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Superman is Dead
Superman is dead, and it looks like the Justice League is on its own. The American Century is over. We’re going to get a lot of hate for saying that, but the way we see it, it’s a little like climate change: It’s a global shift that is big, has a lot of moving parts, […]

Marching, with Science!
They came out. They came out in their lab coats. They came out in their rain ponchos. They came out in their Starfleet uniforms. They came out in their Ms. Frizzle and Captain Planet outfits. Even The Doctor came out. They came out with signs, and slogans, and science-jokes. Yes they did, despite the rain and the […]

Why We March
Saturday was an historic day in the United States. 2.9 million people across the country got out and made their voices heard in protests from New York City to Los Angeles to Washington DC. The NYRD was present for it all. We took a trip down to the nation’s capital to make our voices heard […]

Nero, Nero, and Trump
Donald Trump’s inauguration is tomorrow, and there is a persistent question that has been popping up around here the past few weeks. “Would you rather live in the rise of an empire or the fall of an empire?” It’s a fundamental question about personal preferences and ideals. Would you rather live at a time when […]

NYRD Holiday Sale and NEW DC Shirts
It’s that time of the year again, when we want to promote all the great things in life, like Peace on Earth, and 15% off on all NYRD products and shirts along with free standard shipping. That’s right! Welcome to The NYRD Shop’s Holiday Sale! What better way to honor the holiday season than to […]

Bursting Your Bubble
We made a promise to ourselves that we were done writing about election-related issues, but much like our electoral college, promises were apparently made to be broken. -Oh, sick civics burn- Yet, if this election has proved one thing it is that we know nothing about how the other half of the country works, lives, […]

The Morning After
We know that you believe you did the right thing. We know that you didn’t cast your vote out of racism or hatred, but because there was something there that you believed. Maybe you sincerely believed that one candidate was going to make your own life better, or maybe you were just mad as hell […]

October T-Shirt: That’s Some Pig
October is here, and that means the leaves are changing color, Halloween is coming, and we have pumpkin… everything, but it also means a new T-shirt design from your friends here at The NYRD Shop. To celebrate the new season we are bringing you our newest mashup entitled, Some-Pig. Some pigs are more than ordinary, […]

NYCC: An Open Letter
Dear New York Comic Con -and your parent company ReedPOP, We, here at The NYRD, want to start this letter by saying that we have always been big supporters of what you do. Your convention was one of our favorite events of the year and most of us have been attending since the very beginning. […]

Video Game Concert Tees
Just in time for the Summer concert and comic convention seasons check out the latest line of shirts from The NYRD. These mashups feature your favorite video game characters and your favorite classic rock tees. What more could you want, besides maybe a sick guitar rift done in an 8-bit mixer? So now is the […]

A Measured Approach to the Superhuman
Occasionally, we here at The NYRD like to bring in experienced and knowledgeable people to go deeper into topics we can only begin to touch on. So with the success of Captain America: Civil War and our own pros and cons article on superhuman registration we thought now would be a good time to introduce […]

Voltron Legendary Defender
It has finally arrived. Dreamworks Animation and Netflix have teamed up to bring Voltron Legendary Defender to the home streaming service. The cartoon series will be available to watch this summer, and will feature all the classic elements of the Voltron mythos, 5 teenagers, 5 cat robots, all forming to make one giant robot who […]

April T-Shirt Sale
Spring is finally here and you know what that means? T-shirt season has finally arrived. To celebrate we are bringing you our newest mashup entitled, Teenage Mutant Jedi Turtles. Can these four young Jedi brothers defeat the evil Empire of the Foot run by Emperor Krang and Darth Shredder? So forget the Darkside or even […]

The Best of the Fest 2016
MAGFest stands for Music and Gaming Festival. It is an annual convention -now in its fourteenth year- that takes place every winter in Washington DC’s National Harbor. MAGFest is a great place to check out video games, board games, and roleplaying games, as well as geek-tacular music and panels dedicated to all forms of gaming. […]

DCFL T-Shirts are Here
The world of DC Comics is full of fantastic heroes and heroines, but even they had heroes of their own, both on and off the gridiron. Every city in the DC Universe has its own flair and feeling, and their own sport’s franchises that captured the imagination of prepubescent superheroes. Now you can be like […]

