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Originally Aired: 09/28/18 – Our review of Netflix’s Maniac. We also speak with Sam Maggs of Girl Squads and Tony Flame of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

Show Notes:

We play an interview with Tony Flame Expert Game Designer at Treyarch. Mr. Green got a chance to speak with Tony at Fan Expo Canada earlier this month to discuss the upcoming October 12th launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Black Ops is back! Featuring gritty, grounded, fluid Multiplayer combat, the biggest Zombies offering ever with three full undead adventures at launch, and Blackout, where the universe of Black Ops comes to life in one massive battle royale experience featuring the largest map in Call of Duty history, signature Black Ops combat, characters, locations and weapons from the entire Black Ops series. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is being published by Activision and developed by Treyarch with additional development support from Raven Software and PC development with Beenox.

Our review of Netflix’s Maniac starring Jonah Hill, Emma Stone and Sonoya Mizuno. Annie Landsberg and Owen Milgrim are two strangers who are drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial. Each has a different reason for participating in the experiment — she is disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and sister, while he has struggled throughout his life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia. The radical treatment, using pills that the inventor claims can repair anything about the mind, draws Annie, Owen and 10 other subjects into a three-day drug trial that they’re told will permanently solve all of their problems, with no complications or side effects. Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned.

We also speak with author and video game writer Sam Maggs. Sam returns to our show to talk about her new book, Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships that Changed History, available October 2, 2018. This is Sam’s third book for Quirk Books and is the perfect follow up to her last one, Wonder Women. Just as that book celebrated amazing women throughout history, this one celebrates teams of women working together. Sam Maggs is a bestselling writer of books, comics, and video games. She’s a Senior Writer for Insomniac Games; the author of THE FANGIRL’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, WONDER WOMEN, and GIRL SQUADS (Oct. 2, 2018), all published by Quirk Books and distributed by Penguin Random House; a contributor to BioWare’s highly-anticipated game ANTHEM; and she’s written for comics like STAR TREK and JEM & THE HOLOGRAMS. A Canadian in Los Angeles, she misses Coffee Crisp and bagged milk.

It was a great show!

Geek Hard Extra:

Plus exclusively for our $4/month+ Patreon supporters, our latest Geek Hard Extra After Credits segment discussing the final Bumblebee trailer.

If you’re gonna geek out, GEEK HARD!

Production Credits:

Geek Hard Logo – Candice Hibbard and Rich Robbins

Technical Production – Gary LaBarr, Recorded at the Reality Radio 101 Studio

Hosts/Producers – Andrew Young & James Green

Music Credits:

Opening Music “Eterna Teen” by Mark Holman

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Originally Aired: 09/28/18 – Our review of Netflix’s Maniac. We also speak with Sam Maggs of Girl Squads and Tony Flame of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

Show Notes:

We play an interview with Tony Flame Expert Game Designer at Treyarch. Mr. Green got a chance to speak with Tony at Fan Expo Canada earlier this month to discuss the upcoming October 12th launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Black Ops is back! Featuring gritty, grounded, fluid Multiplayer combat, the biggest Zombies offering ever with three full undead adventures at launch, and Blackout, where the universe of Black Ops comes to life in one massive battle royale experience featuring the largest map in Call of Duty history, signature Black Ops combat, characters, locations and weapons from the entire Black Ops series. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is being published by Activision and developed by Treyarch with additional development support from Raven Software and PC development with Beenox.

Our review of Netflix’s Maniac starring Jonah Hill, Emma Stone and Sonoya Mizuno. Annie Landsberg and Owen Milgrim are two strangers who are drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial. Each has a different reason for participating in the experiment — she is disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and sister, while he has struggled throughout his life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia. The radical treatment, using pills that the inventor claims can repair anything about the mind, draws Annie, Owen and 10 other subjects into a three-day drug trial that they’re told will permanently solve all of their problems, with no complications or side effects. Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned.

We also speak with author and video game writer Sam Maggs. Sam returns to our show to talk about her new book, Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships that Changed History, available October 2, 2018. This is Sam’s third book for Quirk Books and is the perfect follow up to her last one, Wonder Women. Just as that book celebrated amazing women throughout history, this one celebrates teams of women working together. Sam Maggs is a bestselling writer of books, comics, and video games. She’s a Senior Writer for Insomniac Games; the author of THE FANGIRL’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, WONDER WOMEN, and GIRL SQUADS (Oct. 2, 2018), all published by Quirk Books and distributed by Penguin Random House; a contributor to BioWare’s highly-anticipated game ANTHEM; and she’s written for comics like STAR TREK and JEM & THE HOLOGRAMS. A Canadian in Los Angeles, she misses Coffee Crisp and bagged milk.

