Remember Toonami? The program block on Cartoon Network brought us a number of action cartoons and anime. During it’s eleven year run, it gave us a home to such shows as Thunder Cats, Voltron, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, Robotech, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, ReBoot, and others. It was a huge part of many of our childhood’s and was one of the reasons a lot of us looked forward to coming home from school.

The network has announced that the programming block will make its return on May 26. The network pulled an April fools prank by bringing it back for one day. A huge response from the fan base and marketing research from the network helped them make the decison to bring it back. The fan base took to Twitter and got the term #BringBackToonami to become a globally trending term.

As of now, no shows have been announced for the programming block. The timeslot will be hosted by an updated version of the TOM character that hosted the segment back in the day.

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On this episode of The Covert Cast the guys discuss Black Eyed Kids (Or BEKs).   With you always are Dusty and The Man, joined by pretty regular co-host Dobbs, and special co-host Geeq Shuq of http://www.geeqshuq.com/.  They talk a bit about this recent phenomenon known as the BEKs.  They also get into a discussion about a couple different sea monsters, and famous survivalist Les Stroud’s encounter with Bigfoot.

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Social media has given us access to a means of almost instantaneous communication with the world around us. That can have its advantages and disadvantages. One of the emerging disadvantages is the increase in spoilers available on the internet. You’ve had it happen to you before. One of your friends makes a post on facebook loudly proclaiming “I can’t believe they killed so and so.” or “Did you see when X beat the crap out of Y?! Awesome!” You then respond with the obligatory “Thanks for spoiling the movie.” So is the effect of social media. Reactions to anything are almost instantaneous and our newsfeeds fill with post after post perpetuating this vicious cycle.

This cycle also sparks the debate of social acceptability. When is it appropriate to discuss such things on social media and how can we talk about them? Several recent events including Game of Thrones season 2, The Avengers, and likely the upcoming season of True Blood, have and will see many seeing red as they see spoilers posted online.

It’s natural to want to talk about a show or a movie you saw. The world of social media provides an instantaneous proverbial office water cooler to chat and discuss what you saw with all of friends across the world. A drawback to this is that not everyone can see the show or movie at the same time you did. Many have jobs that require them to work during prime time hours. Not everyone can afford to go out and see a movie at the midnight premiere or even opening day. That is the inherent problem as people post the good parts and many times lay out whole scenes before other fans can watch. Many say this takes the suspense out when they do get to watch.

Many are attached to the social media world and have a hard time avoiding it. Avoiding the online world is a recommended action to avoid spoilers, but it is not a fair method to take. Many, such as myself, have to be connected to the social world. We find news, build connections, and have other reasons to actively monitor a social network. Having numerous connections means we are more likely to encounter spoilers.

Now there is a way to talk about something online and not post a direct spoiler. At the bare minimum, you should begin your post with the words “Potential Spoilers Ahead”. This will tell someone to not read any further on your post and go straight to the next. Reactionary posts are fine. You can say it was great and things like that, but please do not post a full play by play of the scene (you can save those for the comments section at a bare minimum proceeded by “Spoilers in Comments”).

Another helpful tip is to wait until at least the next day to provide commentary on a television show. This allows most viewers to watch something after work to get caught up. With a movie, I would recommend waiting until after the weekend opening at a minimum to into detail. That will provide a good chunk of viewers time to see the film.

The main theme comes down to a little bit of courtesy. Just give us a chance to see something before gushing on and and on about it. We’d love the chance to join in on the conversation. We just want to be prepared to enjoy the moment with you.

This past Free Comic Book Day brought us a number of titles to try to entice us into our local comic book shops. Some of the titles were sample books. Others were a catching up point. Some of them were preview titles to future series. This was the case Transformers: Regeneration One #80.5.

The title serves as a preview to the upcoming series from IDW. It is scheduled to hit shelves sometime in July. The story picks up twenty-one years after the conclusion of the original Marvel Transformers run from the 1980s. It serves as both a catch up and preview to bridge the gap between the two series.

IDW has recently done this with the GI Joe series. I have read several issues of that and it has been a solid book so far. Regeneration One does not disappoint. The story is good and sets up a good first arc for the new series. The art in the book is a retro style that harkens back to the original Marvel run and is awesome.

This book really intrigued me and I am very much looking forward to the ongoing series in July. If your local comic book shop has any copies of this title left, do try to get a hold of it. It is a fantastic single issue and well worth obtaining if possible. I was very much a fan of the Marvel Transformers run and I will be collecting this series once it debuts.

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This week, Marc With a C unveils his idea for a Disney theme Park that would knock all others out of the box, talks about some really good new bands he discovered while playing his own pop songs in public, generally loses his mind over a recently released collection of Carole King demos, and unveils an especially quirky block of our “Strange Records Of The Week”.

Yes, that’s all one sentence. Deal with it.

Tracks:

1. Oo-De-Lally :: Roger Miller
2. DJ :: David Bowie
3. The Only Place :: Best Coast
4. When I Grow Up :: The Beach Boys
5. The Lonely Ghost :: Bozmo
6. East Coast :: Alexander & The Grapes
7. Celebration, Florida :: Chumbawamba
8. Yours Until Tomorrow :: Carole King
9. Take 54 :: Harry Nilsson
10. Who The Philip Glass Of This Rap Shit? :: Satellite High
11. Live At Union Square (Nov. 1986) :: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
12. When The Mode Of The Music Changes :: The Fugs
13. Maharishi :: Roger Hallmark
14. Thru These Walls :: Phil Collins

It’s only a few short weeks until the season premiere of HBO’s hit show True Blood. It is one of my favorite shows on TV and I can’t wait to see the new season. HBO released a new trailer for the upcoming season. Check it out and tune into HBO on June 10 and check out the new season.

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This week on Slacker And The Man the guys are joined by Geeqshuq and they talk about the cost of the collateral damage during the final fight in Avengers, debate whether or not Hulk could pick up Mjolnir, building a real Enterprise from Star Trek, debate if wrestling is geeky or not, Dobbs and The Man both give Geeq a quiz, and they review the movie Chronicle and the comics New Avengers #26, Wolverine And The X-Men #10, and X-Men Legacy #266.

Listen to The Man and Dusty this Tuesday (05/15) on the Tuddle Show on RadioIO Bubba Channel One at 6pm EST http://www.radioio.com/btls/channels/bubba-one-live/?rp=genre/btls You can also get them on your phone through an app called Tunein Radio.

Check out Geeq’s site http://www.geeqshuq.com/

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It’s Issue 71! We discuss piracy, Joss Whedon’s letter to his fans, and we do a top 5 of Best and Worst Mothers in Comics.

Ever have one of those days where you wake up completely late for work? Ever just say screw it and call in sick when that happens? What happens when a Power Ranger does that? Well watch this video and see what happens.

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On this episode of The Covert Cast the guys discuss Celebrity deaths and the conspiracies behind some of them.  They talk about the famous and infamous alike, everyone from Michael Jackson all the way back to Billy the Kid.

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