Two Idiots and a Dog

The Idiots discuss the family action film starring Ryan Reynolds and Mini-Ryan Reynolds, The Adam Project. Released in 2022 on Netflix, and starring Ryan Reynolds, Walker Scobel, and Zoe Saldana, along with Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, and bunch of other great supporting cast members, The Adam Project is, well, a Ryan Reynolds film. It avoids some tropes and pitfalls of the genre, and is better...

Join the Idiots in a discussion of media creators and personalities who have a great impact on their lives. For so many of us, certain pieces of media are a major part of our lives, sometimes even to the point of saving our life. One such piece for Grimm was Batman: The Animated Series, so in honor of Kevin Conroy we decided to do something a little more low key and serious (for us), talking about...

The Idiots discuss the oddly named, female fronted action romp that is Gunpowder Milkshake. Released in 2021, this feels almost like Netflix's attempt to launch their own John Wick type film series. The stylistic choices and over the top action sequences make this film sit nicely alongside other action greats, but what really sells it is the cast. Starring Karen Gillan, Lena Heady, Michelle Yeoh,...

The Idiots discuss the post apocalyptic cinematic masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road Released in 2015, this film relaunched the franchise that formed our very concept of 'post apocalypse' in media. Starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, and Hugh Keays-Bryne, along with an excellent supporting cast, an amazing and insane stunts department, and some top notch visual effects, this film live...

Join Zolgar as he chats about two indie titles! Coywolf from Comic Cartel and Monster by Ryan Quackenbush. One is a supernatural superhero book based on pre-colonial American legends, the other is an alternate take on Frankenstein, meant to be accompanied by a piece of classical music. Both are excellent books, and would have been hard pressed to fill an episode alone. Buy yourself these excellent...

What would you get if you crossed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mega-Man, and Weapon-X? Apex: Cybernetic Samurai Owl A short review of the first arc of a fun indie action comic written by Kenny Aitken and illustrated by Brian Balando. A great superhero romp that doesn't demand a lot of your time, and doesn't try to to be more than it is. Plus, it's not yet another "what if superheroes, but asshole...

The Idiots discuss cyberpunk (the genre), and it's relation to the current world we live in. Can someone please tell the people in charge that Cyberpunk is NOT A HOW TO MANUAL!? A dystopic society where people work multiple jobs and do whatever they can on the side just to make enough money to keep a roof over their head and food on the table, while the wealthy elite sit in their ivory towers, bas...

The Idiots have a chat about some of their favorite media adaptations over the years. "The movie is never as good as the book" they say, and that's often true, but that doesn't mean that there aren't some great films based on books, or video games based on comics, or other media adaptations that even if they weren't as good as their source were still excellent. Some of our favorites include The Sa...

The Idiots discuss some of the most toxic tropes to permeate entertainment media. A quick word of warning: We touch on some very serious and very politically charged topics in this episode. We'll be back to our regularly scheduled goofiness next week. We touched on some of them back in our queer representation episode, but there are so many other tropes in media that are problematic, harmful, or s...

The Idiots discuss the Netflix comic book movie The Old Guard. Released in 2020, and starring Charlize Theron, Kiki Layne, and Matthias Schoenaerts, The Old Guard is based off the 2017 Image comic of the same name and follows a group of immortal soldiers and an organization that wants to capture them and use them for personal gain. It features a diverse cast, and a great mix of action, humor, and...

The Idiots discuss gatekeeping, the issues with it, and the issues it causes in communities. We've all heard of it, most of us have seen it happen, some of us have participated in it (intentionally or not), and some of us have been victims of it. The act of keeping people out of a community or hobby because you don't think they belong. They're the wrong gender, the wrong skin color, the wrong sexu...

The Idiots engage in MORTAL KOMBAT!! as they discuss this 2021 adaptation of the popular fighting game franchise. Released on HBO Max, with a cast of relative unknowns (Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Joe Taslim, and Mehcad Brooks make up the primary cast) and based off a video game, Mortal Kombat has all the makings of a complete dumpster fire of a movie. Somehow though, they got the rig...

Zolgar reviews the action/horror indie comic Siege Town from Witching Hour Comics. Siege Town is written by Benjamin Ruffet, illustrated by Andrey Portilla, with colors by Cristian Ramirez. A brutal, bloody fight for survival from a team I'd love to see more from.  This comic was received free for the purposes of reviewing. I try not to let that influence my reviews, but I am always transpare...

