Originally posted at PrimeTimeGeek.com.

Contents of Episode 184, brought to you by Free Comic Book Day and Heroes Landing:

• “The Man” from Slacker and the Man, w/ what’s going on on his show, what’s upcoming, and his prediction for the TRUE (?!) future of Prime Time Geek
• Interview: Austin Janowsky, comic book inker and graphic designer, creator of “Stanley the Snowman“, inker on “Iron Man: The End” for Marvel Comics
• Thank yous and final thoughts …

And speaking of “thank yous”, two BIG ones that went unsaid during the broadcast and thus MUST be made here: Comic Book Alex of Ghost Shadow Studio, and the members of Sci-Fried for your constant support and promotion of Prime Time Geek amongst friends and fans, as well as your contributions to the program. You guys are awesome, I will certainly continue to sing your praises, and I wish you all the best as you carry on with turning your passion into your life’s work!

Hope you enjoy these final episodes – please don’t delete “Prime Time Geek” from your bookmarks, however! We’ll be around all throughout the summer with movie reviews, comics reviews, and sound clips from appearances on other podcasts, and keep following us on Facebook and Twitter for news, photos, and random bits of geek. We’ll be seeing you out there!

Originally posted at PrimeTimeGeek.com.

Contents of Episode 183, brought to you by Free Comic Book Day and Heroes Landing:

• Highlights of FCBD 2011 at Heroes Landing (up until broadcast time)
• Movie Review: “Thor“, starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgaard, Idris Elba, Jaimie Alexander, with Rene Russo and Anthony Hopkins. Directed by Kenneth Branagh.
• Interview: Victor Gischler, author of Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse (See all Action & Adventure Genre Fiction), Vampire a Go-Go (See all Contemporary Literature), and The Deputy (See all Mystery Books), current writer on “X-Men“

And while you’re listening, please head over to our Facebook page to check out more photos from Free Comic Book Day 2011 if you haven’t already. Enjoy!

Originally posted at PrimeTimeGeek.com.

Contents of Episode 177, brought to you by Propeller Anime Club and Kent Ward’s Land of Awesome:

• How do we as fans define a “successful” convention experience? Is a variety of programming options and activities necessary to maximize a convention experience?
• Why is Florida not yet a destination for MAJOR comic-book/sci-fi/anime conventions?
• One thing that Florida’s biggest conventions can improve upon.

Here’s the video recording of the episode. Enjoy!

Originally posted at PrimeTimeGeek.com.

Contents of Episode 175, brought to you by Heroes Landing, the Orlando Ghostbusters, and the Ghostbusters: Infestation party, Saturday, March 12th from 3-7pm: (CORRECTION: During the podcast I erroneously announced the DAY of the event as Wednesday, rather than Saturday. Apologies!)

• Thoughts on the iPad 2: does having a camera (two cameras, actually) make all the difference?
• Philip K. Dick stories in film: from “The Adjustment Bureau” to “Total Recall“, we look at how these stories have fared when brought to the big screen and ask, “Which is your favorite?”
• DC Comics‘ upcoming “War of the Green Lanterns”, and our odds-on favorite to be the Green Lantern of Earth who doesn’t survive this latest cosmic saga from writer Geoff Johns.

And here’s the video recording of the episode (w/ raw audio). Enjoy!

Originally posted at PrimeTimeGeek.com.

Contents of Episode 172, brought to you by the AAA (Anime Addicts Anonymous) Podcast:

• What’s new with the Anime Addicts Anonymous gang in 2011, and their planned convention appearances;
• The Spring 2011 Anime Season: The Addicts (Mitsugi, Chiaki, and Kimiko) each give us one forthcoming Spring 2011 Anime series they’re looking forward to and one they are dreading;
• Best Anime Weapon Ever? The Addicts weigh in …

No video recording of this episode, but for all of you curious to see some visuals from the anime we were discussing in this episode, here’s some YouTube fun for you to check out, as well. Enjoy! (All in Japanese. Sorry!)

