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May 16th, 2013 by
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We watch Griff the Invisible;debate the nomenclature of rapping actors. blame some stuff on stan lee; talk archie meets punisher; we make up some words. We talk the hot mess that was the Green Lantern flick. We finally get into books with Avengers Arena 2-4; Winter Soldier 14 Cap 4, Hawkeye 8, Uncanny 1 and [...]
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May 9th, 2013 by
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We watch Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and mention Tabletop Day; talk DC’s poor judgement again, extensively. Jumping into books we look at JLA1, JL and the Throne of Atlantis, which triggers reminisce of Bloodlines and a mini retrospective of N52 JL; move to an improved issue of Amethyst; talk krona and the guardians [...]
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May 3rd, 2013 by
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Episodes #134 and #135 Episode #134 “Happy Go-Lucky Bucky” We’re watching Zombie Apocalypse: Redemption; and talk Winter Soldier 14, Indestructible Hulk 3, Hawkeye 7,All New X-Men 5+6, Iron Man 5, Superior Spider-Man 1+2, Avenging Spider-Man 16, Savage Wolverine 1; Thor 4; F4, FF, Young Avengers, UNcanny Avengers, Captain America 3, Avengers 3+4. We apologize [...]
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April 23rd, 2013 by
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In Episode #133 We start watching Karate Robot Zaborgar. Monster robot samurais with pig snouts sucking out life forces. Yeah. We mention Starcraft 2 which i havent gotten yet. Talk cancellations in books and movies; debate the effectiveness of Imperial Stormtroopers and Ninjas. We’ve boiled our DCs to Batman and 3 others; starting with [...]
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April 10th, 2013 by
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We argue about that 70′s show. We go into some bad DC history talking about THE GREEN TEAM; We get on to some Dark Horse, Image, etc starting with Saga, with Mama-Sun and the mocking Lying Cat; look at Revival 6, where the story breaks and puts pressure on the town; reminisce badly about [...]
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April 4th, 2013 by
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We start talking previous Avengers end times type stuff, where they recover Wasp and fight the Centaur guy despot fella thing, where Bendis brings back everything he took away, including, well. uh. Simon Williams. Anyway, we launch into the next End Times with the vengeance of Bother Voodoo’s lame brother. Then we go over [...]
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March 28th, 2013 by
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We seemed to have skipped a movie this time, and note Monica Rambeau’s new personality in Captain Marvel 7 and 8, which we found Whedonesque; we mildly mourn the Cap AND series, which is now gone, having us wishing for more team books. We resound a shattering WOW on Indestructible Hulk and Banner’s attitude. During [...]
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March 20th, 2013 by
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In 129 we start with a deadly version of Dance Dance Revolution; ramble for a bit and then jump into 3 issues of HAWKGUY; move to Winter Soldier 13 where bucky backfires a plan; walk through several issues of the new iron man by gillen; which we do, in fact, adore. Rev goes on and [...]
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March 7th, 2013 by
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This is it, all that remains of our interviews at Emerald City Comic Con! This one features Segment 1 Opening with Onrie Kompan and his Yi Soon Shin badass of history, and a very personal graphic story as well. ENDS AT 10:46 Segment 2 We speak to the inimitable Ron Randall, who schools us [...]
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March 6th, 2013 by
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Here it is! The first day’s interviews at Emerald City Comic Con! Segment 1 01 publishing with Josh Finney of Titanium Rain, Utopiates and Mike Colbert with Crazy Mary We talk their upcoming books, Kaiju history, Tommy Lee Jones, coffee, Japanese lyrics, CHOCO PARTY, and so much swearing the local sailors were embarrassed for [...]
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February 26th, 2013 by
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We start with some vampire talk, and debate whether ogres have crafty names. Then we talk about the scifi Outland riff Storm Dogs.this brings us to a long discussion of hard scifi and old authors and cliches. Move to SAGA and it’s non stop awesome. Moving to Revival we see some seriously complex stuff. We [...]
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February 26th, 2013 by
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As a gesture of Community Service, we present you with a dozen or so worthy podcasts for you to give a go to. Come check us out on Facebook, twitter @themeanergeek , leave us voicemail at 203 533 4910 and mail us at themeanergeek@gmail.com, and occasionally see what we have to say textually at [...]
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February 26th, 2013 by
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We invite our third wheel Official Photographer/Market Research Analyst to talk about all things Cons and especially the one in Seattle! It’s an hour of cautionary tales, high hopes, old disappointments, and so much more. Have a listen and see you there! Come check us out on Facebook, twitter @themeanergeek , leave us voicemail at [...]
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February 14th, 2013 by
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We admonish against Roachmill; we berate each other on our views on enthusiam vs excitement; otherwise brook no delay in jumping into this ep’s Marvels, starting with the insane complexity of Winter Soldier;Talk about multiple Venemma’s as Cap gets attacked by the Martians from Wells. We pull out a Wizards reference; more Cap as [...]
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February 14th, 2013 by
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What we DON’T want to talk about are Orms; pay twice for Tomb of Dracula; wonder at the terminology of comic runs; talk about the dearth of awesome geek events in non metropolitan areas; promote an idea for an event kickstarter idea thing. Note delineations between strata of nerd culture. Eventually we get to [...]
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February 6th, 2013 by
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We watch “FDR:AMERICAN BADASS” and are frightened. Note JJ Abrams has become the Ulti-Nerd with his acquisition of Star Wars; debate Lipnicki vs Loyd for young Anakin; look at tom cruises’ ouvre; reminisce at the Han solo Brian Daley books; finally get to some comics with GL 14, where we speculate mindless creatures are just [...]
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February 6th, 2013 by
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We can’t pronounce Chun-Li, and don’t want to see Doomsday. Talk about the old tabletop Starship Battles. There’s nothing interesting happening so we jump straight to books, with: The end of Iron Man volume..Pi or whatever it is; with where JARVIS is in love with Pepper; Living Laser seems mildly out of character. Since [...]
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January 24th, 2013 by
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In Episode #123 we: debate the root word etymology of “banter”; question the licencing of IDW and Dynamite books; wonder about multiple covers for digital; confuddle ourselves at my mothers’ tastes in comics; answer a twitter question on Epic Runs. We finally hop into the Zero Months for DC, which didn’t often feel originy. We [...]
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January 3rd, 2013 by
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We start with what writers we trust to take any chances with; and try to figure out Frank Miller’s current lunacy; spend 10 minutes figuring what artists we would follow; touch quickly on the Lucas Disney thing. We then get into books with the first trade of Fatale; we go on to Massive 4; where [...]
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January 3rd, 2013 by
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We look at HYPERNATURALS 1-2, which we compare to Justice Machine; love us some Walt Simonson on Avengers; find some good character on New Avengers;AvX 9 shows us some seriously convoluted plots. Thor 18 where he joins the volunteer fire department; watch the machinations of Loki with a random Stark-pad; All I needed from [...]
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