We threatened to do it back in the first episode of Unleashed (Stupid Weapons in Media), this week we did it. We're talking about the weapons of RWBY. Originally releasing in 2013, RWBY (pronounced 'Ruby') is an anime-inspired American animated series, featuring stylistic art and a lot of focus on specific colors... and some of the most asinine weapons ever created for a media property. Cool, but...

Netflix surprised us with Episode 11 of The Sandman, so of course the Idiots had to talk about it! Spoiler warning: If you have not watched episode 11 or read issues 17 and 18, there are spoilers contained herein. Lots of spoilers. There's several little side stories within The Sandman, some hint at bigger things to come, some are just cool little standalones, following season 1 which gave us the...

This week, Zolgar talks about the dark erotic supernatural mystery series Unnatural, written and illustrated by Mirka Andolfo and published by Image Comics. Unnatural is one of those books that is kind of all over the place, but it works so well. It's a solid, well written story that is sexy without relying solely on sex appeal to sell, especially since the main character isn't typical comic book...

The Idiots decided to shake things up something fierce and discuss Sandman, both the Netflix series and to a lesser extent the comic. Spoiler warning: We give our general, spoiler free impressions of the show in the first 39 minutes. After 40 minutes, we go into full on spoiler discussion. We do give a warning with plenty of time to stop the episode though if you want to only listen to the spoiler...

Zolgar returns to the works of the mad genius, Neil Gaiman, for Sandman Volume 2: The Doll's House. I wasn't originally that taken in by The Sandman when I read Volume 1, so I decided it was only fair that I give it a real chance. Does the series hook it's claws into me with the next 8 issues, or is it just not my cup of tea? You'll have to listen to find out. I hadn't planned on doing an episode...

The Idiots decide to return to the universe of Star Wars to talk about just how screwed up the Clone Wars is. Two slave armies killing each other to further the aims of one man, literal children not only fighting in the war but put in command positions, and so much more. This horrific event shook the entire galaxy, killing millions, destroying homes, livelihoods, etc. sounds like great fare for a...

Murder? Interspecies romance? Tensions between herbivores and carnivores? Zolgar talks about Zootopia... no that's wrong. *checks notes* Beastars, Volume 1. Released in 2016, a mere 6 months after the kid-friendly Disney animated racism analogy, comes a darker more mature manga set in a similar world. The similarities stop at the surface though, as Beastars explores the world in different ways. Wa...

The Idiots discuss Ryan Reynolds adventure in a video game landscape, Free Guy. Released in 2021, starring Deadpool, Rey's mother, Blackbeard, that guy from Stranger Things (no, the other one), and a bunch of people you've probably seen before but don't know their names, along with a special cameo appearance of Captain America, Free Guy is one of those movies you watch to laugh and feel good as yo...

Zolgar finally reads something written by the legendary troll herself, Gail Simone. DC's Countdown to Infinite Crisis: Villains United, written by Gail Simone and illustrated by Dale Eaglesham and Val Semeiks, is a 6 issue mini series focused a small group of b and c-list characters from the DC rogues gallery facing off against a whole bunch of a through d list villains leading up to some big univ...

The Idiots talk about the common misconception that animation is 'kids stuff'. Join us as we talk about adult animation, "adult" animation, ostensibly kids shows that cover a range of deep and important topics one would not normally expect from a kids show... and the simple, undeniable fact that there is nothing wrong with liking 'kids stuff' as an adult... just don't make it creepy, k? Be sure to...

Grimm and Zolgar tackle Godzilla, the start of Legendary's Monsterverse franchise. Released in 2014, Godzilla stars Aaron-Taylor Johson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, and Ken Wantanabe... and I guess some big old CGI monsters. Does it break the tradition of American Kaiju films of more being just a disaster movie that the disaster happens to be giant monsters? Can our protagonist be any more ge...

This week Zolgar talks about the semi mage-punk indie comic, Hex11. From creators Lisa K. Weber and Kelly Sue Milano comes a blending of magic and cyberpunk in a way you've probably not seen it before, telling a story of adventure with world-altering stakes. Join me as I dive into this story of magic and demons and megacorporations that is Hex11. Be sure to visit Hex Comix's website and read the f...