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Geek Freaks is for all geek culture fans. Listen to the latest in Video Games, Movies, Comics, and TV on our show. Join our host, Frank , and a rotating panel of super fans for in-depth discussions and exclusive interviews. Stay updated on the latest in geek culture with our podcast. New episodes every week. Search for Geek Freaks on Apple, Spotify, or any other podcast app to subscribe and never miss an episode.Copyright 2022 All rights reserved. Politique et gouvernement Science-fiction
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  • Endgame's New Ending, Danny Trejo's Year of the Devil, and Mark Hamill's Darkwing Duck

    Endgame's New Ending, Danny Trejo's Year of the Devil, and Mark Hamill's Darkwing Duck
    Sep 24 2026

    Episode Summary

    Avengers: Endgame is back in theaters with a new ending, and it puts Loki on Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter's doorstep as the MCU's answer to Doctor Doom. Frank breaks down the leaked Encore Edition scenes, then sits down with Keith Arem and Chris Yates, the writers behind Danny Trejo's cursed-conquistador comic Year of the Devil.

    The Encore leaks include a TVA post-credit scene where incursions multiply into the thousands and a visit from Doom to Bruce Banner's underground lab, and Frank lays out what they mean for Avengers: Doomsday on December 18. In the interview, Keith explains how Danny stopped a recording session to pitch a book they could make together, and the pair talk about building Diego de Rojas from Danny's tattoos, his grindhouse roles, and his love of history. In Headlines, Mark Hamill replaces Jim Cummings as Darkwing Duck, Paramount settles with 12 state attorneys general over its Warner Bros. Discovery merger, Daredevil: Born Again ends with season 3, Alan Ritchson is in talks to replace Jason Momoa in Helldivers, and Brad Pitt returns for World War Z 2. Frank closes with a personal message for Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.

    Chapters

    • 00:00 Intro
    • 01:10 Avengers: Endgame Encore Leaks and the Road to Doomsday
    • 07:58 Interview: Keith Arem and Chris Yates on Danny Trejo's Year of the Devil
    • 19:55 Headlines: Mark Hamill Is the New Darkwing Duck
    • 24:38 Paramount's Settlement Terms for the Warner Bros. Discovery Deal
    • 30:02 Daredevil: Born Again Ends With Season 3
    • 35:01 Helldivers Recasting and World War Z 2
    • 39:01 Network Updates
    • 40:40 Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

    Key Takeaways

    • The leaked Encore ending positions Loki, now the god of stories, as the counterweight to Doctor Doom heading into Doomsday.
    • The TVA post-credit scene shows incursions spreading from one to thousands, which Frank reads as the setup for Secret Wars.
    • Year of the Devil follows Diego de Rojas, a conquistador who frees the devil from a prison beneath Chichén Itzá and is cursed to hunt the Four Horsemen across 500 years. It's a five-issue prestige series from PCB Entertainment launching September 29.
    • Frank thinks Mark Hamill brings clout to the Darkwing Duck reboot, but a younger lead would have given the series a longer runway.
    • Paramount's settlement requires 30 theatrical films a year, a $1.5 billion investment in California productions, and keeping both historic studio lots open. Frank opposes the merger but calls these terms the best-case version of it.
    • With Born Again ending, Frank pitches three ways forward for Charlie Cox's Daredevil: a Daredevil: Yellow adaptation, a Defenders-style series with a rotating street-level cast, or a yearly special presentation.

    Memorable Quotes

    • "Loki vs. Doctor Doom, which is a sentence that just screams awesome comic book to me." (Frank Lourence)

    • "We felt like it had to have some dirt under the fingernails." (Chris Yates, on Year of the Devil)

    • "He just kind of literally stopped in the middle of a session and he was like, I want to do a book with you." (Keith Arem, on Danny Trejo)

    • "Number one is jobs. Number two is creativity." (Frank Lourence, on the Paramount and WBD merger)

    • "It's not about blowing up aliens and fighting for democracy. It is about the satire of that." (Frank Lourence, on the Helldivers movie)

    Sources

    All news discussed on this episode is sourced from GeekFreaksPodcast.com.