Marvel Anime: X-Men

[C]Control: The Money of Soul and Possibility

Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo (Children Who Chase Lost Voices)

Originally posted at PrimeTimeGeek.com.

In this episode, the first with Comic Book Alex from Ghost Shadow Studio in-studio with us:

• Recap of Slacker and the Man’s Roast of KSV at Heroes Landing
• Thoughts on The Walking Dead after two episodes
• “From the Indie Shelf” reviews: Gearhead by Dennis Hopeless, Kevin Melton; Local by Brian Wood, Ryan Kelly
• Top Comic Picks: The Boys #48 by Garth Ennis, art by Russ Braun; Star Wars: Knight Errant #2 by by John Jackson Miller, art by Frederico Dallochio

Enjoy!

Originally posted at PrimeTimeGeek.com.

PTG Episode 144 is brought to you by Heroes Landing. Our favorite comic store in Clermont has a birthday coming up, and we want to spread the word about what’s going to be a great party. Head over to their Facebook Fan Page for all the details on the event, which is going on September 18th, and that’s not all they’ve got going on. Todd and Stu love serving up cake and “refreshments” whenever a major title debuts, and the next one up is Uncanny X-Force, coming Wednesday, October 6th! Marvel has declared that day “Uncanny X-Force Day”–no, we’re not kidding, check out the image below, and make plans to come out and celebrate. Just don’t expect your work to give you time off for it …

It’s our first episode back after a week-long break, so for this, the first of two end-of-summer episodes, we brought in The Man from Slacker and the Man and Stu Cohen from Heroes Landing to sit in and help bring the laughs. In this 80-minute edition we cover Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman being developed for television (without Gaiman’s participation as of this posting), cast our votes in a few of Spike TV’s Scream 2010 Awards, and review Machete and The American, both new in theaters this weekend. To wrap up the show, Stu brings you reviews of two new comics from last week: Superman: Last Family of Krypton #2 from DC Comics and Wolverine #1 (yes, a new ongoing series) from Marvel. Enjoy!

Originally posted at PrimeTimeGeek.com.

PTG Episode 142 is brought to you by Cure For the Run 2/MMX. The big event is in the rear view mirror for 2010, but it’s not too late to get in a donation through PayPal if you haven’t already. For our part, I think its safe to say that this year was even better than last in every measurable way, and there are quite a few friends of the show we have to thank for coming out and being a part of that truly memorable day. We thanked quite a few of them during the broadcast, but the internet and search engines love text links, so we’re more than happy to feed that appetite: to “The Man”, KSV, and Nash from Slacker and the Man, Ryan and Mark from The Talk Nerdy Show, Ryan Scott, Ben Bond, Jenie Boxer, Mike Sears, Maryl-lyn Cooper, Jon Hunn, and Misha Allen from the Orlando Ghostbusters, and Kent Ward and Waldo Waldusky from the Propeller Anime Club, thanks for your generosity of time, energy, and goodwill. You guys are truly great, and we’re honored to have you as friends.

In this episode, Geoff and Jennifer Peace of SomaCow sit in to talk about preparation for the event, their thoughts on how the day went, and also some wishful thinking about the future. We also spend some time on the phone chatting with the “Immortal” ELRoss about his successful defense of his title of “Fastest Cure for the Runner” for another year against some truly challenging competition from Yours Truly and some notable others in the field. Below you’ll find a slide show of images from the event. You can also find these on our Facebook Fan Page. Hope you enjoy, and watch for video from the event to be uploaded later this week!

Originally posted at PrimeTimeGeek.com.

