About
My name is Mat Nastos and I am a profession Nerd. Now, I didn’t begin life as a professional nerd. No, I started off as an amateur nerd in the 70s and 80s - buying comic books, playing video games, playing every role-playing game known to man (D&D, Champions, Villains & Vigilantes, Paranoia, Bureau 13, Gamma World…need I go on? Because I can), running an Elfquest fan club, starting and managing the first (and only) comic and Star Trek conventions in Hawaii and a whole mess of other things that were obviously there to keep me from getting laid.
I then went to Nerd School, two of them actually - the Joe Kubert School for Cartoon Art and then the School of Visual Arts. Once you finish schooling at either (or, in my case, both) of those places you can then call yourself a professional nerd. Since then I’ve spent my professional Nerd career working in film, television, video games, comic books and the internet. I’ve even made a semi-popular (with other nerds) movie about life as a nerd, “Bite Me, Fanboy.” I will deny to my dying breath that it was based on events in my life. Of course no one believes me.
Now that Mark Gruenwald has passed away, I may know more comic book trivia than anyone else on the planet. And, although I’m not proud to admit it, I know more about Elfquest than any straight man should.
As a nerd Jedi Master I have created this page as a Mecca for other nerds to find out about all the cool things in life they should know about: the cool toys, cool movies, cool tv shows, cool…er, wait a minute, we’re talking about nerds here. Let me re-phrase: the nerdy toys, the geeky movies, the dorky tv shows. All the magnificent things in life that will keep you forever living in your parents’ basement and eternally a virgin.
Now, step forward, my young padawan, and begin your training.
-NiftyMat
The Nifty Nerd Weekly Schedule:
- Monday: Game On!
- Tuesdays: Dinner and a Movie
- Wednesdays: Comics That Piss Me Off
- Fridays: Trapped in the 80s
- Sunday: Nerd Week in Review
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