Squideye and The Bitter Guy

DC Animated and Reanimated, X-Men Utopia, Evil '70s Computers.

Notes and plans:

- We recorded this episode twice. The computer ate the first one.

- G20 Protests going on in Toronto!

- Ilan read ALL OF BLACKEST NIGHT and bought the toys (Heroclix). And a bunch of villains unlimited (+ Project OMAC, and Infinite Crisis), in order to read Secret Six. A discussion of Darth Sue, and Fables Volume 12.

- Ilan is now watching the rest of Superman Animated and is itching to watch The Justice League, after seeing "Crisis on Two Earths".

- Also: New Avengers! Secret Avengers! SHIELD! And Modern Warfare 2.

- Justin read through Project Utopia, the massive X-Men Crossover.

- Justin takes us through '70s Cinema! Logan's Run! Colossus: the Forbin Project! Soylent Green! Rollerball!

- Justin talks about Can't Stop the Serenity, the annual

We'll have to try again to get movies it's okay for geeks to cry at recorded. So close! At least nobody was hurt.

We remember fallen visionaries, and also Carl Macek. (Bazinga? No seriously, I love The Sentinels.) We talk about a bunch of comics that were out a couple of weeks ago by now. We didn't have time to cover movies it's okay for geeks to cry at. And nobody was hurt.

Shoe Notes -- "Remember The Artist"

Passing of Frazetta, and comics.

- Wolverine: LOGAN (Vaughan)

- Wolverine: Adamantium Men (Aaron) --Britney Backup Dancers and Cabaret

- 100 Bullets (Azzarello)

- LTTP: Invincible big fat book 1. (Kirkman)

Documentaries.

- The People Vs George Lucas (CGI and HD?)

- Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage (via Objectivisim)

- Bioshock 2

Digression into Giant Robots.

- "I don't know why I'm talking about Evangelion"

- Robotech, "Japanamation"

Transforming Robots, Starcraft 2 Beta

- Farewell, Carl Macek

Iron Man 2, and back to comics.

- SHIELD comic (Hickman)

- Secret Warriors GOOD (Hickman)

- Marvel Zombeis 3 (Van Lente) -- Better Than Cilantro

- How it's an unofficial sequel to Nextwave and same goes for Who Won't Wield The Shield

- Secret Warriors Siege :P (Hickman)

- Hercules Mini (and errors)

- "Do Anything" (Warren Ellis) with Robot Head of Philip K. Dick

RPGs and Miscellany.

- Green Ro-NEEN and DC Mutants and Masterminds

- Romper Room!

- Unreason and Dragon Magazine

- Congratulations, Jerome!

- Congratulations, Chris!

Last threads, other comics.

- Scalped and Godland I am reading

- Patton Oswalt's Firefly Comic Book

- June 23rd Can't Stop the Serenity

- Dragon Lady and Joe!

This week on Squideye and The Bitter Guy, we document our experience as Active Fans and also as Fan-Havers. Ilan reports on his journey to PAX and his meeting with Russ and Nicole of The D6 Generation. Justin talks of Cindy's journey to the Wizard World show, and of the Squideye and the Bitter Guy Facebook Page. We also talk about Kirby Krackle's new album, "E for Everyone", and the new Clash of the Titans movie. And Plants. And Zombies.

Sources report that nobody was hurt.

Links and stuff coming soon!

A little noisy; we recorded at the delightful Green Beanery Café in Toronto, across from Honest Ed's, and we had mics but no shelter from the bustling crowd. Think of it as "character". No charge.

Introducing Owen Craig of Mondo Magazine! http://mondomagazine.net/

Toronto Comic-con! http://www.wizardworld.com/home-toronto.html

Blackest Night!

Gail Simone!

Scott Pilgrim! http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/universal/scottpilgrimvstheworld/

And nobody was hurt!

A Silly Place. Squideye and The Bitter Guy discuss the upcoming Oscar Nominees - at least the ones they've seen, now including the second subject of discussion: The Hurt Locker. We also hammer away at Monty Python Fluxx and other recently-played games, discuss weddings in India and in local theatre, and the general state of things. And nobody was hurt.

Todd Alcott's breakdown of Inglorious Basterds can be found here.

According to Wikipedia, Youth in Revolt was released in 1993.

Andre from blacknerdcomedy.com talks about how Lost hates black people.

Squideye and The Bitter Guy talk about the comics that came out this week. An experiment in form and format. What do you think?

Space and Time - BSG, Space Hulk, The Plan, and Remembrance Day.-----Wow did this take a while to upload.Show notes to follow.Bottom line is we played some games -- Space Hulk and the BSG Boardgame, saw Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, and realized that it's been one year since we met on a cold Remembrance day, rebooted iPhones by the Queen's Park cenotaph, and sketched out plans to initiate this podcast over at the Free Times Café.I'll get this all typed up, tooootally.

