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

Nintendo, Community, and the Arrow

Even Ollie is shocked at the DC Comics News

It’s time once again to traverse some dungeons, maybe slay some dragons and if nothing else we will spend an hour or so just talking about nerdy news. We jump into this week with Tony finally finishing the game he’s been working on for two years, we can’t get Firefly back yet but the Community community has helped get Community back to all of us. Nintendo comes back on the radar as well, while they try and figure out what the hell they are still doing with themselves and Arrow comes to the forefront of comics and television by melding both worlds. Come and geek out with us as we talk about all the nerdy news your nostrils (and ears) need and don’t forget to send us your summer fun time pictures with your #nerdventure hashtag! (Music selection this week, brought to you by James)

Episode 97: Summary and time stamps

(0:19:20) In Comic Industry News – The Arrow team takes over the Green Arrow comics and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund goes myth busting! (SUPPORT THEM!)

(0:37:20) In Game Industry News – Nintendo talks about being a genre, EA is in love with the console wars, and women are banned and then promptly un-banned from a Korean gaming tournament.

(1:04:30) In Entertainment News –  Community is BACK!!! Starz gets Gaiman, Constantine gives up smoking and Predator will not be rebooted.

(1:38:20) Epilogue – It’s Summer, go do things!

 Dark Souls II – Hard and beautiful

Read about the things we love to talk about!

More about Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Arrow

Check out Dark Souls II here: http://www.darksoulsii.com/us/

Enchiladas are delicious, make one!: http://www.recipegirl.com/2011/05/02/easy-beef-enchiladas/

Adventurers…come out and plaaaaaaaaay! It’s time for Season 3 of The Surly Nerd!!!

After a little time away we’ve come back and in full frakking force. As we work to redesign the show top to bottom we invite you to come along with us as we pick up right where we left off last season, excited and angry at all the latest nerd news that has been announced, beamed into our brains directly from Cybertron.

The Surly Nerd Season 3:
It’s about to get obscene

Join us as we journey across the latest comic headlines, getting into the gritty details of the latest changes made in the Marvel and DC universes both in the world of comics and outside of it. Be wowed and amazed as we become an explosion of information about the world of game development from Riot Games to why the Oculus Rift is poised to take over the world…and how we are powerless to stop it.  Quake in fear as we go balls deep into entertainment news, from Predator reboots to dystopian worlds we are ready to see on the big screen. After all that hot mess is done we wrap up the first episode of season 3 with a discussion as to why women are so damn important to the creative side of nerd entertainment.

Episode 96: Summary and time stamps

(0:13:22) In Comic Industry News – DC Comics changes the way they pay their employees, Ultimate FF says goodbye and Hollywood helps the family of Jack Kirby go to the Supreme Court.

(0:30:00) In Game Industry News – Riot offers “cash to quit”, Crytek is poised to go under, Carbon Designs joins Oculus and why it matters to you and how EA Origin is offering their new titles to players.

(0:56:40) In Entertainment News – Predator gets a reboot, Ready Player One is getting redrafted and Kevin Feige has tons to say about the Marvel Movie Universe.

(1:13:00) Epilogue – The importance of the female presence in nerd entertainment.

 The man, the legend – Ernest Cline, Author of Ready Player One

Read about the things we love to talk about!

More about Ready Player One here: http://readyplayerone.com/

Check out EA’s Origin service here: https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/

Educate yourself on the greatest food in the world, the Taco: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taco

Greetings adventurers, it’s news time again and boy do we have a show for you. We are cooped up in the con hotel, pre-comicpalooza with J and having a little fun and a couple drinks. Come along with us as we bounce recklessly from topic to topic and geek out over all the things you love!

(00:22:00) This week in Comic Industry News – We find out what titles DC is getting rid of and what new titles they are launching, we discuss the new Superman and why She-Hulk is so important.
(00:46:00) In Video Game Industry News – Microsoft talks ALL about Halo and gets rid of the Kinect, Oculus gets some of the Google Glass and 343 devs on their side, Microsoft releases gold requirements for Netflix and HBO Go, and we give our E3 predictions.
(1:16:00) In Entertainment News – HIMYD is dead and buried next to Supernatural Bloodlines, Marvel announces Namor and we get balls deep into the future of super hero movies, television shows and more.

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.