBFOUNDEAD by Earl Yi

The Nerds of Color

The Strength in NUMBERS train keeps rolling as we unveil the latest “variant” album cover to Chops’ massive Asian American hip-hop movement.

The latest Strength in NUMBERS album cover features Asian American hip-hop superstar DUMBFOUNDEAD aka PARKER being brought to life by artist extraordinaire from Seattle (by way of Boston) Earl Yi. If you’re at New York Comic-Con, swing by Booth #1165 and say what’s up to Earl!

After the jump, download a high-resolution jpeg of the latest Strength in NUMBERS alternate album cover. Just right-click on the image and save.

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Television26 Comments

Glenn of The Walking Dead is the Best Response to Anti-Asian Stereotyping

Jenn

In honour of The Walking Dead‘s upcoming season 4 premiere this Sunday on AMC, I am re-posting this post, which originally appeared on Reappropriate in February 2013.

Spoiler alert: I’m going to be talking about the events of Walking Dead up until Season 3, Episode 10. If you haven’t watched yet and don’t want the plot spoiled, don’t read on.

Hours after his reunion with long-lost brother Merle, Daryl has chosen his brother over his new family of survivors. After escaping from Woodbury with a banished Merle, Rick and Glenn are unwilling to bring him back to the prison; Daryl decides to strike out into the woods with his brother rather than abandon him to the wilderness. Blood, after all, is thicker than water, right?

But, it turns out, that after a year on the road with Rick and the gang, Daryl now shares less in common with his brother Merle than he thought.

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Horror, Television2 Comments

Don’t Click — Dead Inside

Keith Chow

The chill in the air — and those moans in the distance — can only mean one thing: The Walking Dead is back! We at The Nerds of Color are very excited for the return of everyone’s favorite zombie drama, especially now that Lawrence Gillard Jr. has joined the cast — Wire fans, rejoice! D’Angelo and Cutty fighting zombies! So in honor of the show’s return, we are christening this week “Walker Week.” And in Nerdland, the Walker Week begins on a Friday (so what if Solomon Grundy was born on a Monday?).

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