We traveled across the mountains, braving a 5 hour drive, rattlesnakes and cheap hotels all to get to Spokane ComiCon and it was worth every minute.

This was the fourth year of the convention and they drew a respectable crowd and some very interesting guests. This week we talk a little about what we saw at the convention and play our interviews with DC Comics writer Brandon Jerwa, Rotten creator Mark Rahner, a collection of people involved with indie comics company Creator’s Edge Press, Monster Commute creator Daniel M. Davis, convention organizer Nate O’Brien and John Layman, the creator of the Eisner Award nominated Chew.

In non-SCC related news, we also catch up with Eric S. Brown, author of the literary mash-up War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies who talks about some of his latest projects.

All that plus the weekly geek news, Seattle area geek events and Shannon watches yet another bad movie.

Our Geek Week

• Listened to audiobook of Bite Me; A Love Story by Christopher Moore
• Shannon still playing World of Warcraft, Matt jonesing hard mostly due to a visit from WoW guildie Sutureself. If Matt relapses it is totally going to be Suture’s fault.
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  • Playing 180 from Headcase Games on the iPod Touch
    
• Playing Split Second on the PS3
• Watched LOST finale. Spoiler-free review: We liked it! For more insight into the meaning of the finale see
  • The Geronimo Jack’s Beard podcast
  • Absolutely the last thing I will write about Lost from Mighty GodKing
• Trivia Night with Crypticon

Spokane ComiCon

Interviews

• Brandon Jerwa



• Mark Rahner



• John Layman



• Creator’s Edge Press
  • Stephen Lindsay
  • Neal Bailey



• Daniel M Davis

Special thanks to convention organizer Nate O’Brien, Jesse Acosta and all the members of The Spokane Comicsmith’s Guild for making us feel so welcome at the con!

Author Spotlight

Eric S. Brown

Dare Shannon To Watch a Bad Movie

This week’s bad movie was A Sound of Thunder (2005)

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.

Next week’s movie will be Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1973) – dared by Brian

News

• ABC admits Lost’s final moments were meaningless
• Mythbusters’ Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage Announce New Agreement to Develop and Produce Multiple New Series for Discovery Channel
• Joss Whedon In talks with Gabe Newell of Valve Corporation to direct a Half Life film starring Nathan Fillion after Avengers is complete
• Wil Wheaton confirms in Radio Free Burrito Episode #28 that he will be in the Guild season 4.

Events

• May 29 – 30, 2010 Games Workshop 1003B Holman Rd NW, Seattle – Hobby Center Birthday Celebration. Join the crew at Carkeek Plaza in celebrating the third birthday of the store with two days of solid gaming! The store will open at 12pm Saturday and will stay open until 6pm Sunday with Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy and Lord of the Rings battles, speed painting contests, door prizes and more. Bring your favorite armies or stock up during the celebration. Prizes given away every hour!
• May 29, 2010 9pm Blue Moon Tavern 712 NE 45th St, Seattle – Death*Star CD Release Party. Celebrate the release of nerdcore duo Death*Star’s latest album The Fandom Menace with a night of nerdcore at the Blue Moon. Death*Star will be performing as will local nerdcore pioneer Ultraklystron! Tickets are $5 at the door. This is a 21 and over show.

Plan Ahead

• June 11 – 13, 2010 – Northwest Pinball & Game Room Show – Seattle, WA
• June 18 – 20, 2010 – Crypticon – Seattle, WA
• June 18 – 20, 2010 – PaizoCon – Bellevue, WA
• June 18 – 20, 2010 – Go Play Northwest 2010 – Seattle, WA

Contest

Summer Reading Giveaway

Need to stock up on some reading material for the coming months? Well Seattle Geekly is here to help. We are giving away a hradback copy of Busted Flush (a Wild Cards novel) edited by George R.R. Martin and trade paperback editions of Close Encounters of the Urban Kind edited by Jennifer Brozek and Black Blade Blues by J.A. Pitts.

In 1946, an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed ninety percent of those it infected. Nine percent survived to mutate into tragically deformed creatures. And one percent gained superpowers. The Wild Cards shared-universe series, created and edited since 1987 by New York Times #1 bestseller George R. R. Martin (“The American Tolkien” –Time magazine) along with Melinda Snodgrass, is the tale of the history of the world since then—and of the heroes among the one percent.

Now a new generation of heroes has taken its place on the world stage, its members crucial players in international events. At the United Nations, veteran ace John Fortune has assembled a team of young aces known as the Committee, to assist at trouble spots around the world–including a genocidal was in the Niger Delta, an invasion of zombies in hurricane ravaged New Orleans, and a freak nuclear explosion in a small Texas town.

We’ve all heard the stories of what happens to those who go to lovers’ lane and of the folly of flashing your lights at another car at night. We all know someone who knows someone that survived a meeting with Bloody Mary and another who picked up a hitchhiker that then disappeared. And we all know these stories aren’t true. They’re just urban legends. Right? Wrong. Sometimes the stories we hear are true. Often they’re more than they seem. These are the urban legends with alien explanations and the alien encounters mistaken for urban legends. The line between one and the other is so blurred in this anthology of stories about Close Encounters of the Urban Kind that you will never look another urban legend the same way again. Featuring stories by Alma Alexander, Nathan Crowder, Carole Johnstone, Pete Kempshall, Jennifer Pelland, Erik Scott de Bie, Bev Vincent, and many others.

Sarah Beauhall has more on her plate than most twenty-somethings: day job as a blacksmith, night job as a props manager for low-budget movies, and her free time is spent fighting in a medieval re-enactment group.

The lead actor breaks Sarah’s favorite one-of-a-kind sword, and to avoid reshooting scenes, Sarah agrees to repair the blade. One of the extras, who claims to be a dwarf, offers to help. And that’s when things start to get weird. Could the sword really be magic, as the “dwarf” claims? Are dragons really living among us as shapeshifters?

And as if things weren’t surreal enough, Sarah’s girlfriend Katie breaks out the dreaded phrase… “I love you.” As her life begins to fall apart, first her relationship with Katie, then her job at the movie studio, and finally her blacksmithing career, Sarah hits rock bottom. It is at this moment, when she has lost everything she has prized, that one of the dragons makes their move.

And suddenly what was unthinkable becomes all too real…and Sarah will have to decide if she can reject what is safe and become the heroine who is needed to save her world.

This contest will run from now until June 2 with the winners picked on the show on June 3. We’ll ship the swag to you via USPS

“How do I enter?”
Please register / log in to our website, and leave a comment on THIS POST. You can just say “hi” or whatever! One entry per person please, we’ll delete any multiple or offensive posts. Make sure you use a valid e-mail address when you register so we can contact you if you win!

“How will you randomly pick someone?”
We have D&D dice of all shapes and sizes, even a 100 sider! We’ll roll and see who wins!

Music

Music this week was ‘Dusty Cartridges & Long Boxes’ and ‘Secret Identity’ by Kirby Krackle off their album E for Everyone

Next week’s show: Episode #64 – Yet Another Geek Music Show! – We talk with Death Star, Ultraklystron and John Anealio and play some awesome geek music!

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