Light Them Up

Light Them Up

Science fiction grand master and Grand Inquisitor of the Evil Legion of Evil John C. Wright solemnly pronounces sentence on the cackling coven of witches known to daytime TV paypigs as The View. The Media Research Center is organizing a boycott. If you can pick up a phone and call…
March 1, 20187 Comments
Galaxy Rangers

Galaxy Rangers

Recently while messing around on YouTube I stumbled across an old animated series I hadn't seen since childhood. Chances are you don't remember The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, and that's a shame, because the show was truly groundbreaking for its time. Galaxy Rangers premiered in a long-forgotten fall TV season…
December 14, 201718 Comments
Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories

Apple has announced plans to revive the 1980s science fiction anthology TV series Amazing Stories for their video streaming service. Apple is close to a deal on a reboot of Amazing Stories to air as one of their first original programming attempts. Deadline reports that the company is in talks with…
October 11, 20171 Comment
Simpsons Fall

The Fall of the Simpsons

Super Eyepatch Wolf charts the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of perennial TV fixture The Simpsons. The video proves an objective decline in the quality of the series, explains what made it work in the early years, and reveals how the creative team dropped the ball. Required viewing for anyone…
August 30, 201717 Comments
Black Tide Rising TV

Black Tide Rising TV

TV producers Miker Lermon and Richard Rosenthal recently joined Daddy Warpig and myself to discuss their upcoming adaptation of Black Tide Rising by John Ringo. How can writers get their novels adapted for TV? Does Hollywood still have a monopoly on movie and television production? What sets Ringo's work apart…
July 12, 2017
Spider-Man and Castlevania

Spider-Man and Castlevania

After years of negotiations and one too many lamentable movies from SONY, Marvel has (temporarily) regained the rights to Spider-Man. Has Marvel redeemed their most beloved character's troubled franchise? Listen in to the latest episode of Geek Gab and find out! Bonus: I review the first episode of Netflix's original…
July 10, 201717 Comments
Jeffro on The Last Kingdom

Jeffro on The Last Kingdom

Appendix N author Jeffro Johnson tries his hand at what he calls a Brian Niemeier style post. I’ve heard good things about The Last Kingdom, so I decided to check it out. Judging from the first episode, it’s basically Vikings meets Game of Thrones… but without the most aggressively awful elements…
July 7, 20175 Comments

Corroding Iron Fist

On this week's episode of Geek Gab, I regale our listeners with the real-life epic saga of The Corroding Empire. Then, Daddy Warpig goes on a rampage over Netflix's new Marvel series Iron Fist. You do not want to miss this one!  "Like the Sistine Chapel ceiling, this book takes…
March 27, 2017
Adult Swim De-platforms Comedian Sam Hyde

Adult Swim De-platforms Comedian Sam Hyde

Adult Swim has caved to internal pressure and announced the cancellation of Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace, a counter-cultural sketch comedy show helmed by notorious prankster and comedian Sam Hyde. Three weeks after Brett Gelman announced that he was severing ties with Adult Swim due to their treatment of…
December 6, 20163 Comments
Series Ruined by Breakout Characters

Series Ruined by Breakout Characters

Even a writer's strongest, purest vision can be undone if his own characters have other ideas. Sometimes a secondary character can emerge from the background and steal the spotlight from the rest of the cast. These breakout characters are often benign, but greedy network and studio involvement can create a…
November 8, 20169 Comments