Will You be at Comikaze this Weekend? We Will!

Comikaze is coming up this weekend (Sept. 15 & 16) and we'll be there! We had a great time when we went last year (check out some of the photos we took at Comikaze 2011). Here are some of the fun things that they'll have this year:

• Stan Lee’s Comikaze Activision Arcade – Area will feature six of Activision’s newest games – Tony Hawk Shred, Deadpool, 007, Transformers Rise of Cybertron and The Walking Dead  
• Comikaze Zombie Apocalypse – a 75,000 square foot survival course infested with zombies. Participants will be chased through a large obstacle course – where they must crawl, climb, and slide to safety
• Elvira Macabre Museum – The largest single collection of Elvira memorabilia as well as an opportunity to meet the star
• Stan Lee Mega Museum – One of the largest Marvel collections in existence, featuring Stan Lee’s personal Collection and Marvel movie memorabilia. Signing area with Stan Lee
• Quidditch Tournament – Local college students will compete in this unique sport made famous by Harry Potter

If you can make it to the Los Angeles Convention Center this weekend it's only $20 per day (free for kids under 12) it's going to be a lot of fun! Check out  http://comikazeexpo.com/ if you want to find out more about the event.

Make sure to say "Hi" if you see us there!

This Week's Show!

We have a great show for you this week.

We start off with an in studio guest, actor and director Jeff Rector, who is also the President of the Burbank International Film Festival. We talk to him about the festival (which takes place September 5-9) and about his past work as an actor with credits in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Sliders, and Veronica Mars.

Plus we play more interviews from San Diego Comic-Con. This time we have clips with famed Incredible Hulk comic writer Peter David, and Jace Hall (The Jace Hall Show), who talk about their new shows on Stan Lee's World of Heroes (for those of you who don't know that's Stan Lee's new YouTube channel). Find out who would win in a fight between Superman and The Hulk, what Peter thought of The Avengers, and which beer Stan Lee would choose at a superhero bar!

We also take a little time to talk about what we want to see from the next Batman trilogy, talk a little about the Olympics and discuss some crazy Geek News of the Week.


All this and much more on Geek World this Thursday and Friday at Noon (PST) on Indie 100, with replays throughout the week on The Point. And welcome to our new listeners over at Shellies!

Don't forget to go to YouTube.com/GeekWorldRadio to see all of the latest videos we've posted and shared, and be sure to subscribe!

San Diego Comic-Con 2012 Photos - Thursday Part 1

We've been really busy at Comic-Con but we were able to get some time on the floor today so here are some of the photos plus a couple from the press rooms we were in.


RAD! Do I take my S.A.T.s or go to Comic-Con???


Catwoman whips Comic-Con into shape!


Jace Hall, Stan Lee, Peter David, America Young, Mark Hamill, Adrienne Curry for Stan Lee's World of Heroes


The Doctor and Amy Pond.
Cosplayers: Jonathan & Katelyn (thanks Sean G.)


Lady Storm Trooper: "No Kevin Pereira, I will not buy your 1980's narcotics!"


Is it strange that this cosplayer makes that Daredevil costume look cooler than it ever did in the movie?


Daryl Dixon keeps an eye out for walking dead at Comic-Con.


Jubilee lights up the convention.


James Roday and Dule Hill reenact an intense dramatic scene from Psych


Looks like the Spartans have the Storm Trooper surrounded!


The many armors of Iron Man.


When I first saw this creepy display for Elysium at the Sony Booth, I thought it was Johnny Cab from the original Total Recall!

CLICK HERE to check out other San Diego Comic-Con 2012 blog posts.

We're working on getting the SDCC 2012 Album up so keep checking back to see the progress!

Geek World's YouTube Show!!!!

UPDATE: Our first YouTube show promo has been removed! We're making some changes to the way we're doing the YouTube show, most importantly all episodes of will now be on YouTube.com/GeekWorldRadio along with all our other recent and new videos! Check it out, we've got some great videos from Comic-Con and we keep adding more!

Subscribe now and get ready for some Geeky Buisness! Along with this new YouTube show we will continue our weekly radio show on Indie 100 and The Point.

Geek World Interviews Stan Lee, Robert Kirkman and Morgan Spurlock!

Here's a few more interviews from the red carpet of Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope.

STAN LEE, creator of everything awesome 

Behold! The shortest interview with Stan Lee in the history of mankind!

