Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 06

Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Topics covered in this show: Batman The Dark Knight Rises The Hobbit being made into three movies? Star Wars Christmas Special Dan liked King Kong by Peter Jackson? Donald did not. Peter Jackson wants to be like Twilight and make several movies from one book? Dan's review of the first Twilight book: http://www.dandantheartman.com/2011/06/review-of-twilight-spoilers.html The first Underworld movie and how it was good a vampire flick 3D being overdone in movies Dan pines for Original Star Wars trilogy, Donald has a copy on VHS Hear Donald talk like Bane from Batman The Dark Knight Rises! Bane and how his mouth is covered, acting, speaking Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises The Man of Steel trailer Listen to the guys watch the trailer and comment then discuss: Talk about the darker new direction that is hinted at. Is this the “Nolaning” of the Superman franchise? Are they trying to make Superman fit into the grittier Batman univers? Will JLA be better as a darker more serious film? G.I. Joe the movie Animated movies being better than the live action, Star Wars: Clone Wars Total Recall reboot - Dan hasn't seen the original, added to his list Superman teaser trailer left us wondering SNL skit of Superman where everyone knows who he is Things We Need To Watch or Read list is visited http://www.penfightsgamepad.com/p/things-we-need-to-watch-or-read.html 1. Dan recommends a book to Donald: John Cleaver trilogy http://thedanwells.com/titles/ianask.html 2. Dan finished the comic The Dark Knight Returns Making an Animated version of The Dark Knight Returns Batman The Animated Series and their voice actors doing a trailer for the new Batman live action Batman Arkham City Asylum game - Dan needs to play it 3. Dan saw Captain America Tron Legacy, and Dan hasn't seen the original Tron 4: Donald is enjoying a TV show "Breakout Kings" on Netflix. World may have stopped turnning for a moment. Dan remixed some music for a Glowpuff video game "Carnival Carnage" (the one starring Donald) Live play the Beta build of Carnival Carnage (because I have it!) Donald plays it live on the show DNF update Finished Duke Nukem Forever - I have some thoughts Expendables 2 game - I got it for free in a strange way Patapon 2 - Best game ever? Dan was on The Roundtable Podcast www.roundtablepodcast.com Dan gives a short reading from his Sci-Fi novel of the scene where Quickstar leaves his Captain dead or alive. See more by this artist Zzenya Thompson here: http://zzenkinsein.deviantart.com/ Download the .mp3