Episode 67: SDCC Recap

of friends, too involved in stuff. Trondy Newman, friend of the uh actually it's Tanny, but her screen name online is Trondy uh Tonny Newsom Yeah the lower decks. She's gonna be doing some Star Trek stuff and already got um actually online um oh I saw she could clap back. Yeah um that. Someone was like, you should watch this Star Trek. She's like I have, and she's also a

voice of an animated now she's also running. Not only is she a voice of a new animated Star Trek character, but she is also the co host of a Star Trek podcast now with the official Star Trek people, So don't try and flex on her. But we are joined with two other of our friends that were at STCC this weekend. We have pop culture critic you know, are you love her? Joel Monique? Hey, what's thanks for coming back? Yes, we're all alive, which is amazing. Technically not a review

you have been on our reviews before. This is kind of a review. It's a recap. Yeah, sure, of all of the there were so many panels. I was trying to catch up today and I think I got through maybe like a third of the Hall h and Hall twenty panels. I got to be in Hall twenty did Yeah. That other voice that you hear, she's an entertainment journalist, it's Flora's Serial Cool. Hi, Hey, thank you so much for having me on. I love this podcast. So I love you too, like both of you guys. So I'm

like so excited to be here. Yeah, I'm so glad that you could join us for this huge episode. I just want to say, like, as we're getting started, what was everyone's favorite thing that they saw at comic Con. That's my favorite thing I saw at Comic Con was Mirschela wearing that Blade hat. You know, it was it was great. It was like, you know, we've been talking about Blade a lot in the Zeitgeist and people were like, man,

if Wesley Snipes can reprise it, that'd be great. And I was thinking, I was like, yeah, who could replace Snipes? And when I saw mirshel and just clicked. You know, not only the fact that Mirshela is a phenomenal actor, but also he kind of does kind of share the same features as Snipes, so I feel like, you know, uh, visually, it won't be too far of a departure from the one we grew in love. I hope he gets the same haircut. I need that in my life. But yeah,

I'm super excited to see what happens with that. Yeah. I was shocked when he put on the Blade hat and it again like ohtah, of course rehearsal allies who would play Blade next? I couldn't believe we hadn't all been guessing. It just makes sense, and I was really excited. I did my first hall Age panel ever this year, and so that was definitely my top moment, and it was for his Dark Materials, which maybe you watched the Golden Compass movie that came out, so like oh five

oh seven somewhere in there. Um lend wal Miranda says that he comes in singing a duets, also playing his demon Um, which was really exciting. I'm really excited. They're gonna take like a lot of like dark, twisty turns with the series, which should be fun. But they're keeping it available UM and accessible to kids, which I think is a lot of fun. UM. Can you explain the series for people that I don't know about it? Yeah,

So it's a commentary on UM. A lot of people think it's a commentary on religious organizations, but really it's a commentary on all powerful organizations and how they affect our lives. Every individual has a demon that is sort of a physical animal manifestation of their selves. Uh. And in the middle of it all as this little girl of girl who played X twenty three and Logan is playing character which is freaking awesome UM. And she's trying to figure out what it is to be a good person,

and that's her journey through the whole thing. So you've got, uh, a lady who's considered maybe one of the most evil villains of all time in there. And they I'm so excited because the UM they talked to the original author, Philip Pullman about it, and they're like listen. We want to know why she's a monkey. We want to know why she's able to separate from her demon when no one else can. And then he was like, go for that.

Dig all the way to the character. So much more expansive than even the books, but with Pullman's Um, okay, it is a BBC and HBO production, which for me means money, so much money, huge expensive projects, and that used real puppets, real puppets, including a like six foot tall polar bear. I got like, I've been looking for something to replace my Game of Thrones addiction, and I

think this could maybe it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that they're hoping that everyone that you know was watching for a Game of the owns that this will in their sci fi fantasy, and then the kids can watch too. You don't have to like game with her. It's not for the children. I wonder one time it but like and then immediately changed the channel. Run children, it's HBO. It'll be like Insecure Ballers or something Succession or something

coming on. Laura, what about you? What was your favorite part? Um? Well, um, obviously I'm a treki, so Pecari was a big deal. But but um, that's like just emotional feelings as a treky, but um as an Asian American. My biggest thing that I I screamed and cried before, like when it came out on the screen was shang Xi UM, which will be like all Asian America or all Western Nize Asian um movie UM for Marvel. And so they announced UM. They announced the cast which is Tony Leong who's huge

in Asia and China. UM obsessed with him. UM. And Aquapina, who's who's killing it right now in the game has to be is so excited. I found YouTube. Yeah, I was like, oh yeah, New Yorkers. She's a fellow Yorker, so I'm like I'm a fellow Neneker. So I'm like yeah, um.

And also UM and then see move from Kim's Convenience. Yeah. UM. We were the fact that like you know, honestly we we we like all the trades were talking about other people and like he just did it on his screen test on Sunday and he got he found out on Tuesday and then he announced him. Oh my god, what a wee. Yeah. So it's like, oh my god, like this is amazing good like and it was just I

was screaming my head off the whole time. Just knowing that this is gonna be a change just for a Western night was definitely one of those moments where it's like a fantasy move. Like he's been talking about wanting to play Superhero online for so He's been like tagging Marvel.

