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Pop! Vinyl Funkos for sale during London Super Comic Con at Business Design Centre on August 25, 2017 in London, England. (Ollie Millington/Getty Images)

This Black Friday, no buying toys for me

Jay Deitcher
Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca, Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Harrison Ford as Han Solo, and Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi in "Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope" (Lucas Films)

A critical reappraisal of "Star Wars"

Erin Keane
Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman in "Wonder Woman" (Courtesy Warner Bros. Entertainment)

Make Wonder Woman Great Again?

Bob Proehl
Still from Stranger Things (Netflix/Curtis Baker)

D&D is not a spectator sport

Ethan Gilsdorf
Leslie Jones; Zendaya (AP/Jordan Strauss/Reuters/Steve Marcus)

Don't let the villains win

Melanie McFarland
Melissa McCarthy and Kate McKinnon in "Ghostbusters" (Columbia Pictures)

Calm down about "Ghostbusters"

Scott Timberg
(<a href="http://kitchenoverlord.com/" target="_blank">Kitchen Overlord </a>)

Geek food for the geek soul

Scott Timberg
Arthur Chu on "Jeopardy"

Gamergate broke my heart

Arthur Chu
Vikram Chandra (Faber and Faber)

Adventures in geek mythology

Andrew Leonard
(Rob Hainer/Shutterstock)

Ian G. Williams - Jacobin