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Tim and Max Solve All The Problems With Popular Culture is STILL the newest podcast in the stable of winged horses that is the Geek Syndicate Network. The podcast aims to do exactly what it says on the tin – young bucks Tim Swann (@tetrarchangel on twitter) of Psycomedia (psycomedia.wordpress.com - can this be hyperlinked?) and Max Barnard (@maxy_barnard on twitter) of You Must Hear This (imustreadthis.com - can this be hyperlinked?) identify a key area where popular geek culture falls down and then try and come up with some ways that both the creators and the audience can fix it. In our third episode, we discuss mediocrity, hopefully without being mediocre. There's unavoidable Lucas and Spielberg chat, trying to force stuff into franchises, the problems with properties that sell no matter what, and inevitable preludes to the next episode, which will concern money. We might have been bothered to throw in some solutions, since that's what the franchise demands. 

The Information Superhighway to Your Audience! Digital distribution for self-published comics How can you use the web to get your comic to its readers? Stacey Whittle chairs a panel with Daniel Clifford, Leonie O’Moore, Gordon Robertson and Terry Wiley that will discuss the potential benefits and hurdles to using digital comic distribution. In a constantly evolving field, what new models, tactics and opportunities are out there for a comic creator who wants their work to be read?

Welcome to the ever so slightly late episode 35 of Small Press Big Mouth! This episode has a splattering of Indie related news but is seriously review heavy as Stace and Lee wade through a myriad of comics including: Hitsville, Hark! A Vagrant, Stiffs, Hilda and the Midnight Giant, Verity Fair, Seeds, Colins Godson, Holy Terror, Elemental Micah, Windfall Melons and more. Check out the blog for links and shiz, and we hope you enjoy the comeback show!  

This month Kehaar and Matt are still companioned by Luke Foster as we continue our look at the Doctor. This time we are turn our attention to the sad end of "Classic" Who and the into the modern relaunch, covering:  - The Sad Tale of Internal Politics and Terrible Coats - The player on a Thousand Chess Boards and a rare brush with consequence - The War Veteran and running away from your responsibilities - Skipping through time with the special companion (?) and Christ Complex - The Importance of being just a Mad Man with a Box All that and the usual sidetracking through Time and Space!  The link to Moon Freight 3 is http://moonfreight3.com The Incredible Hulkcast is at http://www.comicbooknoise.com/hulk/ The Trip is at http://www.thetrippodcast.com/ And ECBT2000AD is at http://2000ad.wordpress.com/ And more Doctor Who goodness can be found on the excellent Geek Syndicates very own ‘Time Lore’, reviewing the whole Doctor TV canon (and associated audios on the Geek Syndicate Network.’

Welcome to the first issue of Geek to Geek a podcast magazine dedicated to bring the sass back to geekdom. If you have an iPod, iPhone etc you should be able to pick up the enhanced version of the podcast which will have chapter breaks included allowing you to move through the different sections of the podcast as you see fit. If you’ve you can’t get the enhanced version of the podcast, no worries the time stamps for each chapter are below. 00:00:00 Geek to Geek with Monts and Nuge – David Montieth and Barry Nugent bring you their monthly slice of pop culture madness. No script, no preparation and but hopefully some hope that you will enjoy the experience 01:02:35 Fave genre reads of 2011 - The Scrolls gang pick some of the beloved reads of the past year 01:19:36 Notes from Nuge – Joins Barry and Chrisophe as they look as they chat about film soundtrack with a special focus on the pulps this month. 01:33:38 Stacey Whittle of Small Press Big Mouth brings you her independent book review. 01:40:30 A special int

Tim and Max Solve All The Problems With Popular Culture is STILL the newest podcast in the stable of winged horses that is the Geek Syndicate Network. The podcast aims to do exactly what it says on the tin – young bucks Tim Swann (@tetrarchangel on twitter) of Psycomedia and Max Barnard (@maxy_barnard on twitter) of You Must Hear This identify a key area where popular geek culture falls down and then try and come up with some ways that both the creators and the audience can fix it. In our second episode, we discuss hypersexualisation, and how the great and the good can fall down (at least in Tim's fragile mind and innocent eyes) by sex getting in the way of their art, and the bad can make everything worse with their impact on sexuality in and out of the arts. But don't worry, there are solutions too! Harry Potter fan-fic features more than you might like. 