Yeah he stopped, Marvel. Stop Marvel. I love that Marvel is picking, like selecting fanboys like at the sort of started with Tom, who has been very vocal about his love of Spider Man um and then to like know that Wesley Snipes called, like the minute he got his Oscar, I was like, I have Cloud. I'm sorry, yes, can I please do Blade now like I've got I can do it? Um to come down to see me, Like it's really exciting to know that the people have passion

behind playing these rules. Yeah, I'm gonna put it out there if they need like a person on set just to be there and like I can bring I can bring whatever you guys need. I just wanted to be part of this big movement like somehow like on her Mommy, I've got orange slices, Like who needs he means like who's hungry? You guys need to eat? Hydrate hydrate, that

will be my job. I love the idea that Mershela was announced as if it was like a sports trade with him, just like cast announcements like that, like yes this season I will be on ball, you put the hat on, or Fantastic four. I want them to all like I tweeted that Marvel was on their Beyonce because they were like, here's like seven great movies and TV projects. Some also here's six more titles titles, titles, Titales blackout. I was like, what are you doing to me? And

I know around the corners. What was so interesting about it is I thought they weren't gonna announce anything because this has been traditioned that Marvel sits back and save their goodies for D twenty three, which means they must have something juicy they gave it to. But I will say, um, you know, uh. The fun thing about because some people might be looking at this, um, this Phase four announcement like, so, out of the Phase four announcements, we have one, two, three, four,

five movies and five Disney plus properties. And some people might be like, oh Disney Plus because in history, the TV universe and the cinematic universe were separate. Now we're in a time where they're actually gonna be blended together. I knew about this, not the phase line up, but I knew about the blending of the universes before. I seemed to have a friend who I won't call out and snitch all them, who actually sat down because he's doing a thing for Disney plus, which is actually super cool.

But like he came in after he went to the offices and was like, oh, they showed me the roadmap, and you know, he's like, I can't tell you everything, but I can. And he revealed to me that the shows were going to be interwoven. They're going to be using the original cast members, but for the animated stuff they're gonna be using I think they said someone around eight percent of the original cast. They didn't ounce. That has really st the photo of all the actors that

are coming to do the what ifs. Yes, yeah, that's so cool. I listened to me Disney. We can say a lot about Disney and how our fear of monopolies, and there's a lot to talk about. But if we're just looking like as fans at Disney and what's coming up, like Universal storytelling has been my niche for like like going back to high school. Like I love the idea

of cross telling stories. I love the idea of like you can follow someone from a story to a video game, to a movie and back again into the comics, like the idea of what's coming up from Disney. I'm a stand I can't help it. I don't really care, like I don't. This is my life blood, like please. I think my favorite moment was Tessa Thompson, who will be Marvel's first queer superhero, and she said, um, well, she's

a king and she needs to find her queen. And I love that because she was named a king at the end of Infinity War or Endgame. She was named a king at the end of Endgame, and she's I think a lot of fans are hoping that her queen is possibly Captain Marvel. We'll see, but that's really cool and I'm so glad that she is. Uh. And of course we had Natalie Portman taking on h Milner taking on the Hammer for Thor It's going to be dope. But before we hop more into Marvel, I did want

to talk about some of these trailers that dropped. Oh my God, I don't know if you all were able to see that it too. Trailer definitely did. Yeah, So the cast at down with conan um and that was some part of Scared Diego. You were there, right, was the Scared Diego um and it like they showed for three they showed three different um um scenes and let's just let's just say I wrote about it too, but um, let's just say that it was it's gonna meet expectations

maybe beyond chapter one. Really yeah, Like I was my heart, like my heart was pounding. So was scarier than the trailer. It was scarier than the trailer. The scenes that they showed, um, they told us like, please don't reveal it, and so we all, like all the press didn't do that, so we were like the past. Yeah, but no, like there's scenes that wasn't in the original um it that I was just like, I really appreciated that they added and

it was like really really intense. Um. They added a new scene that wasn't in the original that you're just gonna like. It caused even caused McAvoy James McAvoy anxiety. He said that it caused him like anxiety for that scene and watching it, I felt that anxiety and like I was just freaking out. So chapter two, I feel like it's going to be even more more extreme than

chapter one. So if you were freaked up from chapter one, he prepared for chapter two because chapter one, I was like, okay, okay, but this one, I'm like, just the three scenes they just showed me, I was like, freaked out and I don't freak out usually. Based off the first scene they showed, not the trailer that was released for the con, but the one where Jessica Chastin is wentering around the house with the old lady, like skinning across the hall. I

was like, Oh, this is level fear. And I'm so I'm so excited because this director producer team, the brother and sister have been doing like great things, like all the way back to Mama UM, and so to see them being able to ramp up the special effects we saw on the trailer looks so clean and good. I'm really excited. If you're gonna go right, you do what? No, That's why I just totally checked out to this. You know,

I don't like scary stuff. I was on the h I was driving today, UM, and I was behind the bus and it had that it because I guess they're so if you didn't know. Last time it was out, they did a pop up house and totally never stepped foot in there. But they really have an advertising advertising where it looks like a carnival. And I was like featuring penny Wise the dancing clown, and I was like, I hate this and I was stuck in traffic behind

that sign the whole time. I was like, Okay, you know that Universal normally sends me to Halloween Hornet, so like I have a plus one, normally you should. You should see if somebody want to go. Yeah, I don't know, Like I was figuring I would take my co host I cover things with. I don't know if he would want to go or I think this is a good time for Joel to step in. Oh my god, I want I want you to go. If you and I want to, I need to have a go pro and to film. You would get all the clicks. Yeah, my

friends are penny Wise cost players on your birthday. I will get hurt now that no. I mean that's like when I worked at Not Scary Farm as security, we were going through the ring maze. I'll never forget this, and it was because um, and we have these bright yellow shirts, so they knew we were employees, so they would like mess with us by like grabbing us and stuff, and so like I'm super freaked out, almost home free.

