Geek Syndicate

ROOOOOOOOOAR! Our Fire breathing Northerners dissect the big beasts of fantasy in this second ep of their fantastic creatures series including: ●     Mythological, fantastic and natural dragons ●     Sci Fi Dragons ●     D&D, Glorantha and Dragon Warriors ●     Dragon science and pseudoscience and pseudo social science ●     Are all Dragon Movies Doomed to be bad?   Kehaars Breeds of Dragon link:...

Monts flys solo and interviews comics maestro Al Ewing. A stalwart of British comics Al is making his name having just signed a n exclusive contract with Marvel Comics. In this episode he talks about his beginnings in comics, 2000AD and his work at Marvel. We briefly touch upon some of Marvels diversity issues befor finishin by looking at his future with Marvel

With Monts off somewhere doing his acting thing Nuge brings in GS team member Ant aka Wedgedoc and straps him into the podcasting hot seat. News Wedgedoc talks Arrow Crossovers The Fantastic Four Flop get talked about which leads into a Hot Potato Hot Potato Has the world has enough of superhero films Week that Was Strikeback legacy We are the Daleks  - The Doctor Who Audio Adventure from Big Fini...

In this episode our Northern Hobgoblins debate Orcs and their place in geek fiction including: ●      Are Orcs racist or snobbish or both? ●      The Noble Savage ●      Other narratives of the Lord of the Rings ●      Glorantha's Trolls and hateful Broo ●      Walking bags of experience points and the morally acceptable FPS cannon fodder ●      More French philosophers than ever before! ●      Sc...

After nearly nine years of podcasting together the lads celebrate their 250th episode. They also celebrate the small fact that in those almost nine years they only tried to kill each other twice. No, no that other time doesn't count that was only a flesh wound. Anyhoo on with the show! First up big, big thanks to the ladies of Anime Kei and the team at the 86th floor  for providing this episode's...

In this week's episode Dave and Barry try to make sense of the madness that was the San Diego Comic Con. We wish them luck..they will surely need it. News Con Man Sapphire & Steel Reboot? Doctor Who: Titan Comics Announce Eighth Doctor Mini-Series!   Week that was Kingsman: The Secret Service We review Marvel's latest addition to its ever expanding movie universe - Antman. Main San Diego Comic Con...

In this special episode Ant and Barry go under the cape of Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham knight. Now they are both halfway through the game the dynamic duo examine the game's storyline, gameplay and graphics and share their thoughts.

Welcome to another episode of monts and nuge doing what they do best...talking nonsense.   News   We look at the crowd funder LIFE AFTER FLASH  To Chronicle The Influence of the 1980 Cult Classic Film.   Suicide Squad gets a counsellor.   Week that Was   Captain America and the Avengers Vol 1 Secret Cinema - Empire Strikes Back  Sense8   Main We look at the season finales of Flash, Green Arrow and...

After our month off, Agents M and K are back to wrap up Series 9, go through the Dissecting Worlds mailbag and look back on anything else we missed. As we finally leave Espionage out in the cold, we cover: Christopher Lee, one of DW’s favorite actors Feedback - More Bond,  Star Trek: Vanguard, Neal Asher’s Polity and more. Good SF Spies vs Bad Fantasy Spies, and the “Turncoat” archetype Authors la...

Monts and Nuge are back and this time like a sassy cop show they team up with fellow GS team member Shar to fight the geek fight.   Fingers crossed this gets picked up for a series!   News RIP James Horner Marvel finds its Spiderman  Hannibal gets eaten....I mean cancelled A new show is coming called Geeks who Drink (are there any other kind of geeks?)   Week that Was Dave looks at the State of DC...

Welcome to episode 75 of The Next Level. This time, Ant and James delve into the news, looking at Microsoft’s team up with Oculus amongst other items. From there, the guys take a look at this year’s E3 expo, running through their expectations for the conferences and picking out some key games to watch out for. Be sure to check out the National Videogame Arcade , mentioned this week (and Ant’s revi...

That's right geeks Monts and Nuge are back and this time they've bought cake! Ok maybe not cake but they have bought a Podcast * *Note Podcasts are never better than cake...NEVER! Hot Potato Simon Pegg Gate and is scif-fi/comic book movies dumbing down cinema ? Since this episode was recorded Simon gave a much fuller explanation behind his quotes and it is well worth a read . Monts choice In which...

