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News: Tomb Raider goes back to the beginning,] and Will Smith is being targeted for a modern Robin Hood

Week That Was: The Activate Primer, Jackie Rose, Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs Zombies, Human Target, Sanctuary and Tron: Legacy

Main: We take a look at Kapow the latest UK comic con to be announced which is being spearheaded by Mark Millar and has already split opinion amongst comic fans. We use this topic as a springboard to not only look at the pros and cons of Kapow but the UK comic con scene in general which has exploded in the last few years.

Amaechi and Ant are joined once more by Barry, back from his sojourn from Podcasting. In the news, the guys discuss the massacre that is Black Ops Multiplayer, the PSP2 and the forthcoming Nathan Drake film.

Barry kicks off the reviews with Call of Duty Black Ops, then he and Ant discuss 007: Bloodstone and compare that with 007: GoldenEye.

Chaos ensues once again as the troublesome team try to uncover the books and authors that had a major role in creating our favourite genres or have since shaken things up, put a new spin on them and generally kept it all fresh. It has been heavily edited, resulting in the sad loss of several interesting conversations about books and authors which were too off-topic or else deserving of far more time and analysis on a seperate podcast. Despite that it's a monster episode and there's loads of silliness which did survive the edit because frankly we'd rather be funny than dull.Miraculously maintaining our sky-high standards (despite the removal of one persons pants and the shaking of another cast-member's member) we plunge back through time to glance at Gilgamesh and rampage right through to 2010 with all the clinically-precise organisation of the average student's sock drawer - and many similarly unsavoury and cheesy elements. The plugathon at the end makes reference to short story The Golden Egg which you can get to by clicking on this link here.Follow the Scrolls news Twitter-feed @Scrollscast That is all.

As one Newge leaves another Nuge must regains his memories and regain the ancient powers of Geekdom to come back ready to face the returning evil that is EPOCH.

As the guys have so much stuff to catch up on there is no main feature this week this a shed load of Week that Was.

A special treat/extra lies in store for those of you with our GS iPhone app . You wil be able to check out the first chapter of The Adventures of Simon Pegg Graphic novel.

To learn more about the comic head here.

News

Brian Blessed kicks offEmpire Strikes Back Director heads to the big Echo Base in the sky.Buffy Reboot TalkShowruner for Walking Dead fires his writing staff

Week That Was

Dr Who: Tesseract by Tony LeeAstonishing Xmen - GiftedVillainousLargo Winch - the dutch connectionAvengers: Earth's Mightiest HeroesMisfits Series 2Walking DeadCommunity

Flint is still MIA so Rich ropes in Iz to look at progs 1711 & 1712 and to announce an all new monthly 2000AD podcast. As always expect language not suitable for the kiddies and spoilers throughout.

This time the Dissecting Worlds General staff take a close look at 2000ADs premier war story Rogue Trooper and through it armies in science fiction. On the way they look at (deep breath)

• Jannissaires & The Drakan books (& apologies to SM Stirling I don't mean his views are the same as his characters.)
• Time dilation, post traumatic stress & morally difficult Hawkwind songs.
• Charley's War & Poppies, Millicom and champgane sipping chateau Generals
• Robots & the ABC Warriors (including Savage/Invasion)
• Why fight on a planet's surface when you can blast it from orbit just to be sure?
• 'Good' Germans, Klingons and Romulons
• Rogue trooper's tone and British War Comic tradition
• Retirement plans from Elephantmen to Blade Runner

Hello and welcome back! It's been a turbulent few weeks here in the Asylum with upheavals both large and small, but we’ve managed to take a break from all of the moving and shaking to do some Pointing and Clicking! This episode we recommend you some fantastic Point and Click adventures, get put on the spot with a listener question, do a little cross promoting and even manage to wrangle out a competition! So just step inside, make yourself comfortable and listen out for some Indie gems and a seriously spooking prize up for grabs.

1. Samorost 1+ 2 / Questionaut / Machinarium

2. Decay Part 1 / 2 / 3 (Coming soon) all for 240 MS Points each.

3. Ben There, Dan That / Time Gentlemen, Please / Privates

Mentions

Alice Is Dead - Ep 1 / Ep 2 / Ep 3

Puzzle Bots - £3.49

Little Wheel - Free

Sam & Max – Includes two free demos, one for Season One and one for Season Two – Tell Tale Games

Digital Cowboys – Xbox Live Indie Games Special with LeeNygma and SilentHitoshura

Sanctuary4Gamers – Two Girls One Pup podcast

Follow Indie Asylum on Twitter - @IndieAsylum

Don’t forget to listen in for our competition and you can enter by following and sending us an @ on Twitter, or by leaving your reply in the comments!

Welcome to Stace's last episode.

Sorry it's late, if you want to prevent it being late again then buy Dave a state of the art laptop to replace the tired one he has.

Anyway as it's Stace's last episode I thought we would start and end with a Staceism, keep listening after the end theme.

On this show Dave and Stace talk about the new Green Lantern trailer, Incredible Hulk TV show, they also talk about the Conjour, the upcoming Science Fiction an Fantasy one day literary convention in Leeds, Karen Gillans new casting in a bizaare sounding take on Romeo and Juliet and the return of the podcast Q!Paw

Week that was

Wonder Woman: Ends of the Earth by Gail Simone

Dr Who: Tesseract by Tony Lee

Judge Dredd: Mega City Undercover &

the excellent show Community.

Main: Shows we left behind

This week we take a look at shows we used to watch and then stopped watching and examine what made us say goodbye.

Enjoy

After getting their wrists slapped for being too mean on the last episode, Rich and Flint take a week off and let two much nicer people stand in for them. Despite this expect the same non kiddie friendly language and alcohol abuse you get in the other episodes. Progs 1709 & 1710 are reviewed and the first picture from the Dredd movie is discussed... well, technically its more perved over.

FEEDBACK: A HERO’S CALLING

Episode #3

"A Friend In Deed"

by Alan White

Based upon the character concept created by Matthew Atherton and Sarah Blevins

Sometimes getting coffee can be murder.

CAST:

Coffeehouse CLERK - Robin Carlisle

Coffeehouse BARISTA - Mike Winters

Coffeehouse CUSTOMER - Kim Gianopoulus

OUTSOURCE - Oliver Tull

BLACKTHORN - Mark Kalita

FORTHRIGHT- Steve Anderson

REBOOT - Andrey Kuznetsov

FEEDBACK/SPECTRE - Matthew Atherton

CONSOLE - Elie Hirschman

NITRO G - Darren Passarello

and

SARAH - Sarah Blevins

"I Wanna Go Home" was written and performed by Samantha Murphy from her album 'somewhere between starving and stardom.' More about Samantha can be found at www.samanthamurphy.com

“My Calling” theme written and performed by Jeffrey Wayne Kirkpatrick

Original Audio Score by David A. Krause

Post-Production work by Alan White.