It's the last, the last stretch of the maize. There's a dark corner and they have people in those like full body kind of like Zintai suits, but all plaques so you don't see him. And he popped out the corner and my natural reaction was to jump and no. I jumped up and did the crane kick from Karate Kid kick this guy in the chest back into the corner, and I was like, I'm so sorry. It's okay, little Universal. They're called scarycters. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna lie.

They get within a centimeter touching you and they don't touch you. I don't know how that they're not a liability, but they would get so close to my face but not touch it. They were they're trained. Yeah, it's comforting to know before you going to these things, they're like they're not allowed to touch you, and you're like that's great, and then about halfway through you forget. It's I'm so sorry because things get very scary. Uh, giving continually gets darker,

and then the props are very real. And yeah, I don't like clowns at all in real life. I won't go to a circus, but I love being afraid I can't. But there's something about that feeling in your stomach where you're like I could die right now. That's very exciting. It's like fun to just embrace that feeling. Uh. And we're better in a theater where you know you're most likely not actually gonna die. I can't wait for it.

I'm so exciting. And this is the most fake blood and bull blood that they used in the film with four thousand five Dallons ever. Yeah, now they beat the other films they built. They beat that scene in the show Minings. Yeah, I think because um, that's what that's what Jessica saying. She was like, wait, this is the

most four thousand world records. What about the terminator to footage that they showed Linda be an egg and uh, there's nothing more I love than hot ladies kicking ass and like for Linda to just pull out that gun and like she okay, I will compare everybody Beyonce because she is my god. But the way that she is like not sweating as she's like kicking button and then

like walking away from like an explosion. And then Arld comes in, and I love the way they've sort of aged him and yet he still looks like the Terminator. How the special effects we're getting bus scenes again. I love little callbacks to the original series. Um, I'm so everything after T two. Let's be honest, you could just place it in a trash can. It holds no value to me or anyone else. Um. So the idea that they're like, yeah, we're just gonna bounce it back to

T one T two give you that same energy. Um, it's thrilling. I cannot wait for Terminator. I feel like this is a return to the glory days and we've needed it. Yeah, they're bringing I mean they're bringing everyone back. Eddie for long. Um who plays John Connor. Last time we saw him, he was young, right, the last time

we saw him was he was like a teenager. Yeah that was oh man, I like thirty years ago, Like and um he Like, it's just great to see him come back and like just the original cast of T two just come together I'm just so excited because it's like the nostalgia but also introducing it to the new audiences and they're also like inclusive, so I just love how badass Linda like just looks. And Tim Miller is gonna direct to Miller also directed Deadpool through an episode

of love, Sex, and Robots. Um. I think he's shown that he can do action and comedy really well, which is something that made T Want and T Too like an instant success. So I'm sorry to see his version. And No, Cameron's back behind the scenes kind of controlling things whenever he shows up. That guy knows how to give us a movie we want to see. So it's super good. Oh and special effects are so much better than it was, like even the last movie Salvation, so

I feel like it's going to be amazing even more amazing. Yeah, I'm excited. So this didn't drop technically at Comic Con, but we did have Jamie Lee Curtis tweeting out the Halloween the next two Halloween films, and I'm just really excited for our silver haired queens. I'm ready. You know, it was the Year of the Daddy. I'm ready for the Year of the Mommy. Love having Linda Hambleton's just kicking,

but love seeing Jamie Lee Curtis. I'm just I'm so excited that that we get to have these women on the pedestal that they deserve to be on, because I feel like, due to age is um, we normally replace them and have younger actresses. So I'm just so happy that they're just kicking butt and looking good. They're fine as hell. They're fine as hell, all right, So let's talk about some of these other things that's been popping up, because there's a lot of older properties that we've been

talking about, but let's talk about some new ones. Something that's been in our face. You couldn't avoid it. You couldn't you if you close. The only way you could have avoided this is if you were at a comic colm with your eyes closed. What is everyone's thoughts on Carnival Row. I'm really excited. I actually had breakfast with one of the writers. Shout out to Mike Bernard in m who is giving me a little bit of the skinny behind the scenes. I won't I won't reveal his

secrets since I've already named him. But that's all. You don't, can you? Tell people about the series. Yeah, okay, okay, So imagine if in the nineteenth century Europe saw a huge influx and immigrants all over the place. So it's a take on that. But instead of humans, they're magical creatures, so centaurs and fairies and all kinds of stuff, and like, what does that look like when we get all into

the same space. And so now you have police policing mystical creatures and not understanding their backgrounds and their histories. And for the most part they're like, oh, a fairy died. Who cares Um? But one police officer who is m Orlando Bloom and he's gonna figure about who killed this ferry. He wants justice for all, so that he starts working, is it CAA that's yeah, So he starts doing with a card to solve crimes with her in Carnival Row. It is Um beautiful to look at Um the Creator.

