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Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. Robin McLaurin Williams was an American actor and comedian that touched that hearts of millions throughout a career that span almost four decades. TDE crew got together to go over some of their favorite Robin Williams films and the fakk (fact) that he was a pretty hardcore gamer.

Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. There have been millions of games created in the 50 years since creation of 1962’s Spacewar!, the first true video game. listen in as TDE crew remembers the systems they grew up with and some of their memorable gaming moments.

Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. There have been millions of games created in the 50 years since creation of 1962’s Spacewar!, the first true video game. listen in as TDE crew remembers the systems they grew up with and some of their memorable gaming moments.

Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. Florida Battle Con is one of the unique exhibition in Florida. This trade show is being organized by Brooklyn Brothers Productions, LLC. The event will feature the best tattoo artists in the nation drilling away in the exhibition halls, 40 of the top regional and local bands Battling to win the prize to become 2010's best Florida battle con band, tons of exhibitors and sponsors, an acoustic stage indoors.

Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. Free Comic Book Day is an annual promotional effort by the North American comic book industry to help bring new readers into independent comic book stores. Brainstormed by retailer Joe Field of Flying Colors Comics in Concord CA in his "Big Picture" column in the August 2001 issue of Comics & Games Retailer magazine, it was started in 2002 and is coordinated by the industry's single large distributor, Diamond Comic Distributors. The next event will be on May 7, 2011. Free Comic Book Day is scheduled on the first Saturday of May. It has often been tied to the release of a major theatrical film adaptation of a well known superhero property (for example, 2009's FCBD was the day after the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine), in order to take advantage of the film's heavy promotio

Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. On Saturday March 27th 2010 the Legendary Dick Giordano past away at the age of 77. Dick Giordano was an American comic book artist and editor best known for introducing Charlton Comics' "Action Heroes" stable of superheroes, and serving as executive editor of then–industry leader DC Comics. As one of the field's pre-eminent inkers, Giordano was known for his pairings with penciler Neal Adams in a series of comics featuring Batman, Green Lantern, and Green Arrow. With the passing of Mr. Giordano the comic word has lost a legendary talent and a void which can never be filled.

Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. It's been said that behind every great man is a strong woman, well these women wont let any man keep them in the shadows. The X-Women; you know who they are Storm, Phoenix, Rogue, Shadowcat just to name a few kickin ass and taking names with the best of them. Wonder Woman; a member of an all-female tribe of Amazons (based on the Amazons of Greek mythology) and was created by Marston as a "distinctly feminist role model whose mission was to bring the Amazon ideals of love, peace, and sexual equality to a world torn by the hatred of men. Invisible Woman; the first female superhero created by Marvel in the Silver Age of Comics. Like the other founding members of the Fantastic Four, Sue received her powers after being exposed to a cosmic storm. and Big Barda; In a reversal of the

Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. We report after an exhausting day at the show. Giving you the inside know it all about the sights, the sounds, and the sketch artists. We give a special shout out to Alvin Lee of Udon studios and Mike Choi makes the shit list for this episode. The Cosplay short for "costume play", is type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. gets a special shout out as well as, comics the graphic medium in which images convey a sequential narrative, and even the anime a style of animation originating in Japan, heavily influenced by the manga (Japanese comics) style and typically featuring characters with large eyes, big hair and elongated limbs, exaggerated facial expressions, brush-stroked outlines, limited motion and

Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. Conventions; an event in which fans of a particular film, television series, comic book, actor, or an entire genre of entertainment such as science fiction or anime and manga, gather to participate and hold programs and other events, and to meet experts, famous personalities, and each other. Some also incorporate commercial activity. Fan conventions are traditionally organized by fans on a not-for-profit basis, though some events catering to fans may be run by commercial interests, either for profit or as part of a promotional program. Actors often give out free autographs to the fans, perhaps in exchange for a flat appearance fee, and sometimes may perform songs that have no relevance to the shows to entertain the fans. Commercial conventions are usually quite expensive and a

Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. We take a look at the impact of Black characters in Video Games, Anime, Comic Books and related Pop-culture icons. Balrog; which GameDaily named one of "Gaming's Greatest Black Characters", noting that while not the deepest character on the list, he had significant longevity as a Street Fighter series character and received praise for representing boxing in the game "alongside flashier martial arts. Afro Samurai; who witnessed his father (owner of the No. 1 headband) being killed by the hands of a gunslinger named Justice (owner of the No. 2 headband). As an adult, Afro sets off to avenge his father's death and kill Justice. Black Lightning; one of the first major African American superheroes to appear in DC Comics. He debuted in Black Lightning #1 (April 1977), and was create

Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. Samuel L. Jackson and with his “Afro Samurai” partner-in-crime Eric Calderon, with artist Jeremy Rock come together again for a new series by Boom Studios titled Cold Space. The series finds an outlaw named Mulberry—“played by” Samuel L. Jackson—stranded on a planet torn by civil war. But rather than pick sides, Mulberry looks to turn the situation to his advantage and profits from the chaos. Mulberry is just a runaway criminal who doesn’t feel like getting taken in by the Galactic police and wants to keep making a buck so he can have some fun and have some cool stuff. When he crash lands on a ghetto space mining moon, he finds that the one small town that exists has two warring entrepreneurs and a third freelance scavenger gang on motorcycle. So, you can already imagine the p

Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. Spider-Man 4 was set to be released worldwide on May 6, 2011, but Sony announced plans to reboot the series after Raimi and Maguire left over script disputes. In 2007, Raimi expressed interest in portraying the transformation of Dr. Curt Connors into his villainous alter-ego, the Lizard; the character's actor Dylan Baker and producer Grant Curtis have also been enthusiastic about the idea. It was reported in December 2009 that John Malkovich was in negotiations to play Vulture, and that Anne Hathaway would play Felicia Hardy, though she would not have transformed into the Black Cat, as in the comics. Instead, Raimi's Felicia was expected to become a brand-new superpowered figure called the Vulturess. Sony Pictures announced in January 2010 that plans for Spider-Man 4 had been

Intro and outro provided by Andre 3000 from his album "The Love Below" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. This is a special podcast to the ladies of comic geeks and gamers. The Direct Edition is pitching in to let you know a few things to pick up for your man on the day that is Valentine. If your man is into comics a gift certificate to the local comic book shop is a plus. If your geek is a gamer his joystick will jiggle if you pick up Dante's Inferno a third-person action-adventure game published by Electronic Arts developed by Visceral Games (formerly EA Redwood Shores). The game is inspired by Inferno, the first book of Dante Alighieri's epic poem, The Divine Comedy. The story of the game is written by Will Rokos and produced by Justin Lambros. DC Comics' Wildstorm imprint will also carry a serialized adaptation of the game sequence, beginning in February 2010. And stay tuned to find out more to make your

Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. Planet Hulk animated DVD dropped into stores on Feb 2nd based off of the Planet Hulk storyline from Marvel Comics that ran primarily through issues of Incredible Hulk started in 2006. It dealt primarily with the Marvel heroes' decision to send the Hulk away, his acclimation to and conquest of the planet where he landed, and his efforts to return to Earth to take his revenge. We take a look at it but before that Dirty C Geezy gives us his review of Brian Michael Bendis' Siege #2 and a spoiler warning of the death of an Avenger, so if you haven't read it by now you've been warned. Then stay tuned for more of Geezy's review of Siege #2.

Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. Remember how the cover of comics used to give you a tease to what's going on inside? what happened to that? We explore a little bit of that in todays episode of the Direct Edition. MegaCon, short for Mega Convention, is a large convention that caters to the comic, sci-fi, anime, fantasy, gaming and multi-genre community, occurring between late February and early March at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. We give a few shout outs to Megacon and recap our history with the show. and looking forward to going again this year.

Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. in today's episode of the Direct Edition we run down a few movies we are looking forward to in 2010 such as Kick Ass which concerns a teenage boy, Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), who decides to become a real-life superhero after being inspired by the heroes of comic books. He soon encounters a mysterious vigilante called Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage), and his daughter Hit-Girl (Chloë Moretz), who are working to bring down the local drug baron Frank D'Amico. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/direct-edition http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSpinnerRack

Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. In today's episode we go over a few upcoming video games for 2010. A few games of notable interest are Darksiders a game that takes its inspiration from the apocalypse and battle of Armageddon described in the Book of Revelation, with the player taking the role of "War", one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, Capcom's seventh installment in its Vs. series, which includes the Marvel vs. Capcom and Capcom vs. SNK games. It is the first Vs. series game to feature 3D graphics on a 2D plane. This creates a 2.5D environment consisting of character models and backgrounds rendered in 3D, while gameplay remains on a 2D plane used in traditional fighting games. Master Juishin throws a tantrum about Last Remnant and Star Wars: Force Unleashed and Mad Wicked rec

Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. In today's episode we discuss a few upcoming story lines of 2010 from both of the top dogs marvel and DC. X Necrosha - Through her servant Eli Bard, Selene, the Black Queen of the Hellfire Club, had gained access to the Technarch transmode virus which she uses to resurrect a variety of deceased mutants to set her plans into motion of becoming a goddess. Doomwar - Long-time adversaries the Fantistic Four join the X-men, Deadpool, and the Wakandans T’Challa, Storm and the new Black Panther to take on Latveria’s supreme ruler. Although this has been a long time coming, recent events such as his involvement in the Cabal as well as the ravaging of Black Panther have put him at the top of a growing assemblage of heroes’ list. from Marvel and War of the Supermen - concerning a confli

Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. For more news check out http://www.ustream.tv/channel/direct-edition http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSpinnerRack Ant-Man the shrinking hero, Jonah Hex the western omelette faced bounty hunter, and Venom the tongue lashing alien symbiote are scheduled for movies but do they really need one? A comparison between G.I. Joe: Resolute and G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra that came out on DVD Nov 3rd 2009. Marvel's next epic story written by Brian Michael Bendis "SIEGE" starts Jan 2010 and should anime movies stick to CGI or live action.

Intro and outro provided by Eddie Meeks from his album "After this...I'll holla on Everything I Love" Thanks for listening and tuning in to the Direct Edition where you get the latest news & opinion on Comics, Games, Movies, and Anime. For more news check out http://www.ustream.tv/channel/direct-edition http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSpinnerRack On the second episode of Direct Edition we go over how comics have come into the mainstream as it shows up in such media as The Gentlemens magazine Hustler and Multi-million dollar movies. How meeting your favorite Actor or actress at conventions have changed over the years and how it seems more money oriented. How the recent changes at Toys R Us may affect your local comic book shops.