In which the team try to pin down the essence of genre: what differentiates it from a style; who makes them and how it affects our reading experience.  We go on to discuss the benefits and problems with blurring those boundaries.  Actually, for the first fifteen minutes we try to stop Mattie playing SW:TOR and attempt to discuss a series of books that none of us has actually read - but then we get on topic.  Honestly.The conversation was to have gone on for a good twenty minutes longer but technical difficulties plagued us in the latter part of the episode.  On the plus side, all being well you will be hearing a little more from Scrolls 'somewhere' on the Geek Syndicate Network this month.Genre Blends that we recommend, but didn't have opportunity to discuss properly (or at all in some cases) include Artemis Fowl, the 'Jon Shannow' books, The 'Pax Britannia' series, Coraline, The 'Merrily Watson' series, 'The Tales Of The Otori' series, The Fifth Child, The 'Shadows Of The Apt' series, and Cloud Atlas.  You s

Join Amaechi, Barry and Ant in the first episode of 2012 where we look at the games announced for 2012 - from the big names like Mass Effect 3 and GTA 5 to the possible "under the radar" titles Never Dead and Spec Ops: The Line. The guys also discuss the news - from Full title downloads to OnLive on the iPad. Enjoy the show - and a Happy New Year from the Guys.

Tim and Max Solve All The Problems With Popular Culture is the newest podcast in the stable of winged horses that is the Geek Syndicate Network. The podcast aims to do exactly what it says on the tin - young bucks Tim Swann and Max Barnard identify a key area where popular geek culture falls down and then try and come up with some ways that both the creators and the audience can fix it.  In our first episode, we discuss fear of change, and how both the audience, the creators and their bosses all fall foul of this fear. In the course, we discuss the New 52 (because you haven't had enough of that yet!), panel shows, the joy of Star Trek XI and The Clone Wars TV Series, and why changing to include basic human decency might help everyone out.

This month Kehaar and Matt step inside an incourgrous blue box with a friendly stranger in the form of Luke from the Hulk Cast, ECBT2000AD, The Trip and Moon Freight 3. In so doing they pour over the long and varied history of the Doctor - in fact so long and varied that they decide to take 2 episodes to take a look at it.   In this first episode so doing they look at: The Grumpy Grandad and whose TARDIS is it anyway? The trickster clown, the beauty/brains (and the brawn.)  The Dashing Dandy, The Master and the UNIT/Republican Security Force family. Mad, bad and dangerous to know Tom and the unused Harry Sullivan  The Wet Vet and the TARDIS kindergarden     Saving the joys of Colin Baker and subsequent Doctors for the second installment.    So fob your granddaughter off on a passing resistance fighter, put down your recorder, stop working on that experiment and with a jelly baby in one hand and a stick of celery in the other enjoy our romp through leadership in the world of Doctor Who.   Check out all Lukes g

  Jingle bells, jingles bells, jingle all the way......Merry Christmas everyone. It’s the final episode of the Next Level for 2011 and 3 Stooges....I mean 3 great hosts come together in this bumper episode to talk about the games we plan on spending our long Christmas holiday break playing. We also debate the ethics of cheating in gaming. Are their acceptable levels of cheating?   In this week’s news Just Cause the movie Xbox 360 dashboard update GBA games coming to 3DS owner.....but who really plays these old game? Naughty Dog reveals the Last of Us Skyrim - Game of the Year or bug filled nightmare? CoD player gets 14 year ban for cheating We go all downloadable games as we review XBLA and PSN games Renegade Ops and Dead Nation

The twinkling lights are all up, there's a chill in the air, little boys and girls are starting to get excited and, somewhere in the distance, a jolly fat man is whipping his elves with a cat-o'-nine-tails to work Harder, damn them, Harder.  It's nearly Christmas!It is the season of good will to all men - even pedantic sods and giggling morons.  It is also the season of binge eating and drunken arguements.  (I think you know where I'm going here.)  Yes!  It's time, once more for the Gala of Games, the Bonanza of Banter, the Surfeit of Silliness that is our Christmas Cross-Over.Warning: Explicit Content from the startIt's a more focussed event this year, with only three games, but what games they are!Clover IS Nicholas Parsons in 'Just A Minute!' (complete with fishnet tights)Matt IS Lord Alan Sidious, searching time, space and multiple realities for the next 'Sith Apprentice'andKehaar IS that bloke from the radio who hosts Fighting Talk IN... 'Geeking Talk'All three are ably assisted, undermined and irritated