This is one of the first scripts that got onto the Blacklist. It was originally a feature linked script. Um bounced around for like roughly a decade before it finally found a home Amazon. They were like, let's do a Yeah, forever bounced around me. Maybe we'll do a TV series, So let's ma get a lighter TV series. Maybe we could do a feature length movie like it was all

kinds of things. They weren't really sure where they wanted to put it until um, Amazon like, we have the money to actually build sets, which will need because this project costs a lot of money. I think they shot a pilot and then we're like, scrap that and reshot a pilot. So yeah, so it's been through a lot of works, but I think that that's probably for the best. It's already season two locked in, ready to go, so

I'm excited for it. It should be a lot of fun. Again, I already mentioned that I'm looking for a Game of Thrones replacement. Um, I need magical realism in my life, please, but love God, I don't know if this will fill that hole because Game of Thrones was a weekly show, and there's something about having to wait a week and rejoining people to watch it live that doesn't quite hold with things that you can bingeing. Because I know Amazon

has been known or is that more Hulu hula? Yeah, I think Amazon might be smart to do that for this series, but it's hard to get me to switch on an Amazon for Sunday Night screen. I don't know why, my brain just won't make that, just kind of because I had to watch Game of Thrones on HBO. Go whatever. We'll see how they release it, but either way, I think it'll be a lot of fun for people to watch. There's a lot of good reviews coming out of the screening they did Saturday night. Um, so I have high

hopes for it. Good cast too, yeah, stellar stellar cast. Another one that popped up that really caught my eye was the snow Piercer TV series. You know what was those chuckles? Um? Yeah, I got to um, I'm covering. I covered that for a comic con and um yeah, it's it's it looks really it follows along with the movie. Of course, David and Digs, that's what they're only towards me. I was just like, Okay, I'm gonna cover this. It's gonna be it's on It's on TBS, so it's gonna

be Um and Jennifer Connelly. It's really it's gonna it's Prestige TV for TBS, which I'm like really excited. Yeah did you did you show you a clips? Yeah, the trailer and you felt that it hold up to other prestige TV we've seen, Well, I feel like they're they're like the drama for like, I feel like it follows with the movie because like it had all the like

the really great cast. It's like one of the best, like jenffer Connelly, you got Jen Davan dig It's like I feel like they're really they're really pushing for it too. So um, the scenes that I got to see, I felt like it it was really it reflected the movie, but maybe a little better, probably because I I felt cueezy during the movie, like this one will be It's it fits audiences with TBS, but also still has a drama, so it's a little toned down in the darkness. Yeah,

Like I don't think we'll see baby parts. Okay, that's cool. I like that we're eating babies in the movie. And then there was like a whole train full of bug meals that they were reading. The grow shot factor is that I really liked about snow Piercer and I wonder if they'll lose people in that translation. But like you said,

the cast is is really Solidum. Also, it's just an interesting premise for a show like you see it follows the movie, so is it like after they hop off the train and they're like running for a thing or is it still on the train on the interesting. Okay, I'm intrigued. This is the show. I'm gonna watch that the first three episodes and let me see what we're doing here TBS. Yeah, very interesting. All right, I've I've kind of been driving everything. Is there anything that you

saw that popped out? I'm gonna have y'all answered that right after these messages. Welcome back to Nerdive Accent. This is if you wid The way. Across from me is Danny Fernandez. We're joined by Joel and Laura, and we're talking about this year's San Diego Comic Con, giving you all the beats, all those scoops that came out and just all the fun we had. But first we're talking about the scoops and we're gonna talk about Joel and Laura's favorite favorite favorite you know, shows clips, things that

came out. Let's start with Joel. She looks like she has nice I am really excited. Harley Quinn is an animated series that's like R rated, which for me is

so exciting. I'm like currently working on an article about the evolution of Harley Quinn as a character from what it was essentially a sexist chope for dudes to play off of an abused woman in a bad relationship that then got very weirdly romanticized for a very long time to now like in out Bisexual Day eating the person we've been wanting her to date since day one, and she's getting her own animated series, just kicking about with Batman, and it's like, if you love Harley Quinn and especially

I think for a lot of women who came into Batman the animated series at a very young age, and we're very impressionable and liked like what they saw in Harley this kind of carefree um laugh a minute, independent but still kind of lovesick girl UM. Watching her evolve into this um character who can lead her own show, and the fact that it can be kind of raunchy and dirty, and also like she totally gets to kick.

But there's something so thrilling and exciting and it feels like a very great return to classic DC animation, which I have been missing. Like I am not a fan of the new DC animated movies. Um, they're dark in a way that I think isn't beneficial. In other words, they're sexualizing women in a way that isn't for their own gratification, but definitely strictly for the viewer. Um. They're relaunching comic books that only just recently came out and

aren't necessarily the most interesting parts of Cannon. Um. This seems fresh and new and exciting, and it's just they also have Alan Tutick as a joker. Yes, it's such a great voice cast behind it. Uh d Drake Bader is Batman. D Bader's my favorite version of Badon other than Kevin Um. Right after Kevin comes Ddrick, he does something so great. He gets that dark comedy just perfect. It's a wonderful series already. I haven't seen a second

of it. I'm already endorsing it. I can't wait. Yeah, what about you, Laura Well Um In the DC universe, Doom Patrol is renewed for it and it's gonna come back twenty Season two will become out. Titans comes out September six, So those are like, I've run the podcast for them and I'm just excited. Um so Titans podcast, but um the show that I really uh that I got to um cover and also I got I binged already, just have the right about it. Um The Boys, It's

