The Geek Down

We talk the good, bad, and ugly of PAX 2017, get all up in a monkeys hairy crevices with Kong: Skull Island, and Baltimore: The Red Kingdom shows us in grave, bleak, and bloody as F*** details how "everything WILL end"

Pax has always been one of our favorite conventions, as it usually presents the best of the best with the worst of the worst. While there was WAY too much this year to properly digest it all, there’s plenty to praise and roast alike. The Geek Down rode in full force for PAX 2017, scoping out the big boys and the indies on site.

Pat had good things to say about this horror comic, with the caveat that you're really INTO horror comics. Lord Baltimore is missing. The Red King—evil incarnate—is taking over the world. Baltimore’s team has been driven apart, with some of them dying on the front-lines while others are in hiding. Since the day he set out for revenge on the vampire who killed his family, Baltimore’s fight has gotten bigger than he’d ever imagined, but what role will he take as evil finally threatens to consume the world? This story took him back to those days as an angsty teenager just looking for everything to burn, and for that it's a recommend.

Pat gets detained at a new Target location. By gross incompetence and faulty equipment

Pat had mostly good things to say about this pseudo-sequel to the 1930's classic. With new allegories to classic character tropes that were actually debuted IN the original King Kong, an interesting direction is taken. Scientists, soldiers and adventurers unite to explore a mythical, uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. Cut off from everything they know, they venture into the domain of the mighty Kong, igniting the ultimate battle between man and nature. As their mission of discovery soon becomes one of survival, they must fight to escape from a primal world where humanity does not belong. Utilizing the new technology available to bring some horrific parts of the wild to life, it (mostly) resists the urge to overproduce visuals and actions, and for that earns respect and a recommendation to see.

We welcome back our favorite redheaded slut (not the drink), tackle PAX on two different fronts, subject the Nintendo Switch to premier scrutiny, dig our claws in Hugh Jackman's final stint as Logan, see WWE's Fastlane break streaks... hearts... records... faces..., and our old friend Dale Stone's drops by to be a bad influence on innocent nerds

Pat gives the comic-reader's perspective on 2017's Logan. Supposedly Hugh Jackman's final turn as the famed Wolverine character and touted as the on-screen adaptation of the Marvel Comics "Old Man Logan" miniseries, this one may have snowjobbed us all. Whether or not there was deliberate deceit from the marketing -- we discuss that. Also starring Patrick Stewart, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Richard E. Grant and Dafne Keen, the film follows a past-his-prime Logan (no longer the Wolverine) embarking on a road trip across America for one final mission. In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.

Friend and former producer Rob Bizzle swings by for an in-depth talk about or favorite gaming convention PAX, the Jamspace, life after Geek Down, and other good stuff like that there!

JM gives us the full-contact context in what SHOULD have, and COULD have, been a phenomenal PPV, but instead dropped the ball egregiously. Poor tile shifts, disappointing stunts, and an overall bad taste is pretty much all that came out of it.

Dale Stones gives us the scoop on his new PAX-adjacent show, "Comic Con Vixens!" One show to rule them all, with another epic installment celebrating the sexier side of all your favorite conventions around the country. It's an epic showcase starring some of NYC and Boston’s most gorgeous geeks, and featuring cosplay’s burlesque queen, STELLA CHUU. No fandom is safe from the sexy, crazy brains of the Comic Con Vixens! All of your nerdiest fantasies will come to life in a nonstop showcase of geeky performance.