Gobbledygeek

We're back, babies! Gobbledygeek returns for its 10th season--though not its 10th anniversary, get your math right--with our hosts doing the bare minimum to keep this thing afloat. The centerpiece is an anxiety-fueled story about chicken wings, for gods' sakes. Meanwhile, Paul went to Disney World again and lived to tell the tale. Arlo has thoughts on Jason Reitman directing the next Ghostbusters...

Paul and Arlo swing into the Gobbledygeek season 9 finale with a discussion of the latest (and possibly greatest?) Spider-Man movie, Into the Spider-Verse. Popping in from an alternate dimension where "Curtis" has two s's is their pal Nate Curtiss. The gang discusses how the movie nails the characterizations of Miles Morales and Peter Parker, its dazzling visuals, the film's message of inclusion,...

This year's superheroic Four-Color Flashback comes to a close as the Visions of Virginia move into their house at 616 Hickory Branch Lane, Arlington, VA, 21301. In Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta's The Vision, the synthezoid Avenger creates his own family in an effort to achieve normalcy--and watches as his efforts fail, early and often. Joining Paul and Arlo to discuss one of the decade's be...

Ollie, draw back your bow and let your arrow go straight to that killer's heart. For the penultimate Four-Color Flashback of the year, and the final DC installment of our Age of Heroes project, Paul and Arlo head to the asphalt jungle of Seattle as Oliver Queen stalks his street punk prey in Mike Grell's 1987 miniseries Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters . As was common practice in the '80s, Grell r...

Jazz hands, everyone! It's time for a new episode of the new era of Gobbledygeek, which is either painfully self-indulgent or--well, there is no other option, BUT. Paul and Arlo freestyle about why they're freestyling, discuss how perspectives on art change, extoll the complicated virtues of Miles Davis and Queen, and become flummoxed at the hyper-realistic minutiae of Red Dead Redemption 2. Next:...

Everybody loves reboots, preboots, remakes, prequels, sequels, midquels, all the different -quels and -boots. The latest long-running franchise to get the reboot treatment is none other than your friendly neighborhood Gobbledygeek , as Paul and Arlo attempt to take the show in a new, looser, more banter-y direction. Fittingly, they talk about a couple of other high-profile remakes: The Haunting of...

Gobbledyween returns! Again! Greg Sahadachny, once and future host of The Debatable Podcast , returns! Again! To close out our truncated season of horror happenings, Paul, Arlo, and Greg flip ahead to George A. Romero and Stephen King's kooky 1982 splash page Creepshow . Indebted to old EC horror comics, Creepshow has become a cult classic in its own right, as silly and lowbrow as it is reverent a...

Leaves are on the ground, blood is on the silver screen. It's time for Gobbledyween. Paul and Arlo's beloved horror movie festival returns for the first time since 2015, and their opening selection debuted that same year: Robert Eggers' new cult classic The Witch. Emerging from the wood to terrorize the boys is SyfyWire.com contributing editor Matthew Jackson. The gang discusses the rural dread Eg...

Sight-impaired Jesus freak Matt Murdock finds himself in the crosshairs of rotund businessman Wilson Fisk in that most celebrated of Daredevil stories, Born Again . Paul and Arlo's pal Chance Mazzia joins them for another superheroic Four-Color Flashback installment to discuss the Frank Miller/David Mazzucchelli classic. The gang discusses the tale's obvious religious symbolism; Mazzucchelli's flu...

What if Superman was one of us? Just a slob like one of us? Just a stranger baling hay, trying to till his own farm? That's part of the appeal of Alex Ross and Mark Waid's Kingdom Come , the subject of our latest superheroic Four-Color Flashback --Ross' painted artwork brings DC's pantheon to vivid life. Of course, Superman isn't one of us. He makes this clear when, after a decade in exile, he des...

Far beyond the fields we know, SyfyWire.com contributing editor Matthew Jackson joins Paul and Arlo for another installment of this year's superheroic Four-Color Flashback . This time, they venture to the land of Asgard on their loyal steeds to discuss Thor Visionaries: Walter Simonson - Vol. 1 . Simonson's legendary run defined many cornerstones of Marvel's Thor Odinson, from the deep ties to Nor...

Unleash your bees, fire up your oil rigs, and prepare to get injected with the alien plague one last time--Wesley "Wezzo" Mead joins Paul and Arlo for their final episode discussing Chris Carter's seminal sci-fi series The X-Files . The gang discusses the 2008 film I Want to Believe , which finds the FBI dragging Mulder and Scully out of retirement to deal with a psychic pedophile priest played by...

