Welcome to the Nerd Fu podcast – Season 2: Episode 34. If you’re looking for the latest & greatest in nerdy/geeky news, then this IS the podcast you’ve been looking for.
Every week (mostly), we bring you the latest in Nerd News, including SCREENSHOT (movies & tv), STOCKPILE (collectibles), HIGH SCORE (gaming), COMICS n CONS (that one explains itself) and WILD CARD (our catch-all, random stuff category).
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Movies in Theaters This Week
- Captain America: Civil War (d. Anthony & Joe Russo) w/ Chris Evans, RDJ, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Paul Bettany, Chadwick Boseman, Tom Holland, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Frank Grillo, Daniel Bruhl, Emily VanCamp, William Hurt, Hope Davis, Alfre Woodard, Martin Freeman, John Slattery, Marisa Tomei
- Ben Affleck’s Batman movie might feature more iconic villains – [collider]
- Jeremy Irons’ Alfred will return in Justice League: Part 1 – [collider]
- Dylan O’Brien’s injuries cause production to be delayed Maze Runner: The Death Cure – [ew]
- X-Men: Apocalypse emoji and GIF guide – [thenerdfu]
TV
- Mads Mikkelsen wants to return to Hannibal four years later – [ign]
- The Punisher will get his own series, Marvel / Netflix poised to make official announcement this Friday – [ew]
- John Krasinski to lead “Jack Ryan” series for Amazon – [collider]
- Stallone headed to TV for Antoine Fuqua’s mafia drama “Omerta” – [collider]
Subscription Boxes
- Loot Crate: “Quest” Unboxing/Reveal – [thenerdfu]
- Marvel Collector Corps: Women of Power teaser trailer – [thenerdfu]
Funko Information
- New NFL
- Pop! – [thenerdfu]
- Dorbz Minis – [entertainmentearth]
- Wobblers – [entertainmentearth]
- Pocket Pop! – [entertainmentearth]
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory – [entertainmentearth]
- Pop!
- Dorbz
- Finding Dory – [entertainmentearth]
- Pop!
- Mystery Minis
- Han Solo in Carbonite Itty Bittys by Hallmark – [thenerdfu]
- Star Wars sale by ThinkGeek
- Captain America: Civil War by Poster Posse – [thenerdfu]
- Overwatch open beta and early access details – [thenerdfu]
- Xbox Live Gold free games for May – [xbox]
- Sunset Overdrive (until 5/15)
- Defense Grid (until 5/31)
- Costume Quest 2 (from 5/16 – 6/15)
- Grid 2 (until 5/15)
- Peggle (from 5/16 – 5/30)
- Halo 5’s next free upgrade details, dropping around May 9th – [gamespot]
- Mass Effect theme park attraction will open on May 18th at Cali’s Great America theme park – [gameinformer]
- Game ideas to play on International Tabletop Day – [gameinformer]
- Star Wars Battlefront FREEbies – [thenerdfu]
InvestComics Hot Picks of the Week Hot Picks #422, (Top 5 : #60) which includes a Thunderbolts title, is here and Jay has the lowdown on the latest comics you should be picking up or passing up!
- Smosh #1 – sold out across the board – variants and the regular cover
- Gwenpool #0
- Punisher #1
- Renato Jones One Percent #1
- Spider-Gwen #8 – on variant cover has Iron Spider-Gwen
- …. and many, many more
Conventions
- Ottawa Comic Con [May 13 – 15] – no updates, Sully headed to Canada
- MegaCon [May 26 – 29] – no updates
- Space City Comic Con [May 27 – 29] – no updates
- Fan Expo Dallas [Jun 3 – 5] – added: Rob Schneider – canceled: Anthony Daniels
- Comicpalooza [Jun 17 – 19] –
- RTX [July 1 – 3] – no updates
- SDCC [July 21 – 24] – no updates
- NYCC [Oct 6 – 9] – Press registration now open