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144 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNRE explores the news world of Pop-Culture such as Professional Wrestling, Comic Books, Film, TV, and Video Games! Hosted by Eric Brown, he explores the many news and trendy topics in Pop-Culture, The Omniverse is a massive place, guess it's time to explore, no matter how big, or small, Pop-Culture News can get! Now including bonus episodes and expanding imprints.
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The Heirs of the Dragon | House of The Dragon | NRC Reviews
August 22, 2022 17:39 - 23 minutes - 18.8 MBFire Will Reign Emotional Fantasy Music - Ice & Fire by Solas. House of the Dragon is an American fantasy drama television series that is a prequel to the television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), both based on the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin. The prequel series was created by Martin and Ryan Condal for HBO and is based on portions of Fire & Blood. Condal and Miguel Sapochnik are showrunners for House of the Dragon. Set about 200 years before the events of Gam...
NRC Episode Fifty: Embracer Group LOTR, The Star Wars Universe, DC Comics Going 90s; #ReleaseBatgirl
August 20, 2022 19:32 - 1 hour - 60.1 MB50 Episodes. 50 Episodes since the show came back from the YouTube Daily News Show during the high point of a global pandemic, but we've reached a major milestone for the podcast. Hours Upon Hours of Content, Tons of Bonus Reviews, and Sponsored by The EveryDayFans since 40. But we've reached it... The Season Two Finale! Hello and Welcome to Neo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News and Reviews Talk, Hosted by Eric Brown! And boy, hard to believe we've made it this far, and this episode mi...
Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler #1 | DC Comics | NRC Reviews
August 17, 2022 17:15 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBNRC Reviews The Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler #1 by Tom King & Mitch Gerads! DREADFUL REINS Tom King and Mitch Gerads, the Eisner Award-winning duo behind Mister Miracle, The Sheriff of Babylon, and Strange Adventures, reunite to dive deep into the mind of Batman’s most intellectual foe…the Riddler. The Riddler has killed a man in broad daylight for seemingly no reason, but…there’s always a reason. The Riddler is always playing a game; there are always rules. Batman will reach his wits’...
NRC Episode Forty-Nine: WarnerBros. Discovery (II)
August 16, 2022 16:42 - 31 minutes - 25 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the forty-ninth episode, WarnerMedia and Discovery merged back in April. Hijinks have finally started to ensue with corporate restructuring and canceling projects even when they’re already close to completion, Batgirl starring Leslie Grace has been shelved along with other programming set for HBO MAX as the new CEO announces plans for the resetting of the DCEU with a 10-Year Plan akin to the MCU while also planning to merge HBO...
Immortal X-Men #4 | Destiny of X | NRC Reviews
August 10, 2022 12:21 - 28 minutes - 22.5 MBPART FOUR: DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER A GALA PERFORMANCE! Emma Frost will do anything to protect the children, including the metaphorical child that is the Hellfire Gala. Last year's was a fantastic success. She would not like it if someone ruined the second. She would not like it at all. But don't worry, I'm sure it'll go fine. IMMORTAL X-MEN The island-nation of Krakoa was founded under the idea of mutant sovereignty and is governed over by the collective known as the Quiet Council. Hope's re...
NRC Episode Forty-Eight: WarnerBros. Discovery
August 09, 2022 02:04 - 25 minutes - 20.7 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the forty-eighth episode, WarnerMedia and Discovery merged back in April. Hijinks have finally started to ensue with corporate restructuring and canceling projects even when they’re already close to completion, Batgirl starring Leslie Grace has been shelved along with other programming set for HBO MAX as the new CEO announces plans for the resetting of the DCEU with a 10-Year Plan akin to the MCU while also planning to merge HB...
NRC Episode Forty-Seven: San Diego Comic-Con 2022!
July 31, 2022 23:17 - 36 minutes - 28.9 MBSDCC '22 was the 56th San Diego Comic-Con and the First in-person San Diego Comic-Con in since 2019, returning to its usual July dates (excluding the much smaller SDCC "Special Edition" event held in November 2021). A California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation organized for charitable purposes and dedicated to creating the general public’s awareness of and appreciation for comics and related popular art forms, including participation in and support of public presentations, conventions, ...
