With 2018 before us, we are breaking in the new year happy and hopeful for the pop culture to come!

Hello 2018

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! This is a very special “one off” bonus episode, all about what’s got us HYPED for being nerds in 2018.

Join us for our our first episode of the year and GET HYPED!

Brian Michael Bendis is leaving Marvel, but what does that mean for DC?

What will happen to Marvel, with Bendis gone?

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where Jean Grey is helping launch an all-new X-men title. We also have Mera getting her own mini-series and tell you about the upcoming female cartoonist exhibit in the U.S Library of Congress.

Heading into level two, Microsoft tells us about the future of game streaming. Rounding out our gaming section, we have two pieces of news from EA, and what they have done to break the internet over the last week.

Over in the world of entertainment, James gets excited and then disappointed by the announcement of a Morbius (the living vampire) movie. Amazon has gone all in on a new Lord of the Rings series and Hitman is coming to Hulu by the creator of John Wick.

Our epilogue is week is all about Brian Michael Bendis leaving Marvel and heading over to DC comics (with a lesson on who Bendis is, for those who don’t know him by name).

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!

We just want Nintendo to be good again

Greetings adventurers and welcome to an all new episode of THE SURLY NERD!

You may notice today’s episode information and links are different than our normal episode setup, and that’s because due to life problems, James had to be away from the show for a bit. With that in mind, we bring you a special Sunday Night Raw, one take no stopping for breaks stream of consciousness that we hope you love!

We will be back to our previously scheduled show this week.

As always, we thank and appreciate all our adventurers out there for loving our show and putting up with us week to week.

15:00 – In Comic Industry News: Flash Gordon is BACK!, Stan Lee pisses the internet off again and Mark Miller creates his own universe.

33:00 – In Game Industry News: Square Enix embraces the indys, Microsoft says VR is the future, Nintendo’s president is in a very difficult place and Amazon TV has launched.

1:06:00 – In Entertainment News: More on the Scream TV series, Gremlins is on the way and so are the Goonies, more on the Sinister Six and we return to Tucker and Dales cabin.

This week in Comic Industry News: One of the greats, Nick Cardy has passed away, Marvel tells us all about the new X-Force, a new Ms. Marvel comic is about to be launched, and Vertigo launches The Royals: Masters of War.

In Game Industry News: Nintendo tells us how well the are doing in Japan and how they see their future, Final Fantasy 14 makes Square a lot of money, Microsoft gives indy developers Unity, and Killer Instinct says no to Arcade mode for a while.

In Entertainment News: Blockbuster is ready to go under, Daredevil gets a new show on Netflix alongside Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones and Iron Fist with a potential Defenders movie to follow, Fox wants more Wolverine, Nightwing and Wonder Woman decide to drop into the Batman vs Superman movie, the creator of Veronica Mars takes on iZombie and Guillermo Del Toro take on everything.

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