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Zach on Film: Inception (2010) Aug 15, 2013

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This week, Zach wonders if we are awake or if we are dreaming, as he leads a discussion on Christopher Nolan's 2010 film, Inception.

Inception is a 2010 science fiction film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film stars a large ensemble cast that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, and Michael Caine. DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets. He is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

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Major Spoilers Podcast #533: A Conversation with Thomas Perkins Aug 13, 2013

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This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: Artist Thomas Perkins stops by for a chat, Green Hornet and the Shadow are the Dark Nights, Lady Rawhide rides again, and Trillium is all kinds of interesting according to Zach.

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NEWS
Lego announces Simpsons line
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REVIEWS
STEPHEN
Lady Rawhide #1 
Writer: Eric Trautmann
Artist: Milton Estevam
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Lady Rawhide returns in an all-new adventure! This time, she faces not only the corrupt forces of the government -- bent on cowing the populace through privation and cruelty -- but also a new team of vigilantes: The Sisters of the White Rose. The Sisters, inspired by Lady Rawhide's actions, have taken up the struggle against tyranny. Although she supports the Sisters' aims, Lady Rawhide is forced to stand against their bloody methods.

[rating:3/5]

MATTHEW
THE SHADOW/GREEN HORNET: DARK NIGHTS #2 (of 5)
Michael Uslan (w)
Keith Burns (a)
Alex Ross, John Cassaday (c)
Fans & retailers, order the cover of your choice!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Teen+
The Green Hornet and Kato ally with Shiwan Khan against the dark force known as The Shadow, warned that a storm is coming to America… an electrically-charged storm of Biblical proportions… a storm that will bring explosive destruction to the heart of the country’s communications, finance and manufacturing industries… a storm that will rain fear across the United States… for Khan now knows how to turn the ultimate power on earth against The Shadow and his secret partner, the scientist who invented the auto-gyro and first harnessed this terrible power, Nikola Tesla!

[rating:2/5]

ZACH
Trillium #1 
Writer: Jeff Lemire 
Artist: Jeff Lemire 
Publisher: Vertigo 
It’s the year 3797, and botanist Nika Temsmith is researching a strange species on a remote science station near the outermost rim of colonized space. It’s the year 1921, and renowned English explorer William Pike leads an expedition into the dense jungles of Peru in search of the fabled “Lost Temple of the Incas,” an elusive sanctuary said to have strange healing properties. Two disparate souls separated by thousands of years and hundreds of millions of miles. Yet they will fall in love and, as a result, bring about the end of the universe. Even though reality is unraveling all around them, nothing can pull them apart. This isn’t just a love story; It’s the LAST love story ever told.
[rating:4/5]

Major Spoilers Poll of the Week
Major Spoilerite, Silvergray sent us another deep probing question for this week’s Poll of the Week. While we look at really smart people and marvel at how they’ve transformed our way of thinking, secretly we’re wondering how they would do in a battle arena…

Discussion:
Thomas Perkins

vist Thomas' website at www.thomasperkins.blogspot.com

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14539643_201306181814 — **Munchkin Land #48: Munchkin Legends** Aug 12, 2013
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Munchkin is a dedicated deck card game by Steve Jackson Games, written by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Kovalic, that has a humorous take on role-playing games.

This week on Munchkin Land, we finally play Munchkin Legends recorded live in the fabulous Snowbird Resort in Salt Lake City, Utah during Nerdtacular 2013!

**NOTE: Because we are recording this in a hotel room, the audio is not as great as we would like it to be.**

**Munchkin Legends**
Munchkin Legends is the new Munchkin card game about legendary adventure . . . with none of that stupid roleplaying stuff. You'll defeat mythic monsters and grab fabled magic items! Don the Death Mask and Achilles' Heels. Wield Thor's Hammer . . . or maybe the Magic Bassoon. Start by slaughtering the Heebie-Jeebies and Johnny Zucchiniseed, and work your way up to the Kraken . . .
Fast-playing and silly, Munchkin Legends can reduce any group to hysteria. And, while they're laughing, you can sneak past them for the win.

**NOTE: This game is only available at Target stores!**
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The material presented here is my original creation, intended for use with the ***Munchkin*** system from Steve Jackson Games. This material is not official and is not endorsed by Steve Jackson Games.

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Wayne's Comics Podcast #99:Mark Bertolini Aug 11, 2013

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If you’re looking for interesting and unusual takes on superheroes and other comics genres, be sure to pick up Mark Bertolini’s books! This includes Breakneck, Long Gone and Broken, all of which put more realistic spins on super-characters and what they might do when they receive powers “beyond those of mortal men.” It ain’t always pretty, let me tell you! Mark and I also talk about his upcoming projects and about the transition from writing for printed issues to digital. You’ll enjoy hearing what he has to say about the industry today!

