July is National Reading Month. Actually, that’s not true. It’s National Ice Cream Month. Regardless, the Bureau Staff has summer reading recommendations for you.

Comic book film adaptations are all the rage. With unsurprising expertise in nerdiness (nerdocity?), the Bureau Staff suggests source material for the new Batman and Hellboy films.

The Bureau Staff discusses the most egregious oversights since the Y2K hype.

Or better known as videogames. The Bureau Staff goes over the latest excuse they have to put off responsibilities.

The Bureau Staff share their streaming mix tapes, which tackle tough topics–such as sex, submarines, and vomit–through the power of song.

The Bureau Staff tries their hand at imitating Ryan North’s infamous same-panels-every-day webcomic.

The Bureau Staff tackles this year’s question from the pretentious EDGE Foundation.

Impressed by TIME’s unexpected selection of Vladimir Putin as 2007’s person of the year, the Bureau Staff considers some alternative nominees for the dubious distinction.

The Bureau Staff picks the top movies of the year, proving, once again, that they are better than the Academy Awards.

After much heated deliberation, writers of the Bureau Staff select their favorite albums of the past year.