Amazon the original UM series. It it's it's it's about this guy who Um played by Quade Hugh Huei. He like it's a world of superheroes. There's there's a world of superheroes. And Huie and his girlfriend the are just hanging out and she gets killed by collateral damage by a superhero and no, there's no nothing goes like there's no problems with him, Like the superhero gets off the hook and Hui meets these people who have been affected by Soups and so these these uh, these guys are

called the Boys. They they're trying to figure out a way to destroy the people, the Soups and their empire of like um, it's a corporation of Soups. So they're trying to bring that corporation down. And I felt like it was just a really really it's a really it's it's a really it's blacks dark comedy, dark comedy, dark like drama, UM dramedy, and it's there's no happy ending really but it's just it's intense and there's funny parts,

but it was just like it kept me. It kept my attention, and so I felt like, oh my god, this is addicting show. There's it's some problem max s uff but it's addiction addicting. It's a problematic in a way that's addressing issues. Though like in a in a more competituted they're just problematic and they sort of just leave it. Maybe one or two problemat things of like just leave. I'm like, Okay, that's gonna we're gonna talk about that later. But um, overall, it's it's it's it's

it's it's an addicting show. It's problematic as in like it does teach you things like you're like, oh my god, it makes you think about how people are raised and psychological things of people. But overall it was, Um, it was really addicting. It was really really intense and good, and it is part of like what I would consider like a dark on drama that you just it makes you think about things. Cool. I'm excited. It sounds like sort of a comedic take on what we've been seeing

in a lot of the d C movies. I guess those are now old so weird. I really get like Batman when he starts putting a lot of spy equipment into people's houses, and the early Justice League. They're like, yeah, we're just gonna make some laws here. And you know, I was, you know, not surprised, but disappointed that Wonder Woman wasn't there, you know, that Warner Brothers wasn't really present, that d C wasn't really you know, because she had, I mean, her films coming out next and they dropped

that killer poster of her. I mean, if you haven't seen it, treat yourself. And her gold Eagle armor amazing. She is like the best thing to come out of you know, d C films. And I really wish that they would have had them there. I understand like this whole political thing of like some companies being there, some companies not, but man, I really wish that they would have had had them. Yeah. I think that's a good point, because I mean, we don't we don't do this as

much anymore. But Comic Con used to be treated a lot like E three, whereas like E three was like

who wanted Nintendo Sony or my Acrosoft? And we don't do that as much, mostly because you know, I think we get inundated with so like it's by the minute movie news, so it's not as important, uh you know coming, but like yeah, DC kind of ends up losing Comic Con because when the stuff that released with Marvel is all that we're talking about, when they could have just knocked Because at the end of the day, I think if we would have got a Wonder Woman trailer, oh

my god, the Marvel thing would be pushed because it'd be like, yeah, Marvel, like this is cool announce We don't really get to see anything, and it kind of doesn't instill a lot of uh faith as a fan too. When we're this close to here film release, you have essentially a free platform in which to just blast your

stuff and we all have we hear nothing. You don't release a trailer even like we've been if we think about trailer's past, like sometimes it's just mostly of our black and it's just like audio, you know, something to tease us and get us excited. Why don't you want to be excited about Wonder Woman trailer that dropped two years ago at Comic Con was the biggest I remember, I couldn't be in Hall Age, uh and I was

in my hotel, like getting ready for a panel. And I I like cried, I like watched it multiple times in my hotel room. It was just so in her riding on the horse and the iconic like ending with that iconic music. I mean, it was huge, and I just don't Yeah, I mean, I I guess I wish that they would have they had, like we said, this

huge platform to do it. Yeah, especially since there's two female like women led films, two women led films with Birds of Prey and Wonder Woman, and I'm just like, Okay, this would be a perfect time to release, especially with two leads and the directors are both like women and like, um, Kathy on is directing Birds of Prey and then Patty Jenkins when the woman. So I'm like, you know what these this would be amazing And Patty was freezing. It's

not so many Harley Quinn. Did you think she's free She tweeted, like, since since we're not going to be there, here's a picture that when she's a photo, I'm like, she could have been there, and I thought she wanted to. You know, they don't control that. Yeah, yeah, directors definitely don't. Yeah, it's uh, it's suspect. I don't understand. I continue to have questions about what Warner Brothers is doing. Let's get together. So another thing that happened is this Walking Dead movie,

which I guess is featuring Rick Grimes. Does this interest anyone here at this table? No? Sorry, I love Angela hang so much, but I can't tired of The Walking Dead. I feel like we haven't done anything new or original with the series. Six years going. It's been a long time since we felt that spark of like, oh my god, it's Walking Dead. We're bad. Um, even the installation that they have every single year on the exact scene growth of in the series. It's interesting to me that AMC

is taking from a business perspective. AMC seems to be embracing a Netflix model and saying, instead of just launching on TV, this is going to be in theaters. Now. It feels like maybe three seasons late, trying to do something with Rick when he's gone off the show and the shows that last season is going to be this one, And I don't know, it's a weird feeling. I'm sure the die Hearts are going to be first in line. I look forward to their excitement and seeing what they

