With all the awful news in the world, we take this week to tell you why we love pop culture.

It’s time for an episode about love

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where Archie is getting back into the super-hero game. We also have an awesome Archie Elseworlds announcement as well as our thoughts on the news that B.P.R.D is coming to an end.

Heading into level two, we get into the changes that Xbox Achievements are going to be going under. We also break down what’s new with the Overwatch leagues and wrap things up with GOG’s new sale.

Over in the world of entertainment, The Munsters are ready to make a comeback. Neuromancer was announced and we’re way too excited for it, but not as excited as we are for the Good Omens announcement.

Our epilogue is week is all about why we love the pop culture that we do.

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!)

Grab a drink and settle on in for this weeks action packed episode of…The Surly Nerd!

If it’s X-Com, Moon Knight and Oscars you want – strap yourself in for an intense all new episode of…The Surly Nerd!

We’re nervous for the Moon Knight reboot

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where we talk all about the a new art program online for aspiring comic artist and also get into Marvel Comics partnering with the Wounded Warrior project. From there we have some updates as to Moon Knights future and we close out level one with a talk about the future of DC Comics in a world of universe resets.

In game industry news, EA is bowing out of E3 proper and we try and dive into why that is. We also talk about X-Com and X-Com The Long War and what those things mean to the upcoming X-Com 2. From there we jump into the delays of Mighty No. 9 and close the curtains on level two with a discussion about the future of older game developers in a young mans game.

Over in the world of entertainment, we get into the Sundance Film Festival – both what it is and what Amazon and Netflix were doing there this year. We also get into an upcoming movie called “Dark Knight” and if it’s alright to have a film about movie theater shootings at this point in time. The tail end of our entertainment news is about Deadpool expectations and what Marvel Studios is doing to keep their superhero movies alive. Entertainment news comes to an end this week with a heated discussion about the Oscars and the controversy behind them.

Our epilogue is absent this week as we need to get on the road to PAX South. 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!)

Grab a drink and settle on in for this weeks action packed episode of…The Surly Nerd

Episode 152: X-Com, Moon Knight and Oscars

In Comic Industry News – Art, Wounded Warrior, Moon Knight, The Future of DC Comics

In Game Industry News – EA and E3, X-Com 2, Mighty No. 9, Game Development

In Entertainment News –  Sundance, Dark Night, Deadpool, Marvel Studios, Oscars

Epilogue – Missing!

 James can’t wait for X-Com 2

Read about the things we love to talk about!

All about Moon Knight!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Knight

Learn about the Sundance Film Festival: http://www.sundance.org/festivals/sundance-film-festival

GameCakes!: http://www.popsugar.com/tech/Cupcakes-Made-Video-Game-Logos-6900190

Comic-con, Comic-con, San Diego Comic-Con tiiiiiime!

How excited we are for the Deadpool trailer

Greetings adventurers, it’s an all new episode of The Surly Nerd! Join us as we wade through the plethora of news coming out of San Diego Comic-con. So much happened in the last week in the world of nerdy news but does ANY of it have to do with comic books? We kick our show off with that thought as we go into the winners of the Eisner Awards and from there move into what’s new for Superman in his comics as well as Marvels plans for their newest acquisition – Angela.

We slide from those comic topics over to the world of video games. John Romero tells us what he thinks about the PC vs Console war, we get deep into what makes HALO a true franchise and we bitch more and more about Ubisofts sexism. We try to talk about happier things in Entertainment News with Evil Dead television series but just end up angrier from where we started. Avengers theories, Batman V Superman rants and a discussion about the Deadpool “leaked” trailer close out our show. Get comfy with us as we get into super geeky comic discussions on episode 101 of The Surly Nerd.

Episode 101 Go **** Yourself San Diego: Summary and Time Stamps

(0:07:05) In Comic Industry News – The Will Eisner Awards, Superman’s new direction and what’s in store for Angela.

(0:30:30) In Game Industry News – Is the PC market stronger than the console one? Halo talks franchise and Ubisoft gets sexist.

(0:56:10) In Entertainment News –  Evil Dead TV, Avengers rumors and the future of Batman V Superman

(1:31:20) Epilogue – Deadpool theories.

 Really…just Deadpool

Read about the things we love to talk about!

More about Deadpool here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadpool

Who is Dogpool ?: http://marvel.com/universe/Dogpool_(Earth-103173)

Deadpools favorite food, Chimichangas!: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/almost-famous-chimichangas-recipe.html

Catwoman, Disney and, Fucking Michael Bay

The new amazing look of Selina Kyle – Catwoman

It’s an all new episode of The Surly Nerd, ready to get all geeky up in your ear holes. We jump into this week with the prelude (as always). Inside the prelude we talk about what you missed at RTX and wonder why everyone has (finally) joined us on the hating Michael Bay bad-wagon. Witness Tony have a Michael Bay crisis of faith. Things get even crazier as we discuss the possibility of an African-American Captain America. Catwoman finally gets a good female writer taking control of her comics which makes us happy. We are finally happy seeing DC moving in the right direction for many of their non-movie projects! (Now if only Disney could make some intelligent decisions with their IPs)

Eventually our multitude of rants take us to the end where we spend a long time talking about the state of the movie industry any why butts are not firmly planted in theater seats. Is Michael Bay is the only thing driving people to the movies these days? Are we resigning ourselves to a million more shitty Transformer movies? All that, with Nintendo, Final Fantasy, Disney and MORE to come! Get ready to strap yourself in for the week-in-review madness that is our show and don’t forget to send us your summer fun time pictures with your #nerdventure hashtag!

Episode 98: Summary and Time Stamps

(0:12:30) In Comic Industry News – Barnes and Noble has a celebration of pop culture, Catwoman gets a new (female) writer and Harley Quinn goes to Comic-Con.

(0:23:00) In Game Industry News – Gamestop wants to touch game developers, Miyamoto is worried that mobile games will take over Nintendo and the creator of Final Fantasy goes mobile with his newest game.

(0:41:15) In Entertainment News –  Disney wants a live-action Dumbo movie because everyone wants what Disney wants apparently, rumors abound that Falcon will don the mantle of Captain America and AMC theaters are trying to come up with a way to get more people to come to their locations in the midst of another year of domestic box office drops and Michael Bay explosions. And Michael Bay being as shitty as only Michael Bay can.

(1:11:25) Epilogue – Listen to James’ heart break on-air.

 Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of all your Nintendo-filled dreams

Read about the things we love to talk about!

More about HALO at RTX here: https://blogs.halowaypoint.com/en-us/blogs/headlines/posts/halo-at-rtx-2014

Who IS Shigeru Miyamoto ?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Miyamoto

Taco pie is way too delicious!: http://mexican.food.com/recipe/impossible-taco-pie-3357

This week in Comic Industry News

(0:13:35) Usagi Yojimbo gets an omnibus, Miss Marvel and Harley get into fourth printings and we talk Spider-man’s evolution.

In Game Industry News

(0:46:25) Nintendo talks new hardware and losses, Wolfenstein wants you to play with yourself, Capcom and Square are coming out on top and Marvel talks their approach to gaming.

We Talk Evolution

(1:16:00) Community’s community, James Franco takes on Wiseau, Guardians of the Galaxy goes franchise alongside Star Wars, Lou Ferringo leaks Hulk and Matt Smith breaks into the Terminator business.