This week, standing against the Vampires, Demons and forces and Darkness, the Dissecting Duo Delve into the Buffyverse, looking at the leadership (and otherwise) of the forces of Light and Darkness as they struggle over the Hellmouth.  Subjects Covered: - Who is in charge of the Scoobies? and who should be?  - Why does Giles keep getting bashed on the head, and why doesn't buy a tin hat?  - Is the Master a proponent of Scientific Management?  - Is the Mayor the best leader in the Buffyverse?  - Middle Management at Wolfram and Hart - What are the Watchers Council actually for?  and much more! Comments to dissectingworlds@yahoo.co.ukor harass us at @theGrampus for Matt or @clarkythecruel for Kehaar or for plain unadulterated pod news @DissectingWrlds

Here we are again, just in time for christmas. In this episode Ant and I explore Frostfire & The Suffering two audio adventures featuring companions vicki and steven, read by the original actors, Maureen O'Brien and Peter Purves. I then have a chat with the multifaceted Barnaby Edwards - This guy was the dalek operator in the Christopher Eccleston adventure entitled Dalek and has been in every dalek episode since.  He also writes, acts, directs and produces many Big Finish stories. Find out which BF story is his favourite, what he thinks of the new dalek design and wether dalek operaters have a harder time than R2D2 http://www.barnaby-edwards.com/

Join The Dynamic Duo, and some chap called Barry as they discuss the latest goings on in the world of gaming. This episode is packed with first look reviews of Uncharted 3, Modern Warfare 3, Skyrim and Barry reviews The Adventures of Tin-Tin in Full.

This month we wander through the Wardrobe of Geek Analysis to the magical land of Narnia. Joined by Timothy Swann of the Psycomedia (and others!) podcast, we plunge into the frozen wastes of fantasy godhood in the shape of everyone’s favourite Divine Lion. Subjects Covered: - Lewis vs Tolkien, the Inklings, and parallel development - His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman and unintended messages - Creation and Management of your own universe - The Merits of Biting your enemy on the face over turning the cheek - Leaders as Servants - The Space Trilogy and Middle Earth Time Travel! - And Much More! Arthur C Clarke was of course a member of the British Interplanetary Society, a group of writers and engineers who were closely involved in the early British Space Program and Blue Streak Program in the 1950s/1960s. He never helped out the Doctor or battled alien ghosts at Hobb's end.(To our knowledge...) The Charity EP Tim mentions is here: http://www.musicglue.net/purereasonrevolution/ and he has been kind enough t

This week in the news we have: Rainbow 6 Patriots & Grand Theft Auto 5 announced Mass Effect 3 gets 3 single player game modes US Gamer spends $1,725 to get Modern Warfare 3 three days early Ant rants about DLC being on retail game disks DC Universe Online goes free to play In our feature, Ant and Amaechi discuss the winners from the Golden Joystick Awards and give their first impressions on Battlefield 3 and Batman Arkham City.

So this is it folks after five years and nearly 200 episodes the series finale of the weekly podcast that is Geek Syndicate is here. For the last episode we threw out thoughts of planning and went out as we came in with a bottle of whisky and to quote Dr Jones 'making it up as we go'. Enjoy and remember it's only the weekly podcast that is ending all the podcast on teh GS network will still be going as will the GS website. We will also still be doing audio interviews and features for the GS website as well as out new monthly project which will be annouced during this episode. Thanks to everyone out there who has supported the weekly podcast over the last five years! We out! SO FOR ONE LAST TIME.... GET YER GEEK ON NINJAS!!!

Scrolls Book Group: A Song Of Ice And FireIn which we try to harness George RR Martin's vast, fiery beast as it spawls triumphantly across the gems of modern Fantasy.  From the very first book, A Game Of Thrones, this series has proven to be one of those compulsive reads that ignite the passions of a whole generation of readers, reaching far beyond the traditional boundaries of genre preference.Joining us for the podcast are returning special guests Matt - The Grampus from Dissecting Worlds, and Carey - she of the Two-Monkeys from Geektress.We tackle the books one by one and focus on a particular theme for each.  There are Major plot spoilers throughout and we do skip back and forth between books on occasion, so we strongly recommend that you only listen to this episode once you have finished reading Book 5: A Dance With Dragons.Warning: contains gratuitous boobies.[more....]Amongst the many items up for discussion are: Whose fault is it anyway, Why should you never bring your mum to work, Feuds and the Feuda

Welcome to Episode 34 of Small Press Big Mouth, with tons of news and a veritable shitload of reviews! We talk Villianous, Bearmaggedon, Emily Carroll, Unbelievable, Dark Judgement 2, Rachel Rising, Big Bang #2, Transient Man, Dr WTF?! and ZOOAD. Man, reviews are packed like a can of sardines in here like (though I think that smell is Lee!) Enjoy people and keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep reading (comics)!