General Nerdery

It's the most special and holy time of year, Life Day. So to celebrate this year, Your Generals have gathered friends around them to talk all over the top of The Star Wars Holiday Special. Where did Boba Fett get his start? What do wookies and E.T. have in common? What is the most unfortunately named music genre in the galaxy? All this and more comes up during this crazy holiday romp. Listen to mo...

Cece Returns! So does a deluge of nerdy news. So this week The Generals and Cece pour over all the Marvel and Star Wars News to come out of the latest investor call before diving back into Good Omens. Set your books aside though, as this week we give our thoughts on the live action adaptation starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen, Squee! Zac's Recommendation: Batman: Knight and Squire (comic) b...

There is no better way for the Generals to celebrate their 50th episode than to bring on a special person to talk about a special book. Cece, nerd and wife of General Zac, joins in to talk about Good Omens. Released in 1990, this tale of an Angel, a Demon, an Antichrist, and an Apocalypse gone hilariously wrong has left readers laughing hysterically for years. But how could a book penned by the Le...

2020 has been crazy for everyone, including our favorite Wizard Detective Harry Dresden. After a long wait, two new books, Peace Talks and Battle Grounds, were dropped on us. Needing to geek about the latest from Jim Butcher, Your Generals have invited Dickie back to talk about the goings on. For Dresden, most of the supernatural world seems to be converging in his hometown, and despite calls for...

The Hulk was killed. And now he's back. And no matter what people seem to do, He Keeps Coming Back. This is because the night time is his time. Now it's time for Your General's to brave the dark and look in on Al Ewing's horror-tinged classic-in-the-making, The Immortal Hulk. Also with news about Sean Connery, Genndy Tartakovsky and more! Zac's Recommendation: Hulk: Future Imperfect by Peter David...

Why be spooky about death when you can celebrate alongside it? This week Your Generals mark this year's Dia de Muertos by watching the Pixar film Coco. An emotional journey in more ways than one, This film manages to spark thoughts of both generational trauma and the boogeyman, all while making General Tyler feel right at home. Also with news from Moon Knight, The Addams Family, and more! Zac's Re...

A long time ago, on this very same podcast, we talked about the first half of season one of Disney's The Mandalorian. This week we welcome back Eustacia and pick up where we left off talking about the adventures of Din Djarin and The Child. Also with news from Star Trek, AMC Theaters and more! Zac's Recommendation: The Bounty Hunter Code: From the Files of Boba Fett (book) by Daniel Wallace, Ryder...

Writer James O'Barr once poured his grief and loss of a loved one on the comic book page for all to read. Later while being adapted to film, tragedy struck again and left us in a world without Brandon Lee's rising star. The Crow is a sad, dark tale about loss, so why not have some fun and bring a friend to join in? This week Your Generals team with Danny from Fried Squirms to talk The Crow. Comic,...

As an homage to the spooky fiction that laid the groundwork for the genre work that Your Generals enjoy these days, this week they take a look back to the pulp fiction of the early 1900s. Particularly they have zeroed in on a few stories from three celebrated authors, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and H. P. Lovecraft. The stories that Zac and Tyler will talk about today are "The Return of...

Batman's Rogues Gallery runs really deep. So this week Your Generals have returned to the place they are all locked up to talk more about some of his lesser known foes. up this time: Man-Bat, Hush, Professor Pyg, The Ventriloquist (and Scarface!), Professor Hugo Strange, and Calendar Man. Listen in to hear how they stack up gainst the Dark Knight himself! Also with news from Nick Fury, Supergirl,...

In 1986, children around the world were traumatized by an 84 minute long toy commercial, oops, I mean movie. This week Your Generals go to Cybertron to talk about their history with the Transformers, their favorite Transformers, and of course, the traumatizing 80’s classic itself, The Transformers: The Movie. Also with news about WandaVision, The Emmys, and more! Zac's Recommendation: Transformers...

Your Generals have always felt extremely welcomed by Star Fleet Command, but appearances need to be tightly maintained on the bridge of any major vessel. So what if the vessel wasn't that major? And we weren't on the bridge..... This week Zac and Tyler find themselves among the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos and find out what has been happening on Star Trek: Lower Decks. Also with news from Doom Patr...

