Time to get hyped for 2019!

Happy New Year!

Greetings adventurers! This week we get into all the great things coming to us geeks in 2019! Join us for a very special episode of The Surly Nerd!

Why do we love remaking classic horror monsters?

Why do we re-imagine classic horror monsters?

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where DC is exploring their universe from a different perspective and they finally open up about the Batman controversy. Level one wraps up with a talk about a Marvel writer that was recently fired and what the fallout from that has been.

Heading into level two, the creation of Red Dead Redemption 2 is causing some huge issues in the video game industry. Sony is finally breaking their silence about the next Playstation and we’re hearing rumors about a Nintendo Switch 2.0.

Over in the world of entertainment, Jordan Peele is working on an adaptation of the horror book “Lovecraft Country”. NBC is developing a series based in the world of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and the BBC and Netflix are looking to create an all-new Dracula story.

Our epilogue this week is about remaking classic horror movie monsters.

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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Detroit: Become Human’s demo has people asking; Has David Cage gone too far?

Detroit: Become Human is not afraid to ask the big questions

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where New Mutants is getting a new series, just in time for their upcoming film. We also discuss why we are upset at CYBORG being cancelled and James gives you a new holiday themed title to pick up this week.

Heading into level two, EA takes center stage again to tell the gaming community what they do and do not want in their video game experience. Level two comes to a close with Square Enix taking center stage with more Final Fantasy XV releases coming up and they finally break their silence about why they parted way with Hitman developer IO interactive.

Over in the world of entertainment, everyone gets hyped for the latest Chilling Adventures of Sabrina announcements. Also in entertainment we find out who’s going to be working on the Masters of the Universe movie and when it is set to release. Level three closes out with Guillermo del Toro giving us his thoughts on why monster movie reboots don’t work.

Our epilogue is week is about the controversy surrounding David Cage’s newest title, Detroit: Become Human.

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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Can censorship be used for comedy gold? We explore this and the week in news, on an all new episode!

How did this get past the censors?!

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we kick things off in comic news where we find out what bad ass free book is coming to people who attend SDCC. We also have some great Humble Bundle news, and wrap everything in level one up with a talk about why Wizard World is failing globally.

Over in the world of entertainment, we celebrate Adam West, and have fun talking about why the Babadook is suddenly so popular. We also have a cassette release around the corner for Stranger Things, what’s scaring children on the set of IT and finally get answers as to how much of the Justice League will be changed now that Joss Whedon is in charge of it.

Our epilogue is week is all about how censorship can be used to great effect in comedy. 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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It’s the first day of summer camp…on all new SURLY NERD!

The Day the Clown Cried might finally
get a release after all these years

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After gaming and comic filled prelude we jump into comics, where the lighter side of Secret Wars is starting to emerge amid all the seriousness of the last few months. We also cover the re-release of the 90’s Black Panther comics, discuss DC saying “NO” to re-re-reboots and our main topic for comics is all about Deadpool, and his relevance in the modern comics age.

In game industry news, Capcom does exactly what we thought they would by setting up the re-release of Resident Evil 2. PSN is getting another major update that is worth breaking down, the portable Steam machine gets more details, the heads of Final Fantasy talk what they think the series needs to succeed but does Tony agree and we wrap up level 2 with a talk about Nintendo, post Iwata’s passing.

Over in the world of entertainment, Arrow has resurrected Constantine and we get sassy because of the new Ghostbusters changes. We follow that rant up with one about the future of the Fantastic Four and change gears to talk about the release of “The Devil in the White City” and the possible release of The Day the Clown Cried. We close out act 3 with a debate on the Hollywood awards system and if it is truly broken.

Our epilogue this week is all about Secret Wars and our opinions on it so far. 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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Episode 143: The Nerds Go To Camp

In Comic Industry News – Secret Wars, Black Panther, DC Reboots, Deadpool

In Game Industry News – RE2, PSN, portable STEAM, Final Fantasy 15, Nintendo

In Entertainment News –  Arrow, Ghostbusters, Fantastic Four, Devil in the White City, The Day the Clown Cried, Awards

Epilogue – Secret Wars

 Are we RE-ady for a Resident Evil 2 RE-make?

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All about The Day the Clown Cried: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Clown_Cried

Learn about PSN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Network

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