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    44 min
  • BlizzCon 2026 | World of Warcraft Forever, Diablo 5, and a StarCraft Set for 2030

    BlizzCon 2026 | World of Warcraft Forever, Diablo 5, and a StarCraft Set for 2030
    Sep 17 2026
    BlizzCon 2026 handed out a StarCraft open world shooter that does not land until 2030, a Diablo 5 release window in spring 2029, and a plan to turn World of Warcraft Classic into something called World of Warcraft Forever. Frank and Squeaks were both on the floor for all of it, and they came back with announcement reactions, three hour lines, a Todd McFarlane signature, and Matt Mercer running an Overwatch tabletop game in front of 8,000 people. The Warcraft talk takes up most of the hour, and for good reason. World of Warcraft Forever adds new races, new zones, dungeons and raids to the Classic version of Azeroth, including undead paladins for the Horde, with a beta starting next Thursday ahead of a November 4 launch. Frank played the five man dungeon demo on the show floor and came out talking about how much real communication a slower pace forces back into a group, while Squeaks, who has never touched Classic, walked away planning a warlock. On the retail side, the Eclipse patch and the language Blizzard kept using about closing out twenty years of story push the two of them into a long argument about whether the next expansion ends World of Warcraft and starts World of Warcraft 2 on a modern engine. Elsewhere: Diablo 4 gets Hell's Legacy with Deckard Cain back as the storyteller, a Diablo animated series is coming to Netflix with Overwatch and Warcraft adaptations teased behind it, Overwatch introduces a vampire healer whose backstory and voice were built around the actor playing him, and Wrath of the Lich King Remix only got revealed if you sat through the deep dive panel. The crowd is the one sore spot, with Frank putting attendance near 75,000 against the 40,000 to 50,000 of past years and both hosts stuck in two and three hour lines for the store and the Darkmoon Faire. 0:00 Intro and BlizzCon 2026 First Impressions3:36 Meeting Todd McFarlane and Watching Matt Mercer Run Overwatch6:08 Oversold Crowds, Three Hour Lines, and a Dry BlizzCon10:06 StarCraft Returns as an Open World Shooter14:22 Diablo 5 in 2029, Hell's Legacy, and Deckard Cain19:52 The Diablo Animated Series on Netflix21:28 World of Warcraft Forever and the Classic Overhaul29:07 Eclipse, the Titans, and the Case for World of Warcraft 238:12 Overwatch's Newest Hero and the Wrath Remix Reveal41:31 Final Day Highlights, T-Pain, and the Arena Championship48:37 Recommendations, the Patreon Statue Vote, and the Forever Guild Key takeaways World of Warcraft Forever launches November 4 with a beta starting next Thursday, adding new races, zones, dungeons and raids to Classic, plus undead paladins for the Horde.StarCraft is back as an open world shooter set 100 years after StarCraft 2, but the 2030 date landed hard in the room, and both hosts worry about a Warhammer style game with no Protoss or Zerg to play.Diablo 5 arrives spring 2029, with Hell's Legacy bridging the gap in Diablo 4 and Deckard Cain returning to bring old bosses back for another fight.The Diablo animated series at Netflix is the adaptation Frank is most confident in, with Castlevania and Cyberpunk Edgerunners as the track record, and Overwatch and Warcraft projects teased after it.Blizzard's repeated framing about the culmination of twenty years has both hosts betting the next expansion closes the current story, with Frank arguing a true sequel is the only way past a 2004 engine.Attendance was the weekend's biggest problem, with two hour waits just to enter the convention center on Saturday and three hour waits for the store and the Darkmoon Faire. "When they put that 2030 on the screen, the air went out of the room." - Frank "I got to meet my dream comic book creator. I could be gone tomorrow and I would feel like life was fulfilled." - Squeaks, on meeting Todd McFarlane "That kind of communication is peak Warcraft, and that stuff is not said in World of Warcraft today." - Frank, on the Forever dungeon demo "We are reaching the limits of what this engine can do." - Frank, on why he thinks World of Warcraft 2 has to happen "There is a blood knight in Diablo Immortal and I love the hell out of it. I named him Squeaks Belmont." - Squeaks Every story covered in this episode comes from GeekFreaksPodcast.com, the source for all news discussed on the show. If you have not subscribed yet, do it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so the next one shows up automatically, and leave a rating or review while you are there. Send this episode to the friend who quit World of Warcraft back in Cataclysm, because Forever is aimed directly at them. #GeekFreaksPodcast Follow us: Instagram: @GeekFreaksPodcastTikTok: @GeekFreaksPodcastTwitter: @GeekFreaksPodThreads: https://www.threads.net/@geekfreakspodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegeekfreakspodcastPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/GeekFreakspodcast Got a BlizzCon take we missed, a WoW Forever class you are locking in, or a prediction about World of Warcraft 2? Send us your questions, reactions, and topic ideas, and we will get to them on ...
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    52 min
  • Avengers Doomsday Improv Panic, a Darkwing Duck Recast, and a Samurai Redneck Zombie Killer

