Episode 39 - They Have to Find Their George Lazenby - Week of 11/23/16
The Fellowship of the Geeks Podcast
Release Date: 11/20/2016
The Fellowship of the Geeks Podcast
The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. It’s been around for 40 years now, though it only ran for 10. And boy, was it a good one. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Illness last week, some of Shyamalan’s movies, TV updates, War of the Satellites (1958) on Tubi, The Blood Spattered Bride (1972) on Tubi, Nobody 2 (2025) in theaters, Big Bag o’ Nothing(™) The kid from the Looney Tunes cartoons was Ralph Phillips, in “From A to Z-Z-Z-Z” in 1954 and “Boyhood Daze” in 1957. Come see the...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the Justice Society of America, now that it’s been around for 85 years. It set the template for super-teams, in more ways than one. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Some illness last week, vacation, TV updates, The Ambushers (1967) on Tubi, more of the 15 terrible movies, reactions and pranks on YouTube Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News segment ! Producer’s note: We record using Discord since Skype went away and, while Discord is much easier to use, it’s not...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our Casting Call for a 1979 Fantastic Four movie. We’re excited about the new movie, so we’re making an old one (because it’s us). Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Starting Andor season 2, a Supernatural revival???, Reddit tangent, Quatermass 2 (1957) on Tubi, Heads of State (2025) on Prime, Superman (2025) in theaters (yes, again 😀) Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News segment ! Producer’s note: We record using Discord since Skype went away and, while Discord is much easier to...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the 1985 Spider-man story The Death of Jean DeWolff. Not all comics stories are about supervillains. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: MeTV Toons is now on DirectTV, cartoon tangents, Nosferatu (2024) on Prime, Superman (2025) in theaters, Saw X (2023), Thunderbolts* (2025) Producer’s note: We record using Discord since Skype went away and, while Discord is much easier to use, it’s not perfect. You may notice some brief dropouts from any of us at any time during the show. And...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion in which we each build a team of DC villains that we would make into good guys, a la Marvel’s Thunderbolts. Not the Suicide Squad, that’s totally different 🙂. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Jensen’s new show on Prime (Countdown), The Ventures: Stars on Guitars (2020) on Tubi, Deep Cover (2025) on Prime, a potential movie night on Discord, Tim David Kelly from Kicking Harold (YouTube channel) Producer’s note: We record using Discord since Skype went away and, while Discord is much...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the origin story of Disneyland. It’s more complicated than you might think, given that it’s the first of its kind. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Continuing Andor, grief and Supernatural, Kiss of the Vampire (1963) on Tubi (dubbed in Spanish), the YouTube rabbit hole, top sequels in history (according to a dude on the internet) Producer’s note: We record using Discord since Skype went away and, while Discord is much easier to use, it’s not perfect. You may notice some brief...
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The Fellowship is pleased to present our discussion of the TV show Get Smart, continuing our Classic TV Month. Superspies and Mel Brooks? Yes please. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Superman movie marathon, Pee-wee As Himself (2025) on HBO, children’s TV tangent, Murderer’s Row (1966) on (or off) Tubi, Becky (2020) and The Wrath of Becky (2023), Universal Horror Unleashed (movie-based haunted house) in Las Vegas Come see the articles we talked about in the Geek News segment ! Shoutouts: podcast network - go check them out! 🙂 - an...
info_outlineThe Fellowship is pleased to present a discussion of comics properties that were killed by their forays into other media (movies & TV). We sidetrack a little (okay, a lot) on the new Dirk Gently series, the new Bone movie, and nearly everything else. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
Big stack of trades to read (woohoo!)
Catching up on TV shows - Scream Queens, Dirk Gently, The New Howdy Doody Show (which is pretty annoying)
More teasing of secret projects
Teen Titans Omnibus (including primo teen lingo from the 50s & 60s)
[Note- the character in the new Dirk Gently show is Todd; the one in the book is Richard]
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Comic titles we listed that were killed by other media (or something like that):
Howard the Duck
Fantastic Four
Classic Battlestar Galactica (kind of in reverse)
X-Men (from two different angles)
The Punisher
Jonah Hex
Doctor Strange (looking into the future a bit, I admit)
Speed Racer & Thunderbirds
[Note- we really didn't plan to pick on Marvel so hard with this. It just kind of worked out that way. Sorry, Marvel; we still love you, and if you want to come on the show for a rebuttal, you're always welcome :-) ]
[Note- Jeff Smith's Bone won an absolute embarrassment of Harvey and Eisner awards during its run, and was a consistent New York Times bestseller.]
Picks for the week of 11/23:
Athena Voltaire and the Volcano Goddess #1
The Black Monday Murders #4
Peepland #2
Super Powers #1
Hot Damn trade
The Great Divide #3
Happy (American) Thanksgiving, everyone :-)
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