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GeekChew No. 97: Quaint and Bizarre

GeekChew No. 97: Quaint and Bizarre
Eamon and Charlene McCracken

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. 95: Thank You for Not Listening

GeekChew No. 95: Thank You for Not Listening
Eamon and Charlene McCracken

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. 92: That's Some Good Accent Work

GeekChew No. 92: That's Some Good Accent Work
Eamon and Charlene McCracken

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. 89: The Case of the Curious Wallet

GeekChew No. 89: The Case of the Curious Wallet
Eamon and Charlene McCracken

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?

GeekChew No. 88: What's Old School to You?
Eamon and Charlene McCracken

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. 87: A Batman Recipe

GeekChew No. 87: A Batman Recipe
Eamon and Charlene McCracken

Book club episode! We talk about Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane, but first we discuss two movies: Your Name and The Devil All the Time.

GeekChew No. 85: Kid Cudi and the Space-time Continuum

GeekChew No. 85: Kid Cudi and the Space-time Continuum
Eamon and Charlene McCracken

Movies! So many movies. We saw Bill and Ted Face the Music and The New Mutants. Casablanca. The Speed Cubers. Class Action Park. We also announce our new book club book: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman.

GeekChew No. 84: The Math Does Not Check Out

GeekChew No. 84: The Math Does Not Check Out
Eamon and Charlene McCracken

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

GeekChew No. 83: Not in a Good Way
Eamon and Charlene McCracken

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. 80: The Horror of Beautiful Darkness

GeekChew No. 80: The Horror of Beautiful Darkness
Eamon and Charlene McCracken

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. 79: Netflix+

GeekChew No. 79: Netflix+
Eamon and Charlene McCracken

We announce our next book club book! Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders. Then it’s all about movies, from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga to The Old Guard to Palm Springs. Also Greyhound. And a little bit about The King of Staten Island… we’re all over the place.

GeekChew No. 77: She Didn't Read the Description

GeekChew No. 77: She Didn't Read the Description
Eamon and Charlene McCracken

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

GeekChew No. 76: The Target Circles Lady Rides Again
Eamon and Charlene McCracken

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

GeekChew No. 73: Could've had a Baby
Eamon and Charlene McCracken

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. 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. 69: We Need Explainers
Eamon and Charlene McCracken

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