Dark Crisis #2 | Dark Crisis | NRC Reviews
July 18, 2022 00:10 - 22 minutes - 17.7 MBNRC Reviews the Second issue of DC Comics’ Summer Blockbuster Event, Dark Crisis! Written by: Joshua Williamson Art by: Daniel Sampere Colored by: Alejandro Sánchez Associate Editor: Chris Rosa Editor: Paul Kaminski Editor-in-Chief: Marie Javins CHAPTER TWO: FALL OF THE TITANS THE HOUSE OF NIGHTWING BURNS! As the good people of the world mourn the loss of the Justice League, the forces of evil have seized the opportunity to wreak havoc in a world without its heroes! Leading the charg...
NRC Episode Forty-Six: Rockstar Scraps Remasters, Knights of X Ending; Star Wars: Andor Season 2
July 10, 2022 20:31 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the forty-sixth episode, Rockstar Games scraps plans for a remastered Red Dead Redemption and GTA IV in the wake of GTA’s Definitive Edition trilogy disaster and scaling back on Red Dead Online to concrete on Grand Theft Auto VI; meanwhile, EA makes fun of Single Player games, and the community and employees are not happy about it! Sucker Punch reveals they have no plans to revise InFamous or Sly Cooper anytime soon, while Ble...
NRC Episode Forty-Five: Harley Quinn Season 3, Fallout: London; Marvel Studios Returns To SDCC!
July 02, 2022 02:42 - 35 minutes - 28.5 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the forty-fifth episode, Fallout 4 gets a DLC-Sized Mod set to release in 2023 taking us away from America and moving us to Jolly'Old London (Sadly it ain't canon despite them getting Bethseda's Attention and hiring efforts) while Harley Quinn returns to the adult animated world on July 28th with THREE episodes! Obi-Wan Kenobi and Multiverse of Madness get some new insight into its writing phase of production as Marvel Studios...
Immortal X-Men #3 | Destiny of X | NRC Reviews
June 26, 2022 06:36 - 38 minutes - 31 MBPART THREE: THE NEW TESTAMENT OF IRENE ADLER THE DESTINY OF X! Over one hundred years ago, Irene Adler wrote twelve books. A sequel is long overdue. WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW, BUT KNOW EVERYTHING. The island-nation of Krakoa was founded under the idea of mutant sovereignty and is governed over by the collective known as the Quiet Council. Hope has assumed Magneto's seat on the council after his departure and showcased her abilities in leadership and action in the chaos that Selene unleashed fol...
NRC Episode Forty-Four: Tim Sale Passes Away, Starfield Unveiling; Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn?
June 20, 2022 11:30 - 43 minutes - 35.1 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the forty-fourth episode, we are saddened to hear about the passing of Iconic Artist, Tim Sale, best known for the art of The Long Halloween with Jeph Loeb. Starfield, the next big game by Bethesda Softworks and Todd Howard, and after the repeated releases of Skyrim and the war crime level atrocity known as The Fallout 76, it certainly needs to be a win in the Post-Xbox buyout for Todd. Resident Evil and Dying Light 2 get big u...
NRC Episode Forty-Three: Harley Quinn Turns 30, Jon Snow Series; Final Fantasy VII 25th Anniversary!
June 19, 2022 03:36 - 42 minutes - 34.1 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the forty-third episode, Final Fantasy VII had its twenty-fifth anniversary with newfound reveals such as the long-awaited sequel to FF7 Remake along with a Reunion of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII! All players of Lady Dimitrescu will finally experience their dream to play as the giantess woman in Resident Evil Villiage: Mercenaries Mode, while The Cyberpunk 2077 Anime's main character is revealed to have been mentioned in the...
Obi-Wan Kenobi Part 1 & 2 | Star Wars | NRC Reviews
June 13, 2022 16:52 - 41 minutes - 33 MBTen years after the events of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)—in which the Jedi were destroyed by Order 66 and Obi-Wan Kenobi's apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, became the Sith Lord Darth Vader—Kenobi is in hiding on the planet Tatooine, watching over Anakin's son Luke, when he is called on a mission to rescue Anakin's daughter, Leia, after she is kidnapped by the Galactic Empire's Jedi-hunting Inquisitors in a plot to draw Kenobi out. This leads to a confrontation between Ke...
Poison Ivy #1 | DC Comics | NRC Reviews
June 13, 2022 00:36 - 24 minutes - 19.7 MBHUMANITY HAD ITS CHANCE CHAPTER ONE Pamela Isley has been a lot of things in her life. A living god, a super-villain, an activist, a scientist, and dead. In a new body that she didn’t ask for and with a renewed sense of purpose, Ivy leaves Gotham and sets out to complete her greatest work-a gift to the world that will heal the damage dealt to it…by ending humanity. Spinning out of the pages of Batman, DC is proud to present the unbelievable next chapter in Poison Ivy’s life by the incredib...
