Gweek 063: Fanboys vs Zombies

Click here to play this episode. Gweek is Boing Boing's podcast about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My co-hosts for this episode are:

Michael Pusateri -- a lifelong tinkerer and former television tech executive for Disney

and

Ruben Bolling, author of the weekly comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug, which premieres each week on Boing Boing, and pre-premieres for members of his Inner Hive, which you can join by going here.

In this episode:

Adventure Time Comics

Fanboys vs zombies Fanboys VS. Zombies

Star Trek "new continuity" comic books

Significant Objects

NewImage The Memory Palace podcast

NewImage Tribute to Repo Man Soundtrack

NewImage Slimvision reading glasses

Kapoosh Kapoosh knife holder

And much more!

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Preston Sturges

I had one of those knife holders and they are very nice, but we now use the powerful magnetic strips.
- http://illustratorhints.com/ Jesseham
  
  I’ve got one that we use still. No complaints. Works great with any knife with a normal tip (we have one that’s got a forked tip and it’s kind of tricky to get in there.) I just vacuumed ours the other day, since you can’t clean the pokey part with a dishrag like you could a normal wood one.
- KBert
  
  I love it when all the Amazon 1-star reviews point to the same design flaw.
  Why is this GWEEK’d?
  $$$?
  - Preston Sturges
    
    Hmmm maybe it was asking too much for a product to stand being stabbed over and over with our razor sharp Japanese knives.
Pirate Jenny

I took one look at the Repo Man soundtrack tribute and ordered it immediately. I’d pay that much for the T-shirt with the glow-in-the-dark Malibu alone. Yayyyyyyyy!
- Preston Sturges
  
  Suicide Dolls cover the Circle Jerks? Works for me.
Jake0748

I haven’t listened to this Gweek episode yet. But… is it too much to hope that the Zombies and Fanboys annihilate each other?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

Hey Mark: The Significant Objects link leads back to this page, not an Amazon (or other) link for the book.
JimmyShockTreatment

I may be in the minority, but I would enjoy Gweek more if it stuck to a regular weekly release schedule.
- Mark_Frauenfelder
  
  I have a hunch you are in the majority, but I would like to know why you think so.
  - JimmyShockTreatment
    
    I have only so much time for podcasts each week, and Gweek is in my top three. Given its length, it usually takes a couple days to get through an episode. So, I can manage an episode about once per week. When they come out more often, they pile up on me, and I end up skipping episodes, but then I feel like I’m missing out on the Gweeky goodness. I guess it’s all kind of silly on my part — definitely a “first world problem.” Thanks for caring!
    - Mark_Frauenfelder
      
      Thanks, Jimmy! I agree that once a week is plenty. Would it also help if it came out the same time and day each week (like, Monday at noon, or something like that?)
      - JimmyShockTreatment
        
        That’s not as big a priority for me, but I wouldn’t mind it.
Preston Sturges

“What time is it? Adventure Time!”