It was a great show!

Geek Hard Extra:

Plus exclusively for our $4/month+ Patreon supporters, our latest Geek Hard Extra After Credits segment discussing the final Bumblebee trailer.

If you’re gonna geek out, GEEK HARD!

Production Credits:

Geek Hard Logo – Candice Hibbard and Rich Robbins

Technical Production – Gary LaBarr, Recorded at the Reality Radio 101 Studio

Hosts/Producers – Andrew Young & James Green

Music Credits:

Opening Music “Eterna Teen” by Mark Holman

Welcome friends to Back Issue Bloodbath, a comics-centric podcast presented by Geek Hard. Join hosts Andrew Young and Sammy Younan as they get down and dirty in the four-colour world of comic books, focusing on classic stories, new issues, comic creators and hot button topics.

This week, we do things a little differently. Instead of dissecting a comic story or famous creator, we’re going to look at a specific character through various eras and retcons. We’ve only done this twice before on the show: way back in episode 23 with Daredevil and then again in episode 50 with Luke Cage. It’s been awhile, that’s for sure. Both of these episodes were even before Sammy officially joined the show! We were due for an episode like this for quite some time. Without further ado, this week’s episode is about the one and only Captain Cold!

Probably the most famous of the Flash’s rogues, Captain Cold was created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino back in the Silver Age as a criminal who specialized in slowing the speedster down with his cold ray. His early stories were quite goofy as they relied on mirages and a lack of understanding on how mirages actually worked. As time went on, Cold would become an uneasy ally of Wally West and even a straight up hero/bounty hunter. Eventually, Geoff Johns would get his hands on him and make him into a credible bad-ass super villain. But there would be many bumps in the road to get there. Take a listen as Sammy and Andrew peel back the layers of this complex character from DC Comics.

A special thanks to Penguin Random House Canada for providing a copy of Flash Rogues: Captain Cold, available now. Pick up yours today.

Have an idea for a certain topic we should cover? Have an indie comic book you’d like us to review? Send us an email at [email protected] with “Back Issue Bloodbath” in the subject line. We’d love to hear from you. And be sure to join our Facebook page for exclusive content. Support us on Patreon.

If you’re gonna geek out, GEEK HARD!

 

Welcome friends to Back Issue Bloodbath, a comics-centric podcast presented by Geek Hard. Join hosts Andrew Young and Sammy Younan as they get down and dirty in the four-colour world of comic books, focusing on classic stories, new issues, comic creators and hot button topics.

This week, we do things a little differently. Instead of dissecting a comic story or famous creator, we’re going to look at a specific character through various eras and retcons. We’ve only done this twice before on the show: way back in episode 23 with Daredevil and then again in episode 50 with Luke Cage. It’s been awhile, that’s for sure. Both of these episodes were even before Sammy officially joined the show! We were due for an episode like this for quite some time. Without further ado, this week’s episode is about the one and only Captain Cold!

Probably the most famous of the Flash’s rogues, Captain Cold was created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino back in the Silver Age as a criminal who specialized in slowing the speedster down with his cold ray. His early stories were quite goofy as they relied on mirages and a lack of understanding on how mirages actually worked. As time went on, Cold would become an uneasy ally of Wally West and even a straight up hero/bounty hunter. Eventually, Geoff Johns would get his hands on him and make him into a credible bad-ass super villain. But there would be many bumps in the road to get there. Take a listen as Sammy and Andrew peel back the layers of this complex character from DC Comics.

A special thanks to Penguin Random House Canada for providing a copy of Flash Rogues: Captain Cold, available now. Pick up yours today.

Have an idea for a certain topic we should cover? Have an indie comic book you’d like us to review? Send us an email at [email protected] with “Back Issue Bloodbath” in the subject line. We’d love to hear from you. And be sure to join our Facebook page for exclusive content. Support us on Patreon.

If you’re gonna geek out, GEEK HARD!

 

Originally Aired: 09/21/18 – Our review of The House with a Clock in its Walls. We also speak with filmmaker Roney also with podcaster Petula Neale about TIFF.

Show Notes:

We speak with filmmaker Roney, whose short film Glitter’s Wild Women screened at this year’s fest. The film had its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Short Cuts Program. Roney will be on to chat about the film and her experience at the festival. Hailing from North Vancouver, B.C, Roney is an emerging filmmaker with an interesting education. She originally moved to Toronto in 2010 to play for the Ryerson Women’s Basketball team. She was accepted into the Television Program (RTA) at Ryerson and excelled creatively on projects both in front of and behind the camera. After graduating, she gave birth to a semi-autobiographical web-series project, Cheap Whine.

