The Fellowship of the Geeks Podcast

#PodernFamily - happy first anniversary!

Special shoutout to The Whatnauts podcast - check it out, it's an awesome show!

You, dear listeners!

Question of the Week: what are your favorite holiday memories? Let us know on social media!

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Episode 42 - That's What Bruce Willis Does, By God - Week of 12/21/16 0

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Dec 18, 2016

The Fellowship, along with our pal Eddie Medina from the Rantcor Pit podcast, is pleased to present some of our favorite holiday stories. Some of these are comics, but we've got some movies and cartoons and even a little light music in there, and we hope you enjoy them. And as always, our picks of the week.

What we're up to this week:

Rogue One (big shock)

For the Love of Spock is on Netflix, and it's awesome

It's a Wonderful Life & Silent Night, Deadly Night on the big screen again

Die Hard tangent from Hell :-)

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The holiday stories on our lists include:

It's a Wonderful Die Hard (yes, Les thinks he's funny)

DC Comics Holiday Specials (back in the day)

GI Joe cartoon episode "Cobra Claws is Coming to Town"

Batman #219 "The Silent Night of the Batman"

Sleigher: The Heavy Metal Santa Claus

Will Eisner's The Christmas Spirit (holiday stories featuring The Spirit)

The Stingiest Man in Town (Rankin & Bass cartoon)

DC's Christmas with the Superheroes #2 "Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot"

Scrooged (the Bill Murray movie)

Walt Kelly's Pogo and his crazy Christmas songs

Teen Titans #13 "The TT's Swinging Christmas Carol"

Batman Adventures Holiday Special

Bob Rivers Twisted Christmas albums (parodies of Christmas songs and other madness)

Picks for the week of 12/21:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Comic Art Poster Book

Ether #2

Artful #1

Hugo Broyler volume 1

GI Joe IDW Collection volume 7

Red Team: Double Tap, Center Mass #6

Avengers #2.1

Klaus and the Witch of Winter one-shot

Honorable Mention: Vertigo's The Lost Boys

Eddie's info

EdMedArt - Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

The Rantcor Pit (Star Wars podcast) - live at watchonairlive.com

Audio podcast at JediCole.com (available on Podbean)

Video archived on YouTube - search for The Rantcor Pit

Figments: The Unexplained Mysteries podcast

Movie reviews for HollywoodMatrimony.com & CineLinks.com

Shoutouts:

#PodernFamily - happy first anniversary!

Special shoutout to the Accidentally the Whole Tip Podcast - check it out, it's an awesome show!

You, dear listeners!

Question of the Week: do you think Die Hard is a Christmas movie? Let us know on social media!

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Email us at email@thefellowshipofthegeeks.net

Episode 41 - We've Already Hamstrung You - Week of 12/14/16 0

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Dec 11, 2016

The Fellowship is pleased to present another round of crowdfunding suggestions. We love supporting indie comics projects, and Kickstarter has a ton of cool and exciting new comics (and sometimes old comics) running all the time. And as always, our picks of the week.

What we're up to this week:

The Bojeffries Saga trade (on Les' suggestion)

The DNAgents series

DC CW invasion crossover (and a bit of a tangent)

Check out our sponsor page! Head to the website and click on the banners for Things From Another World and Make Mine Indie! (Click through the TFAW banner on our site and we get a cut. And check out tons of great indie comics in the MMIndie catalog. And thank you!)

Kickstarter campaigns we recommend:

[Super]Natural Attraction - Kel McDonald

Harriet Tubman: Demon Slayer - David Crownson

BoogeyMan #1 Reborn - Giancarlo Caracuzzo

Braun: The Oversized Graphic Novel - Shane White

Illuminati Transport - The Fillbach Brothers

The San Diego Conquest - Mario Candelaria

Wretches #1 & #2 - James E. Roche

FORCE - A Football Comic Series - Shawn Pryor

[Note: the Wretches campaign ended before our release date. Sorry - I'll try to watch dates more closely next time. The campaign was successful, though.]

Picks for the week of 12/14:

Shadows on the Grave #1

DC Rebirth Holiday Special #1

Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #2

Postal volume 4 trade

Trump: The Complete Collection: Essential Kurtzman volume 2

Gold Key Alliance trade

Honorable Mention: Reborn #3

Shoutouts:

#PodernFamily - happy first anniversary!

Special shoutout to the Afterburn 739 Podcast - check it out, it's an awesome show!

You, dear listeners!

Question of the Week: prep for next week - what are your favorite holiday stories in comics? Let us know on social media!

To find us, go to:

Email us at email@thefellowshipofthegeeks.net

Episode 40 - You Can't Count Something They've Killed - Week of 12/7/16 0

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Dec 4, 2016

The Fellowship is pleased to present our ideas on who we would place in Marvel's "Trinity." Social media feedback (thanks to all who responded) were swayed by the movies, and we tried to steer it back to the comics (as we often do). Oh, and Star Wars tangent, anyone? And as always, our picks of the week.

