Reasons to Survive This Week 10/31/11
Coast through the sugar shock of eating more candy than you gave out on Monday by partaking in some (mostly motionless) activities this week!
Monday
Frank Angones- Hallowinner
Candy. Plain and simple. Preferably Reeses, but I’m not picky. These Trick or Treaters are gonna have to fight me for the Whoppers.
Tuesday
Joe Starr- True Believer
The biggest reason to survive this week:
It’s an All New, All Different Geekscape Presents!
More Amazing than Spider Man.
Newer than the entire 52.
More meta than Deadpool.
Sexually shallower than Starfire.
Not quite as wordy as a Bendis script.
Something something Miles Morales.
Geekscape.net’s newly rebooted monthly comedy show!
FEATURING
Asterios Kokkinos
Bailee Desrocher
Drennon Davis
Greg Edwards
Joe Starr
HEADLINER: Brandie Posey
NO COVER, 1/2 priced appetizers & FREE parking. 9PM – Michael’s Bar & Grill 2825 W. Olive
Shane O’Hare- Hates Playing Against Oddjob
DAMN! Busy day this Tuesday. First off Skrillex’s first studio album is supposed to be released on his new record label OWSLA. From the tracks that have been leaked and stuff Skrillex has been playing live, it’s going to be a different stack of tracks than his last two EP’s.
As for video games, I am looking forward to Metal Gear Rising and Goldeneye: Reloaded. MGR is an 360 exclusive where you play as Raiden. The new engine that the Kojima crew wrote for the sword play in it is pretty damn impressive. As for Goldeneye, I just hope it’s not a monumental disappointment like the LAST Goldeneye remake. I played some at SDCC this year and it felt pretty damn rad, but only release date will tell.
Tuesday is also the day the GTA:V trailer is released.
Stephen Prescott- Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
Arkham City Nightwing pack is released! As much as I enjoyed playing Arkham Asylum, I haven’t had a lot of time for video games lately. That changes on Tuesday though because I will finally get to pretend to be Dick Grayson doing acrobatics and kicking bad guy ass when the Nightwing pack for Arkham City is released. Nightwing has been my favorite super hero since I was a little kid so I’m really looking forward to playing through what I hear is one of the best games of all time, with my favorite super hero of all time. I’ll definitely be making mucho time for video game playing this week.
Joshua Jackson- Miles “Tails” Powers Enthusiast
They say money doesn’t grow on trees but these are the kind of days you wish it did. There’s way too much that I’m looking forward to on this day so I’ll keep each one brief.
YuGiOh Wave 2 Holiday Tins. If you thought the first wave of tins were great, wait until you check out the second ones. Featuring either Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon or Number 10: Illumiknight, (both of which are yet to be released until now,) each tin also comes with five booster packs and reprints of hard to find cards. Oh, and one of those reprints in both tins is Solemn Warning, a much sought after card that works in any deck. It’s a perfect gift for the duelist in your life… especially if that duelist is you.
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. After a fantastic start and a strong sequel, Nathan Drake is back for his third outing of adventuring, shooting and constantly falling off of ledges. Over and over and over again. The demo and multiplayer beta were pretty neat, so here’s to hoping the game keeps up the high standards its built.
Sonic Generations. Last year’s Sonic Colors built up a ton of steam for the mascot that many had declared dead. This year’s game is looking to build on the game play of Colors while adding classic 2D Sonic and remastered levels across the hedgehog’s long history for a solid injection of nostalgia. Whether or not hedgehog on human relationships were one of the things returning is yet to be revealed.
Nightwing DLC. I echo Stephen. Dick Grayson has been my favorite ever since I watched Burt Ward run around in spandex briefs with Adam West, and while I’ve sworn off most DLC, Nightwing is one I won’t pass up. While it’s too bad he won’t be playable in the campaign, challenge mode will be more than enough to feed my appetite for erm… Grayson? What can I say? I love me some Dick.
Noel Nocciolo- Judgment Darer
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) is the debut book of essays by Mindy Kaling. (I read this as, How Noel Spent Her Junior High Years (And Why She Read So Many Books). I’ve never seen “The Office.” (Judge away, bitches) I enjoyed the book’s excerpts found around the internet so much, I laughed like an idiot to myself for days and emailed the passages to friends. I look forward to laughing out loud inappropriately in public, while reading.
The lovely Robin Bacior will be releasing “Rest Our Wings” under her own label, Consonants & Vowels. Bacior’s first full-length LP (an 4-song EP was released in 2010) is a must for fans of singer-songwriters who have something to say. No whiny drivel here, only thoughtful folk-driven music. www.robinbacior.com order the album at: http://robinbacior.bandcamp.com/ And for fans of modern dance and/or cool camera video tricks, check out Robin’s video for “Ohio” here: http://vimeo.com/29336898
Wednesday
Frank Angones- Forbush Man Cosplayer
The big old League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Omnibus comes out today, so I might finally be able to force myself to read all of “Century” and “The Black Dossier”. But more importantly, as a long time fan of Marvel’s “What The–?” and “Not Brand Echh,” I’m happy to see the publication of Shame Itself #1. This special from such esteemed comedy writers as Wyatt Cenac and Elliot Kalan of The Daily Show and Michael Kupperman, this book promises to answer the questions about the Marvel Universe you were ashamed to ask!” Like “What are the odds Squirrel Girl would date me in real life?”
Saturday
Russell Sherman- Fights the Powers That Be
The Anonymous Take-Down of Facebook. Some of you reading this may think there would be no reason to live without Facebook but it will be okay, the forums here at Geekscape will still be active. Now if agree or disagree with them it doesn’t matter, our hacker overlords are doing this for us we just may not understand their reasons for it yet. This along with the take-downs of the servers hosting child porn makes me think these guys aren’t all that bad.
Sunday
Russell Sherman- Has Whole Elaborate Towns Meticulously Constructed in His Model Train Dungeon
I don’t know much about Hell on Wheels, this new AMC program but it appears that it revolves around the railroad and for a big fan of trains like myself that’s reason enough for me to watch the pilot.
