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!

Can Final Fantasy be great again? Can ARCHIE get any more exciting? WILL DEADPOOL MAKE AN APPEARANCE THIS EPISODE?! We answer this and more on an all new episode of…The Surly Nerd!

Archie comics continues to kick ass

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where we talk all about what’s new in the world of ARCHIE, and get into the REBIRTH of Cyborg in DC Comics. Things get lighter when DEADPOOL talks REBIRTH and Tony gets down on some RAT QUEENS to wrap up the level.

In game industry news, we jump into a discussion the hardcover ATARI art book and take a look at the new direction for GEARS OF WAR. We also talk about the industry’s thoughts on a console upgrade this generation and figure out if FINAL FANTASY has the legs to survive another poor game launch.

Over in the world of entertainment, we jump into the news about who is helming the DEFENDERS series, and celebrate THE KILLING JOKE’s updated rating. Also there’s talk of DISNEY shared universes and why MARVEL TV shows and movies don’t cross over more. We close out level 3 talking about character motivations – something that Tony loves to not shut-up about.

Our epilogue this week is all about what draws us to certain comic titles. 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 158: Why is the rice on fire?

In Comic Industry News – ARCHIE, CYBORG, DEADPOOL, RAT QUEENS

In Game Industry News – ATARI ART, GEARS OF WAR, CONSOLE UPGRADES, FINAL FANTASY

In Entertainment News – DEFENDERS, THE KILLING JOKE, DISNEY, MARVEL TV/MOVIES, CHARACTER MOTIVATION
Epilogue – The Draw of Comics

The Defenders is right around the corner!

Read about the things we love to talk about!

All about The Justice League!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League

Learn about Sandman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman_%28Vertigo%29

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

Time to get all up into comics and movies and…Nintendo?!

Not even Link can save the Wii U

Greetings adventurers, it’s an all new episode of The Surly Nerd and what a crazy ass episode we have lined up for you this week. After a lengthy prelude, we jump into comic book news where we get down and deep into the Marvel lawsuit with the Kirby estate and to try and lighten the mood a little bit we talk about what Chuck Palahniuk has in store for Fight Club 2, brought to you by Dark Horse comics.

We roll on over to video game news where we spend the whole time talking about Nintendo. So much information has come out this week about the state of Nintendo as a whole, and it’s not looking good. We touch on what they can do to salvage themselves or if they even can at all. Over on the entertainment side of things, we hear more about what Sony has in store for the Spider-man franchise, what Marvel has in store for Guardians of the Galaxy when it comes to animation, and GHOSTBUSTERS?! We close it all down with a discussion about how important horror and sci-fi is to history, because we are a bunch of giant nerds. Get comfy with us as we get into super sexy six pack we call episode 102 of The Surly Nerd.

Episode 102 Comics and Movies and Stuff: Summary and Time Stamps

In Comic Industry News – The Jack Kirby estate v Marvel and Fight Club 2.

In Game Industry News – Nintendo, Nintendo, Nintendo and NINTENDO!

In Entertainment News –  Spider-man, Carnage, Venom, Guardians and GHOSTBUSTERS!

Epilogue – Horror and Sci-fi in relation to modern history 101.

 All Guardians ALL the time!!!

Read about the things we love to talk about!

More about The modern Guardians of the Galaxy here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardians_of_the_Galaxy_(2008_team)

Who is Rocket Raccoon? ?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Raccoon

Things to try, a taco bake!: http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/taco-bake-63779.aspx

More women in comics, the girl scouts go gaming and how fantastic can the Fantastic Four movie be?

Not Pictured: Female Thor

Greetings adventurers, it’s an all new episode of The Surly Nerd. We kick off the week with our prelude where we open with all the video games we have been playing and all the movies we have been watching that came out five years ago. We head into level one, comic industry news by talking about the changes in the Marvel U and DC U where women take center stage. Thor becomes female and Batgirl gets new writers and a new (read: practical) costume. It’s a fanboys (or fangirls!) dream!

From those diatribes we move directly into gaming news where the girl scouts open their doors to game development, Tekken decides to side with Unreal and Sony wants to get in Wii owners pants. We top the week off with more fantastic movie news, get down and dirty with what is new in the world of Halloween Horror Nights. It’s another fantastic week for nerdy news so 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 99: Summary and Time Stamps

(0:17:20) In Comic Industry News – Thor becomes a woman and Batgirl gets new duds.

(0:30:00) In Game Industry News – The Girl Scouts dive into game development, Tekken 7 is announced at EVO powered by the Unreal Engine and Sony believes they can win over Wii users.

(0:49:35) In Entertainment News –  Locke & Key gets new writers, we get new news about 12 Monkeys, we hear what the new Fantastic Four movie is based on and From Dusk Til Dawn takes over Halloween Horror Nights.

(1:10:00) Epilogue – We get down with some monkeys.

 Pictured: The All-New Batgirl!

Read about the things we love to talk about!

More about Your favorite Marvel heroes here: http://marvel.com/characters

Who are your favorite DC Comics heroes ?: http://www.dccomics.com/characters

Make a taco salad!: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/taco-salad-i/

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