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Gamescom has kicked off in Cologne Germany this week and Sarah and Maurice fire up the Skype to talk about the first bit of news from the event.  We're talking about Microsoft of course and the discussion runs through the new and not so new information to come out of the convention and press briefing.

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* Sarah Pre-show Opinion

* Maurice Pre-show Opinion

* Microsoft Post-show Highlights

* Microsoft Briefing Stream

Just Saying is back with more spoiler filled discussion-ing.  Word coined.  You're welcome.

Richard and Maurice wax nostalgic and punch holes in plots.  On the agenda this time is the just released ANT-MAN comic2film adaptation from Marvel.  They get all up in the details and spoil stuff so, consider yourself warned.

Show Notes

* News

* GHOSTBUSTERS images and details discussed

* X-MEN APOCALYPSE images and SDCC trailer reactions

* ANT-MAN movie reviews and views.

* Reading

* KILLING GIRL from Glen Brunswick/Frank Espinosa, Image Comics - A young girl is kidnapped by the mob to be a child prostitute, but ends up becoming their enforcer/assassin for hire. Her latest target though might complicate things.

* HAWKEYE by Matt Fraction - Hawkeye must balance his hazardous day job with his unusual home life.

* Watching

* SUBURBAN GOTHIC - Kat Denning and Matthew Gray Gubler star in this really quirky supernatural dark-comedy. Currently available on Amazon Instant Video.

* JUSTICE LEAGUE: GODS & MONSTERS - Bruce Timm helms this return to the DC animation space. It's the JL Trinity like you've never seen them before. In fact, you've never seen a DC animated movie quite like this ever.

A new podcast and co-host.  Sarah joins the Fanboy Confidential team and gets in on the longest discussion episode ever recorded.  We talk about the recent news and highlights coming out of the E3 gaming conference.  It's exciting stuff so, grab.

Show Notes:

* First Party Announcements

* Nintendo wii U

* Sony playstation

* Microsoft xbox

* Third Party Announcements

* Bethesda Softworks

* EA

* Ubisoft

* Square Enix

* Virtual/Augmented Reality Announcements

* Oculus Rift

* Sony Morpheus

* Microsoft HoloLens

On this latest episode of our discussion podcast, Maurice and Richard discuss the recent news of director James Wan being attached to the AQUAMAN solo film and a live action ROBOTECH franchise.  We also talk about all the big MARVEL television plans running through the rumor mill.

Note: Our discussion of Punisher coming to television was before the announcement by Marvel that they've cast actor Joe Bernthal (The Walking Dead) in the role of Frank Castle/PUNISHER for season 2 of Daredevil.

Show Notes:

* What We're Reading

* ONE PUNCH MAN by One (coming soon from Viz Media)

* GROOT by Jeff Loveness

* What We're Watching

* GAME OF THRONES (HBO)

* SENSE8 (Netflix)

* PENNY DREADFUL (Showtime)

On this latest episode of our discussion podcast, Maurice and Richard discuss the woman-powered Mad Max reboot. They also react to the first footage of the upcoming Supergirl TV starring Melissa Benoist, and give their geek filled analysis following the tantalizing revelations in this season's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. That and much more...

Show Notes:

* What We're Reading

* BIG MAN PLANS by Eric Powell

* INJECTION by Warren Ellis

* YAMA AND THE SWORDS OF GLASS by Sylviane Corgiat

* What We're Watching

* BATMAN UNLIMITED ANIMAL INSTINCTS (animated)

* BATMAN VS ROBIN (animated)

* THE WHITE HAIRED WITCH (chinese fantasy/martial arts)

Chet Zar is a multi-disciplined artist who's worked professionally in Hollywood since the late 80s. He's worked for Rick Baker's Cinovation Studios on movies like Men In Black II and the Tim Burton Planet of the Apes movie, as well as a stint at Mike Elizalde's Spectral Motion on the Hellboy and X-MEN series of films. Lots more stuff too. Anyone remember Darkman or Warriors of Virtue? Yeah, he worked on those too.

