Batman, Turtles and Nerds, OH MY! All this and more on this weeks…THE SURLY NERD!

Excited for Batman v Turtles? We are!

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where we talk all about Batman teaming up with the Ninja Turtles, the new IDW comics GHOSTBUSTERS series, who Spider-Gwen is teaming up with next and more on the Dark Knight prequel. We close out level one with some Civil War 2 rumors and a big ‘ol discussion about how NYCC felt like an actual comic convention this year.

In game industry news, we hear even more about the game voice actors getting ready to strike, Microsoft buying the HAVOK engine and what that means, and we chat about the status of CYBERPUNK 2077. The curtains fall on level two with a discussion how Destiny is really an MMO with new microtransaction offerings.

Over in the world of entertainment, Seth Rogan is looking at “The Boys”. From there we dive into the Killing Joke possibly being rated R, Fear Street becoming a movie, and Battle Angel Alita finally getting some traction. Entertainment news comes to an end this week as we get into…Entertainment News and why social media is bad for it.

Our epilogue this week is all about our continuing thoughts on the fall TV lineup. 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 148: Batman vs. Ninja Turtles vs. The Surly Nerd

In Comic Industry News – Batman vs Turtles, Secret Wars II, Ghostbusters, Spider-Gwen, Dark Knight returns, NYCC

In Game Industry News – Voice Acting Strike, Havok engine, Cyberpunk 2077, faking your MMO

In Entertainment News –  The Boys, Killing Joke, Fear Street, Battle Angel Alita, Fantastic Four

Epilogue – Fall TV Line-up

 James is way too excited for Cyberpunk 2077

Read about the things we love to talk about!

All about Cyberpunk 2077: http://cyberpunk.net/

Learn about Mark Millar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Millar

Horror Cakes!: http://www.dreadcentral.com/top-10-lists/51237/25-spectacular-movie-cakes-for-horror-fans/

Welcome to the new year Adventurers!

This week in Comic Industry News: Greg Martin has passed, Hulk is getting relaunched, Marvel is taking back Star Wars and Frank Miller does it bigger than ever.

In Game Industry News: Microsoft says nice job to Sony, Gabe Newell goes into what makes Valve awesome, Child’s Play makes that money, PAX separates from Penny Arcade,  and Army of Two explains why they suck.

In Entertainment News: James Avery has passed away, Netflix gives us director commentary, Marvel gives us more TV announcements, The Rock may don a new green ring and Boba Fett is in line for a new movie.

This week in Comic Industry News: Clark comes out to the world, Sandman gets delayed, we finally have a black Robin and James’ waxes philosophical about EC Comics.

In Game Industry News:  Mega Man X comes back…in a way, Blizzard talks Warcraft remakes, Eidos makes more changes to Thief, Sony talks MP3 playback for the PS4 and the Humble Bundle gets a store.

In Entertainment News: Blockbuster has its final rental, CBS green lights a HIMYM spin-off, Walking Dead gets a prequel, Hugh Jackman talks about being Wolverine, Twilight comes to Jessica Jones, Drew Goddard comes to Daredevil and Seth Rogan gets his hands on a Preacher.

A very special thank you to our guest, Dan Price, for coming out to Rapture again and talking shop with us. You can find his work over at http://houndcomics.com/webcomic_masters_of_the_obvious.php and https://www.facebook.com/latexavenger

This week in Comic Industry News: Gotham City becomes reality for one kid, Fables starts closing down the shop, DC bails out of NY and Mark Waid gives us the scoop on Daredevil.

In Game Industry News: Nintendo says NO to showing kids penises, the Wii U is bombing but new Wii U bundles are coming, the Ouya is ready for 2.0 but first a new controller and the CEO of the Ouya still thinks this is the console of the future while Sony admits to all the things that it CAN’T do at launch.

In Entertainment News: ALL the remakes starting with Sleepaway Camp, then the Addams Family, TWO Hellraiser remakes, a Pet Semeatary remake and then George Romero talks about why The Walking Dead is bad.

Our special guest star is JD “S3 Prototype” from the Ninjaverse. Check them out here: http://theninjaverse.wordpress.com/