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Eamon and Charlene McCracken•www.geekchew.com
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Geek enthusiast power couple discusses comics, culture, and creative media of all kinds.
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GeekChew No. 87: A Batman Recipe

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.

Sep 22, 2020•28 min

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.

Sep 15, 2020•51 min

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

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.

Sep 05, 2020•42 min

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.

Aug 25, 2020•46 min

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!

Aug 19, 2020•44 min

GeekChew No. 82: No Time to Change

Movie week! A couple new ones, a couple not as new: we talk about An American Pickle, Guns Akimbo, Yes God Yes, and Jojo Rabbit.

Aug 11, 2020•38 min

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!

Aug 04, 2020•39 min

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!

Jul 28, 2020•41 min

GeekChew No. 79: Netflix+

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.

Jul 21, 2020•41 min

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.

May 03, 2020•35 min

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!

Apr 06, 2020•44 min

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!

Jan 16, 2019•36 min

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).

Mar 11, 2018•34 min

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).

Feb 25, 2018•45 min

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).

Feb 09, 2018•27 min

GeekChew No. 65: Thor: Ragnarok/Justice League

This episode we talk The Punisher on Netflix (7:20), The Runaways on Hulu (10:46), and the trailer for Avengers: Infinity War before we get into Thor: Ragnarok (25:40) and Justice League (31:38).

Dec 05, 2017•50 min•Ep. 65

GeekChew No. 64: Conceptual Approval

This week we kick things off talking about new trailers for Pacific Rim Uprising, Justice League, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. We also announce our next book club book, 4 3 2 1: A Novel, by Paul Auster. Then we get into the new X-Men show on Fox, The Gifted (12:51), the new book Batman: White Knight by Sean Murphy (18:36), and Blade Runner 2049 (30:16).

Oct 13, 2017•51 min

GeekChew No. 63: Pauline Boty: Female Artist

We finally finished our second book club book! So this week we talk about Mister Miracle #2 (9:04) and the movie It (16:39) before we dive into the novel Autumn, by Ali Smith (26:00).

Sep 21, 2017•45 min

GeekChew No. 62: Fight Seens

This week we start with some talk about the first five episodes of The Defenders on Netflix (6:40), then slide into Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (14:18) and Atomic Blonde (20:35), and cap it off with what might be our favorite book of the year, Mister Miracle, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (26:02).

Aug 27, 2017•40 min

GeekChew No. 61: The Big Sick/Dunkirk

This episode we cover the season 7 premiere of Game of Thrones (10:44), the new Image book Generation Gone (20:25), Kumail Nanjiani's The Big Sick (26:14), and Dunkirk (34:24).

Jul 22, 2017•48 min

GeekChew No. 59: Non-Compliant Tangents Abound

This week we riff on invisibility for reasons unknown before we get into the new anthology series Bitch Planet: Triple Feature (21:51) and the last two episodes of the first season of American Gods (36:20).

Jun 25, 2017•53 min
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