Sadly, our real life King T'Challa, Chadwick Boseman passed recently. To honor his legacy in nerd fandom, Your Generals have decided to talk about whatever comes to mind on the character of Black Panther. From the movie to the comics, caped to not, there's a lot to be said about the King of Wakanda. Also with news from Dune, and Magic the Gathering. Listen to more General Nerdery at www. GeneralNe...

2020 has been a rough year for a lot of reasons, so this week Your Generals take a trip into the fantastical feel good times of the Discworld to....talk about racial strife and how it interacts with policing. hmm. Well, thanks to the return of wonderful characters like Captain Vimes and Carrot Ironfoundersson, plus the addition of new recruits, and all under the masterful pen of Sir Terry Pratchet...

'We're making a Detective Pikachu movie' is the type of sentence the Generals would have once thought was a punchline to a joke. Then Ryan Reynolds was cast as Pikachu. Then it made over 400 million in worldwide box office. So this week the Generals recruit more help as they venture into Ryme City and finally get a look for themselves at how well Pokemon and humans can live together. Oh and myster...

General Nerdery has always been about liking things, and one of the things that bound Your Generals together to do this show, and has been baked into it's DNA from the beginning, is Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse. So this week they talk on end, yet only scratch the surface of what draws them to this magical animated film. We talk about all the Spider-People you meet, and quite a few you don't,...

Dragonlance, for many, has been a foundational fantasy series and setting and has been expanded upon for years and years. General Zac came to the party on this one late though. So this week Your Generals delve into the world of Krynn and take a look at the main players in the first trilogy, Dragonlance Chronicles. The Heroes of the Lance may seem generic now, but that doesn;t mean they don't hold...

Challenger Mountain has erupted in Gotham, Earth Prime is dropping into the Dark Multiverse, Batman wants to go back in time using baby Darkseid to try to kill a Bat God, wait, what? If that all sounds dumb to you, it is. If that all sounds amazing to you, it's also that. Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's crossover Dark Nights: Metal is a bombastic celebration of the weirdness of multiverses. So You...

As more of the world discovers the joy of Avatar: The Last Airbender via Netflix, Your Generals have decided to jump into talking why they like it as well. As neither one of us can master the four elements though, we thought it best to recruit some help in tackling this. Enter Griz. Together with General Zac, he came up with a finely curated list of episodes to focus in on as we talk about the Gaa...

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We don't claim to be the models of some novel-taking Generals, after all, Hamilton was already one of the biggest things to hit in the last few years even before it came to streaming. So despite all that's already been said about it we figured it was time to indulge in our love of musicals now that a new audience is coming around (including a General!), So this week we gush about Lin-Manuel Mirand...

There are times when you come to love something, and then find out it's creator thinks you are less than human. That may been an extreme example, but it's also one that comes up far too often, So how should someone handle it when they like something by somebody problematic? Your Generals knew they didn't know. So this week Zac and Tyler both thank and welcome Will and Áine as they come on and help...

Mortal Kombat, the ultraviolent, tongue-in-cheek fighting game has been around almost 30 years, keeping our screens obscenely bloody. However, even a game where a guy with a gun can beat up an Elder God with his fists has a story. General Tyler happens to know that story, and now it's time to share it with all of you! Also with news from Warhammer 40k, Pirates of the Caribbean and more! Listen to...

This week the Generals bring a more emotionally charged episode than normal. What was supposed to be a celebration of Midnighter to close out Pride month overlaps with some of the news and leaves General Zac with many feels. That being said. Midnighter is one of the more premier gay superheroes, and is far more to us than simply being angry gay-Batman. So we settle in and talk about this killing m...

Superheroes come in all shapes, sizes, colors and creeds. As 2020 rages on, your Generals feel like this needs reestablished a bit at times. Luckily they watched a movie that reaffirms it many times over. Fast Color is the story of 3 generations of black women with super powers, and how they can change the world. Unfortunately it seems that word didn't get out too much about this beautiful film. S...