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In this week's episode of the Geeks OUT Podcast, Kevin (@Gilligan_McJew) is joined by @JWCrump as they discuss David S. Pumpkins becoming an animated special, preview the first 6 minutes of The Gifted, and celebrate the premiere of Star Trek: Discovery and their Strong Female Characters of the Week.
This Week's Topics Include:
BIG OPENING:
- KEVIN: Arrowverse 4-part crossover to feature Flash wedding & gay superhero, The Ray played by Russell Tovey
- J.W.: First look photos of Hulu’s Runaways
DOWN AND NERDY:
KEVIN: Gotham, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Star Trek: Discover, Marvel Legacy #1
J.W.: Episode by Episode recap shows, The Good Place, The Orville
STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER: Opening title sequence to Star Trek: Discovery& the premiere draws in 9.6 mil viewers
THIS WEEK IN QUEER: DC comics to receive LGBT Visionary Award from GLSEN
CLIP OF THE WEEK: The first 6 minutes of The Gifted released
THE WEEK IN GEEK:
MOVIES
- Teaser trailer for Annihilation starring Natalie Portman released
- Trailer for Maze Runner: The Death Cure released
- Blade Runner 2022, prequel to the new movie released on Crunchyroll
- The 4 sequels to Avatar have started production
- Hocus Pocus remake is in the works
- First glimpse of The Ghost from Ant-Man & The Wasp
- DC announced a Teen Titans Go! Animated movie coming out in July 2018
TV
- Bollywood star, Amy Jackson joins Supergirl as Saturn Girl
- Russo Bros. bringing Deadly Class to SyFy
- Disney strong armed ABC into renewing Agents of SHIELD
- Neil Gaiman is going to voice Snowball V on The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror
- NBC to air animated David S. Pumpkins special
COMICS
- Avengers is going weekly for 3 months starting in January
SHILF
- KEVIN: Michael Burnham
- J.W.: Blink