He currently makes a living doing original fine art illustrations and has a new kickstarter documentary about his life and work called I LIKE TO PAINT MONSTERS.

We talk about that and more in this wide-ranging chat.

Upcoming Events

* May 23rd - Solo Art Show in New York, NY at the Last Rites Tattoo & Art Gallery.

* June 6th @ 6PM - Screening of I Like To Paint Monsters in Albuquerque, NM at the Kimo Theater.

* September 18th - Curating Art Exhibit at the Son of Monsterpalooza show in Burbank, CA.

* November 21st - Booth and Artwork For Sale at the DesignerCon in Pasadena, CA.

Music Used In The Podcast

* Elsiane; buy all their albums. They're awesome.

Maurice and Richard comment on the latest genre news. Discussed is the latest Fantastic Four trailer and Brad Bird's upcoming Walt Disney inspired Tomorrowland, as well as Joss Whedon's swan song Age of Ultron. Warning, no secrets are safe in this wide ranging commentary so make sure you've seen the latest Avengers film before tuning in.

Show Notes:

* Fantastic Four has a new trailer and we discuss our thoughts.

* Josh Trank has left his Star Wars anthology project and rumor has it his work on Fantastic Four had something to do with it.

* Brad Bird shows off an extended sneek peak at his newest live action film, Tomorrowland, in front of Imax showings of Avengers II.

* Avengers Age of Ultron is discussed and we spoil absolutely everything.

Maurice and Richard get together again to rap about topics including a hopelessly shallow analysis of the latest trailers for Dawn Of Justice, Star Wars, and Ant-Man. [Editor's Note: This episode was released before the official Batman-vs-Superman trailer was out and our talk is based on the leaked version of the footage]

Also discussed are their thoughts on the latest Deadpool news and for the main course, they talk up their experience of binge watching the new Netflix Daredevil series.  *Spoiler Warning*

Show Notes

* Deadpool promo talk and new film details

* Trailer sudo-analysis

* Ant-Man

* Batman v Superman

* Star Wars The Force Awakens

* Star Wars Battlefront

* Marvel's Daredevil tv series on Netflix

Maurice and Richard get together again to expound on topics including the intricacies of costume design, their biggest worries with the upcoming Star Wars movies, and their general thoughts and musings after seeing the recently released full trailer to the upcoming Daredevil TV series.  That and much more.

Show Notes:

News Segment

* Star Wars ROGUE ONE title and release date announced

* Costume reactions for Supergirl and DC tv/movie adaptations in general

* Daredevil tv full trailer reactions

What Are We Reading?

* Abe Sapien (Mike Mignola)

* Nemo (Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill)

* MAYDAY: A Kaiju Thriller (Chris Strange)

* Sword Woman (Robert E. Howard)

What Are We Watching?

* Fast and Furious 7 (dir. James Wan)

* Wyrmwood (dir. Kiah Roache-Turner)

* The Taking of Tiger Mountain (dir. Tsui Hark)

News Segment:

* Batman v Superman fight choreographer talked up his plans for reinventing Batman as a fighting force on film. (via batman-news)

* Microsoft made a big splash this month with some impressive new software and hardware announcements

Gaming on Windows 10

HoloLens Augmented Reality Glasses

 

Main Course:

January and February are awards season months so, Richard and Maurice decided to get in on the action and share their favorite picks from the last year.  In some cases we picked the same title.  The full list of titles discussed are below.

* Favorite Feature Film - Live Action

* Cold In July

* Housebound

* Favorite Feature Film - Animation

* How To Train Your Dragon 2

* Favorite TV Show - Live Action

* Hannibal

* Person of Interest

* Favorite TV Show - Animation

* Psycho-Pass

* Favorite Novel/Longform Book

* The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F Hamilton

* INFLUX by Daniel Suarez

* Favorite Comic book

* The Wicked + The Devine by Kieron Gillen (Image Comics)

* Sun Ken Rock by Boichi

* Favorite Artbook

* The Art of BROM

* Favorite DVD Release

* The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Extended Edition