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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 486 - "Interview with the Vampire (1994)"

Gobbledygeek episode 486, “Interview with the Vampire (1994),” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. Listen to Gobbledygeek and live forever. This week, in a stealth continuation of this year’s Gobbledyween, Paul and Arlo head on down to New Orleans for Neil

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 430 - "FCF: American Vampire"

Gobbledygeek episode 429, “Geek Challenge: Wolf vs. The Insider,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. What’s more American than ruthless bastards sucking dry the poor, hardworking souls that make this country what it is–all in the name of progress? We’

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 387 - "Gobbledyween: Near Dark (feat. Joseph Lewis)"

Bill Paxton in Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Near Dark’ (1987). Gobbledygeek episode 387, “Gobbledyween: Near Dark (feat. Joseph Lewis),” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. It finally happened. After three long years of behind-the-scenes turmoil, Near Dark has made its way to Gobbledyween. A/V

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Listen to 'Gobbledygeek' Episode 298, "Grendel: Part 8 - Devil's Reign"

Gobbledygeek episode 298, “Grendel: Part 8 – Devil’s Reign,” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. Wait, what’s that? Not only did someone listen to our Grendel episodes…but they decided to join us on air?! Wonders never cease. Joining Paul and Arlo to

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Listen to 'Gobbledygeek' Episode 274, "Grendel: Part 2 - Devil's Legacy, Part 1"

Gobbledygeek episode 274, “Grendel: Part 2 – Devil’s Legacy, Part 1,” is avalable for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. For their second Four-Color Flashback installment discussing Matt Wagner’s Grendel, Paul and Arlo jump into the first half of the first proper story arc, “Devil’s

Movie News

Paul & AJ's Top 10 Films of 2014

The new year is less than two days old, so once again, it’s time to look back to our favorites of last year. As always, lists are imperfect, incomplete, and totally subject to change upon reflection and the passage of time. We’ll start with Paul; he remains skeptical

Comic Book News

Paul & AJ's Top 10 Comics of 2012

We’ve already listed our favorite TV shows and movies of last year, and we’ve got a couple more lists just before the new season begins. Here are our favorite comic books of 2012; check back tomorrow for our favorite albums (though, considering our extensively detailed history of not

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Four-Color Flashback: 'Preacher: Vol. 9 - Alamo'

Welcome to the final week in our discussion of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher. For more, read weeks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. Paul: It ends here. Nine volumes. 66 issues. Five one-shot specials. A four-issue tie-in miniseries. And a tanker truck full of

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Four-Color Flashback: 'Preacher: Vol. 8 - All Hell's A-Coming'

Welcome to week 8 of 9 in our discussion of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher. For more, read weeks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. AJ: Here we are. The penultimate volume of Preacher. Given the title and the fact that we’re very near the

Four-Color Flashback

Four-Color Flashback: 'Preacher: Vol. 5 - Dixie Fried"

Welcome to week 5 of 9 in our analysis of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher. For more, read weeks 1, 2, 3, and 4. Paul: Juhz. (Justice.) Vuhh. (Vengeance.) UHFUH. (ARSEFACE.) AJ: As much as I’ve had my problems with Arseface thus far, any time he said

Four-Color Flashback

Four-Color Flashback: 'Preacher: Vol. 3 - Proud Americans'

Welcome to week 3 of 9 in our analysis of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher. Weeks 1 and 2 can be found here and here. Paul & AJ: MOTHERFUCKERRR!!! AJ: Last week, you said that Preacher is Garth Ennis’ love letter to an idealized America. Fittingly enough, this

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Four-Color Flashback: 'Preacher: Vol. 1 - Gone to Texas'

Last summer, I started a column entitled Four-Color Flashback, wherein I went through and discussed/analyzed a legendary run of comic books I’d never read. In that case, it was Chris Claremont and John Byrne’s Uncanny X-Men (read the first part here). It was a fun experience, and

Last Month's Comics

Last Month's Comics: 'Ultimate Spider-Man' Swings In and DC's New 52 Roll Out

Welcome to Last Month’s Comics, in which I discuss, uh, last month’s comics. I get my comics in bi-monthly shipments from Discount Comic Book Service, and as such, I can be a little behind. So here we are. This feature started last month. So, September 2011, what kind

On DVD & Blu-Ray

On DVD & Blu-ray, 9/13/11: 'Thor,' 'Meek's Cutoff,' More

THOR (DVD/Two-Disc Blu-ray, DVD & Digital Combo/Three-Disc Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD & Digital Combo) The penultimate pre-Avengers Marvel franchise hit like a thunderbolt! Well, a severe summer shower at least. Chris Hemsworth (Papa Kirk from Abrams’ Star Trek) plays the titular Thunder God, an impetuous and brash young

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Listen to Last Night's Gobbledygeek

Last night’s Gobbledygeek, “How to Stake a Vampire,” is available for listening right here. It’s the first of our five Halloween-themed shows this month, and in it we discuss everyone’s favorite creature of the night, the venerable vampire. Everything from Nosferatu to Fright Night gets a mention,

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Gobbledygeek #27 Tonight!

It’s been an extremely busy time for moi, so we had to cancel last week’s episode and this is the first time I’ve really had to post about anything. But it’s a fun thing to post about, for the twenty-seventh episode of Gobbledygeek airs live tonight

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Gobbledygeek #15 Tonight!

The fifteenth episode of Gobbledygeek airs live tonight at 10:30 PM EST right here. We’ll be discussing something that’s not exactly seen as geeky: Twilight. Paul and I are decidedly not fans, and thus we shall turn to guest host Michele Durham, who is, to explain the

TV News

Happy Birthday, Joss Whedon!

Ack! It’s late in the day, and I still haven’t wished my Dark Lord and Master, Joss Whedon, a happy birthday. To make up for it, and to show that the guy isn’t just all about breaking hearts and visiting death upon your puppy, here’s some

Hey Mr. AJ

Hey, Mr. AJ: Tame Impala, True Blood, Dum Dum Girls, Wild Nothing, Twilight, Robyn

Hey, Mr. AJ is a new column in which I plan on writing some things about the new music I hear. They’ll be brief reviews, divided into sections: MAXIMUM GOBBLING for the masterpieces; GOBBLE IT for the merely great; WORTH GOBBLING for other good releases; GOBBLE? for those albums

Comic Book Reviews

Comic Book Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer #35 (2010)

Originally published on May 6, 2010 Writer: Brad Meltzer Penciler: Georges Jeanty Buffy the Vampire Slayer #35 makes me glad that we don’t use ratings here on the Gobbledygeek website. Everywhere else I’ve written reviews, I’ve used a ratings system, be it the four-star, the five-star, or