Our review of The House with a Clock in Its Walls starring Jack Black, Cate Blanchett and Owen Vaccaro. Ten-year-old Lewis goes to live with his oddball uncle in a creaky old house that contains a mysterious ticktock noise. He soon learns that Uncle Jonathan and his feisty neighbour, Mrs. Zimmerman, are powerful practitioners of the magic arts. When Lewis accidentally awakens the dead, the town’s sleepy facade suddenly springs to life — revealing a secret and dangerous world of witches, warlocks and deadly curses.

We also speak with in-studio Petula Neale, host of the non-TIFF-affiliated podcast IN A TIFF. Petula will be on hand to give her thoughts on the fest that was TIFF18 and tell us what were the best and worst films she saw. Be sure to listen this Friday to find out what excitement transpired at the Toronto International Film Festival.

It was a great show!

Thanks to Highlander Brew Co. for sponsoring this episode. Order from them online at highlanderbrewco.com and use promo code to get a free Highlander Cook Book.

Geek Hard Extra:

Plus exclusively for our $4/month+ Patreon supporters, our latest Geek Hard Extra After Credits segment discussing Captain Marvel trailer and Eternals Director. 

If you’re gonna geek out, GEEK HARD!

Production Credits:

Geek Hard Logo – Candice Hibbard and Rich Robbins

Technical Production – Gary LaBarr, Recorded at the Reality Radio 101 Studio

Hosts/Producers – Andrew Young & James Green

Music Credits:

Opening Music “Eterna Teen” by Mark Holman

“Town Burned Down” by Adam’s House Cat

“Wild Woman” by Imelda May

“Wild Wild Women” by Cheap Trick

“Act Naturally” by Guy Venable

“Time Is Running Out” by Muse

“Light in the Darkness” by Torsti Spoof

Closing Music “Kelly’s Heroes” by Black Grape

Originally Aired: 09/21/18 – Our review of The House with a Clock in its Walls. We also speak with filmmaker Roney also with podcaster Petula Neale about TIFF.

Show Notes:

We speak with filmmaker Roney, whose short film Glitter’s Wild Women screened at this year’s fest. The film had its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Short Cuts Program. Roney will be on to chat about the film and her experience at the festival. Hailing from North Vancouver, B.C, Roney is an emerging filmmaker with an interesting education. She originally moved to Toronto in 2010 to play for the Ryerson Women’s Basketball team. She was accepted into the Television Program (RTA) at Ryerson and excelled creatively on projects both in front of and behind the camera. After graduating, she gave birth to a semi-autobiographical web-series project, Cheap Whine.

Our review of The House with a Clock in Its Walls starring Jack Black, Cate Blanchett and Owen Vaccaro. Ten-year-old Lewis goes to live with his oddball uncle in a creaky old house that contains a mysterious ticktock noise. He soon learns that Uncle Jonathan and his feisty neighbour, Mrs. Zimmerman, are powerful practitioners of the magic arts. When Lewis accidentally awakens the dead, the town’s sleepy facade suddenly springs to life — revealing a secret and dangerous world of witches, warlocks and deadly curses.

We also speak with in-studio Petula Neale, host of the non-TIFF-affiliated podcast IN A TIFF. Petula will be on hand to give her thoughts on the fest that was TIFF18 and tell us what were the best and worst films she saw. Be sure to listen this Friday to find out what excitement transpired at the Toronto International Film Festival.

It was a great show!

Thanks to Highlander Brew Co. for sponsoring this episode. Order from them online at highlanderbrewco.com and use promo code to get a free Highlander Cook Book.

Geek Hard Extra:

Plus exclusively for our $4/month+ Patreon supporters, our latest Geek Hard Extra After Credits segment discussing Captain Marvel trailer and Eternals Director. 

If you’re gonna geek out, GEEK HARD!

Production Credits:

Geek Hard Logo – Candice Hibbard and Rich Robbins

Technical Production – Gary LaBarr, Recorded at the Reality Radio 101 Studio

Hosts/Producers – Andrew Young & James Green

Music Credits:

Opening Music “Eterna Teen” by Mark Holman

“Town Burned Down” by Adam’s House Cat

“Wild Woman” by Imelda May

“Wild Wild Women” by Cheap Trick

“Act Naturally” by Guy Venable

“Time Is Running Out” by Muse

“Light in the Darkness” by Torsti Spoof

Closing Music “Kelly’s Heroes” by Black Grape

This week on Back Issue Bloodbath, Andrew and Sammy tell us what they would do if they had the power to retcon certain comic stories out of existence!

This week on Back Issue Bloodbath, Andrew and Sammy tell us what they would do if they had the power to retcon certain comic stories out of existence!

