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Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

873 - Comic Talk: News Edition

Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

Speakers of Geek

Comicbook, Comicbooks, Comics, Comic Book, Comic, Arts & Entertainment, Comic Books, Superhero, Graphic Novel, Arts

4.3668 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2010

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Listener James Pannafino joins us in-studio to discuss recent comic news including DC Comics' digital announcements, Hastings media store turns comic shop, movie trailers and more. (1:31:36)​

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Comic Geekspeak, episode 873, Comic Talk News Edition.

0:15.4

Welcome to Comic Geek Speak. I'm Brian Deemer.

0:17.2

I'm Shane Kelly.

0:17.8

I'm Brian Christman.

0:18.7

Hi, I'm Peter Rios.

0:20.6

And on the phone, I'm Jamie D. And thanks for joining us. And in the studio, we have a special guest, James. Nice to meet you. Thanks for having me on. How did you be to be here? He's a local, sort of local guy.

0:38.4

Yeah.

0:38.7

Sort of local. Sort of local. Went to high school down the street. So. Did you really? Yeah. Garmiffam. Nice. What year? Uh. If you know what I'd say. A while ago. I don't leave it with that. This episode of Comic Geeseeek is brought to you by Fan Expo.

0:58.5

Yepie.

0:59.7

Oh, man.

1:00.8

Get ready.

1:02.8

This is August 27th through the 29th in Toronto at the big Toronto Convention Center. The Metro Center, I believe. Whatever it's called. Metro Toronto Convention Center. We were there just last year. I don't know what it's called. They're all just convention centers. What do I know, you know? The Rogers Center, believe it. Well, it's next to the Rogers Center. Yeah. Anyway, you should go because it's a big-ass con and it's lots of fun. And it's in Canada, so you get a little change of scenery, you know? And did I mention it's big? I think you did mention it's big. And it's fun. It's fantastic. It was a lot of fun. Yeah, it was awesome. That I can talk about it. It was a lot of fun. Yeah. Shane actually made the trip up with me and survived my shove. Yeah.

1:47.9

Yeah. Shane actually made the trip up with me and survived my shove.

1:48.2

So we're going back again this year and we will be there and we hope to see you too.

1:54.5

And go to FanExpo Canada.com for all the information.

1:58.3

This is kind of a cool show because they have all the comic book stuff.

2:02.7

Then they have like a sci-fi area and a horror area and an anime area and a gaming area.

2:08.7

So it's all one big room, but it's kind of like a bunch of smaller cons like all mush together.

2:14.5

So if you're not into the horror, you can kind of avoid the whole horror section.

2:18.0

But if you're afraid, if you're curious, you can walk around through, it's pretty neat how they have it. And it really gets a lot of mixture of people, and it's just a lot of fun, a very high energy there last year. And we imagine it'll be bigger and better this year. A lot of celebrities, a lot of panels, a lot of artists, just a lot. A whole lot of artists.

2:37.6

I believe it's the, We imagine it'll be bigger and better this year. A lot of celebrities, a lot of panels, a lot of artists, just a lot of artists.

2:35.8

A whole lot of artists.

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