Welcome to another episode of Geek Syndicate...we hope you bought enough Sass for everyone.   The Big News   NBC a "no" for Season 2. Warner Bros working hard to find #Constantine new home.   Week that was Secret Wars 1 Earth 2 Convergence Castle s07e16 Arrow/Flash   Main - Pilot Season - The lads take their annual look at the list of new genre shows on the way this autumn or fall if your statesid...

Welcome to episode 74 of The Next Level. In this month’s episode Ant uses his paternity leave to play lots of games, Amaechi gets back on the gaming horse with a couple of indie games and James dust off his surprisingly still working Gameboy Advance for some retro gaming. In the news ·          New Legends of Gaming event coming to the UK ·          Call of Duty Blacks Ops 3 and Star Wars Battlefr...

Welcome to another earth shattering episode of the best freaking podcast in the galaxy! And by galaxy I mean one that's far, far away.   Shoutouts/questions   Dave goes off on Agent of Shield while answering a question on this years season finales   A big shoutout to the first ever Geek Syndicate 'Just Add Sass' PIZZA     The Big News   The guys discuss the first promotional image of Jared Leto as...

Welcome to Dissecting World's Lecture on the Communism - or is it an Anarchy? -  of Iain M Banks titanic sweeping space opera culture; The Culture, with focus on their spies 'Special Circumstances'. The Northern duo of Kehaar & Matt are joined by an incredibly knowledgeable David Haddock of the Banksoniain (http://efanzines.com/Banksoniain/index.htm) fanzine and discuss:   * the blurred lines betw...

The Musketeers Showrunner Adrian Hodges returns to Geek Syndicate to talk about this thoughts on the second series. 

Welcome to another episode of Geek Syndicate quenching your thirst for news, reviews and more like an oasis of liquid geekness.   The Big News   The upcoming Wonder Woman Film hits a rocky patch The Nuge is off the Birmingham Comics Festival    Hot Potato With shows like Daredevil and house of cards dumping all their episodes on in one fell swoop we ask if this is the way forward or just flash in...

Dave and Barry are back in geek town and they're bringing the sass with them! There's a little chat about the Thunderbirds show which when this episode was recorded the boys still hadn't seen it yet. Week that was The Musketeers The Last man on Earth The Flash Arrow Jorund Bound   Main Barry chats with Dan of the sidekickcast Podcast at the London Super Comic Con 2015

Join us as we foray once more into the world of the video game. Amaechi is joined once more by stalwarts James and Ant to look at the month's gaming news. This time, the guyss discuss Playstation sales, BAFTA and yet more delays. The news is followed by a delve into the world of Virtual Reality headsets and then we round up with first impressions from James and Amaechi of The Order 1886 and Evolve...

Cavan Scott is a prolific writer across various media and franchises. This month sees the publication of the first (and second) issue of the writer's Ninth Doctor mini-series for Titan Comics. Weapons of Past Destruction is a five part series set between The Doctor Dances and Boom Town that looks like it will be delving into the fallout of the Time War that so shaped this incarnation. In this inte...

This month Matt and Kehaar head off into Deep Space, to chart the destiny of our very own world. Yes, it’s the Dissecting Worlds Live Episode, where we run through our first live event, how it went, and what we made of it. This includes: A run down of the factions we had, and what it meant for the starting world All the crisis, and how they played out A look at the world we created, and what sort...

The boys from geek are back (Barry coming back from an hellish island apparently) and this time they are racking up another milestone by recording during a solar esclispe.  So buckle in geek fans! Week that Was Station 11 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Olympus Netflix Daredevil Trailer Dave revisits Star Trek: The orginial series   Hot Potato We look at the debate over the withdrawn Joker/Bat...

This month the U.S.S. Dissecting Worlds boldly goes back to the Star Trek Universe, where amongst the idealism and starships lie all sorts of secret shenanigans. Kehaar and Matt dive in too all the series and movies to pull out valuable intel on:    What happened to the Klingons between the sly operators of TOS to the honour-bound warriors of TNG?  How the Romulan Masters of Subterfuge ended up do...

Join your hosts Monts and Nuge in another crazy trip through geekdom!   News    The boys salute both 2000ad and the late Brett Ewrins Batman: Arkham Knight goes mature and the lads go mad Power Rangers go even more mature    Week that Was Bilal The Musketeers Arrow The Flash