Welcome to Neo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News and Reviews Talk, Hosted by Eric Brown! In the Fifty-Second Edition, we discuss Black Panther: Wakanda Forever details in regards to T'Challa, Namor, and the overall theme details of the film, which is said to run up to 2 hours and 41 minutes! Gerry Duggan of Marvel reveals his grand plan for the relaunched Invincible Iron Man! Netflix's The Queen Season 5 launches on November 9, 2022, with the debut of Imelda Staunton as the titular Late Queen of England. Game of Thrones showrunners has their next big concept adaptation project going down at Netflix titled 3 Body Problem: "the story of humanity's first contact with an alien civilization," portraying a vision of the future that sees "all of humanity vulnerable to the same external threat."

The Witcher Season 3 is set to launch in the summer of 2023 but with a planned spin-off series coming on Christmas Day of December 25th this year (Guess that means Die Hard will have some competition in the 'What is or isn't a Christmas film/tv event'!) Avatar Remastered Re-Release smashes box office attraction in the lead-up to Avatar: The Way of Water in December as James Earl Jones plans to step away from the role of the voice of Darth Vader in favor of Artificial Intelligence recreating his voice as opposed to the idea of just finding someone who can mimic the voice because massive corporations don't like that pesky human element and the potential problems it causes to their massive coffers. HBO's Last of Us Trailer Launches, A Fan creates a tribute to Super Mario Bros. in Mario Maker 2 after 7 Years and more on Neo-Reality Collective!

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Welcome to Neo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News and Reviews Talk, Hosted by Eric Brown! We’re back after a brief hiatus to kickstart Season Three! In a week, we’ve got some surprises, such as Grand Theft Auto VI’s early development videos being leaked to the wider gaming public, resulting in an uproar over the quality of extremely early builds of a game not due within half or a full decade from now. Fantastic Four has found its writers and director for the non-origin story of Marvel’s first family to kickstart Phase Six of the MCU and The Final Phase of the Multiverse Saga! Tom Hardy secretly entered and won a martial arts tournament because he’s Tom Hardy!

Microsoft’s planned bid to merge with Activision-Blizzard hits some snags in the slow scrutiny process. Still, it remains confident in the endgame of all this corporate politicking as EA believes in the opportunity for Battlefield in the concept of Call of Duty going Xbox Exclusive as their EA Motive Studio announces Iron Man! And just saying, one of the few praises Anthem got was the flying mechanics, so maybe round up some of the developers of the part of the failed game and craft it for Iron Man. Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands has done so well for The Embracer Group’s Gearbox Software that Randy Pitchford has declared it a new franchise! Harley Quinn’s current comic volume will get a new creative team in 2023, while Ubisoft confounds people by saying the upcoming Splinter Cell Remake will ‘update its story for a modern audience!’ cue The Act Man’s KOTOR Remake talk clip. All this and more on Neo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News and Reviews Talk by Eric Brown of Neo-Reality Entertainment!

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NRC Reviews A.X.E. Judgment Day Tie-In issue of Immortal X-Men

PART FIVE: MEDITATIONS ON THE X

A GALA PERFORMANCE! Emma Frost will do anything to protect the children, including the metaphorical child that is the Hellfire Gala. Last year's was a fantastic success. She would not like it if someone ruined the second. She would not like it at all. But don't worry, I'm sure it'll go fine.

INFALLIBILITY MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY "SORRY."

The island-nation of Krakoa was founded under the idea of mutant sovereignty and is governed over by the collective known as the Quiet Council. Hope's recent ascension to the council following Magneto's departure has caused quite a stir among its members, but some, including Exodus, have rejoiced.

But while the council attempts to navigate their internal conflicts, external threats are piling up. The secret of mutant resurrection is out. Moira has turned her back on Krakoa and, with her new robot body, has sided with the anti-mutant organization Orchis. And they're not the only ones who have the mutants in their crosshairs.

