Episode 66 - Wow, The Bus Comes Early - Week of 6/14/17
The Fellowship of the Geeks Podcast
Release Date: 06/11/2017
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 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 Hogan’s Heroes, continuing our Classic TV Month. Comedy in a Nazi POW camp? Sure, let’s give it a shot. Plus our usual crazy talk, geek news, and tangents🙂. What we're up to this week: Sonic Prime on Netflix, Universe of Light Featuring DC Legends at the Gaylord Texan (here in the DFW area), Gaslight (1940) on YouTube, Greedy People (2024), Cocaine Bear (2023), Strange Darling (2023), traffic dashcam madness Producer’s note: We record using Discord since Skype went away and, while Discord is much easier to use, it’s...
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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 our quarterly look at crowdfunding. A ton of cool comics and other things come out on Kickstarter all the time, and we like to showcase a little of it. It's a fun way to get access to new creators as well as established ones. And as always, our picks of the week.
What we're up to this week:
I actually finished a non-comic book - Outbound Flight by Timothy Zahn
Appendectomy - no really, Les was getting out of surgery as we were starting to record last week
Vacation! - dug out and read Fantastic Four: In Search of Galactus (Marvel)
And hints that FF may be returning to the fold?
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Check out our Kickstarter picks:
Sentries
Comichaus - an indie comics app
Illustrated Classics from Beehive Books
Picks for the week of 6/14:
Green Valley #9 (Image)
Jimmy's Bastards #1 (Aftershock)
Legion of Super Heroes/Bugs Bunny Special (DC)
Shadows on the Grave #5 (Dark Horse)
Normandy Gold #1 (Titan)
Kid Sherlock #1 (Action Lab)
Honorable Mention: Winnebago Graveyard #1 (Image)
Honorable Mention: The Michael Moorcock Library Vol. 5 - The Vanishing Tower (Titan)
Honorable Mention: Kill the Minotaur #1 (Image)
Also, Overground Comics has been picked up by American Mythology - this is a very good thing
Shoutouts:
Manny the Martyr - thanks for letting us use your music
#PodernFamily - an awesome group of indie podcasters supporting each other
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