John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey’s The Apocalypse Triptych is a trilogy of short-story collections, each one set at a different stage of the end of the world. In the second book in the series, The End is Now, we take you to Doomsday already in progress. Twenty stories telling all the different ways that everything is coming
Michael Mann, acclaimed director of Heat, The Insider and Collateral, is starting 2015 off with his new cyber-thriller, Blackhat. The American and Chinese agencies work together to capture a cyber criminal who seems unmotivated by politics or finance, as he seeks to cripple the international banking network. With the help of convict Nicholas Hathaway, Chris
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! It’s time to travel though time, space, the afterlife and beyond! This week the guys got all excellent with the 1991 classic, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey. The sequel where our would be heroes, Bill and Ted, are killed and thus must fight
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Mark the calendars, DC Comics has impressed your favorite geeky podcasters this week with the news of both the Vixen digitally animated show coming to The CW and Tanya Spears, the new African-American Power Girl. Kudos to the much-criticized publication, but will it
The legend of Prester John is one of the first documented cases of a hoax going viral. In 1165 a letter was discovered, supposedly sent to the Byzantine Emperor from a mysterious king in the far east, telling of a Christian land filled with riches and monsters. The letter inspired stories and explorations and crusades for four
There comes a time in every gamer’s life when you realize, “There’s too many things to play!” Sadly, I’ve reached that point in my life and I must admit that I can’t play everything that comes out, beat them, and also write about them. Luckily, I have just enough free time to put in work
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! This week Leland is spending the weekend away and decided to have one of his best friends guest on this weeks show. So the guys watched the William Castle 1964 classic thriller, Stright-Jacket. Staring Joan Crawford as a woman who beheaded her husband
Sony recently unveiled its new pricing model for its PlayStation Now service. The service is designed to allow PS4 users to stream PS3 (and eventually PS2 and PS1) titles to their consoles through the Internet, much like you would stream movies through Netflix. PlayStation Now is slated to come to the PS3 and PSVita a
When I first flipped through The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black from Quirk Books I assumed it was just one of those pretty picture books like Dragonology or Wizardology: lots of full page illustrations, light on story and heavy on artwork. It’s actually much, much darker than that.