Kieron Gillen | Writer

Michele Bandini | Artist

David Curiel | Color Artist

VC's Clayton Cowles | Letterer

Tom Muller & Jay Bowen | Design

Giuseppe Camuncoli & Jesus Aburtov | Cover Artist

VC's Clayton Cowles | Production

Lauren Amaro | Assistant Editor

Jordan D. White | Editor

C.B. Cebulski | Editor in Chief

NRC Reviews A.X.E. Judgment Day #1 by Kieron Gillen!

IN THE LAND OF THE RIGHTEOUS...The X-Men claim they’re the planet’s new gods. The Eternals know that position is already filled. The Avengers are about to realize exactly how many secrets their so-called friends have kept from them. Years of tension lead to a volcanic eruption as two worlds burn. Who has leaked the X-Men’s secrets to their latest foes? Why is Tony Stark abducting an old friend? And who stands in judgment over the whole world? Judgment Day from Kieron Gillen and Valerio Schiti is the apocalyptic emotional event to define the summer.

The ETERNALS were created by the alien space gods known as the CELESTIALS to protect the Earth. The AVENGERS, Earth's mightiest heroes, are currently headquartered in the body of a deceased Celestial. One of the Eternals' chief directives is to correct excess deviation. DRUG, the current Prime Eternal, recently determined that Earth's mutants, with their ability to resurrect themselves, represent excess deviation--and therefore, he has set out to destroy them all. Two Eternals, AlAK and MAKKARI, secretly abducted the mutant geneticist MR. SINISTER from the mutants' island-nation of KRAKOA.

Writer | Kieron Gillen

Background music: “White Atlantis” by Sergey Cheremisinov. User under an Attribution-NonCommercial License.

NRC Reviews A.X.E. Eve of Judgment #1 by Kieron Gillen!

FIRST SHOT FIRED - JUDGMENT IS COMING! The Eternals know that the mutants have conquered death. But what are they going to do about it? The oldest immortals on Earth eye up the newest, and the doomsday clock starts to tick toward Judgment Day.

A long, long time ago, alien space gods came to Earth. They made 100 Eternals. They made 100 deviants. They left. The Eternals have completed their purpose. They're at a loose end. Some have decided to leave their corrupt society. Others have decided to scour another species. It takes all sorts.

WRITER | KIERON GILLEN

The Mystery Man by AVI

Fire Will Reign

Emotional Fantasy Music - Ice & Fire by Solas.

House of the Dragon is an American fantasy drama television series that is a prequel to the television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), both based on the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin. The prequel series was created by Martin and Ryan Condal for HBO and is based on portions of Fire & Blood. Condal and Miguel Sapochnik are showrunners for House of the Dragon. Set about 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, the series chronicles the beginning of the end of House Targaryen, the events leading up to and covering the Targaryen war of succession, known as the "Dance of the Dragons".

Season One, Episode One: The Heirs of the Dragon:

In the last years of the reign of Jaehaerys Targaryen, the Old King, tragedies took the lives of his two eldest sons, Princes Aemon and Baelon, leaving the question of succession open. Faced with this situation, the king convened a Great Council where all the lords of Westeros would choose their future ruler. Two of Jaehaerys' grandchildren were candidates for succession, Princess Rhaenys Targaryen, wife of Lord Corlys Velaryon, the richest man at the time, and Prince Viserys Targaryen, Rhaenys' younger cousin and husband of Lady Aemma Arryn. 

By Westerosi law, a male descendant always comes ahead of a female descendant, causing Rhaenys to lose even though she was the oldest descendant of the king. Nine years later, King Viserys I reigns under the threat of the Triarchy, an alliance made by the free cities of Essos to obtain the region of Stepstones. In addition, Viserys has to deal with his brother Daemon Targaryen's misbehavior for practicing brutality against criminals in King's Landing in command of the City Watch. Queen Aemma dies during childbirth along with her newborn son, who would be Viserys' heir. The Queen's death occurred during the tournament held for the Prince's birth, where Ser Criston Cole defeated Daemon. 

The Hand of the King, Ser Otto Hightower, suggests that Viserys name his only living child, the young princess Rhaenyra, as heir to the Iron Throne instead of Daemon. After a falling out with Daemon, Viserys officially names his daughter Rhaenyra the Princess of Dragonstone and has several lords swear allegiance to her.