NRC Episode Forty-Two: Black Adam Trailer Released, Joker: Folie à Deux Announced; Apple WWDC22
June 10, 2022 12:00 - 35 minutes - 28.7 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the forty-second, Black Adam has an official trailer released featuring The Rock ragdoll throwing some poor sap. Dan Slott is set to leave Fantastic Four after 46-Issues. At the same time, Unionization continues growing across the gaming industry, with QA Workers for the next Dragon Age unanimously voting to unionize. As that goes on, Fortnite threatens the stability of the cosmetic skins with the testing of a first-person mod...
Dark Crisis #1 | Dark Crisis | NRC Reviews
June 07, 2022 16:48 - 31 minutes - 25.5 MBNRC Reviews the first issue of DC Comics’ Summer Blockbuster Event, Dark Crisis! Written by: Joshua Williamson Art by: Daniel Sampere Colored by: Alejandro Sánchez Associate Editor: Chris Rosa Editor: Paul Kaminski Editor-in-Chief: Marie Javins CHAPTER ONE: THE JUSTICE LEAGUE IS DEAD Crisis on Infinite Earths. Infinite Crisis. Final Crisis. And now...Dark Crisis! The epic event years in the making is finally here! Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the rest of the Justice League are...
NRC Episode Forty-One: Star Wars Celebration, Marvel MMO Cancelled; Playstation Studios Expanding
June 04, 2022 19:26 - 41 minutes - 33.2 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the forty-first episode, Star Wars Celebration has come and gone, and with it, a slew of trailers, announcements, and interviews about upcoming projects such as Star Wars: The High Republic, The Acolyte, Andor, Tales of The Jedi, Ahsoka, Jedi: Survivor, and The Mandalorian! A Marvel MMO gets scrapped six months after the announcement as CDPR has inadvertently leaked essential details about their first big CyberPunk 2077 Expans...
Justice League: Road To Dark Crisis #1 | Dark Crisis | NRC Reviews
June 02, 2022 04:47 - 32 minutes - 25.8 MBNRC Reviews Justice League: Road To Dark Crisis #1! The Justice League has tragically fallen in battle, and now we see the aftermath. How does the world react to the Justice League being gone? Which heroes rise up…and which villains try to take advantage? And what dark forces are lying in wait to attack? An all-star roster of DC talent showcases a world without a Justice League and sets the stage for next month’s Dark Crisis event! Background music: “White Atlantis” by Sergey Cheremisinov. Us...
NRC Episode Forty: Top Gun: Maverick, The Witcher 4 Pre-Production Starts; EveryDayFan-NRC Team up!
May 29, 2022 18:51 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBThe Next phase of Neo-Reality Collective begins here! Episode Forty arrives as Eric Brown welcomes The EverdayFan owner to a one-on-one interview and discloses some big news! Meanwhile The Director of Top Gun: Maverick reveals a scene that only could be shot once since it destroyed the set, The Witcher 4 enters Pre-Production as I, Inquisitor is announced for next-gen consoles. Mission Impossible's Part One of Two – Dead Reckoning and Thor: Love and Thunder get new trailers released! The Mod...
NRC Episode Thirty-Nine: Star Wars' Persistent Storytelling, New Daredevil Series; The Tenth Doctor!
May 23, 2022 06:36 - 40 minutes - 32.7 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the thirty-ninth episode, we cover Star Wars talk regarding their talk of Persistent Storytelling and abandonment of trilogies. Charlie Cox, after having returned as the Lawyer Matt Murdock in NO WAY HOME, is set to return as The Man Without Fear, Daredevil, on Disney+ with suggestions that it will continue the Netflix series, as that company is set to explore Live Streaming content in the wake of their crash while original co...
Immortal X-Men #2 | Destiny of X | NRC Reviews
May 18, 2022 17:45 - 23 minutes - 18.7 MBHERE COMES THE HARVEST The island-nation of Krakoa was founded under the idea of mutant sovereignty and is governed by the collective known as The Quiet Council. The departure of Magneto has left a seat open and many mutants, including Selene Gallio, have been vying for the spot. However, her campaign for the position was unsuccessful as Hope Summers put forward her own name for candidacy. A poor winner and an even worse loser. Selene has made her displeasure at this decision well-known…Mea...
