Why limit your summer reading to words when you can have words, art and some amazing storytelling all at once? This week’s episode is all about graphic novels! Ones everyone should have, some older ones you may have missed and some new titles you may not have heard about yet. To give you the full super hero experience we also have an interview with composer Mateo Messina about his “Symphony of the Super-Hero”.
We also begin what we hope will be a continuing series of author spotlights this week. First up is our interview with local Seattle author of supernatural detective fiction Kat Richardson. We also have our full review of the Seattle Symphony’s Distant Worlds concert.
All that plus the weekly geek news and events!
Our Geek Week
We have both fallen back into the time trap of World of Warcraft. You saw a link to Matt’s priest Ogou in last week’s show notes and here is Shannon’s li’l warlock Ruine
Vampire Knight manga
Scud the Disposable Assassin. Don’t forget the Scud and Sol action figures are still available from Shocker Toys. You can hear our review of the Sol action figure in Episode #11 and you can see some pictures in the show notes.
Distant Worlds – the Music from Final Fantasy performed by the Seattle Symphony
Graphic Novel Madness
Must Have Titles
Watchmen
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Catch up with your favorite heroes
Marvel Premiere Classics
Other Good Titles
Jinx
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
More info
DC Comics essential 30 graphic novels
Amazon Top 10 Marvel Graphic Novels
How graphic novel pricing has changed
New Titles from DC
Look for a more complete write-up on these titles later this weekend, but here is a list of what we talked about
Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader
Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow
A Superhero Symphony?
Composer Mateo Messina
Author Spotlight
Make Shannon Watch a Bad Movie
This week’s movie was Troll 2 (1990)
If you want to dare Shannon to watch a bad movie, e-mail us at seattlegeekly@gmail.com or call us at (206)201-2352
Check our Dared Movies Page to see what is on the list and what Shannon has already watched.
Geek Out
This week our long time World of Warcraft buddy Sean geeks out about a new outfit for his character:
Hey guys Sean (aka Puck) here! Totally geeking out right now. I’ve been playing on Alliance off and on, and I recently found the mariachi set in warcraft! So I got it on my Draenei paladin. The set is named after Jalisco which is a state in Mexico. I lived in Guadalajara, Jalisco for two months performing research for my university. While there I found out that Guadalajara is the birth city of the Mariachi, and got to see some mariachi bands play. Finding this set in WoW means I get to play pretend mariachi!
Now all I need is a guitar or some maracas…
Any ways I was geeking out and thought of you guys. Love the show, and keep it up!
Adios amigos!
-Sean
We’d love to hear from our listeners about what makes YOU Geek Out!
E-mail us at seattlegeekly@gmail.com or call us at (206)201-2352
News
Graphic novel Hack/Slash has found a director for the movie adaptation
Ironman 2 should be wrapping filmimg this Saturday. Jon Favreau is on Twitter and gets our favorite Tweet of the Week
Contests
NEW CONTEST!
Greywalker Giveaway!
We have SIGNED copies of the brand new mass market paperback editions of Kat Richardson’s first 2 Greywalker novels Greywalker and Poltergeist. They’ll get you hooked! Leave a comment on THIS POST for your chance to win!
Contest will run until August 2nd and the winner will be picked August 3rd just in time for the fourth novel Vanished to hit stores. Good luck!
There is still time to enter the Exhibitchin ticket giveaway! Come party with Seattle Geekly – we’re giving away 2 pairs of tickets to the event at the EMP|SFM in Seattle, just leave a comment on THIS POST but instead of just posting any random comment, this time we want to know who your favorite muppet is! Any character from any show, era or incarnation of the muppets will do.
Events
July 15 – July 31, 2009 DreamStrands Comics 115 N 85th St # 102, Seattle – “Holy Grey Ponytails Batman!” 10th Anniversary Sale! Come down to Dreamstrands and Take 50% off our entire stock of BACK ISSUES! Every comic in the bins under $30 will be 1/2 off its marked price, all our GAMES, STATUES and BUSTS will be 15% off and all TOYS, NEW COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS will be 25% off! There will be other events throughout July, so check our website or “FaceSpace” often for updates!
July 17 – 18, 2009 midnight Egyptian Theater 805 East Pine St Seattle – Midnight Movies at the Egyptian: David Lynch’s Blue Velvet
July 18, 2009 10am – 5pm EMP|SFM Seattle – Family Day at Experience Music Project|Science Fiction Museum. This month events include A Better World: Living in Harmony film screening in the JBL theater at 11:00 am, a sock puppet-making workshop with Annett Mateo in The Rec Room from 11:00am – 3:00pm and much more!
July 18, 2009 11:00am Volunteer Park Conservatory 1400 E Galer St, Seattle – InnoSera Potluck Picnic. Calling all BJD and Japanese Street Fashion enthusiasts for a wonderful community meet-up. Come show us your fashion outfits, your gorgeous BJDs as well as your favorite recipes.
July 17 – 18, 2009 11:30am – 6pm Camlann Villiage near Carnation, Washington – Camlann Summer Festival. The lord of Camlann invites you to attend his summer village festivals, all with theatre, knightly combat, music, crafts, archery, swordplay, minstrels, and victuals. Come to Somersetshire, ancient realm of Arthur the king, as our morning trumpet & charter proclamation open the village gates upon the colorful world of Chaucer’s England in 1376. The pace is leisurely: everything does not happen at once. The scale is small, intimate: leave behind the hectic 21st century.
July 18, 2009 2pm Games Workshop Carkeek Plaza 10031 Holman Rd Northwest, Seattle – Lucky 13s: The Eagle’s Nest. Monthly multi-store Warhammer 40k battle.
July 21, 2009 7pm University of Washington Bookstore 4326 University Way NE Seattle – Clarion West presents: David Hartwell. Appearance by the Senior Editor for Tor Books and the co-editor of The Year’s Best SF and The Year’s Best Fantasy anthologies.
July 21, 2009 7pm EMP|SFM Seattle – Exposed: Inside Film series presents Labyrinth with special guest Karen Prell. Free for EMP|SFM members, $5 for general public
Music
Music this week was Another New Crisis by Kirby Krackle. They are opening for the Vicci Martinez Band 7/17 8pm at the Showbox at the Market. Come see them perform their summer single Ring Capacity for the first time live!
Next week’s show is going to be our Summer Movie Geek Out featuring a great interview with Emmy award winning makeup artist Brian Sipe, who has worked on films such as Start Trek, Van Helsing, the local fan produced series Star Trek: Phoenix and who was part of the Academy Award winning makeup crew on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
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Why no Sandman love? It won a World Fantasy Award for short fiction. This is a series of GNs that all other GNs want to be when they grow up.
Like we said, we couldn’t mention EVERY GN that we loved, though I think we did mention the Absolute Sandman editions that we have.
We may have to do a Gaiman show…then we could mention it!
Loved the conversation with Matt’s parents. I made my band/orch friends in college listen to FF (orchestral) music and they enjoyed it. One told me he thought it sounded like Mozart in style, which he said was because of its structure; apparently there are people who don’t like Mozart (buh?) and they complain that his structure is too perfect and predictable. Or so I’m told.
I absolutely love doing stuff like this. I am fascinated by differences is musical tastes. Like I said in the episode, I would LOVE to take a copy of, say, Sabotage by the Beastie Boys back to 1950 and play it for someone to get their reaction. I suspect it would be something on the order of “Why is he shouting?”