50 Episodes. 50 Episodes since the show came back from the YouTube Daily News Show during the high point of a global pandemic, but we've reached a major milestone for the podcast. Hours Upon Hours of Content, Tons of Bonus Reviews, and Sponsored by The EveryDayFans since 40. But we've reached it...

The Season Two Finale!

Hello and Welcome to Neo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News and Reviews Talk, Hosted by Eric Brown! And boy, hard to believe we've made it this far, and this episode might be the biggest yet since Episode 3's THREE HOUR talk (Looking back, that should've been broken up into three episodes). It features Dwayne Johnson Black Adam drama from a revelation The Rock has made regarding Shazam, a sudden explosive take on Disney Star Wars in the wake of the announcements of Star Wars: Hidden Empire and Star Wars: Revelations in their comic book universe, and further dramas in regards to Ezra Miller and Their Future and The WarnerBros. Discovery Merger Aftereffects (We can't seem to escape all the drama going on over there.)

The CW Network is set to be bought outright. Still, WBD pledges the continuation of Scripted Content on the platform despite cutting 200 Episodes of Sesame Street, Infinity Train, and 30+ Other shows from HBO MAX, which ruffled feathers in the community outside of a growing movement to demand the release of HBO MAX's Batgirl after filming was complete, music was scored, and all that remained was the editing process. Avatar: The Last Airbender seems to be getting a console game soon, while The New Tales of The Borderlands also has a leaked release date in October. Unity rejects a 17.5 BILLION DOLLAR Takeover offer to remain their status quo as The Embracer Group acquires Middle-Earth Enterprises and the video game and movie rights to the whole of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit as we learn an Iron Man Open World Game was in the works from the creators of Just Cause before Disney and Marvel canned in 2012.

The Knights of The Old Republic Remake looked to be in trouble back in July but now seems to have been moved around in The Embracer Group to Saber Interactive from Aspyr. DC Comics, meanwhile, travels back to the 90s with new WildCATS Ongoing and a second Spawn/Batman Crossover and begins a New Golden Age with Geoff Johns at the helm of a new Justice Society of America ongoing and Stargirl: The Lost Children Miniseries. Final Fantasy Director discusses the franchise is currently struggling despite the breadth of content coming out over the next two years alone, such as FF7R Rebirth, Crisis Core, FF16, and expansions in Moblie and PC Gaming. And Streaming in The United States has overtaken Cable/Broadcast Television for the first time ever in the long history of Neilson.

It's been a wild ride here on Neo-Reality Collective, and it doesn't seem to be stopping anytime soon; with 50 Episodes in the can, we look forward to coming back with Season Three, but in the meantime, we'll be back doing bonus reviews for Event Comics A.X.E.: Judgement Day and Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths along with HBO's House of The Dragon. All this and more on Neo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News and Reviews Talk by Eric Brown of Neo-Reality Entertainment!

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NRC Reviews The Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler #1 by Tom King & Mitch Gerads!

DREADFUL REINS

Tom King and Mitch Gerads, the Eisner Award-winning duo behind Mister Miracle, The Sheriff of Babylon, and Strange Adventures, reunite to dive deep into the mind of Batman’s most intellectual foe…the Riddler. The Riddler has killed a man in broad daylight for seemingly no reason, but…there’s always a reason. The Riddler is always playing a game; there are always rules. Batman will reach his wits’ end trying to figure out the Riddler’s true motivation in this epic psychological thriller; this is not to be missed!

TOM KING•••Writer

MITCH GERADS•••Interior & Cover Artist

CLAYTON COWLES•••Letterer

JIM LEE, SCOTT WILLIAMS & ALEX SINCLAIR; MIKEL JANIN; DAVID MARQUEZ & ALEJANDRO SANCHEZ: BRIAN BOLLAND; GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI & ARIF PRIANTO•••Variant Cover Artists

JESSICA BERBEY•••Assistant Editor

DAVE WIELGOSZ•••Editor

BEN ABERNATHY•••Group Editor

Background Music: CONSPIRACY EVERYWHERE by Evil Goat.