What we're up to this week:

Blu-ray extras for the third Hobbit movie (not necessarily the movie, though)

The Black Monday Murders first arc - genius in every way

Spookhouse (Eric Powell) and Motor Girl (Terry Moore)

The revamping of our website and a new logo - coming in January :-)

Teen Titans omnibus

Check out our sponsor page! Head to the website and click on the banners for Things From Another World and Make Mine Indie! (Click through the TFAW banner on our site and we get a cut. And check out tons of great indie comics in the MMIndie catalog. And thank you!)

Marvel's Trinity: Link to Tom's editorial from back in 2011

And of course, leave it to us to find a way to list more than three options each for a "trinity"…

[Also, a brief apology for sound quality; the new microphone I got crapped out spectacularly last week (hence the missing show). I had to go back to the old one this week, so I sound like I'm 10 feet back from it. Another new one will be here in time for next week's recording. Thanks for your patience.]

Picks for the week of 12/7:

Norman: The First Slash #1

The Circle #1

Atomic Robo and the Temple of Od #5

Wonder Woman '77 Meets The Bionic Woman #1

Three Stooges: Merry Stoogemas

The Wicked + The Divine #24

Honorable Mention: I Hate Fairyland volume 2 trade

Honorable Mention: Tales From The Acker-Mansion anthology

Honorable Mention: The Complete Frank Miller Robocop volume 1

Shoutouts:

#PodernFamily - happy first anniversary!

Special shoutout to The Story Behind Podcast - check it out, it's an awesome show!

You, dear listeners!

Question of the Week: who would you list as the "villain trinity" for DC and Marvel? Let us know on social media!

To find us, go to:

Email us at email@thefellowshipofthegeeks.net

Episode oops - Technical Difficulties - Week of 11/30/16 0

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Nov 27, 2016

The Fellowship regrets to tell you that we will not be able to release an episode this week. We had a tech problem which resulted in the total loss of the recording, and with the holiday this week we were unable to schedule a backup recording session. But please do not despair! We will return next week with another exciting episode, and if you need a fix please feel free to check out one of our previous shows (like the Terry Moore interview - we're rather proud of that one). And I did manage to salvage our picks of the week for your entertainment, listed below.

Check out our sponsor page! Head to the website and click on the banners for Things From Another World and Make Mine Indie! (Click through the TFAW banner on our site and we get a cut. And check out tons of great indie comics in the MMIndie catalog. And thank you!)

Picks for the week of 11/30:

Romulus #2

No Angel #1

Spookhouse #2

Conan the Slayer #5

Sensational She-Hulk by John Byrne collection

Tesla and Hyde: Scary Fails #1

Honorable Mention: Robin volume 3 collection

Honorable Mention: new Kolchak collections

Shoutouts:

#PodernFamily - happy first anniversary!

You, dear listeners!

To find us, go to:

Email us at email@thefellowshipofthegeeks.net

Episode 39 - They Have to Find Their George Lazenby - Week of 11/23/16 0

Nov 20, 2016

The Fellowship is pleased to present a discussion of comics properties that were killed by their forays into other media (movies & TV). We sidetrack a little (okay, a lot) on the new Dirk Gently series, the new Bone movie, and nearly everything else. And as always, our picks of the week.

What we're up to this week:

Big stack of trades to read (woohoo!)

Catching up on TV shows - Scream Queens, Dirk Gently, The New Howdy Doody Show (which is pretty annoying)

More teasing of secret projects

Teen Titans Omnibus (including primo teen lingo from the 50s & 60s)

[Note- the character in the new Dirk Gently show is Todd; the one in the book is Richard]

Check out our sponsor page! Head to the website and click on the banners for Things From Another World and Make Mine Indie! (Click through the TFAW banner on our site and we get a cut. And check out tons of great indie comics in the MMIndie catalog. And thank you!)

Comic titles we listed that were killed by other media (or something like that):

Howard the Duck

Fantastic Four

Classic Battlestar Galactica (kind of in reverse)

X-Men (from two different angles)

The Punisher

Jonah Hex

Doctor Strange (looking into the future a bit, I admit)

Speed Racer & Thunderbirds

[Note- we really didn't plan to pick on Marvel so hard with this. It just kind of worked out that way. Sorry, Marvel; we still love you, and if you want to come on the show for a rebuttal, you're always welcome :-) ]

[Note- Jeff Smith's Bone won an absolute embarrassment of Harvey and Eisner awards during its run, and was a consistent New York Times bestseller.]

Picks for the week of 11/23:

Athena Voltaire and the Volcano Goddess #1

The Black Monday Murders #4

Peepland #2

Super Powers #1

Hot Damn trade

The Great Divide #3

Happy (American) Thanksgiving, everyone :-)

And be careful if you choose to participate in the madness that is Black Friday

Shoutouts:

#PodernFamily - happy first anniversary!

Special shoutout to the Drift and Ramble Podcast - check it out, it's an awesome show!

You, dear listeners!