NRC Episode Thirty-Eight: Elon Musk's Twitter Buy On Hold, Starfield/Redfall Delayed; WES Wrestling!
May 16, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes - 24.7 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the thirty-eighth episode, The formerly known Authors of Pain and Paul Ellering reunite with a newly form promotion now dubbed Wrestling Entertainment Series! Elon Musk’s quest to buy Twitter takes a setback with a delay. Gotham Knights’ release on Xbox and PS4 is no more, as the title is now set for only New-Gen Consoles. Starfield and Redfall faces delay to 2023 much to the chagrin of the community, Disney fights the governme...
FCBD 2022: Avengers/X-Men #1 | AXE: Judgement Day | NRC Reviews
May 12, 2022 18:17 - 17 minutes - 14.3 MBAXE: Judgement Day: OF DEVIATION AND MUTATION Featuring stories by an all-star lineup of creators including writers Kieron Gillen and Gerry Duggan and artist Dustin Weaver, FREE COMIC BOOK DAY: AVENGERS/X-MEN #1 will lay the groundwork for an event that will erupt across the Marvel Universe in 2022 and drastically alter the relationship between Earth's Mightiest Heroes and mutantkind. X-MEN: LET'S TALK ABOUT KRAKOA. The island-nation of Krakoa was founded under the idea of mutant sovereig...
Dark Crisis #0 | Road To Dark Crisis | DC Comics | NRC Reviews
May 08, 2022 02:15 - 16 minutes - 13 MBWriter | Joshua Williamson Artist | Jim Cheung WHO ARE THE JUSTICE LEAGUE? Witness the rise and fall of the Justice League! The event years in the making is here with Dark Crisis. The Justice League is comics’ greatest super-team—made up of DC Comics’ legendary Super Heroes, they have saved the world countless times. No crisis was too much for them to handle…until now! The Justice League has been defeated by the Great Darkness and its army of DC’s most dangerous villains—now a new generat...
NRC Episode Thirty-Seven: May The 4th, AEW: Fight Forever; Crystal Dynamics Sold Off
May 06, 2022 17:35 - 22 minutes - 17.7 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the thirty-seventh edition, May the 4th be with you has come and gone and with it comes the fabled Obi-Wan Kenobi limited series official trailer! AEW faces some hurdles with Yuke’s regarding the development of the upcoming newly revealed title AEW: Fight Forever video game, now also coming to PCs, while DCEU’s Amanda Waller looks to be getting her own spinoff series on HBO MAX! Fast X gets a new director while new details emer...
NRC Episode Thirty-Six: Neal Adams Passes Away, Final Fantasy 16; Jon Watts departs Fantastic Four
April 30, 2022 12:00 - 41 minutes - 33.3 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the thirty-sixth edition, Neal Adams, Comic Writer, and Fighter for Creators' rights has passed at the age of eighty. The Arrowverse continues to dismantle as Batwoman and Legends of Tomorrow are cancelled after Seasons Three, and Seven respectively. The Marvels and Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania switches releases dats while Jon Watts, director of The MCU Spider-Man Trilogy, is no longer set to direct MCU's Fantastic Four, ...
NRC Episode Thirty-Five: Ten More Years for The MCU, Tales of The Jedi; The Batman 2 Announced!
April 28, 2022 10:00 - 54 minutes - 43.7 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the thirty-fifth edition, CinemaCon is raging as new details emerge such as The MCU, The Flash, Avatar 2 by James Cameron, The Batman Sequel announcement, The Spider-Verse series, a new Spider-Man Spinoff Film, and Venom and Ghostbuster announcements and among others! While that goes on, Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi Director shares insight regarding the reported scrapping of Darth Maul and my opinion on another report regarding th...
Justice League Vol. 4. #75 | Road To Dark Crisis | DC Comics | NRC Reviews
April 26, 2022 14:27 - 29 minutes - 24 MBNRC Reviews Justice League Vol. 4. #75: Death of The Justice League Written by: Joshua Williamson | Art by: Rafa Sandoval THE ROAD TO DARK CRISIS BEGINS Finale Oversize special issue! Superstar writer Joshua Williamson pens the beginning of the next big DCU event! It all starts here! A new Dark Army made up of the DCU’s greatest villains has formed on the edges of the Multiverse! The DCU’s best and most powerful heroes are pulled together in an epic war to push the darkness back! But in...