Robert Kirkman, Creator of The Walking Dead 

Robert Kirkman tells us what to expect from season 3 of The Walking Dead, the new video game, and why he's never appeared as a zombie on the show!

Morgan Spurlock, Director of Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope

Morgan Spurlock tells us about what geek icons didn't make the final cut of his doc, and what superhero costume he'd like to have.


We'll have more videos from the red carpet, so keep checking back. Check out some of our other videos on Geek World's YouTube Channel and on our video page.

This Week's Show!

On this week's show we'll play our interviews from the red carpet of Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope. We talked to the director Morgan Spurlock and some of the stars of the documentary, along with the creator of The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman, and the immortal Stan Lee!

We'll review the high altitude action of the Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Blu-ray/DVD combo (out April 17) and battle invisible aliens with the Blu-ray for The Darkest Hour (out now). Also we'll draw up some design specs to review Syfy's new reality show Dream Machines.

Plus we're extending our "Make Geek World Laugh contest so you still have a chance to win DVD copies of Comedy Central stand-up specials Jo Koy: Lights Out and JB Smoove: That's How I Dooz It.

All this and much more on this week's episode of Geek World, this Thursday and Friday at Noon (PST) on Indie 100, with replays throughout the week on The Point.

Red Carpet Photos - Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope

Last night we were at the red carpet premiere of Morgan Spurlock's new documentary Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope. Here are some photos from the event and be sure to check back for videos of our interviews.


Stan Lee!


Stan Lee Part Deux!


What could Stan Lee be talking about here?


An army of Storm Troopers protects Robert Kirkman from The Walking Dead.


Hey Mr Storm Trooper, have you seen my X-Wing?


Little known fact- The Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope Red Carpet is neutral territory for The Empire and The Rebel Alliance


Spartans from Halo kept AnnaMay and Dave from running up and hugging Stan Lee


Nothing's sadder than seeing Spartan on Spartan crime!

CLICK HERE to check out the full album!

This Week's Show - Morgan Spurlock Interview + Geeky Documentaries!

On this week's show we're celebrating the release of Morgan Spurlock's new documentary, Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fans Hope (out April 6 on VOD) by taking a look of some of the best geek-centric documentaries. We'll review Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope, and play our interview with Morgan Spurlock and Holly Conrad.



We'll take a look at some awesome Geek Documentaries, from the Rocky-esque-Donkey-Kong-war in The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters to the LARP'ing armor and foam battlefields of Darkon. Also we'll discuss the 2nd season premiere of Game of Thrones and read the hilarious emails of our South Park "My Cartman Moment" winners!

Plus listen for you chance to win DVD copies of Comedy Central stand-up specials Jo Koy: Lights Out and JB Smoove: That's How I Dooz It.

All this and much more on this week's episode of Geek World, this Thursday and Friday at Noon (PST) on Indie 100, with replays throughout the week on The Point.

On This Week's Show!

 

This week Geek World takes on a large variety of topics, ranging from the upcoming comic book movies we'll see in theaters this summer to Hollywood's recent obsession with medieval times (unfortunately not the sweet adventure themed restaurant but the new shows The Borgias and Game of Thrones). We'll also talk about Stan Lee and Arnold Schwarzenegger's strange new project The Governator, Grant Morrison's new Batman comic Batman: Incorporated and the amazing new AMC show The Killing.

Also great news! After a few painful post-Pain episodes, Naruto: Shippuden is awesome again!! We'll also talk about the new Green Lantern footage from WonderCon and the trailer for the Thundercats reboot.  Oh... and Brett Ratner's new plot to destroy the world, Chaos.

Listen to Geek World this Thursday and Friday at  Noon and Midnight (PST) on www.925kyhy.com

Picture for Thursday's Show!!! Dave's New Nephew Max!!!!!

Do you see the resemblance?

It's been a crazy week in Rochester, we got to see Dave's new nephew Max, we went to the first ever AniBash cosplay event in Seneca Park and we have a new show airing!

On this week's show we talk about the shennanigans we got into at AniBash, including a detailed look at the cosplay movement, Stan Lee's new TV show Superhumans, the new season of Torchwood, and an EXCLUSIVE interview with Dave's 4 month old nephew!!! (Score!!!).

Listen to Geek World this Thursday and Friday at 12 noon PST (3pm for you east coasters), on www.925kyhy.com.