For this month's superheroic Four-Color Flashback installment, Paul and Arlo set out for lands unknown with the late, great Darwyn Cooke's DC: The New Frontier . Cooke's ambitious 2004 limited series bridges the gap between comics' Golden Age and Silver Age, paying nostalgic tribute to the fictional heroes of that time while using the era's form and style to comment on the day's social and politic...

Have you tried New Koko? Here's your chance! Comedy congressman Jason Tabrys returns to Gobbledygeek to help Paul and Arlo make sense of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom . J.A. Bayona's sequel, the fifth film in the Jurassic series, finds our heroes returning to Isla Nublar once again--and while the "save the dinosaurs" plot is a retread of The Lost World , Fallen Kingdom isn't afraid to go in some...

Paul and Arlo continue to swing through this year's superheroic Four-Color Flashback to discuss Spider-Man: Origin of the Hobgoblin , joined by FreakSugar managing editor Jed Waters Keith. This early '80s story, primarily written by Roger Stern and drawn by John Romita Jr., finds Peter Parker faced with the emergence of a horrific new villain in the grotesque figure of the Hobgoblin. Who is this m...

After 14 long years, the Incredibles are back. The superhero film landscape has changed drastically in that time--but, blissfully, Brad Bird and his retro supers have not, as they  teleport and babysit their way through another round of domestic struggles. Paul and Arlo discuss how Incredibles 2 inverts and deepens the themes of the first, why this is some of the finest superhero action ever commi...

Even with a spoonful of sugar, Paul finds this week's Geek Challenge hard to stomach. You see, he has invited Arlo to watch Robert Stevenson's delightful 1964 classic Mary Poppins , in which a magical Julie Andrews and an accented Dick Van Dyke dance their hearts out while unlocking the joy hidden within a stuffy banker. In return, Arlo has forced Paul to endure Agnieszka Smoczynska's 2015 goth mu...

Everyone loves aural after a wedding. An aural document of said wedding, that is! That's right, Arlo and Amber tied the knot, and Paul was on hand to witness the entire drunken event. So are Joseph Lewis, completing the Three Heathens reunion; Kenn Edwards, whose new EP rules; longtime friend of the show but first-time guest Darryl James, who challenges Arlo to a Buffy trivia quiz; and newbie Gabe...

The truth is out there, or so we've been told. As Paul, Arlo, and special British guest Wesley "Wezzo" Mead reach The X-Files season 9 and find the series' original finale "The Truth," they wonder if they should have just left it out there. Despite ostensibly having new leads in Doggett and Reyes, Chris Carter & Co. cling to Scully and Mulder--the former is a bored-looking recurring character, the...

In the winding, physics-defying halls of Mount Olympus, the idea for the noble Amazon race was hatched among the gods. In the presumably plain, ordinary offices of DC comics circa 1987, the idea to reboot one of their most iconic heroes was hashed out by George Pérez, Greg Potter, Len Wein, Karen Berger, and more. And on this typically long, rambling podcast, Paul and Arlo continue this year's sup...

A feat even more miraculous than Paul and Arlo agreeing on the same movie? Successfully juggling a cast of dozens in an interplanetary epic that shakes up the world's most popular film series. That's exactly what Joe & Anthony Russo have done with Avengers: Infinity War , a daring space opera that acts as a culmination of a decade's worth of superheroic blockbusters while taking the Marvel Cinemat...

An American feels betrayed by his government, which has revealed itself to be nothing but a bureaucratic system designed to conceal criminal activity. Sounds familiar, right? It's also the basis for the superhero classic Captain America and the Falcon: Secret Empire. Steve Englehart, Mike Friedrich, and Sal Buscema's Nixon-era tale finds Cap on the run from a populace that no longer trusts him. Jo...

Shh. Keep it down or you'll miss the latest episode of Gobbledygeek , wherein Paul and Arlo are joined by their pal Nate Curtiss for a discussion of John Krasinski's horror-thriller A Quiet Place . The nearly wordless film, which makes extensive use of subtitled American Sign Language, presents a unique theatergoing experience; every gulp of soda and crunch of popcorn reverberates throughout the a...

Shh. Keep it down or you'll miss the latest episode of Gobbledygeek , wherein Paul and Arlo are joined by their pal Nate Curtiss for a discussion of John Krasinski's horror-thriller A Quiet Place . The nearly wordless film, which makes extensive use of subtitled American Sign Language, presents a unique theatergoing experience; every gulp of soda and crunch of popcorn reverberates throughout the a...

For the (belated) inaugural installment of Four-Color Flashback 2018, wherein Paul and Arlo will be discussing a different classic superhero story each month, they've recruited their old pal Kenn Edwards to help them discuss Batman: A Death in the Family by writer Jim Starlin and artist Jim Aparo . Kenn knows a thing or two about the Caped Crusader, having been part of the Batman Immortal fan film...