life is at home. I also run a podcast called Scrolls on the Geek Syndicate Network and blather on endlessly about books – sci-fi, fantasy and horror.” Best Geeky Discovery: Podcasts. There’s a whole universe of entertainment out there on any given subject you could imagine and it seems like it was hidden from me for years. Through it I’ve got my own show, interviewed some amazing people and made some really great friends. Brogen Hayes “A 31 year old film nerd with a BA in Journalism and Visual Media and an M.Phil in Film Theory and History. Brogen has been working as a freelance film journalist for almost 10 years, and has loved every moment of it so far. Brogen’s career highlights include the entire Cannes Film Festival 2011 – sunstroke included – somehow ending up on the beer in Dublin with Kiefer Sutherland and chatting film with Tilda Swinton, Antonio Banderas, John Lasseter and many more…” Favorite Comic Series: Sandman by Neil Gaiman Matt Pease “Northern Geek, Fanatical about wide verities of geek topics, including Books, Comics, Movies, TV and Animation. My biggest geek passion is Comics, I’ve been reading since I was 15 and now have a collection of single issues in the 4000 issue range. I also collect Superhero toys and statues.”
Favorite Comic Company: Marvel! They have the greatest characters and the greatest stories.
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Mirjana V “I am a newly “out” geek, having made tons of geeky friends in the past couple of years. I attended my first two cons this year (SDCC & NYCC) and plan on attending many more. I am a sports fanatic – ice hockey and football (not the American sort) are my drugs of choice. Also love to travel, and plan on doing a lot more of that in the future.”
Brody Sixx “If I’m not on the PS3, I have my nose deep in some form of media, or drowning myself in coffee, or getting RSI in my fingers from online gaming. Quite often I cosplay around the house, washing the dishes as a Sith Lord, ironing as a medieval peasant and I once dressed up as a zombie and waited for two hours in the dark waiting for my housemate to come home so I could scare him. TOTALLY worked.” Best Geeky Discovery: Physicist Brian Cox Dave Williams “Geek of all flavours… movies, comics, TV, games..etc” Favorite Comic(s)/Graphic Novel(s): Queen & Country, Captain Britain & MI-13, Knights of Pendragon, Witchblade Space Gandalf “Browncoat, Actor, Podcaster (TimeLore), Slayer, Vampire (Vegan), Lover, Fighter” Best Geeky Encounter: Meeting Anthony Head at the Puppet theatre in Norwich many years ago (and giving him a ”Grrr. Argghh” finger puppet) Kehaar “International Seagull of Mystery, wargamer, roleplayer and one half of the Dissecting Worlds podcast” Favorite Video Game(s): Computer games are evil 15mm is where it’s at.
Favorite Movie(s): Lord of the Rings (Two Towers is my fave), all the Harry Potter movies, XMen and X2 (thinking of adding First Class to the list), Star Wars (not the prequels) So that’s us ... for the most part. Read on, and we hope you enjoy this first issue of Geek Syndicate Magazine.
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