Question of the Week: what did you think of the Jonah Hex movie? Let us know on social media!

To find us, go to:

Email us at email@thefellowshipofthegeeks.net

Episode 38 - A "Happy Restraining Order" Party - Week of 11/16/16 0

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Nov 13, 2016

The Fellowship is pleased to present our chat about Atlas/Seaboard Comics, which tried to publish comics for about a year and a half in the mid '70s. They did some interesting things with some well-known creators, but just didn't get the sales to keep it going. And as always, our picks of the week.

What we're up to this week:

Shiny new Blu-ray copy of Red Dwarf XI

Brazos County STX Comic Con 2016 (in Bryan, TX) & meeting Howard Chaykin

Also pining for Netflix (despite it being available for sale)

Also shoutout to local artist Thomas Branch

Catching up on comics

Also working on Secret Fellowship Projects - more to come in the future…

Season 3 of Young Justice [Note: what I looked up post recording showed Warner Bros Animation but didn't specify an outlet yet]

Check out our sponsor page! Head to the website and click on the banners for Things From Another World and Make Mine Indie! (Click through the TFAW banner on our site and we get a cut. And check out tons of great indie comics in the MMIndie catalog. And thank you!)

Show topic this week suggested by Eddie Medina (check him out on episode 17 of this humble podcast - or on his show, the Rantcor Pit podcast)

[Note: The Omega Man was released in 1971.]

And the link to the Atlas Archives website

And seriously, if anyone at Dynamite is listening, we'd love to have you on the show :-)

Picks for the week of 11/16:

Kill or Be Killed #4

Jackboot & Ironheel #4

Die Kitty Die #2

Moonshine #2

Britannia #3

Superman: The Coming of the Supermen collection

Honorable Mention: Reborn #2

Honorable Mention: Lady Killer 2 #3

Shoutouts:

#PodernFamily

Special shoutouts to the Amish Baby Machine podcast and The Countdown movie podcast - thanks, guys! Oh, and Jake & Tom Conquer the World :-)

You, dear listeners!

Question of the Week: any older comics you'd like to see rebooted or reprinted? Let us know on social media!

To find us, go to:

Email us at email@thefellowshipofthegeeks.net

Episode 37 - That's Something That Flips His Skirt - Week of 11/9/16 0

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Nov 6, 2016

The Fellowship is pleased to present a discussion of anthologies in comics, and how they're not as common as they used to be. We try to get a handle on why that's the case, just to realize that we were the target audience from the start. And as always, our picks of the week.

What we're up to this week:

Knights of the Dinner Table magazine [note: I said 10 years, but it's probably more like 25]

Ghost Adventures (Travel Channel show) with some local connotations

Getting caught up on side projects

Check out our sponsor page! Head to the website and click on the banners for Things From Another World and Make Mine Indie! (Click through the TFAW banner on our site and we get a cut. And check out tons of great indie comics in the MMIndie catalog. And thank you!)

The Bronze Age Babies article that inspired this week's topic

And we list a bunch of anthology titles, once we start thinking about it

[Also, apologies if the background noise is too annoying; I just got a new microphone and I'm working out the kinks. -m]

Picks for the week of 11/9:

The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #1

Glitterbomb #3

Namesake #1

Mother Panic #1

Green Valley #2

Batgirl and the Birds of Prey #4

Honorable Mention: Adam Strange: The Silver Age volume 1

Honorable Mention: The Mummy #1 (as in the Universal Monster)

Honorable Mention: Spirit Hunters #1 (callback to the beginning)

Shoutouts:

#PodernFamily

You, dear listeners!

Question of the Week: What character would you like to see in an anthology? Let us know on social media!

To find us, go to:

Email us at email@thefellowshipofthegeeks.net

Episode 36 - I Got A Rock - Week of 11/2/16 0

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Oct 30, 2016

The Fellowship is pleased to present our conversation about Halloween and why we like it. We do have some "get off my lawn" moments (okay, a lot of them), and the "clown thing" comes up too. And as always, our picks of the week.

What we're up to this week:

This podcast (it's fun, but it takes up a lot of my spare time)

Something Wicked This Way Comes - Les reads it every Halloween

A new DLC for Dead by Daylight came out, and it's based on the Halloween movie property (bit of a tangent here about game design)

Check out our sponsor page! Head to the website and click on the banners for Things From Another World and Make Mine Indie! (Click through the TFAW banner on our site and we get a cut. And check out tons of great indie comics in the MMIndie catalog. And thank you!)

Picks for the week of 11/2:

Moon Knight #8

Groo: Fray of the Gods #3

Blood and Dust: The Life and Undeath of Judd Glenny trade

Tales from the Crypt #1

Archie 75th Anniversary Digest #3

Mayday #1

Honorable Mention: too many cool books this week :-)

Shoutouts:

#PodernFamily

You, dear listeners!

Question of the Week: What's your favorite Halloween candy, treat, trick, etc.? Let us know on social media!

To find us, go to:

Email us at email@thefellowshipofthegeeks.net