Geeks OUT Podcast: The Walking Drew

In this week's episode of the Geeks OUT Podcast, Kevin (@Gilligan_McJew) and @GrahamNolan come back ready to tackle the new year with hot takes on the newly revamped Powerless series on NBC, Drew Barrymore playing a zombie on Netflix, and Aqualad joining Teen Titans in This Week in Queer. 

BIG OPENING:

• KEVIN:  New trailer for the revamped Powerless on NBC
• GRAHAM: David Tennant is headlining the DuckTales reboot

DOWN AND NERDY:

• KEVIN:  The OA, US Avengers, Nova, The Unstoppable Wasp, Detective Comics, Hulk

• GRAHAM: Love Is Love, Justice League/Suicide Squad, Justice League, Black Panther, Occupy Avengers, Civil War, Batman “I Am Suicide”, The Good Place

STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER:  Scarlett Johansson was the top grossing actor of 2016

THIS WEEK IN QUEER:  Aqualad is joining Teen Titans in March

CLIP OF THE WEEK: New extended trailer of Riverdale

THE WEEK IN GEEK:

MOVIES

• Rogue One has made over $790 million
• Get another peak at Pennywise from reboot of Stephen King’s IT
• New trailer for Alien: Covenant
• Star Wars braintrust is meeting to determine the fate of Leia

TV

• Geoff Johns teases a new DC property coming to TV
• Bryan Fuller wants to do a Silence of the Lambs miniseries
• Forest Whitaker to voice Saw Gerrera on Star Wars Rebels
• Sonequa Martin-Green cast as the lead in Star Trek: Discovery
• Drew Barrymore is a zombie in her new Netflix comedy
• CW has ordered a pilot for a rebooted Charmed

COMICS

• Geoff Johns hints he’ll be writing a Watchmen comic in 2017

SHILF:

• KEVIN: Richard Ryder
• GRAHAM: Human Torch