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For the last month we’ve been raving about 8-bit artist and musician, Doctor Octoroc‘s NES-styled rendition of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.  With his massively popular project recently concluded, the good Doctor has had some spare time to breathe and decided to spend an evening with Nerdy Show.  This episode is rife (rife I say) with talk of fan-love projects from Octoroc’s latest concoctions, to a recent assortment of video game fan films – so be sure to thoroughly investigate our links section.  You always do, right?

This episode also marks the biggest comics week of 2010.  There’s a lot of awesomeness afoot,  but the biggest whammy of them all is the conclusion of Norman Osborn’s Dark Reign and the blockbuster Marvel event: Siege.  To commemorate the occasion we talk to all-star Marvel inker Mark Morales, who along with Olivier Coipel does the art for Siege and Thor and who brought us the slick inks of Secret Invasion in the not-too-distant past. Not only do we talk about that whole “tracer” stigma, but he shares with us graphic design secrets of the VHS porn industry.  Aw yeah.  We also interview musical sensation and internet darling, Amanda Palmer and her cohort Jason Webley who talk about their new musical project Evelyn Evelyn – soon to be a comic book!

And as though that  smorgasbord of info-tainment wasn’t enough we also pick apart the science of Iron Man 2 – strengths, flaws, no-prizes and all.  Stay in school.

 

 Episode 16 :: Dr. Octoroc Under SIEGE [140:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tracks

1. 99 Problems Can’t Stop :: Brand-X
2. The 2-2 Blues :: brentalfloss
3. Respectable Girl (I Used to be Such a) :: Diabeats
4. A Campaign of Shock and Awe :: Evelyn Evelyn
5. A Man’s Gotta Do (Doctor Octoroc 8-Bit Rendition) :: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long-Blog
6. Thundercats :: Doctor Octoroc
7. Heads Up, Hearts Down (Acoustic) :: I Fight Dragons
8. Little Future :: The Epic Mounters (Shael Riley & Level 99)
9. Boss Battle Metalman (The Megas) :: Mega Ran
10. Dream Master :: Mega Ran & K-Murdock
11. Mom’s Hometown :: Katana Swordfish
12. Rainbow Road :: The OneUps

Links

• 8-Bit Dr. Horrible
• Teaser Map to Doctor Octoroc’s new big project
• Evelyn Evelyn’s website
• Cynthia Von Buhler – artist of the Evelyn Evelyn comic
• Mark Morales’ art
• Cap’s Warioware D.I.Y. Game
• Amazing short film – Patrick Jean’s PIXELS
• LOLA- the autonomous, walking robot
• DARPA’s “Big Dog” pack mule robot
• The Autumn Society of Philadelphia – Fun Nerdy Art Scene
• Wikipedia article for 80′s cop show Sledge Hammer!
• Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” music video
• The latest on Thmas Dolby’s new album
• FB group for “Yelling ‘SCIENCE!’ into the P.A. system”

Fan Film Links

• Street Fighter: Legacy
• Street Fighter: Beginnings End
• Street Fighter 2: The Later Years
  
• Mega-Man feature-length fan film
• There Will Be Brawl
• Earthbound fan film, EB Saga

Also…  Ask Triforce Mike anything!

It’s the Nerdy Show Holiday Special, and in our very nerdy way, we’ve decided to have an homage to the cult classic Star Wars Holiday Special by celebrating the Wookie holiday, Life Day. Join us as we pervert any positive memories you may have had of this blessed season. We also give awesome reviews of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks.

 

 Episode 17 :: Life Day Celebration [119:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Tracks:

1. We Three Konami :: Doctor Octoroc
2. Stairway to Rudolph :: Marc with a C
3. Sugar Plum Fairy Coda (Recoda) :: DJ BC
4. Starcraft 12 Days of X-Mas :: Blizzard
5. Snowman :: Shogo Sakai
6. Babelfishmas :: Rob Balder
7. The Carol of the Old Ones :: H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
8. A Geek NASA Christmas Story :: Rocket Propelled Geeks
9. Super Mario Sleigh Ride :: The OneUps
10. MerryLittleChristmas :: Dale North
11. A Manheim Steamroller Chip :: DJ RoboRob
12. hullamzoret two :: failotron
13. Pirate Christmas :: Captain Dan & the Scurvy Crew

The Links:

• Doctor Octoroc’s 8-Bit Jesus Release
• A Very Bootie Christmas :: Remix-mas Albums
• Arkham Asylum 2′s Website and Trailer
• Halo: Reach Trailer
• History Channel-style Red Dead Redemption Trailer
• Venture Industries – Venture Aid
• Loren Bouchard – Letters to Satan 2007

Cap’s Christmas Compilations

• Media Potluck Holiday Feast Volume 1
• Media Potluck Holiday Feast Volume 2
• Media PODluck: A Christmas Evening Together

I don’t think we’ve ever had a more aptly named episode. Tune in to find out how we invented the soon-to-be-household-word of “ectojism”

 

 Episode 07 :: Ectojism [120:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

1. Fuck This Song :: Schaffer the Darklord
2. Banana Song :: Tally Hall
3. Pokemon Ondo :: Garuura Kobayashi
4. Town/Bloody Tears :: Select Start
5. Crime Spree :: MC Frontalot
6. Laser Canon Deth Sentence :: Dethklok
7. Mega Man Jam Pt1 (Flashman) :: Spazer
8. Bossa da Link :: The OneUps
9. Puppeteers :: Superpowerless vs Conyeezy and Hairetsu
10. Umbrella :: Shael Riley
11. Mystic Cave (Sonic 2) :: Quarter Circle Jab
12. The WB (Live at Nerdapalooza Southeast 2008) :: The Wordburglar

The amazing blog we mentioned:

Jackson Omelettizes Snake Eggs and his way cool podcast.

Cool indie comics we mentioned in this episode:
Xoc by Matt Dembicki
[here's an interview with him on the comic, apparently 'Xoc' is pronounced 'Shock']
Social Insect by Adam Meuse
High Maintenance Machine by Matthew Reidsma

Cool places we visited:
iCream
Quimby’s Bookstore
Challengers Comics
Reckless Records
The Exchange

In celebration of the new Atomic Robo Comic coming out today, we decided to have our Atomic Robo Show, where we interviewed our very own Brian Clevinger about the new issue and a few other Atomic Robo related stories. Woo! We also had a special guest of Masurao of Krondor Krew chiming in for half the episode… before he vanished like a ninja!

 

 Episode 04 :: Atomic Robo Show [119:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

1. Put It To the Test :: They Might Be Giants
2. ROM Schtick (Applesauce Baptism) :: Beefy
3. Brinstar :: Metroid Metal
4. Crazy for Swayze :: The Stunt Junkies
5. The Dark Crystal Rap :: Robot Chicken
6. Tiere necken mit langen Stecken :: glomag
7. Breaking Out (Demo) :: The Protomen
8. Don’t You? :: I Fight Dragons
9. Penny Arcade Theme (ft. Wil Wheaton live at PAX) :: MC Frontalot
10. Ninja Goes Pow! :: Hoha
11. JW86 takut Wewegombel :: Je deviens dj en 3 jours
12. Toejam Jammin’ :: The OneUps
13. CNR :: Weird Al Yankovic