like about. Yeah, but no, I think that's that's the point. It seems like Walking Dead kind of kind of faded into this kind of background, white noise of a show, and and yeah, I think it's gonna I think the idea behind it was like, Okay, he's gone for a bit, and so people were gonna want to see this movie because he's back. But I don't think it's going to have that mass appeal anymore, like Walking Ted kind of

fell fell off in the zeit guys. So, but I'm curious, you know, I always love I would I could see it on a streaming platform, but like releasing it wide, that's rough we're going up against. Yeah, I don't even know if that actor is necessarily a big movie start drink. Yeah. I like Andrew Lincoln. He's been great on the show. But am I going to pay fifteen dollars to go to an AMC and watch him? I'm not sure. I wish had released some kind of visual image. I could

understand that too. The tone of it and the title gives me a very eighties like ripped shirt standing on a pile of dead bodies by which would be cool if that's what they're going for. But I don't even know visually, like what's the tone of the movie. All I know is it happens after the helicopter crash. I don't know who's directing it. I didn't see anything on that. And there's just not a lot to get excited about.

It's weird to announce it was so little. That would be fun because I feel like the comic book does that a bit where it does like some fun tonal things to like surprise the fan. So I would like a reimagining of an event in the show in like maybe like an eighties grindhouse style that is exciting to me and cool and I think innovative. Uh, And it's

something i'd really like to see. Like even if you if like say we took like the battle from Game of Thrones, I was like, okay, we're gonna reshoot it like this like fantasy epic or reshoot it like like that is something I don't think we've seen done and excites me in a way where it's like, let's take a moment that we all remember and switch it totally and make it just a movie. And who are gonna be the major players? Like if Carl shows up, I'm going to come back. I love Carl as a character.

I know he's probably for a lot of people, but I love an angry teen. I feel like the hormonially abused do not get enough credit. They're surviving that crap, and uh, I like Carl and his little cowboy hat. I want him to come back and I want to see him and Rick fighting John Burnthal for me. Although I think they did bring him back as a flashback. Yeah, just bring you know, he didn't die, just bring him all back, like like a walking dead wood, if ye kind of thing. I feel like every we just have

too much fatigue. It's walking to zombie fatigue. Deny is also leaving this season, so I mean, I imagine she'll be in it, but I mean, how could you make a movie and like not bring an actual start, like you know, try to have actual stars with star power to some extent. So we'll see who they bring. Maybe was it Michael Rooker used to be And maybe they're just gonna bring anyone that might possibly be a name and then just you know, I'm here for back Glenn.

Oh my god, bring him back. I would watch it if you bring him back. I miss him so much. That's the last. As soon as the killed Glenn. That was like, this show is no longer for me and I know interested Glenn and Maggie. Bring them back. Have us been off of them? Like Glenn me his child? Damn it. We have to take another quick break and we'll be back talking more about a recap with Comic Con right after this. And we are back, and since it is comic Con, it was originally started y'all to

bell buy and sell comics. I did want to talk about comics, so our friend she was on the Women in Gaming episode Sam Mag's She had an amazing comic that had a huge display that we tweeted from the netificent account or posted on Instagram. It's Marvel Action Captain Marvel. It debuts in August from I d W. Definitely pick it up. She has uh, she has um goose with her in the picture, her flirking. It's just amazing. I'm

so proud of Sam. If you're not falling, Sam, she had the biggest comic con, just doing signings, announcing all of her comic news. I'm really excited about her Captain Marvel comic. So put that in your calendar for August. Joel, did you see any cool comics. Sure did. Coming back to my friend Mark Bernard and who also had a pretty dope comic con Castle Rock season two coming out soon on Hulu and then Carnival Rowe coming out on Amazon.

Season two already booked, and then he also has his own comic coming out with Top Cow called Adorra, which is about a girl with autism and living interwriting with that. UM and what's really cool about that is Marcus raising a child with autism. He's very open and frank on his Twitter about that. UM, and you can if you want to hear about those stories or or uh, you know, reflect on somebody who can write like an angel. Mark writes, You're gonna cry, it's so beautiful. But a lot of

the stories he tells about his daughter are just achingly gorgeous. UM. And it's cool that he's he's kind of immortalizing that in a comic. And I can't wait. They were giving out these really dope enamel pins of Adora. UM. Definitely check out that comics. Um, Laura, was there anything cool that you saw? Yeah? So I'm a hardcore Houvian and I so I do buy the comic books. UM I have, Like I make sure I always get it every week.