NRC Episode Thirty-Four: Thor: Love and Thunder, Netflix Begins Crackdown; Fast X Announced!
April 25, 2022 17:25 - 45 minutes - 42 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the thirty-fourth episode of NRC, Thor: Love and Thunder is officially announced with a new trailer and story synopsis featuring the Goddess of Thunder, The Mighty Thor of Jane Foster! Fast and Furious' tenth movie is made official as FAST X, part one of two of the epic finale of the F&F Mythology! (Wait, MYTHOLOGY!?!) WWE loses control with Alexa Bliss becoming frustrated and KUSHIDA departing the company with the expectation...
Matt Reeves' The Batman | NRC Reviews
April 23, 2022 22:13 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MBNeo-Reality Collective Reviews The Batman by Matt Reeves! The Batman is a 2022 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman. Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Films, 6th & Idaho, and Dylan Clark Productions, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is a reboot of the Batman film franchise. The film was directed by Matt Reeves, who wrote the screenplay with Peter Craig. It stars Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne / Batman alongside Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wrig...
Matt Reeves’ The Batman | NRC Reviews
April 23, 2022 22:13 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBNeo-Reality Collective Reviews The Batman by Matt Reeves! The Batman is a 2022 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman. Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Films, 6th & Idaho, and Dylan Clark Productions, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is a reboot of the Batman film franchise. The film was directed by Matt Reeves, who wrote the screenplay with Peter Craig. It stars Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne / Batman alongside Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wrig...
NRC Episode Thirty-Three: The Batman on HBO MAX, Dreamer arrives to the DCU; Elon Musk vs. Twitter
April 18, 2022 10:00 - 37 minutes - 29.8 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In Today's episode, Supergirl's Dreamer makes her debut in Superman: Son of Kal-El and greater DCU as The Batman arrives at HBO MAX! Elon Musk attempts to purchase Twitter for 43 Billion Dollars only for the company to pull a 'Poison Pill' on the situation. Cyberpunk 2077, still a long way to finish up, announces Expansion Packs for 2023 as Tetsuya Nomura talks Kingdom Hearts 4 'Real-World but an Afterworld maybe Underworld' Quad...
NRC Episode Thirty-Two: Kingdom Hearts 4, Ezra Miller's DCEU Future In Doubt; Tony Khan vs. Bots
April 12, 2022 18:16 - 49 minutes - 39.7 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the thirty-second episode, Will Smith, Ezra Miller, and Tony Khan all have been causing whirlwinds of messes for their careers and companies while on the twentieth anniversary of Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts IV is made official with no planned release date or platform. Oh, dear. Meanwhile, AEW expands into Japan thanks to its partnership with NJPW and its streaming platform, Kieron Gillen, writer of Immortal X-Men, Eternals, ...
NRC Episode Thirty-One: Will Smith Resigns from The Academy, Bruce Willis; Xbox Expansion Concerns
April 06, 2022 15:16 - 38 minutes - 31.2 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In Today's episode, Will Smith resigns from The Academy following the fallout of Chris Rock being slapped and investigations beginning against him. Wrestling promotions are offering Mike Tenay a spot-on commentary but The Professor declines them all, enjoying the retired life, WWE's Nick Khan announces the painfully obvious correcting of wrongdoing regarding the Third Parties and their INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS' restriction from the...
Immortal X-Men #1 | Destiny of X | NRC Reviews
March 30, 2022 18:23 - 39 minutes - 31.6 MBTHE LEFT HAND IN THE QUIET COUNCIL, NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM! The Quiet Council rules the Krakoan age, for better... or worse. Now, shaken by INFERNO and X LIVES / X DEATHS OF WOLVERINE they strive to hold together, no matter how much they want to tear each other apart. Writer Kieron Gillen (UNCANNY X-MEN, ETERNALS, The Wicked + The Divine, Die) returns to the world of X with artist Lucas Werneck (TRIAL OF MAGNETO) to bring us all into the room where it happens. “It” being “the most power...
NRC Episode Thirty: Immortal X-Men Talk, Triple H Retires from Wrestling, and The Batman's Joker!
