Hey You Geeks

This week, we’re talking all about comics! With the recent influx of new Superhero books on shelves, it’s a great time for change in the comics landscape and the perfect time for new readers to jump on. We’re talking about everything from the new Superior Iron Man, All-New Captain America and Lady Thor titles to new event titles including DC’s Batman: Endgame and Marvel’s AXIS. We also talk about the new and many titles interweaving (pun intended) Marvel’s Spiderverse. After that, we sift through some news and rumors about the upcoming Fantastic Four movie, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Atari: Game Over and Jurassic World.

We’re back from this years New York Comic Con, the biggest mass media and geek culture conglomeration on the East Coast. We have a lot to talk about, from the Birdman panel with Michael Keaton and Edward Norton and Batman’s 75th Anniversary panel to the Occulus Rift, the new Daredevil series and more. Cons can be a daunting and overwhelming setting, so we’re sharing our experiences, both wins and losses, from battling panel lines, contending with floor traffic and planning ahead as a guide to doing Comic Con the right way. We also offer our opinions on the state of geek culture and shifts we observed at this years con.

Fall movie season is right around the corner. This week, we take a look through the slate of movies coming this Fall in search of anything exciting coming from the genre world. Unfortunately, the pickings are slim, with a few movies we’re excited about (Mockingjay, Birdman, The Zero Theorem, Interstellar), a bunch we’re mildly intrigued by (Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Space Station 76, Horns, Automata, Maps to the Stars) and some others that we just don’t care about at all. All that, plus we talk about some new Marvel news that may spare us from our case of origin fatigue.

San Diego Comic Con just concluded and we have so much to talk about that we’ve split our coverage into two episodes! On this first episode, we’re breaking down all of the movie news from the Con. From Mad Max: Fury Road to The Death of Superman Lives we’re discussing every tease, trailer, panel and announcement we can. Other movies we discuss include Avengers: Age of Ultron, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Ant Man, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Godzilla 2, Skull Island, Pacific Rim 2, TMNT, Warcraft, Tusk, Horns, Halo, Fantastic Four, Sinister Six, Jupiter Ascending and more.

Episode 18 of the Hey You Geeks podcast is a grab bag of film trailers, the Oscars, upcoming video games and in true Hey You Geeks fashion, lots of Star Wars digressions. We’re talking about the new trailers for Guardians of the Galaxy, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, Transformers: Age of Extinction and Annie, yes Annie. We also discuss the Oscars and which actor we thought was most deserving of the big bald guy this year. To our surprise, Rocksteady released a trailer for a new Arkham game this week, so of course we discuss that development. Finally, our talk about the final season of Star Wars: Clone Wars coming to Netflix evolves into a discussion about Adam Driver being cast as a villain in the new Star Wars film. It just wouldn’t be Hey You Geeks if our conversations didn’t lead into a Star Wars debate.