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On the second part of our San Diego Comic Con episode we cover the trailers of Shazam, Aquaman, Glass, Godzilla: King of the Monsters and what we are hoping to see. Mike and Jon discuss the trailer for Walking Dead Season 9 and Mike discusses his lack of enthusiasim for this season with Andrew Lincoln's departure from the series. Mike finds a piece of concept art for the upcoming Metal Gear Solid movie and who he'd like to see play Solid Snake and Vulcan Raven, but Jon has his reservations about what could a Metal Gear movie actually accomplish. All of this and MORE on this episode wrapping up San Diego Comic Con

San Diego Comic Con brings us some news that brings us to tears.....good and bad. Jon and Mike cover the new DC Streaming Service, our thoughts on the Teen Titans live action show, the announcement of the return of Star Wars: the Clone Wars and Mike's thoughts of what the initial season should have been subtitled. They also cover Grant Morrison writing for Green Lantern, Tom King requiring a body guard at SDCC because of the death threats he received over the Marriage of Bruce Wayne/Batman and their thoughts on comic book fans, or fans in general, who threaten creators. They cover some of Image's releases with Rob Guillory's Farmhand and John Layman's upcoming Levithan and Jon brings Geoff Johns' Three Jokers story. Mike discusses more of the blurred lines of Preacher (The comic and the TV Show). They round out the episode with some talk of video games, including Fortnite, PUBG, and the latest update (0.9) to Escape From Tarkov.

Our good friend and Community Manager from Gamepires, Wonder, joins Mike and Jon again post E3 to talk about SCUM and whats happening and off the bat he answers whats on everyone's mind, no there isn't a release DATE, but we have a release month (August)!  Wonder takes some questions we have after seeing the game in motion at PAX East and some gameplay from E3 mixed with some Facebook fan questions. We cover if Mr. Smiles will be our friend, what happens when we don't keep up with our vices, If we did the crime does it boost our skills, and much more!

Its that time of the year again and Jon and Mike are here to bring everything to one space to hear the latest news and announcements that came out of E3 this year! EA was kinda humdrum, Ubisoft is giving us another Division and Assassins Creed, Bethesda announces an "entirely online" Fallout in Fallout 76 and tells us they are working on the next Elder Scrolls. Microsoft pumps up their number of gaming studios under their hat and show us that they are still here to stay. Sony shows off The Last Of Us 2 and just lets the gameplay and teaser trailers roll without saying a thing. Devolver continued the madness that is their press conference...It just doesn't end, but we've put it all in on place for you to digest! 

On this episode Mike and Jon talk cover a lot of ground discussing Rob Guillory's upcoming comic Farmhand (Ashcan) as a preview to the coming comic (Out July 11th!). Past that they have a spoilery discussion about the recent Star Wars movie release, Solo, and their thoughts. We get a few teaser drops regarding the next Fallout Title from Bethesda and the next Assassins Creed iteration.  They round out the episode talking about the recently filed lawsuit from the PUBG Devs against Epic, the creators of Fortnite which we feel holds no water and a breakdown of the mods for the Escape from Tarkov community after the firing of the Community Manager. 

Mike and Jon dive into their thoughts on the sequel to Deadpool, don't worry they keep the spoilers to a minimum so you can FULLY enjoy it. With E3 around the corner they discuss the Walmart Canada leak and what else we could possibly see or here at this years E3 (Devolver Digital is back with a press conference and we hope its just as insanae as last year). And Jon talks about the ending of some TV shows this season (Agents of Shield, Arrow, and a few more) 

On our SECOND episode of the week Mike and Jon take a dive full force into the ramifications and what Infinity War means for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Will these deaths be forever? Or will we see it all reversed and lose some long time favorite Avengers? Who Knows

If you have not seen Infinity War yet SKIP THIS EPISODE!

On this episode Mike and Jon catch up on the returns of Archer and Westworld, talk a bit about Rockstar forcing a patch that removes music (but does add some new tracks) to GTA IV and what that means for licensed content tied to video games. Jon talks about Halo Online and Micrsoft's penchant need for more money. Jon talks a non spoilery review of the new God of War and make Escapes from Tarkov a couple of times! 

On this episode Mike finds himself split between two conventions, so he does what any sane person does and spends one day at each of them. With Walker Stalker/Heroes And Villains and C2E2 overlapping a weekend Mike attends both and reports back on his meetings and such at both and he provides a brief review of John Layman's upcoming comic with Nick Pitarra, Leviathan. Outside of that Jon and Mike discuss their dive into BossKey's Radical Heights and its "Xtreme Early Access"-ness, PUBG's Event Mode that dropped and Fortnite's upcoming event that involves TWO busses! Mike drops a shotout to our friends from Gamepires who were at PAX East last week showing off a game type and some actual gameplay from SCUM and Jon mentions that Due Process was there as well. Jon says that God Of War may be the Citizen Kane of video games. Mike tells his tale of RimWorld and the colonist who needed a new leg.

On this episode Mike and Jon run through their thoughts on Ready Player One, the film and come to terms that even with all the different pop culture refernces, it wasn't AS BAD as they thought it would be. Mike took some time to see Greg Berlanti's Love,Simon, which turned out to be a really great film from the perspective of story and the cinematography. To round out the episode Mike and Jon give a rundown of what they are currently playing, Jon picked up the recent Ubisoft release of Far Cry 5 (Surprise! Its just like Far Cry!) and Mike has invested serious hours already into an indie game called Rimworld!