Looking Forward to 2016
It is 2016, a shiny new year in the 21st century. There is no denying that we are in the future, a time when our sock hopping ancestors believed we would have things like jet packs and underwater cities. Instead all we have are underwater pollution and -criminally mislabeled- “hoverboards.” Still, our modern era is […]

Winter ASSEMBLE!
Winter is coming and you know what means, the holidays. Now is the time to check out The NYRD’s newest line of geeky and fun shirts from The NYRD Shop. For this holiday season get you and your loved ones an array of Game of Thrones/Avengers shirts. This marvelous mash-up features the Westerosi houses of your […]

Zoolander 2
It’s happening. The trailer for Zoolander 2 has finally hit the Inter-webs, and surprisingly the trailer does not look as bad as one might expect. Everyone here at The NYRD are huge fans of the original movie, but even we have to admit that sequels to comedy movies very rarely work. Just look at The […]

Warcraft Movie Trailer
Over the weekend Legendary Films released their first full length trailer for the film Warcraft. The movie is based upon the popular video game franchise from Blizzard and will feature the story of the first meeting and the first war between Orcs and Humans. Visually, the effects are being handled by Weta Workshop and look […]

Star Trek: Into TV
It has been rumored for quite sometime that Star Trek would be returning to the small screen. According to multiple outlets, Alex Kurtzman who co-wrote 2009’s Star Trek and its confusing and terrible sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, will be the executive producer of the new show. Many fans have already come out with comments […]

World Premier Trailer: Preacher
Last night AMC gave us the first look at their newest TV series, Preacher. It is more than likely that they will look to use this new show to fill the void of The Walking Dead‘s mid-season hiatus. The cable channel has been trying to keep their audience in between seasons to varying degrees of […]

Sequential Star Wars Trailer
We have all been hearing a lot about this Star Wars thing lately. The newest trailer dropped last week and the Internet has been talking about nothing else since. Unfortunately, the thing the last trailer lacked was any sort of solid idea of what Episode VII might be about. Well the guys at Science Vs. […]

Rumor: Moon Knight Netflix Series
If you say, “Marc Spector” to your average person they will have no idea who you are talking about, but with the success of Daredevil and early positive reviews for Jessica Jones, Marvel may soon look to add Moon Knight to their Netflix line-up. The rumor comes from Umberto Gonzalez of Heroic Hollywood. He dropped […]

Dino-Riders, The Movie
Do you remember Dino-Riders? If you do, then you are one of very few people, or you work for The NYRD, -in which case we are still waiting on your W-9 form.- Mattel is reportedly in the early stages of turning the late 80’s cartoon series into a live-action feature film, with a possible franchise […]

New York Super Week 2015
It is that time of the year again. The month of October where people dress up in scary and sexy costumes to celebrate the most important event of the year, New York Comic Con. What else would we have been talking about? However, if you don’t have tickets to this premiere New York nerd event, […]

Power Rangers Reboot
Lionsgate has said that it is currently testing young talent in hopes of finding up-and-coming actors and actresses who they will cast in their reboot of the Power Rangers franchise. Currently, they just announced the casting of Naomi Scott, who recently had a role in The Martian. Scott will be playing the Pink Ranger, -because […]

Marvel Announces New Movies
Marvel Studios has just announced three untitled movies for their Phase 3 schedule in 2020. The three films have release dates of May 1, 2020, July 10, 2020, and Nov. 6, 2020. This schedule update came on the heels of another announced title. With the success of Marvel’s Ant-Man, Marvel Studios has also officially announced a […]

Water for Mars
During a press conference today, NASA scientists confirmed a long held suspicion. There is water on Mars. Lujendra Ojha, Mary Beth Wilhelm, and Alfred McEwen presented findings they have recently published in a paper for the European Planetary Science Congress, an organization with a name that sounds way cooler than its boring academic purpose. In the […]

Nickelodeon to Launch 90’s Channel
According to rumors and bolstered by the existence of a Facebook page, Nickelodeon will soon be launching a channel dedicated entirely to 90’s cartoons, or Nick-Toons as they were known back in the day. Rugrats; Hey, Arnold; Ren & Stimpy; Rocko’s Modern Life; Ahh, Real Monsters; and more will air on The Splat. Nickelodeon has […]

Remembering 9/11
We here at The NYRD are all born and raised in the New York area and we keenly remember that day so long ago now. Over the years, we have become different people, the world a different place, but that day remains etched, immutable, in the annals of our memories and our histories. For one moment, the city, […]