This week we’re all about a silly old bear and some robot lions. That’s right, we have a quick review of the movie Christopher Robin and then we get all up in Voltron, both past and present. As usual, we share a little of what’s kept us busy over the past week and, of course, there’s some geeky news stories that you might be interested in, including three time travel updates! Listen now! Continue reading GW1 Issue 166 – Defenders of the Universe
If you’re a longtime comicbook fan, you know the name Mark Millar. His career in comics began in the 90s, working for a small British publisher before he moved to DC. Leaving DC in 2001 (just before his Superman: Red Son was published) Millar moved to Marvel, where he launched Ultimate X-Men and wrote one of Marvel’s biggest series, Civil War. Of course, most people know him now for the comics (and movies) from his creator-owned line Millarworld – Kick-Ass, Hit Girl and Kingsman among them. Continue reading Comics Cosmos – The World Awaits
Season 2 of Luke Cage hit Netflix last weekend and we’ve seen it all! There’s so much to discuss about a follow-up season that’s actually an improvement on the first. But before we get there, we have some news about tv shows, comics and a sci-fi universe. Plus, we chat about an upcoming Oddmall-adjacent event and a new RPG on kickstarter that we think you should check out. Listen now! Continue reading GW1 Issue 160 – No Masks, Sidekicks or Dragons
My love of campy sci-fi has never been restricted to film. Sure, there’re plenty of bad movies out there that I’ll never stop finding tire fires to enjoy. The 60s was the space age though, and everywhere you looked there was a movie about humans traveling to another planet and being attacked by an intergalactic creature. In 1965 this was especially witnessed in living rooms. Lost in Space told the story of the family of astronauts whose ship was sabotaged and shot off course in an asteroid field, left stranded on a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri. The US was about to enter the space race (four years before the moon landing), and this sitcom showed what the world would be like afterwards. Continue reading Best Geeky Finds – Space Family Robinson
End of the world and space stories are nothing new in science fiction – they are pretty much two of the foundational elements of the genre. They are also often related, with either something from space destroying the Earth or something going wrong on Earth and the population looking to escape to space. The latest sci-fi flick from Netflix, The Titan, is in the second category. Continue reading She Geek Critique – A Slow Evolution