Zero Dark Nerdy: Multicultural Pop Culture Fanatics Just Trying To Provide Some Laughs In This Crazy World Of Ours

BRIAN A.K.A. EL NINO

Johnson City, NY

Nationality: 100% Puerto Rican. Wepa!!!!!!!!!

Superpowers: Uncanny Ability to Black Out on Uber Rides Home and a Incredible Amount of Useless Knowledge

Superpowers I Wish I Had: Time Travel and the Ability to Cook Something Besides Pasta

Superhero Wives: Storm & Scarlet Witch

Favorite Movies: Big, Snatch & Natural Born Killers

Favorite Cartoons: Thundercats, He-Man, Transformers, Duck Tales

Favorite Comic/GN/Book: The Walking Dead

Favorite Shows: Parks & Rec, New Girl, Happy Endings, Breaking Bad, The Office, Entourage, Sopranos, Golden Girls

Specialties: Cinematic Adventures, Old School Hip Hop Lover, Vinyl/CD/DVD Collector, Funko Pops, Arcade Games, ComicCon’s, Concerts, and Livin the Dream

RYAN SABA A.K.A. CAPTAIN CLEVELAND

Cleveland, OH

Nationality: I’m half whatever your mom likes (just the good half)

Superpower: Sarcasm, Ambition, and Charisma

Superpower I Wish I Had: Patience and Tact

Superhero Wife: Black Widow or Rogue

Favorite Movie: The Godfather

Favorite Cartoon: Thundercats & DBZ

Favorite Comic/GN/Book: Anything with Wolverine

Favorite Show: The Wire

Specialties: Product of Hip Hop Culture, Sneaker Head, Movie Critic, Binge Watching Expert, Sports Aficionado, Video Game Enthusiast and Dog Lover.

MATTHEW A.K.A. MATEO

Brooklyn, NY

Nationality: Nuyorican

Superpower: I tend to speak in relevant rap lyric or movie quote. I Transform transformers out of the box without instructions. I spit Wit Darts with Hawkeye precision. I have many leather bound books. Oh, and apparently I’m indestructible (#axeaboutme)

Superpower I Wish I Had: I wish for more wishes. And teleportation

Superhero Wife: Diana Prince. Or Big Barda. Or Mad Harriet. Or the girl who just did the White House Correspondents Dinner (#notallheroeswearcapes)

Favorite Movie: A Bronx Tale

Favorite Cartoon: Thundercats, OG Scooby Doo, Regular Show, The Oblongs, Big Mouth, G1 Transformers, Futurama

Favorite Comic/GN/Book: The Killing Joke, The Alchemist

Favorite Show: Chappelle Show, Breaking Bad, Golden Girls, Three’s Company, Parks & Recreation, Black Mirror. Currently – Westworld.

Specialties: Hip Hop Purest, Rare Vinyl Enthusiast, Transformers Nerd

JERRY A.KA. J.DON

Eden, NC

Nationality: Pasty Anglo and or Saxon

Superpower: Ability to ignore nearly anything

Superpower I Wish I Had: Kilgrave mind powers (not to rob or rape, but to make old racist mow Black families yards and shit)

Superhero Wife: Barda (Gorgeous warrior to keep me safe while I do my magic act)

Favorite Movie: The Big Lebowski

Favorite Cartoon: Now: Rick & Morty Past: DBZ

Favorite Comic/GN/Book: Spiderman: Kraven’s Last Hunt

Specialties: Comics and Collectables (I’m the guy looking through every comic box at the flea market)

Jordan A.K.A Knivessss

Greensboro, NC

Nationality: Puerto Rican Vanilla Blend

Superpower: Overthinking so much that I know every possible outcome of any given situation, Being a triple earth sign, Telepathy

Superpower I wish I had: Time Travel, Teleportation, and the ability to Workout by Eating loads of Chinese food

Superhero Wife: Storm and She-Hulk

Favorite Movies: Juno, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Hereditary

Favorite Cartoons: Adventure Time, Bobs Burgers, Daria

Favorite Comic Book: X-Men/Wolverine

Favorite Shows: New Girl, Killing Eve (not szn 4), Parks and Rec, Broad City, Fleabag, GBBS

Specialties: DVD/Comics/Funko Collector, Video Games, Books, Having 36 Genres in my Spotify Liked Songs, Thrifting, Writing, Being Nostalgic Over Everything

JORDAN A.K.A. DOO DOO BROWN

Niceville, FL

Nationality: Halfsies

Superpower: Speaking my mind 24-7 365

Superpower I Wish I Had: Ability to Slam Dunk a Basketball on a Regulation Hoop

Superhero Wife: Mystique

Favorite Movie: Blade (I bring it up almost every podcast), Hereditary, Pulp Fiction

Favorite Cartoon: Attack on Titan, Fullmetal Alchemist, Pokemon

Favorite Comic/GN/Book(s): Venom: Lethal Protector & Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe

Specialties: Video Games, Horror Movies, Sassy Pants, Lying, and Negative Responses to Positive Movies

Rhiona Sullivan A.K.A. Rhi Rhi

San Diego, CA

Nationality: White… borderline translucent

Superpower: Detecting red flags and completely ignoring them

Superpower I wish I had: Invisibility

Superhero Husband(s): Thor, Ant Man

Favorite Movies: Boondock Saints, Serendipity, Primal Fear

Favorite Cartoons: Garfield & Friends

Favorite Comic/GN/Book: Anything in the historical fiction genre

Favorite Shows: Ted Lasso, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Cougartown, New Girl, Friends

Specialties: Writing letters I never send, creating online shopping carts I never purchase and drinking wine

TIM A.K.A. THE NOT SO MACHO MAN

Goldsboro, NC

Nationality: Casper White lol

Superpower: Guessing Final Jeopardy based only on category

Superpower I Wish I Had: Ability to duplicate myself or teleportation

Superhero Wife: My wife in real life Lauren

Favorite Movie: Billy Madison, Forrest Gump, and all the MCU Films

Favorite Cartoon: Animaniacs, Rick & Morty, The Simpson's, King of the Hill

Favorite Comic/GN/Book(s): Matt Fraction's Hawkeye, Ready Player One

Specialties: Comics, Movies, Video Games, Non-Hip Hop Music, Useless Trivia

Kyle A.K.A. California Kyle

San Diego, CA

Nationality: Casper

Superpower: No end to natural energy. I have the ability to over analyze things to the point where it’s annoying. I also have the ability to understand other people's opinions without freaking out or taking it the wrong way if it doesn’t coincide with my beliefs

Superpower I wish I had: Flight and always the right opinion

Superhero Wife: No comment…my real wife may see this……………

Favorite Movies: Tommy Boy, The Man From Nowhere, The Raid 1-2, Whiplash, and SOOOO MANY MORE…

Favorite Cartoons: Futurama!!!! American Dad, Re:Zero, Kengan Ashura, DBZ, (Saturday morning old school cartoons obviously), Rick and Morty, Arcane, Invincible, Classic Spiderman, and Batman from the 90’s too!

Favorite Comics/GN/Books: The Watchmen, Fear Agent, East of West, Manhattan Project, The Walking Dead, Powers, Deadly Class, Nailbitter, Incorruptible/Irredeemable, Invincible, The Boys, and way too many more to name…

Favorite Shows: Futurama, Firefly, Rick and Morty, Dark Matter (I know they didn’t finish but they should have…), Into The Badlands, Solar Opposites, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Daredevil, Last Week Tonight, and many many more.

Specialties: Comics, movies in general, and going down rabbit holes I shouldn’t for no reason