This week we cover episode four of WandaVision, the new HBO Max movie Locked Down, the latest Batman Black and White series from DC, and Derek DelGaudio’s one-man show Hulu, In & Of Itself.
GeekChew No. 96: Maggie the Mechanic
It’s our first Love and Rockets episode! We get it rolling with Maggie the Mechanic by Jaime Hernandez.
GeekChew No. 95: Thank You for Not Listening
We finally got around to watching Midnight Sky on Netflix and talk about it. Then we discuss DC’s Future State before getting into the premier of WandaVision.
GeekChew No. 93: I Only Count Up
We’re catching up on Pretty Deadly: The Rat by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios! We also talk about Spontaneous, Soul, and WW84.
GeekChew No. 92: That's Some Good Accent Work
This week we rank our top three Christmas movies, discuss Image Comics Stillwater by Chip Zdarsky and Ramon K. Perez, talk Mank on Netflix, plus so much Disney/Marvel/Star Wars stuff.
GeekChew No. 90: Never Tell Me What It's Worth
We watched the new movie from Blumhouse, Freaky, and David Byrne’s American Utopia. And Charlene is turning 40. It’s not going well.
GeekChew No. 89: The Case of the Curious Wallet
Sex Criminals has been one of our favorite books over the last seven years, and with issue #69 it has come to an end. We talk about the series from Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky and what it’s meant to us. We also talk Maids from Katie Skelly and unveil our plans to deep-dive into the Love & Rockets books.
GeekChew No. 88: What's Old School to You?
We announce our new book club book here! Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. Then we talk about our annual October Halloween movie binge before we dive into the collected volume of House of X and Powers of X, by Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz.
GeekChew No. 86: Chef's Table Stole My Wallet
We blew through the season of Chef’s Table BBQ that just dropped on Netflix, and it was amazing. We also started Cobra Kai and talk about Netflix’s newly announced adaptation of The Three-Body Problem. Then we get into a great new series by Al Ewing and Simone Di Meo, We Only Find Them When They’re Dead. And finally, a trio of movies from the past couple weeks, skipping from Mulan to I’m Thinking of Ending Things to Tenet.
GeekChew No. 84: The Math Does Not Check Out
Tenth of December book club episode! We talk about the collection of George Saunders short stories, the news and trailers coming out of the DC Fandome, Lovecraft Country on HBO, and the documentary Boys State. Our book club is the best book club.
GeekChew No. 83: Not in a Good Way
What did we watch on Netflix? Project Power, Always Be My Maybe, and (un)well. HBO? We finished Perry Mason! Did we subscribe to Shudder? Absolutely we did that to watch Host. iTunes got our money too! Inferno, She Dies Tomorrow, and Never Rarely Sometimes Always. Oh, we also talked about the Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass book by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh. Full week!
GeekChew No. 81: So Many Wrong Words
Ran the gamut this week, talking about comics (East of West, Lazarus), TV (Doom Patrol, Umbrella Academy, Perry Mason, Survivor), and a movie (The Vast of Night). Unsurprisingly, we like all these things!
GeekChew No. 80: The Horror of Beautiful Darkness
It’s horror week! We read Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoet, then the first issue of the new Chew spin-off series by John Layman and Dan Boultwood, Chu. Then it’s all movies: Sea Fever, The Conjuring, Drag Me to Hell, and Relic. It was an intense week!
GeekChew No. 77: She Didn't Read the Description
Things are slow but we picked our new book club book, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin! We also caught up on Saga, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, Chinatown, Stuber, playing a lot of Clank! In! Space!, and so much more.
GeekChew No. 76: The Target Circles Lady Rides Again
We each rank our top 3 movies from 2019 (better late than never) and the 3 movies we’re most looking forward to in 2020 (assuming they’re released this year). We also talk about Strange Adventures, the new Tom King/Mitch Gerads/Evan “Doc” Shaner book!
GeekChew No 73: Could've had a Baby
We’re back after a short nine-month break and it’s our book club episode! First we talk Aquaman (3:54) and the new Image Comics series Die, by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans (10:32). The we get into History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (18:18) and announce our next book club book!
GeekChew No. 72: Transcending Genres One Episode at a Time
We cover a lot of ground this week, including I Kill Giants (8:38), Oblivion Song (15:33), Gideon Falls (20:09), Ready Player One (24:37), and A Quiet Place (31:46).
GeekChew No. 70: We Roll in Culture
This week we celebrate 5 years of podcasting! We revisit Quantum & Woody in a throwback to our first episode and discuss the relaunched series, written by Daniel Kibblesmith with art by Kano (3:25). Then we roll into some talk about Deathbed no. 1, a new Vertigo series by Joshua Williamson and Riley Rossmo (11:59). We finish up with the movie Annihilation (18:38).
GeekChew No. 69: We Need Explainers
This week is Black Panther week! First we talked about the Swamp Thing: Winter Special (9:22), then hit on some Netflix sci-fi with The Cloverfield Paradox (19:17) and Altered Carbon (24:37), and finish it out with Black Panther (29:31).
GeekChew No. 68: Irony is too Highbrow
This week's episode covers the new Vertigo book Imaginary Fiends, from Tim Seeley and Stephen Molnar (4:28), the Netflix series Dark (11:10), and the latest movie from Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread (18:11).