Alpha Geek Interviews

Todd spends an hour wiith The Doubleclicks. The Doubleclicks are a pair of sisters Angela and Aubrey Webber who sing about Dungeons & Dragons, dinosaurs, and Mr. Darcy. They play cello and ukulele. They have been called snarky, geeky, and sweet. Their latest album, Lasers & Feelings, includes songs about Mars Curiosity, meeting people on the Twitter, and Geek Girl pride, and debuted in the top 10 on the Billboard comedy charts. Their single for that album, a geek girl anthem called Nothing to Prove has been viewed over 1 million times on YouTube. The Doubleclicks tour the country regularly, playing at game stores, comic shops, and conventions, and have shared bills with nerd and comedy superstars including Jonathan Coulton, Paul and Storm and Wil Wheaton.

Todd talks to author John Scalzi while attending Phoenix Comicon 2013.

Todd and Rebecca speak to author Jim Butcher about his work, including the recently released Cold Days - a Dresden Files novel.

Iolite talks to actor Mark Meer about his role as the voice of male Shepard in the Mass Effect games, and his starring role in the Mass Effect fan film, Red Sand.

Todd talks with the creator of the Something Positive webcomic (http://www.somethingpositive.net). R.K. Milholland is probably napping right now. Sometimes, at night, he dons little shoes with curled toes and a little hat and secretly aids overworked cobblers. Then he uses their stores to launder money. He also grew up in a little patch of suburban sprawl between Dallas and Ft. Worth, Texas. Under a full moon he sometimes transforms into a meerkat.

Todd talks with the creators of Looking for Group (http://www.lfgcomic.com) and Least I Could Do (http://www.licd.com), Ryan Sohmer and Lar DeSouza. Looking for Group is a fantasy-themed Canadian webcomic written by Ryan Sohmer and drawn by Lar DeSouza. The Comic follows the adventures of Cale'Anon and Richard, as well as their companions. Since its launch on November 26, 2006, it has received positive attention from the webcomics community at large.

Todd talks with the creator of the Girls With Slingshots webcomic (http://www.girlswithslingshots.com). Danielle Corsetto created her first comic strip when she was 8 years old, starting with a blatant rip-off of Garfield called Fat Cat. She started writing Hazelnuts in high school, the precursor to Girls With Slingshots (unbeknownst to her at the time), and ran a comic about super-slacker college kids called Ramblers in the student paper at Shepherd College (as well as popimage.com). In October of 2004, she began Girls With Slingshots, and a couple of years later she was doing the strip full-time. It's now updated 5 times a week at some god-awful hour. In addition to GWS, Danielle wrote and drew The New Adventures of Bat Boy for the Weekly World News, taking the reins from Bat Boy's kind & talented former creator Peter Bagge. Danielle lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia in a 230-year-old house with her two cats, Smudge and Ellie (aka Fluffy and Sprinkles) and her 9-year-old goldfish Goldie. She loves sipping tea, going for hikes, and eating local foods, because she is a filthy filthy hippie.

Todd talks with the creators of the Trigger Men comic, from Tryptich Books (http://www.triptychbooks.com). Trigger Men is a dark comedy that follows the lives of two hitmen, Matt Whit and Jason McCarty as they navigate the absurd world of contract killing.

Todd Whitehead and Darrell Skeels discuss Trek Fandom in the 21st century. Darrell: "I became a Trek nerd way back in 1969 during the original run of Star Trek on NBC. I still have the images in my head of diamond-shaped spaceships spinning a web around the Enterprise. That was my first exposure to Star Trek, The Tholian Web: 11/15/1968. I was only 6 years old, but my life was set on a fantastic course that influences my life even to this day."

Todd Whitehead and Tom Merritt discuss Tom's time in Internet Broadcasting, and the new Geeks & Sundry YouTube project.