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Hey You Geeks!! PODCAST #4: Robots in Pop Culture, From Age of Ultron to Daft Punk
In episode-four of the “Hey You Geeks!!” Podcast we discuss our favorite robots in film, TV, comics, videogames and all of pop-culture. With the final issue of Brian Michael Bendis’ Marvel series Age of Ultroncoming in two weeks, what better time to talk about the androids, cyborgs, robots, A.I. and harbingers of doom that make us laugh, cringe and geek out in the best of ways. We also review Random Access Memories, the new album from robot rockers Daft Punk and end with Sound On Sight comics writer Logan Dalton’s review ofAge of Ultron thus far. “Hey You Geeks!!” is a bi-weekly Podcast, so look for episode #5 coming June 19th.
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Introducing the Hey You Geeks!! Podcast #1: ‘Star Wars’ with special guest Tim Siedell
In the inaugural episode of the “Hey You Geeks!!” Podcast we’re all about Star Wars, talking about the future of the franchise in film and comics, the closing of Lucasarts, cancellation of Clone Wars and more. Our special guest for the episode is Tim Siedell, writer of Dark Horse Comics newest series, Darth Vader and the Ninth Assassin, known best as Twitter humorist @badbanana, hailed as one of Time Magazine’s top Twitter feeds to follow. “Hey You Geeks!!” is a bi-weekly Podcast, so look for episode 2 coming May 8th.
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Could an ‘Oz’ franchise end up like the ‘Star Wars’ prequels?
Despite several new releases this past weekend, Oz: The Great and Powerfulfinished in first place at the box office again. With a domestic total of $145 million and counting, the L. Frank Baum prequel has already proven to be immensely profitable for its Disney overlords, and boy do the overlords know it. With word out that screenwriter Mitchell Kapner has already begun working on a purported sequel, questions of the Oz franchise’s direction have gotten mixed into the half-furor of movie blog-dom. Which characters might return? Is Sam Raimi coming back? What’s even left to tell?
That last question might be the most compelling of all, since the Oz franchise seems to be setting itself on a trajectory similar to the Star Wars Prequels. And that’s probably not a good thing.
The Star Wars: Dark Times Saga Continues with a New #1 Issue
Star Wars: The Dark Times – Fire Carrier # 1
Written by Randy Stradley
Art by Gabriel Guzman & colourist Garry Henderson
Cover by Doug Wheatley
Published by Dark Horse
While the future of the Star Wars property changes and expands with all the energy and enthusiasm of a tweenage girl at a Twilight screening, Dark Horse comics’ hold on the franchise’s comics iterations has remained pernicious. Though new jumping on points for readers, like Brian Woods’ new ongoing series, are fairly regular, the ongoing “Dark Times” series continues unabated, with a new number one issue out this month.
Those expecting a familiar jumping on point may find themselves slightly flummoxed when they open the first page to find the story already under way, but a more or less concise recap page tells you everything you need to know. The story follows Jedi Master K’Kruhk, one of the other thousand or so Jedi to survive Order 66 at the end of Revenge of the Sith. Apparently most Expanded Universe writers found the idea of every Jedi in the galaxy getting caught with their pants down and easily killed off as preposterous as everyone else did, because survivors seem to pop up whenever possible.
The most fun you’ll have with a podcast discussing the Star Trek universe
‘Star Trek’ Special (part one)
Sound On Sight PODCAST #116
Since the original television series hit the airwaves in the 1960s, the Star Trek franchise has captivated the minds of science fiction fans the world over. Please insert your own Star Trek joke here. Feel free to choose from any of the following topics: virginity, living in a parent’s basement, and acne. If feeling particularly inventive, pretend to confuse the series with the Star Wars films. Or better yet, make a list of the most predictable Star Trek jokes, and check them off as you listen to part 1 of Sound on Sight’s Star Trek special, in which we take a look at the first three films in the series, as well as J.J. Abrams action-packed re-boot.
Titans: George Lucas v. Steven Spielberg (part 1)
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Three and a half decades after their breakout successes, they remain arguably two of the most potent brand names in American entertainment and understandably so. Probably more than any other two individuals, they have been – for good or for ill — responsible for a massive reconfiguration of media entertainment, expanding from film into TV, merchandising, and new media, constantly exploring the ability to cross-pollinate all these strains, and sparking a re-thinking of the kinds of movies Hollywood makes and the way they’re made.
Lucas and Spielberg are credited – and sometimes blamed – for launching, expanding, and perfecting the concept of the synergistic,
merchandisable blockbuster franchise. After their commercial breakouts in the late 1970s, their movies regularly dominated the all-time best box office performers list for most of the following decades, and even today, after such recent additions as Avatar(2009), Titanic (1997), The Passion of the Christ(2004), the Spider-Man,Pirates of the Caribbean,and The Lord of the Ringstrilogies, and the Harry Potter series, as directors and/or producers Lucas’ and Spielberg’s names are still attached to almost one-quarter of the all-time top 100 box office hits (even after adjusting for inflation, Lucas/Spielberg still account for 20 of the top 100 earners).