EXCELSIOR!! STAN LEE TRUE BELIEVER PANEL

So instead we headed to the Stan Lee True Believer panel where Stan the Man talked about a new documentary about his life and work. He was accompanied by legendary artist Dick Ayers, Paul Levitz head of DC, X-Men/Transformers producer Tom Desanto and Michael Uslan Executive Producer of Dark Knight and The Spirit. It was a great junket, Stan was hilarious and I swear he has 10 times more energy than either of us and he's like 50-60 years older, so that's just sad. Stan talked about the early days of Marvel and where Excelsior! came from, "years ago I used to write this column Stan's Soapbox and I would end every column with some sort of stupid phrase like Face-Front!, or Hang Loose! anything I could think of, and some how or another...Nuff Said... I would see those expressions cropping up in the DC books, they were called the National Books at the time. So I said to myself I've got to come up with some sort of expression where A they won't know what it means and B they won't know how to spell it.. so I got Excelsior, and I hope I'm not jinxing myself by saying this because I might start seeing it crop up now, but until now excelsior has been ours alone!"
Paul Levitz answered a question about killing off comic characters and bringing them back to life, "I always thought the rule was if you show the dead body you weren't allowed to bring them back, but if you didn't show the body then you can play any trick you can come up with as a writer" Then Stan Lee expressed, "A comic book writer is like God, because who else can say, 'gee I killed that character last issue, I think I'll bring them back to life!' Its the most amazing feeling! You can kill someone, bring them back to life, you can wound them and then in the next panel their wound is miraculously healed you can do anything when you write comics, in fact I'm beginning to wonder if there is something a little bit God like about us? (Stan looks at the rest of the panel) I said US! I don't want to monopolize it all!"


Then we heard about Stan Lee at Carnegie Hall "Would you like to be in Carnegie Hall? and so I thought it was a joke, but he actually paid, he hired the hall and he put together some kind of little show. and I couldn't believe it, I was walking down 57Th street, in front of Carnegie Hall and There's a big sign, 'Tonight Stan Lee and Marvel', 'A day With Stan' whatever it was called, and it was a nonsensical show because we had nothing planned it was almost like this, but we got up there and we talked and kidded around and Roy Thomas was there and I think we had a band of people who were in comics, and people talked about comics and it was a crazy evening, and it was standing room only that's the funny thing, there were people standing around the aisles so I said to myself this is such a big success it will probably go on, it will be the longest running show, the next day they had something else and we were never invited back, but I had my one day at Carnegie Hall."
Stan talked about his cameos "obviously when a producer wants to make sure his movie will be a hit, Hey! let's have Stan do a cameo!...it's obvious" Then Stan described his new cameo on Iron Man, "I do a scene where I'm with 3 gorgeous blonde's, and Robert Downey walks over behind me and taps me on the shoulder and I have a few lines to say with Robert Downey!" For a video of this CLICK HERE Who knows who the 3 blonde's are but we here at Geek World bet it will be Hugh Hefner's Girls Next Door Holly, Bridgette and Kendra.


Then they showed a 9 min clip from the documentary, that had interviews with guys like Joe Quesada, Todd Mcfarlane, Nicolas Cage, and unfortunately Brett Ratner, and confusingly Paris Hilton saying "Stan's Hot". Everyone pretty much said the same thing that we all already know, comics as we know them today are because of the work of Stan Lee. However it looks like a really cool doc that we'll definitely check out when it drops (do DVD's drop? or just albums?).


After the clip Stan talked about his new projects through his company POW! "It has a exclamation point so it doesn't look like prisoner of war" entertainment including one with Paris where he said "I'm working on a project with Paris Hilton obviously with her it's a very refined, intellectual, philosophical.. no its a cartoon series...and it's going to be very funny and she's quite good, obviously she just does a voice, but her voice is good, for the character we portray, which is her, she can do her very well!" the crowd laughed and overall it was a fun time. We have video of the clip HERE


Michael Uslan announced that their shortly going to start principle photography on the Frank Miller written and directed movie of Will Eisners The Spirit , and Tom Desanto confirmed a Transformers sequel in the works as well as a City of Heroes (a popular PC game) live action pic. Michael Uslan then said about the Dark Knight shooting in Chicago, "Stan promised me if I talked the directors into letting him do a cameo it will guarantee at least another $100 million in the box office... I don't know if I can get Chris to do it but I'm working on it Stan."


The panel was great and there's no doubt why his nickname is "The Man". We then went on a quest for free stuff and to see all the wackiness on the floor.

--Dave