    Avengers Doomsday Improv Panic, a Darkwing Duck Recast, and a Samurai Redneck Zombie Killer
    Sep 8 2026
    Dungeons & Dragons 2 has a finished script, and the studio that made the first one already passed on it. Avengers Doomsday is deep in edits, the Russo brothers just called their script a living organism, and everyone lost their minds about it. Squeaks opens the show with a full report from the Pokémon World Championships in San Francisco, where the Moscone Center got taken over by TCG, Pokémon Go, Unite, and the new Pokémon Champions app, and where buying a single piece of exclusive merch turned into a timed-entry website that crashed on everybody. Then Allen Dunford joins Frank to talk about The Samurai Redneck Zombie Killer #1, the Comic Soup book he co-wrote with Kit Wallis that funded its previous record in a single day. Allen gets into the grindhouse and manga influences, why the story stays locked on two survivors instead of a community, and the Geek Freaks variant cover on the Kickstarter. Frank closes with the first News Quickfire, a tighter news segment built on listener feedback. The news run covers D&D 2's script and where the project could land, Netflix developing a live action Ravenloft while Forgotten Realms gets canceled, HBO's Baldur's Gate series with Craig Mazin, the real reasons Honor Among Thieves underperformed, the Avengers Doomsday improv conversation, Jim Cummings losing Darkwing Duck to a recast, and a full status check on Gargoyles, Hey Arnold, Doug, and the 90s reboot slate. Chapters 0:00 Intro: Patreon Upgrades, SideQuest Relaunch, and Show Changes1:34 Squeaks at Pokémon Worlds: Moscone Center, Pokémon XP, and the Tournaments5:21 The Merch Problem: Pokémon Center Lines, Resellers, and Scalpers10:12 Guest: Allen Dunford on The Samurai Redneck Zombie Killer21:37 Seven Years Indie, the Comic Soup Slate, and the Geek Freaks Variant27:30 News Quickfire: D&D 2's Finished Script, Ravenloft, and Baldur's Gate34:14 Avengers Doomsday, the Russos, and the Improv Panic40:52 Darkwing Duck Recasts Jim Cummings, Plus the 90s Reboot Roundup48:10 Wrap-Up and Listener Feedback Key Takeaways Pokémon Worlds was an incredible event wrapped around a broken buying experience. The Pokémon Center on site required a timed booking through a site that crashed, the second merch area turned out to be reseller tables selling singles for hundreds, and Squeaks walked out having spent twenty dollars and bought his Worlds backpack online later at roughly four times the price.Next year's Worlds moves to Singapore, so US fans have no idea when it comes back.The Samurai Redneck Zombie Killer started as a title and a cover. Kit Wallis brought Allen the name and the first five pages, posted the cover to Instagram, and the response was so far outside his normal engagement that they fast tracked the whole book. It beat Comic Soup's previous best campaign total in a single day.Allen and Kit built the book around two people instead of a community, borrowing the Leon and Mathilda dynamic from The Professional, right down to naming the samurai Lee. The art uses a manga inspired color scheme with the first five pages in full color before shifting to black, white, and splashes of red.Paramount Skydance passed on Dungeons & Dragons 2 as financially unviable, but Hasbro is shopping it. Honor Among Thieves earned around $205 million on a roughly $150 million budget split with Hasbro's E1, opened four days before The Super Mario Bros. Movie, landed a month after the OGL boycott, and never told non fans it was a family comedy.The Avengers Doomsday improv worry is overblown. The Russos worked the same way on Infinity War and Endgame, their visual reference is Once Upon a Time in the West, and Robert Downey Jr. said he would not have come back without them. Improv on a movie this size gets spent on one on one character scenes, not on Sentinels and VFX plates.Jim Cummings and Terry McGovern are both being recast in the Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Darkwing Duck reboot, seven years after Cummings recorded the pilot that got it greenlit. The 2017 DuckTales storyline he voiced was about an actor destroyed by a Darkwing Duck recast.Gargoyles' live action version is dead but the animated one is alive, Hey Arnold is in conversations, an adult Doug has concept art out, and King of the Hill is the template everyone is pointing to. Quotes "Twenty bucks, because it was a horrible experience when it comes to purchasing anything." - Squeaks"It is a black mark on the Pokémon brand right now." - Frank"He had the title already. It does what it says on the label." - Allen Dunford"We're not focusing on a community. We're just focusing on two people trying to survive this thing." - Allen Dunford"In the indie sphere, you're not just the writer. The book doesn't stop at the script." - Allen Dunford"Improv works better when it's scaled down. It doesn't work super well when it scales up." - Frank All news discussed on this episode comes from GeekFreaksPodcast.com. If the Darkwing Duck recast or the D&D 2 situation got you fired up, send this ...
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    50 min
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