March 29, 2022 15:29 - 38 minutes - 30.9 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In our next milestone as episode 30 launches, we return to pop-culture with three main topics, the upcoming Kieron Gillien/Lucas Wreneck's Immortal X-Men, focusing on Krakoa's Quiet Council and all their dark secrets. Triple H, on First Take on ESPN, announces his in-ring retirement following his cardic event and we end with discussing The Batman's Joker from a viral deleted scene that was released by WarnerBros! 🎵 Music by LAKEY ...
NRC Episode Twenty-Nine: DC Comics' Dark Crisis Event!
February 13, 2022 05:05 - 35 minutes - 28.8 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the twenty-ninth episode of NRC, DC Comics has announced their summer monthly event and it goes by the name Dark Crisis. From creators Josh Williamson and Daniel Sampere, the seven-issue event kicks off in June in comic book shops. Joining them is Alejandro Sánchez on colors and letters by Tom Napolitano for an event that’s not only an epic battle of good versus evil but is about showing how heroes relate to each other when fa...
NRC Episode Twenty-Eight: Xbox and Sony Make Major Purchases! Marvel's Judgement Day and GTA 6!
February 05, 2022 22:54 - 35 minutes - 28.6 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the twenty-eight episode of NRC, we discuss Xbox and Sony's major moves in the gaming industry in their respective purchases of Activison-Blizzard, and Bungie, along with discussing the potential impact and concerns and FTC's involvement in the Xbox-ABK Merger while hoping Bobby Kotick is removed from power as reported by WSJ! Is a Gaming Arms Race on the horizon between Sony and Microsoft, is EA, Capcom, and Square Enix now o...
X Deaths of Wolverine #1 | Destiny of X | NRC Reviews
January 28, 2022 20:12 - 20 minutes - 16.4 MBNRC Host Eric Brown reviews X Deaths of Wolverine #1! Writer: Benjamin Percy | Inker: Federico Vicentini | Penciler: Federico Vicentini | Editor: Mark Basso DEATH IS NOT THE END. DEATH IS THE OMEGA. WEEK 2—If WOLVERINE’s future lies in the past, what does that mean for the present? The reciprocal series to X LIVES OF WOLVERINE, X DEATHS OF WOLVERINE is can’t-miss reading, chock-full of revelations for the best there is as well as the fate of mutantkind! TIME TO DIE In pursuit of a better...
X Lives of Wolverine #1 | Destiny of X | NRC Reviews
January 27, 2022 18:16 - 22 minutes - 17.7 MBNRC Host Eric Brown reviews X Lives of Wolverine #1! Writer: Benjamin Percy | Inker: Joshua Cassara | Colorist: Frank Martin | Letterer: Vc Cory Petit | Editor: Mark Basso | Penciler: Joshua Cassara TIME TO LIVE Wolverine has gone by many different names and lived many different lives in the course of his long existence. Armed with a mutant healing ability and a set of retractable claws, he's the best there is at what he does, and what he does isn't very nice. But he'll do whatever it tak...
Devil's Reign: X-Men #1 | Destiny of X | NRC Reviews
January 24, 2022 00:46 - 23 minutes - 18.9 MBNRC Reviews Devil's Reign: X-Men #1 by Gerry Duggan and Phil Noto Secrets of The Past No outlaw has evaded justice more than WILSON FISK, formerly the kingpin of a vast criminal empire, and now the duly elected mayor of New York. Fisk failed to wash his hands of his old life and has set his ire upon the city and every costume vigilante in it -- including the newly elected X-Men, who have just publically lost their leader, Cyclops, while responding to a rampage in Manhattan. Needing to pro...
Inferno #4 | Reign of X| NRC Reviews
January 10, 2022 02:38 - 46 minutes - 43 MBNRC Reviews INFERNO #4 by Jonathan Hickman, Valerio Schiti, and Stefano Caselli! The Finale of Hickman's X-Men Burns Away! INFERNO #4 Writer: Jonathan Hickman Inker: Adriano DI Benedetto, Stefano Caselli Valerio Schiti, and R.B. Silva Colorist: David Curiel Editor: Jordan D. White Penciler: Valerio Schiti, and Stefano Caselli TO EMBERS! Jonathan Hickman’s time on X-Men ends with the dramatic conclusion of one of the first and best mysteries he brought to the line. Valerio Schiti retu...