And they launched thirteen Doctor series because like I mean, they it's been ongoing, but they did exclusive stc Cum artwork UM with the with the thirteen Doctor number nine. The artwork is just so pretty. It's it's and it's following the adventures with the with the thirteen Doctor UM and we get to meet her. I haven't finished it

because I Comic Con. It's just crazy, but the artwork is just amazing in it and it follows her and the adventures with her three companions UM and with the new alien race that they actually haven't interacted with on TV. So I really enjoyed that the Titans UM comics are really expanding them and I think it's preparing us for the new season. So it's it's my phil until the new season. And Jolie Hauser is the writer and she I know, she's so good and she really like the

with the series she released it. And also Richard Dinnick did the thirteen Doctor to Many Lives a Doctor who UM, so that issue was out that came out too, So I'm really really excited finish it. I have it in my in my room because I just came back today, So I'm going to sit down and just read it through. Did you see that Marvel's um This is completely different, but I just wanted to remind myself. The Rise of Kylo Wren out in December, the writer wrote, from Ben

to Wren, I was so excited. I was just like, what it looks wild? Yeah, I'm very intrigued. I'm very intrigued as there's not a bad one in the bunch yet. I can't wait. There's Return Invaders cow Soul, which is a spooky story that's coming out for Halloween that will be It sounds adorable but possibly terrifying. That one. I bet you can handle. Iffy, Yeah, funny enough like horror comics, don't bug me like. I picked up junji Eto book and I love If you haven't read gunji Eto, I'm

sure you've seen this stuff online. I got the book because it has one of my favorite comics, which is the one where the family that lives that owns a barbecue uh shop, and they live above it in the walls or grease. Everything is covered in grease. So then like the youngest the Sun and the kind of protagonists, older brother is growing these pimples and is using it to bully and has this gross scene that is going online where he is squishing his face together and all

the and it's like dripping down and she's screaming. It's like the best scene. I showed it to my and I'm there with me the clowns no go. Yeah, you know this because it's because the art is so good, and it's like those old tales from the crypt comics where like it's like this looks gross, but it's also such good art that you're like really into it. But yeah. Juji Ito also has one where like the person is finding their whole and there's like, uh, one day a

rock splits and people see these human shaped holes. And every time someone sees a whole that they believe it fits them, they travel out there and go into that hole and they're never seen again. Yeah, it's it's very it's all that. It's so great. It's very creepy, it's well paced. Junji Eto check out. You can read a lot of his stuff online, but I truly truly encourage

you to purchase stuff, which is what I did. But the comic that was announced that I'm excited about is called Afterlift, which is going to be a Comics Oology original, which Comics Oology is an online uh you know e comic marketplace owned by Amazon now, which is really cool and now they're doing their own originals and helming the writing is Chip Zadarski, which, if you don't know, he writes this great book called Sex Criminals, which if you're

unaware of Sex Criminals, read it right away. It's about two people who find out when they have sex they freeze time. When they have sex in orgasm together, time freezes and so what do you do with that power other than rob banks? And then you find out that you know, grime doesn't pay even when you have time powers. Uh, but he's going to be writing it. In the story of this is about productive's named Janis Chin who quits her day job in finance and signs up to be

a driver on a ride sharing app. But what was first a mundane but enjoyable way to pass the time takes a terrible turn when a mysterious passenger upstates his ride with a new final destination Hell. And it's a five part mini comics, so it should be fun. I like short run contain stuff. That's why I like anime like uh, anime like Devil Man, cry Baby or tank a Top and Gore and log on because I feel like when you at a beginning to end, not only do you not take all of my life to watch you,

but it has a nice, fun, contained story. Foully Coolie too. Yeah, yeah, so exciting. And then we had duck Tails released this massive life is like a hurricane here in duck Berg. Um. So yeah. Our buddy Ben Schwartz actually tweeted out to this amazing poster um which has everybody y'all. It's like Tailspin is in there dark in the m v P. Oh my god, it's your childhood today. I think they showed uh was it power I think they had power

line today. He saw Goofy. I always know if it's anything Good Burger or or Giffy movie related, which, by the way, I ran into. I don't know if you'll saw scul yes so at anime Expo, actually there was a cow, which I love. I love when anyone doesn't go with the theme. Uh. Somebody dressed up as Kell from Good Burger and was full blown dancing in skates just like he does. It was like whoa um and

I ran into him. At Gas Lamp at San Diego Comic Con and we took a picture together and I put I posted it, um awesome guy, and yeah, I just I was obsessed. Uh so they actually have a good Burger pop up here. I don't know if you all have been to it yet, not yet. Yeah, so his name is actually Cal Underscore Smith seventeen if you want to check him out. Really, someone named Cal was cosplaying kew Yes and I think he has a picture with Kell. But yeah, so we have duck tails, very

excited about it. Send older versions of them are gonna be there, so I'm like, it's really cool, see especially dark Wing and Gossil. And I interviewed the creator for Revolution Comic Con last year and I asked you would you ever, you know, come back for Dark Quen. He was like absolutely not, and I was like, but we love Like no, no, done with that, and I was like, my heart hurts. And so see that there is going to be a revival of Dark Queen Duck in some way,

especially on this show, which is bonkers good. If you guys haven't given this show a chance yet, I cannot encourage it enough because it's um serialized and I really appreciate that kids have cartoons that are stories that are constantly involving. Uh. These stories deal very in depth with the emotional loss of parents, which I think is something

that the original cartoon was. Just like, there are the kids who don't have parents and they're having fun, but these kids missed their mom and it's there's a really great story where she comes back and it's heartbreaking and beautiful, and my gosh, Danny Pouda is on there, like the voice cast is um yes, um. Great stories. Even even uh Scrooge gets really good storyline. He falls in love

and out of love and it's wonderful. And then I just have one more piece of news for me personally is that Gina Davis is gonna be in Shira and the particip of the Power. They had a big presence at Comic Con. They had a massive Shira and it was so sweet. Someone posted this picture of this little girl just looking up at her. I was like, wanted to cry. Um so and then she's also gonna be in Glow. Yeah she is her poster for that looked yeah sick. I'm trying not to crease. Uh she Oh

my gosh, her and the Lea it's heard so good. Also, if anybody you know just wants to get me one of those Shira Barbies, literally any of them, I will take that. Just like you said, like the like the women, they're coming back, like from the from where we grew up with the making a huge comeback. So happy. I mean,