Originally Aired: 09/14/18 – Our review of The Predator. We speak with Return of Wolverine’s Charles Soule and Howl & Roar’s Allison Dore.

Show Notes:

We play Andrew’s sit down interview with comic writer and author Charles Soule recorded during Fan Expo Canada. Charles chats about his current run on Daredevil, his first novel (The Oracle Year), and the upcoming Return of Wolverine series. Soule has lots to talk about and it’s all good times! Charles Soule is a New York Times-bestselling, Brooklyn-based comic book writer, musician, and attorney. He is best known for writing Daredevil, She-Hulk, Death of Wolverine and various Star Wars comics from Marvel Comics, as well as his creator-owned series Curse Words from Image Comics and the award-winning political sci-fi epic Letter 44 from Oni Press.

Our review of The Predator starring Boyd Holbrook, Olivia Munn and Jacob Tremblay. From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. The universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and an evolutionary biologist can prevent the end of the human race.

We also speak with SiriusXM Canada Radio Host and Media Personality Allison Dore. Allison will be on to talk about the launch of Howl & Roar Records, a female-centric comedy record label aimed at empowering artists and facilitating the creation of content for women and underrepresented performers in comedy. The label is launching September 19th with a show at the Bad Dog Theatre in Toronto headlined by Kate Davis. As a former comedian, Allison has seen the many challenges that female comics have faced in the industry and has created a space where they can produce their content. Comedian, actor, entertainer, media personality, interviewer, motivational speaker. Allison Dore has been called many things (some that should never be said out loud). Allison is a “professional talker” who approaches life with authenticity, curiosity, and a pathological honesty that highlights all of her wonderfully fabulous issues.

It was a great show!

Thanks to Highlander Brew Co. for sponsoring this episode. Order from them online at highlanderbrewco.com and use promo code to get a free Highlander Cook Book.

Geek Hard Extra:

Plus exclusively for our $4/month+ Patreon supporters, our latest Geek Hard Extra After Credits segment discussing Henry Cavill’s apparent departure from Superman.

If you’re gonna geek out, GEEK HARD!

Production Credits:

Geek Hard Logo – Candice Hibbard and Rich Robbins

Technical Production – Gary LaBarr, Recorded at the Reality Radio 101 Studio

Hosts/Producers – Andrew Young & James Green

Music Credits:

Opening Music “Eterna Teen” by Mark Holman

Originally Aired: 09/14/18 – Our review of The Predator. We speak with Return of Wolverine’s Charles Soule and Howl & Roar’s Allison Dore.

Show Notes:

We play Andrew’s sit down interview with comic writer and author Charles Soule recorded during Fan Expo Canada. Charles chats about his current run on Daredevil, his first novel (The Oracle Year), and the upcoming Return of Wolverine series. Soule has lots to talk about and it’s all good times! Charles Soule is a New York Times-bestselling, Brooklyn-based comic book writer, musician, and attorney. He is best known for writing Daredevil, She-Hulk, Death of Wolverine and various Star Wars comics from Marvel Comics, as well as his creator-owned series Curse Words from Image Comics and the award-winning political sci-fi epic Letter 44 from Oni Press.

Our review of The Predator starring Boyd Holbrook, Olivia Munn and Jacob Tremblay. From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. The universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and an evolutionary biologist can prevent the end of the human race.

We also speak with SiriusXM Canada Radio Host and Media Personality Allison Dore. Allison will be on to talk about the launch of Howl & Roar Records, a female-centric comedy record label aimed at empowering artists and facilitating the creation of content for women and underrepresented performers in comedy. The label is launching September 19th with a show at the Bad Dog Theatre in Toronto headlined by Kate Davis. As a former comedian, Allison has seen the many challenges that female comics have faced in the industry and has created a space where they can produce their content. Comedian, actor, entertainer, media personality, interviewer, motivational speaker. Allison Dore has been called many things (some that should never be said out loud). Allison is a “professional talker” who approaches life with authenticity, curiosity, and a pathological honesty that highlights all of her wonderfully fabulous issues.

It was a great show!

Thanks to Highlander Brew Co. for sponsoring this episode. Order from them online at highlanderbrewco.com and use promo code to get a free Highlander Cook Book.

Geek Hard Extra:

Plus exclusively for our $4/month+ Patreon supporters, our latest Geek Hard Extra After Credits segment discussing Henry Cavill’s apparent departure from Superman.

If you’re gonna geek out, GEEK HARD!

Production Credits:

Geek Hard Logo – Candice Hibbard and Rich Robbins

Technical Production – Gary LaBarr, Recorded at the Reality Radio 101 Studio

Hosts/Producers – Andrew Young & James Green

Music Credits:

Opening Music “Eterna Teen” by Mark Holman

“Books” by Caamp