Episode 216 : The Art Of The Steal

“I steal from every single movie ever made. If people don’t like that, then tough tills, don’t go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don’t do homages.” -Quentin Tarantino

When is it stealing art, and when is it an homage?
Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we kick things off in comics, where IDW is bring both Star Wars and a new young reader line out that has us excited. Also in comics we have all things Harley Quinn as she’s about to turn 25 and we break down what the hell is still going wrong with Wizard World.
Heading into level two, Blizzard continues killing it with what their plans are for Starcraft Remastered and we tell you what the gaming division of Marvel is planning to do to make their games like the MCU going forward.
Over in the world of entertainment, we finally have more information about the remake of American Werewolf in London and we continue our discussion about practical effects as we tell you what’s new with the brand new Hellboy movie. Entertainment wraps up with a talk about what’s new with the Batman film franchise and how it could very well be a game changer for the DCEU.
Our epilogue is week is all about how pop culture influences all modern works, and why that’s ok.
As always, we appreciate all our adventurers who listen to the show every week and we look forward to your feedback on what we discuss! (info@thesurlynerd.com!)
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