How has Science Fiction influenced our technology and culture?

What has science fiction given us, IRL?

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where Brian Michael Bendis tells us what it was like to split off from Marvel finally. Deadpool rocks our world with an all-new choose your own adventure book and Betty and Veronica come back to Archie comics to kick it old school in the post-reboot Archie world.

Heading into level two, Overwatch is giving a special present this weekend to anyone who has not played it before. Monster Hunter takes the world by storm and Sony details upcoming plans for their UI updates. Level two winds down with another conversation about micro transactions and what they mean to Blizzard/Activision currently.

Over in the world of entertainment, David S. Goyer has left the Masters of the Universe project. Our panel talks all things Five Nights at Freddy’s and there’s a 28 Months later announcement that has broken our hearts.

Our epilogue is week is all about how Science Fiction has influenced technology.

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!

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!

Disney might buy parts of Fox, but what does that mean for the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

What does this potential purchase mean for the MCU?

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where New York is about to honor Bill Finger. We also have IMAGE pulling together an anthology to support the survivors of the Las Vegas shooting and James gets super excited about an all-new Bloodborne comic.

Heading into level two, we give the deets on what Super Mario Odyssey sold and cover all the big news that came out of Blizzcon. There’s also a (strangely) cool announcement from GameStop and microtransactions take center stage again as we talk about Monster Hunter World.

Over in the world of entertainment, we debate if we want/need a prequel movie to “Night of the Living Dead”. Fans finally get the Friday the 13th/Evil Dead crossover they have always wanted and arguments have to be made for and against wanting a new Twilight Zone reboot.

Our epilogue is week is all about the possible acquisition of Fox properties by Disney.

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!