Newb Island
Newb Island, a place for geeky learning and camaraderie. Easily leveling up your genre knowledge and giving you your bearings before sending you back into the pop culture jungle is what we're all about. Every season Professors Z and T educate a newcomer on a geeky subject and invite you all to join along on their journey.
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 88 minutes
- Episodes
- 48
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2023
Magic in DC Comics - An Introduction
Welcome to Newb Island! A place for newcomers to be able to relax and lvl up their basic knowledge on a geeky subject without pressure or sweaty tryhards. A place for nerdy camaraderie and discussion…
Stiff Upper Lips - Captain Britain and the Black Knight
Last week Professors Z and T talked about King Arthur, Merlin, and how all that lore works into Marvel comics. This week comes lessons on two characters who are inextricably bound up with the Marvel …
Excelsior! Excalibur! - Arthurian Legend in the Marvel Universe
One of the all time wizards must be Merlin. Many newcomers might ask what that has to do with the same universe that Tony Stark exists in? The answer is quite a bit. This lesson from the Professors i…
Demi-Urgent - Other Learned Magicians
Much like our Newb is learning now, there's a few other characters that are rather similar to Doctor Strange in how they approach learning and using Magic. This lesson takes a look at a few of them …
Marvelous Movies! - Doctor Strange (2016)
As the professors prepare the next segment of lessons, it's movie day on Newb Island! After reading so much Doctor Strange it should be no surprise when this week we watch the 2016 movie adaptation, …
Hotheaded Siblings - Dormammu, Clea, and the Dark Dimension
Staying in the vague realm of Doctor Strange, but moving more onto his foes, this week's lesson from the Professors is one about the Dark Dimension and some of it's most famous and villainous inhabit…
Surgeon to Supreme - Doctor Strange
Newbie number one last episode got a general layout of magic in Marvel, as well as an overview of the title of Sorcerer Supreme. But what of the most famous man to hold that title? The lesson and dis…
Magic in Marvel Comics - An Introduction
Welcome to Newb Island! A place for newcomers to be able to relax and lvl up their basic knowledge on a geeky subject without pressure or sweaty tryhards. A place for nerdy camaraderie and discussion…