by G.P. Avants Welcome back to land of Neeks. Who are Neeks? You know who they are. These are the people in your life who stand out from the crowd, or quietly blend in behind the scenes. Neeks are creative, curious, calculating, (as in Math), and constructive people who are often labeled as…
Author: gpavants
I am a writer and a teacher. I feel my platform is to encourage people to live a life of faith even through THOSE kind of days.
Chronolocity Vol. 1: Meet Mr. Buckley
Thank you for joining us for another entry into the characters from my first novel. Chronolocity Vol 1 A Fistful of Chronotons. In this entry we meet Edwin Buckley. He is a very timid computer genius who is working as Mr. Cross’s right hand man. When we first meet Mr. Buckley he is flustered and…
Shut up, Ned!
By G. P. Avants When a superhero takes a new turn in the direction of their life they are not the only one to adapt to a new situation. Like Micheal Keaton stated in Spider-man Homecoming, “The world is changing, boys. It’s time for us to change, too.” There is something about a retelling of a…
Chronolocity Vol 1: Meet Mr. Cross
I wanted to introduce you to the characters in my novel, Chronolocity Vol I A Fistful of Chronotons. In this entry we meet Mr. Cross. A man who dubs himself a Time Traveler extraordinaire. In an attempt to modify, update, and correct an imperfect timeline, Mr. Cross accidentally yanks our hero Levy Roarke into the prehistoric…
Chronolocity Vol 1: Meet Levy Roarke
Have you ever had a passion of something you feel called to do? You have the next great idea or you have a dream of doing something that will change the world? Then you know what making history means. Let me share with you a story that has been in the works for a few…
The Web-elution of Spiderman #2: He’s Amazingly Cool for a Nerd
By G.P. Avants Is there such thing as a cool nerd? One who can rock that brain and still have a way with words and making the best of most social situations? If there is then Andrew Garfield nailed it. This is our second incarnation of Spider man as the Amazing Spider man. Some…
WW WON
By G. P. Avants Wow! What just happened? I am sitting back looking at DC’s Wonder Woman and realized the superhero game has changed. In many ways the journey of Diana of the Amazons dropped into the middle of World War 1 and therefore shook up our view of history. How do I summarize this in…
Perfect Idiots
By Gary Avants Peter Quill believes he is staring at what he assumes is perfection. The Sovereign leader Ayesha, though, in all her glory can easily slip in a smile meant to reduce a lower species back down to size. She makes the Guardians of the Galaxy feels like they are five tiny specs of…
Not a Perfect Dad, but One Perfect for you
Father’s Don’t Need to Be Perfect By John Pepe As Father’s Day approaches it makes me ponder fatherhood. Am I the perfect dad? Am I even a good dad? At times my son looks at me as if I’m infallible (other times, not so much), and it harkens me back to when I was his…
Are you Ready for a Web-elution?
By G. P. Avants (At the end of this article, please check out a special event coming this summer!) Meet Peter Parker. This is what we have been doing over the past few incarnations of Spiderman. He has been booted and rebooted for various reasons over the past fifteen years. We have three very different…
Why is Mr. Green so Blue?
By G. P. Avants Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 didn’t skip a beat right from the start. It laid down a sound track that made you want to get up and dance. (That is if course if you are the type who dances.) As Star Lord and crew prepares to defend a…
Daredevil: “Violence, Is It Ever Justified?”
By: John D. Pepe I had a near fisticuffs about six weeks ago and it made me think of the series Daredevil and our nation’s willingness to embrace violence. It has been a while since I finished the series but remembering the second season, and the contrast between Daredevil and Punisher’s philosophy of meting…
God Among Geeks 