Then I give brief reviews of the books I thought were great that arrived in comics shops on Wednesday, August 4, followed by the latest “News & Previews!”

Next week: Episode 100!

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Lords of the Feywild — **Critical Hit #211: The Team Prepares** Aug 09, 2013
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In this episode of Critical Hit, A Major Spoilers Dungeons and Dragons Podcast: The team prepares their assault on the monkey lizard lair.

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Zach on Film: Blade Runner (1982) Aug 08, 2013

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This week, Zach travels to the future to see if androids dream of electric sheep, or if the dystopian future is just around the corner as he explores Ridley Scott's 1982 film, Blade Runner.

BLADE RUNNER Blade Runner is a 1982 American dystopian science fiction thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young and Edward James Olmos. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.
The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically engineered organic robots called replicants—visually indistinguishable from adult humans—are manufactured by the powerful Tyrell Corporation as well as by other "mega-corporations" around the world. Their use on Earth is banned and replicants are exclusively used for dangerous, menial or leisure work on off-world colonies. Replicants who defy the ban and return to Earth are hunted down and "retired" by police special operatives known as "Blade Runners". The plot focuses on a brutal and cunning group of recently escaped replicants hiding in Los Angeles and the burnt-out expert Blade Runner, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment to hunt them down.

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During the show, Zach mentions a video on Vimeo.com. Here it is.

During the show, Stephen mentions the book, Future Noir.

The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made.
Future Noir is the story of that triumph.

The making of Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry.

A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and the art that is modern Hollywood, Future Noir is the intense, intimate, anything-but-glamerous inside account of how the work of SF's most uncompromising author was transformed into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic.

Major Spoilers Podcast #532: Molly Danger Aug 06, 2013

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This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: There's a new Doctor in town, Saga is in, Fatale is moves the needle, the Golem fights the Nazis, and Halo has a comic book... again. Plus, Molly Danger!

NEWS
And the new Doctor is...
LINK

REVIEWS
STEPHEN
Fatale #16
Story By: Ed Brubaker
Art By: Sean Phillips
Colored By: Elizabeth Breitweiser
Price: $3.50
Nicolas is on Josephine's trail of secrets, and they lead him back to 1990s Seattle, where a rock band, a gang of bank robbers, and a wandering serial killer all circle around a mysterious woman with no memory... And remember, each issue of FATALE contains extra content, artwork and articles that are only available in the printed single issues.

[rating:3/5]

MATTHEW
Saga #13

(W) Brian K. Vaughan
(A/CA) Fiona Staples
THE SMASH-HIT, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SERIES RETURNS!
Now that you've read the first two bestselling collections of SAGA, you're all caught up and ready to jump on the ongoing train with Chapter Thirteen, beginning an all-new monthly sci-fi/fantasy adventure, as Hazel and her parents head to the planet Quietus in search of cult romance novelist D. Oswald Heist.

[rating:4.5/5]

RODRIGO
Breath of Bones: A Tale of The Golem #3

Writer: Steve Niles, Matt Santoro

Artist: Dave Wachter

Cover Artist: Dave Wachter

While a town flees from advancing Germans, one young boy stays behind to protect their homes. With the help of a golem brought to life by the boy’s grandfather’s faith—and death—the battle begins for their freedom and future.
[rating:4.5/5]

ZACH
Halo Initiation #1

Writer: Brian Reed

Artist: Marco Castiello

Before she was a super-soldier defending humanity as part of the Spartan-IV program, Sarah Palmer was an ODST—Orbital Drop Shock Trooper—carrying out the most dangerous missions behind enemy lines!
[rating:3.5/5]

Major Spoilers Poll of the Week
Occasionally we like to throw two fictional characters into the Major Spoilers Pit and let them fight it out in a no holds barred battle of wits and fisticuffs to see who will climb out victorious. Today, we do it again with two muscle bound characters who are sure to bring the crowd to their feet.
In the far corner (of the round pit) stands He-Man of Eternia, who raises his mighty sword and claims “By the Power of Grayskull! I have the power!”
And in the other corner stands the barbarian from Cimmeria – CONAN!
Who would win in a fight?

[poll id="296"]

Discussion:
MOLLY DANGER
Molly Danger is the story of the world’s most powerful 10-year-old girl. A seemingly immortal, super strong hero, Molly has protected the city of Coopersville for the last 20 years

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Wayne's Comics Podcast #98: Joshua Williamson Aug 04, 2013

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Are you a fan of Masks and Mobsters, Ghosted or Captain Midnight? Then you’ll enjoy my conversation with creator Joshua Williamson, who scripts those excellent comics! He’s also contributed to Detective Comics Annual #2, which was recently released. We talk about many of his recent books as well as where he sees his writing going in the future. Don’t miss it!

Then I give brief reviews of the books I thought were great that arrived in comics shops on Wednesday, July 31, followed by the latest “News & Previews!”

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