Music of the Spheres (51 minutes) - Even longer, but we're making up for lost time - and episode! "Scenes from a Food Court" is recapped, and then we LAUNCH... into Nerd Rock and Space Opera. The connective tissue is provided by Kirby Krackle (http://www.kirbykracklemusic.com) and their song "Ring Capacity". We're pretty sure nobody was hurt.Show Notes:0:25 Cheers! (It's just Fruit Juice actually)1:10 Scenes From a Food Court Recap; Cthulhu Rising- 2:15 Under the Mountain, Harness your Twinness; Super-Friends with Benefits- 3:45 Board Game: Arkham Horror- 4:40 some 3-D Joe Dante Movie- 6:10 Really, Arkham Horror- 9:10 Cosmic Encounter! -- and how to teach players race for the galaxy12:50 Nerd Music Spectacular!- 12:50 Darkest of the Hillside Thickets -- Spaceship Zero- 14:05 The Kirby Krackle- 15:07 Excerpt from Ring Capacity (30 sec)- 18:25 Back in the '80s- 19:35 Do You Want to Date My Avatar, and Felicia Day- 22:15 Pizza Break; My Roommate the Guitar Hero- 24:10 Glee26:25 Things to ask Edgar Wright -- and ANTi-Heroes28:15 Comics- 28:15 The Incredible Hulk - Penetrating Public Consciousness, Accessibility- 30:15 Konnecting Kirble Krackle to Kosmick Komicks- 30:25 Cosmic Heroes!!!- 30:55 Lensman and Green Lantern- 33:55 Cosmics: The Blackest Night- 35:25 Digressions: Animated Stuff, and Secretary- 37:15 Letdowns: World War Hulk, Mega-Crossovers, Dark Reign- 38:41 Our First Bleep- 39:15 Marvel Annihilation! Cosmic Epics Done Right- 40:44 The Xanadarian World-Mind: are cosmics inaccessible to laymen?- 44:25 Marvel Cosmics vs. DC Cosmics (Annihilation/Kings vs. Blackest Night)46:20 Cosmic Roleplaying: Starblazer Adventures- 48:00 TSR's Marvel Superheroes, FUDGE and FATE49:45 Coming up next time! Including "Movies it's okay for Geeks to cry at"50:10 and we out

Neighbours and Numbers (48 minutes) - This is our longest podcast yet! We didn't have MGK to restrain us this time. Original intention was to review District 9 and Escalation, on a "responsible neighbour" theme. Of course things went wildly out of hand, once we included other media with numerals in the title. We blame the tornado! Fortunately, nobody was hurt.0:30 The Big Storm, and Smart Cars (about 10 minutes)2:00 DVDs - Babylon 5 and others- 2:00 How I Met Your Mother- 3:00 Babylon 5, lost podcast minutes, and the Battlestar Galactica Board Game10:45 District 9 - Queens and Prawns (about 15 minutes)- 17:20 GI JOE- 23:00 Back to District 926:00 Board Games (about 8 minutes)- 26:00 James Ernest's Totally Renamed Spy Game- 28:00 Reiner Knizia's Escalation- 31:00 Reiner Knizia's Colossal Arena34:00 Role-Playing Games (about 13 minutes)- 34:00 White Wolf's "New" World of Darkness and Werewolf the Forsaken- 36:00 The Werewolf Spirit World- 40:30 Exalted- 42:30 Spirit of the Century- 44:30 Desolation and antagonistic GM styles- 45:00 Our possible Fan Expo games47:00 Find @squideye and @thebitterguy on Twitter, and rate us on iTunes!

I knew this would happen!We recorded this episode a week early, and consequently we remain on our two-week schedule even though we didn't get a chance to record one on our normal schedule. Next episode: "movies it's okay for geeks to cry at". Our Internet-famous friend Chris Bird (explosively-talented author and editor of mightygodking.com) came by to make us seem smarter and funnier. We planned to talk about Matt Fraction, but we diverged and had fun anyway, and nobody was hurt.WARNING: THIS ONE HAS SWEARING IN IT. (The parts about Michael Ignatieff and Greg Land, in particular.)0:25 - Welcome Mighty God King! Also, Knitting Podcasts. (2 minutes)3:00 - Board Game: Thurn and Taxis... and zombies? (5 minutes)7:30 - The Smoothest Segue You'll Ever Hear into Comics, but actually The Toronto Garbage Strike. (4 minutes)11:15 - What is a '70s hero? Is Iron Man one? (4 minutes)14:55 - The Nineties: a Time of Ignorance. Spider-Man's Clone Saga. (4 minutes)18:25 - We try again to talk about Matt Fraction's Iron Man, but then we talk about Greg Land, and Earth Expansion. (5 minutes)23:10 - Iron Fist! And it's pronounced "Swer-Jin-Ski". (3 minutes)26:00 - When is it Joe Quesada's fault? Also, how to come back from the dead. (3 minutes)29:20 - Comic-con! Tron! Marvelman Rights! World War Red She-Hulks! and... Thunder Agents? (10 minutes)39:00 - Multiverses! (1 minute)40:10 - Oh dear lord it's forty minutes, Ilan attempts to point this out but we talk about Bone instead! (4 minutes)44:00 - Pouches, and farewell (2 minutes)