Trapped on a desolate planet, with nothing but their wits about them, Drew, Myles, and Patrick should be using their only communications to summon a rescue party. Instead, they use their dying signal to talk about Andy Weir’s wildly successful science fiction novel, The Martian. There’s even just enough power left for a little Talk…
Episode 174: Patrick: The Gathering
For Patrick’s grand birthday bash, our friend Steven Sunu, returns to the show! We chat a little bit over our current obsession, Destiny’s new expansion, The Taken King, before diving into Patrick’s birthday challenge of playing the legendary collectable card game, Magic: The Gathering. We discuss in depth the game’s origins, mechanics, the culture its developed,…
Patrick and Myles’ Comic Book Buy Pile 9/16/15
Myles: It feels like #6 just came out, but I will not complain in the slightest about more Jem! Jem and the Holograms #7 sees artist Sophie Campbell taking a breather and handing the reins over to Emma Vieceli. Transitioning artists can sometimes feel awkward for readers, but Vieceli arrives flawlessly. Though her personal…
Episode 173: Now Entering: Gravity Falls
Can you feel the love tonight? We certainly could as we chronicled our love affair with Gravity Falls, Disney’s hit animated series and to date our most challenged show! But the love fest doesn’t go just to this wonderful series alone. Drew finally gets his moment in the sun to talk about his favorite game series…
Patrick and Myles’ Comic Book Buy Pile 9/9/15
Neither Patrick nor I anticipate our little fireside chat reviews to be a thing of any kind of regularity, but we had a lot of fun last week sharing the duties over Jem #6. It was sort of an unsaid agreement that we probably wouldn’t try this again unless it was something we both felt…
Episode 172: The A, B, DC's With Ashley and Jason
Ashley V. Robinson and Jason Inman return to the show to talk a bit about season two of their successful YouTube show, The Red Shirt Diaries as well as their respective creative endeavors like DC All Access, Geek History Lesson and Apollo IX. What transpires is a huge nerding out that jumps all across the board…
Patrick and Myles’ Comic Book Buy Pile 9/2/15
Patrick & Myles Pick: {P}: So I figured instead of Myles and myself fighting each month with who gets to pick IDW’s “Jem and the Holograms” by Kelly Thompson and Sophie Campbell as their favorite comics, I would provide a place for us to settle our differences, and both gush over it. Issue #6 is…
Episode 171: Sword Art Online
Myles, Patrick, and Drew are stuck inside a podcast with no way of logging out! Luckily, Mitch Hutts, owner of The Drunken Moogle is here to help. Mitch and the guys discuss the popular anime, Sword Art Online as well as the nature of MMORPGs and what the series gets right about them!
Page Turner: Shattered Blue by Lauren Bird Horowitz
Tropes aren’t always a bad thing. They sometimes still serve as fun devices, or get reworked in a way that either makes a case for them or transforms into something refreshing. A number of those tropes aren’t bad to start with, which is why they get used so much. Then there are others. The ones…
Patrick and Myles’ Comic Book Buy Pile 8/26/15
Myles: As I mentioned last month, IDW Publishing‘s Godzilla in Hell is a conceptual dream come true. My concern was as great as this concept was, the risk of it slipping into simple novelty with the subsequent issues would run high. But the fine folks at IDW retain the concept’s freshness, aided in part by…