I feel like they've always been there. But still Mahiak got announced in the and and did you see the storyline and that she got rejected for some sci fi movie there They were like, there are no Mexicans in space, and so we can't have you on the thing. And so for now for her to be in a Marvel movie in a lead position. Also, Brian Harry Henry is going to be there was I ain't two cents about the Eternals and then they announced the cast and I said,

let me be first in line because I'm so happy. Yeah, you know, freaking our ladies that are fifty and like they need to be leading these things. And of course we have Mexicans in space. We have Diego Luna, so you know, and um and well was also um watching the UM Lauren Ridlof. She's the first deaf um superhero, replacing the white guy who like as a character. And so she's the first deaf superhero. I didn't hear about this. That's amazing. Like she was I was in the Hall

of Age for it, and she signed language everyone. She was really excited to be part of it. Um and someone translated was reading off and it just was this, this whole cast for eternals. I felt like it just it felt like hell of the space would be UM. And so it's so many first like Don Lee's in it, Um, Angeline, Julie um Asama Um. It's just there's just so many people and I just feel like that's the world that

we see today. Yeah, it's a lot of people are like, you know, this corporation doesn't care about You'm like, but I care about it. And being able to see myself in it is thrilling. And being able to see other types of individuals who never get a chance to be on screen be a part of a sci fi universe that we've loved for a really long time. Uh, let me be excited about that. He has been in the gym and he is working and it is showing. And I love the fact that Richard Madden had said he's

the sexiest superhero which is true. Yeah, So we started with the Marvel News. I guess we're going to close out with the Marvel News. We just talked about Eternals, We talked about thor Love and Thunder. Is there anything else and Blade? Was there anything else that really stood out for y'all. I'm excited for the Looky TV series. Kate Bishop is coming to Hawkeye, which is the only way any of us were gonna watch that series anyway. Uh,

just really, oh my, they're really working. And then Black Widow, which is a movie I saw I wasn't gonna watch because we all know Scarley Johanson has had some issues. Uh. And then they announced that cast and I said, ding it, I have watch not just David Harbor, but the girl from Midsummer is gonna be Pug. The things I heard she could do with a knife, I was like, let me not miss this. Florence has been killing the game. And then who's the older woman and we were just

talking Rachel Rachel. Yes, Rachel Weiss is also going to be in it, as I can only imagine as my girl, fatass guy. We're going to get the Budapest story, which I'm hoping Cat makes an appearance. Because I'm a cat junkie. I think it's gonna be good despite what we have to deal with in a lead character. Yeah you were

in there. Wait, okay, so the fight scene was it was the best fight scene I have seen like black Widdle has ever done, and she's done a mate like her Scarlett and her stunt woman has has done amazing fight scenes. This just up the notch fighting are just amazing than the choreography for it. And um also there's they showed them in the trailer at the end with Taskmaster. That's going to be a really like, that's a great villain.

I love Taskmaster. And then finally, just the idea of an animated what if series where we I love a space where writers can just go wild without consequence. And as much as I tell and laud a universal storytelling, I think being able to step outside of that and do one shots is just as important. It's something that it's always been one of my favorite things in comic books is when you get like, oh, here's just a one off joker story that means nothing, but it's just

we wanted to explore that idea. Getting to do that here and what If? I think it's gonna be really exciting. Disney Plus is secured all of our dollars and Jeffrey right, it's the Watcher. It's gonna be so good. It's it's super great too, because yeah, that that is something comic have had that you know, we really haven't got to experience, is just the lack of cannon and the freedom to explore.

That's how we got things like All Star Superman and and so like and and Red Sun and so it'll be nice to like have a space to just be. And also it's just fun, like you know, what if Spider Man picked up me on near you know, like stuff like that gas like Peggy, if Peggy was Captain America, that's going to be funem so excited about it. You know, it seems like it's time to take this in for landing. Uh you know, so I guess where can everyone find you? Yeah?

And gel money can find me all over the internet at gel money that's j O E L L E M O N I q U e um and I am you can find me everywhere too on social media L syricl l SK you well and I'm always um writing Oh yeah, what about your podcast? Yes? And I also I am part of the Titans podcast, so I talked about UM it talked all about Titans, DC Universes, Titans and Doom Patrol. UM. So we every week we we we break down the episodes and UM just get and talk about the upcoming season and new is that's

coming up. Yeah, I'm at miss Danny Fernandez. Thank you to everyone that came to our hangout O. It was so great. Nerd Fran meet up was a good time. Loves meeting all the folks who showed up. We'll be doing it more at other cons we go to. You know, we might be a new in New York. Yeah, so so if we're out there, we'll do it there and any other future cons. Let us know what your sentence,

your causeplay, what your favorite moments are tweeted at us? Uh, definitely if you had if you had some dope things that you found collectibles, let us know. We'll retweet it will uh. And you know where to find us if you waway on Twitter and Instagram, if he's on Twitch, Discord, dot g G, slash Salt Squad to you know, get the combos going, uh and stay nerdy