PTG Episode 140 is brought to you by Dark Horse Comics and Del Rey Books, and their upcoming comic book series Star Wars: Knight Errant. One of the things that I learned a lot about at this past weekend’s Star Wars Celebration V but didn’t have time to talk about during the webcast was this particular project, which is unique among Dark Horse/Del Rey collaborations in that both the comic series and the novel have the same writer, John Jackson Miller. It’s a level of collaboration between the two companies that’s never been accomplished before, as each series will be written and published concurrently, and each will tell different chapters in the story of young Jedi Knight Kerra Holt. Here’s the description of “Star Wars: Knight Errant” issue #1 from Dark Horse Comics coming in October:

More than one thousand years before Luke Skywalker, a dark age grips the galaxy as an ineffectual Republic abandons entire systems to Sith control. A newly knighted Jedi on her first mission, eighteen-year-old Kerra Holt has joined a band of Jedi volunteers traveling deep behind enemy lines, with no support from the Republic and little chance of survival. She thinks she is prepared for anything. She’s wrong.

It really is a great jumping on point for Star Wars fans (like me) who love the films but might not have read any of the Expanded Universe comics of novels, so if you fit that description, check it out!

This episode is entirely focused on Star Wars Celebration V, perhaps the biggest genre convention ever to hit Orlando (I say perhaps because there aren’t any official attendance numbers out there yet, though the estimated number is around 34,000 people over all four days). For me it was a whirlwind weekend, full of sights and sounds and experiences that I’ll be telling stories about for years to come, I’m sure. If you’d like to check out some of those sights, at the very least, check out the Flickr Slideshow below:

In fact, the event was so huge that I knew I was going to need help canvasing it all, and so I gave a call over to “The Man” from Slacker and the Man, who was in town along with his entire crew to enjoy the show. He would have had some great stories to share, I know, but alas, as you’ll hear during the podcast, all did not go as planned. One thing that DID go as planned was my interview with Wired.com blogger and writer at large John Booth, who joined us on the phone to talk about his experiences at this Celebration as well as his book about Star Wars fandom, Collect All 21! Memoirs of a Star Wars Geek – The First 30 Years. I met John at Heroes Landing’s Celebration V Pre-Event last Wednesday, and I’m certainly glad I did, because it turned out to be a great interview that I know you’ll enjoy. Thanks again, John!

We wrap the hour by pointing out a few things that Star Wars Celebration V did right over the weekend that other conventions in Florida and the rest of the U.S. (SDCC, this means you!) should sit up and take notice of for future events. Now don’t get me wrong here: we’ve been to a lot of conventions this year and last, and each one of those shows do so much RIGHT in terms of taking care of their guests and providing a unique experience. But there’s always room for improvement, and while we recognize that probably no other convention around has the resources to draw on that Star Wars Celebration has, certainly there are little tweaks that can be made to our shows based on what went on at Celebration that can only improve the experiences at the conventions we already love, right?

Originally posted at PrimeTimeGeek.com.

PTG Episode 139 is brought to you by Star Wars Celebration V. I’ll be spending quite a bit of this upcoming weekend at THE convention event of the summer, taking pictures, meeting up with Slacker and the Man and the Talk Nerdy Show, and hanging out at the Wolf Pack Elite’s UN-official Celebration Meet-Up on Saturday night, so look forward to reports on all of that stuff this Sunday night from 5-7pm, our NEW time slot at the SomaCow Media Network. We’ve already posted pictures from Day 1 of Celebration V on our Facebook Fan Page, so if you haven’t been over there already to check those out, please do so!

Before I get into what’s in Episode 139, let’s take one last look back at AFO 11 that took place last weekend, this time with video! Here are the videos currently posted on YouTube that I shot while at AFO–if you haven’t checked them out already, please do, and when you do, please rate the video and/or leave comments. Your feedback will bring more views, which helps to spread the word about PTG!

In this episode we bring you last week’s geek headlines, including some Smallville and V casting news and the passing of Hollywood writer/director Tom Mankiewicz, perhaps best known for his work with Richard Donner on Superman and Superman II – The Richard Donner Cut. We follow that with some long overdue TV reviews focused on USA’s Burn Notice and Covert Affairs, both of which are giving spy thriller fans great summer viewing fun in their own ways. We wrap up this hour with reviews on the latest entries of two ongoing event books at the Big Two, Brightest Day #7 (Johns, Tomasi, Reis, Syaf, et. al) for DC Comics and Shadowland #2 (Diggle, Tan) for Marvel. Enjoy!