The Geekbox: Episode 203

The Geekbox

Ryan Scott

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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2013

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Wherein we discuss DC Comics creative teams losing their jobs over the Internet, fixing Disney's Fantasyland, Disney's all-seeing eye, Zack Snyder and Star Wars, classic role-playing games, Persona 3, Fire Emblem, Chrono Cross, Arrow, the 2013 Academy Award nominees, cold vs. flu, and the best games of 1993. Starring Ryan Scott, Karen Chu, and Ryan Higgins.

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0:15.1	Hello and welcome to episode 203 of the Geek Box your weekly podcast for terrible pre-order incentives and finding out you lost your job over the internet. This is
0:19.9	the podcast for the week of January 14th 2013 I'm your host Ryan Scott who's
0:28.0	with me Karen Chu Ryan Higgins who lost their job over the internet?
0:33.0	Apparently the Birds of Pray Creative Team?
0:36.0	I don't know.
0:37.0	You were tweeting about this and arguing with people, Ryan.
0:40.0	Various comments with people.
0:42.0	What has happened?
0:43.3	DC has decided over the last six months or so, last year or so,
0:50.7	that their editorial control is a lot stricter I guess than it was
0:56.2	previously just because they have the eyes of Warren Brothers kind of staring
1:00.1	at them now to be productive. With good reason. Yeah I know early on they
1:06.4	actually double-pitched every book they launched where they basically got two
1:11.0	independent creative teams on every title and then they picked one.
1:13.7	Oh, oh.
1:16.9	So that caused a lot of kind of drama.
1:19.5	And now they're like putting creative teams on books and then like after but like before the
1:24.6	first issues even out there like nope you're off we're gonna get a new creative
1:27.9	theme in the book and go kind of in a different direction which life of a freelancer kind of sucks.
1:34.0	Yeah. But DC needs a PR person or they need someone to deal with this.
1:40.0	H.R. Yeah, they are some sort of like, because people are getting like publicly like talking about it a lot.
1:47.0	I don't even think this is a PR issue, it's an internal issue.
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