Inferno #4 | Reign of X | NRC Reviews
January 10, 2022 02:38 - 45 minutes - 36.7 MBNRC Reviews INFERNO #4 by Jonathan Hickman, Valerio Schiti, and Stefano Caselli! The Finale of Hickman's X-Men Burns Away! INFERNO #4 Writer: Jonathan Hickman Inker: Adriano DI Benedetto, Stefano Caselli Valerio Schiti, and R.B. Silva Colorist: David Curiel Editor: Jordan D. White Penciler: Valerio Schiti, and Stefano Caselli TO EMBERS! Jonathan Hickman’s time on X-Men ends with the dramatic conclusion of one of the first and best mysteries he brought to the line. Valerio Schiti retu...
Detective Comics #1047 | Shadows of The Bat | DC Comics | NRC Reviews
January 04, 2022 20:49 - 20 minutes - 16.5 MBNRC Reviews Detective Comics #1047 by Mariko Tamaki and Ivan Reis THE TOWER, PART ONE “The Tower” begins! The 12-part weekly Detective Comics event starts here. Arkham Asylum has fallen, and in its place, Arkham Tower has risen in the heart of the city, a pitch made by the mysterious Dr. Wear. Unlike the Asylum, Dr. Wear promises his methods and drug treatments will heal Gotham’s criminally inclined for good—a claim that skeptics like Deb Donovan and the Bat-Family don’t believe. There’s s...
The Book of Boba Fett: Chapter One: Stranger in a Strange Land | Star Wars | NRC Reviews
December 29, 2021 17:43 - 36 minutes - 29.6 MBNRC Reviews The Book of Boba Fett Chapter One: Stranger in a Strange Land! Boba Fett and Fennec Shand attempt to make a name for themselves in the galaxy's underworld by taking over the territory once controlled by Jabba the Hutt. Boba Fett Holds Court. The Book of Boba Fett is an American television series created for the streaming service Disney+. It is part of the Star Wars franchise, a spin-off from the series The Mandalorian featuring the bounty hunter Boba Fett from that series and ...
X-Men: The Trial Of Magneto #5 | Reign of X | NRC Reviews
December 27, 2021 19:04 - 25 minutes - 20.5 MBTO CATCH A TOAD JUSTICE IS SERVED. The mystery surrounding Magneto and Scarlet Witch is resolved. The guilty will be judged, the innocent absolved, the victims avenged...and all shall endure their own trials. ALL CARDS ON THE TABLE The Scarlet Witch has been killed -- or has she? Confusion descended among the X-Men and Avengers, who had arrived on Krakoa to recover their fallen comrade and loved one, when the Scarlet Witch suddenly appeared seemingly alive and well. Before the X-Men or ...
NRC Episode Twenty-Seven: Del Toro's Pacific Rim 2, Halo Silver, #BlackOutStarWarsEclipse Trends
December 19, 2021 04:55 - 43 minutes - 34.9 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the twenty-seventh episode of NRC, we discuss Del Toro's original plans for Pacific Rim as The Book of Boba Fett was revealed to have shocked the corporate Mongolian empire known as Disney while Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red settles with their unhappy investors. Details emerge of Kevin Owens' contract with emphasis on how he doesn't have a no-cut clause! Dan Slott is set to write three Doctor Who comics in 2022 as mo...
NRC Episode Twenty-Six: Henry Cavill Talk, Trial of The Amazons Set for March! Kevin Owens Re-Signs!
December 16, 2021 05:50 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBNeo-Reality Collective | Pop-Culture News Talk hosted by Eric! In the twenty-sixth episode of NRC, we're discussing Henry Cavill and his video games as he talked about starring in The Witcher and wanting to join the potential Amazon Mass Effect Series and hopeful Warhammer Series in his future. DC and Marvel Comics announce their next slate of titles along with DC's next big Wonder Woman Crossover event Trial of The Amazons set for March 1st, 2022! EC3's Control Your Narrative expands with t...
Inferno #3 | Reign of X | NRC Reviews
December 13, 2021 00:48 - 35 minutes - 28.5 MBNRC Reviews INFERNO #3 by Jonathan Hickman, Valerio Schiti, R.B. Silva, and Stefano Caselli! INFERNO #3 Writer: Jonathan Hickman Inker: Adriano DI Benedetto, Stefano Caselli Valerio Schiti, and R.B. Silva Colorist: David Curiel Editor: Jordan D. White Penciler: Valerio Schiti, R.B. Silva, Stefano Caselli NIMROD STRIKES! Krakoa's troubles don't attack one at a time. Jonathan Hickman reunites with his POWERS OF X collaborator R.B. Silva for the penultimate chapter of his X-Swan Song. ...