Crew

PigMonkey has searched the world over for the perfect job to fit his personality. He eventually settled on Smart Ass. The major problem he found with this title was that most people did not want to pay him to be a Smart Ass. In fact, he quickly realized the world was actually very much opposed to his life plan. Gainful employment in the field proved to be elusive. Rather than give up on his chosen calling, he resolved to find a way to make it work. Thus Geeksploitation was formed. PigMonkey is an amateur cartoonist, humorist, comedian, musician, and human being. He currently spends half of his time living in Halifax, Nova Scotia and the rest of the time in a magical world of his own creation.

Jay Aaron Roy is a director who hails from Halifax. Originally from Fall River, Nova Scotia, he spent his formative years playing outside and being a big nerd. He grew up playing Indiana Jones on the Atari 2600, and Super Mario Land for the GameBoy. In later years he also got a fancy honors degree from Dalhousie University in theatre studies, focusing on directing and play writing. A lover of humor and a performer of stand-up comedy, Jay loves being part of the GvN team where both his passions for geekery and laughter are combined in a giant Megazord of an awesome show where like-minded people gather and make him feel at home. If he could meet anyone alive today, he would instantly pick Hayao Miyazaki.

John Roy, the man with two first names, originally sparked his interest for managing live entertainment whilst living in London, England for 5 years. He helped to promote and manage many UK acts such as: Fruit Machine Blues, Karma Clay, Nathan Persad, FoxFest, and Kooba Radio. A founding member of Geeksploitation Entertainment & residing in Halifax, Nova Scotia... John Roy makes sure the geek-ball keeps rolling.

Ashley brings his experience of video production and marketing to the team. Thursday night treats as a young lad combined teatime spaghetti covered in ketchup and Star Trek. Transitioning this electric comedy-debate show from an audio podcast onto video is a dream come true.

Matt is the cyborg addition to the team - he always has some sort of electronics on him at all time. He has a passion for all things tech - from stage lighting and sound, to recording, to web development, technology gives him goosebumps of joy. Matt is a student in the Computer Science Faculty at Dalhousie University. Matt met the Geeks versus Nerds folks when they started at the Grawood, and has been hooked ever since.

Our only foreign crew member, we knew Kimberly was perfect for our crew when she proved to be completely insane. Although she's a Canadian at heart, she did have the unfortunate luck of being born south of the border, so she spends her time in Nashville, Tennessee, as a freelance graphic designer. She also plots ways to take over the world, or move to Canada. One of those. Her geek knowledge finds remarkably specific pockets, such as Firefly, Riddick, or Conan the Barbarian in books. She excels at knowing the one bit of trivia no one else knew, but not knowing she knows it. Plus, we like her because she thinks we're cool.

Drawn into the world of geekdom at a young age by her sister (Sarah Jane "Danger" Blenkhorn) Christina hovered on the sidelines, cheering mightily as Boba took on Batman, Iron Man faced off against Optimus Prime and Chewbacca and Worf demonstrated how to enforce order on a star ship. She took to the stage to defend the Roadrunner against the young upstart Sonic. She's only seen 3 Star Trek movies and wishes that she'd only seen 3 Star Wars movies, (but giggles madly if she catches the final fight scene in Revenge of the Sith) she's waiting for a chance to redeem H.P. Lovecraft. Cthuhlu Fthagn. "Shut up and give me your money!"

André Myette is a graphic designer and independant artist & writer. He self publishes his own steampunk comic book 'Humbug!' and manages his personal website www.andremyette.ca.

Being a long time film and stage actor as well as a professional wrestler André loves to entertain in any way possible. An avid lover of comics and film, he has a DVD collection that rivals most video stores and a comic book collection that would put most nerds to shame. André also hosts his own podcast affectionately called 'The Endless Podcast' which can be listened to on his website where he and fellow geeks talk about all things nerd and carry on the spirit of geeks vs nerds in a broader format. His highlights so far include meeting Stan Lee, Sergio Aragones, Stan Sakai, Gail Simone, Jeremy Bulloch & Neal Adams all in one day.

Y'all can try to be the King but the Ace is back.

Larry Gent is a Dr. Dre quoting man of math and numbers. He likes some number (42) and loathes others (26), then there are the numbers he really likes...I mean LIKES, LIKES (3.14159 26535 89793).

This author and drinker (they always seem to go hand in hand) can name every battle, every soldier and every war....for numerous fictional universes. He is a member of the Kirkman army (the non-zombie divisions), the Brian K. Vaughn brigade, the N7 Spectres, TARDIS repair-men (it's like a VCR repair man you just see the ending of the movie first) all while trying to get a passport for Faerun and re-negotiating with George Lucas to get use of the soul he sold him many years back (or at least the merchandising rights).

Larry is often seen at the government offices fighting for his back-pay for his years as Batman. This writer/drinker, who holds the GVN record for longest undefeated streak, can be seen on stage, sometimes with clothes on, and at his review site 42webs.com.

This Acadian-Quebecian half-breed began her geek foray at a young age with old Spiderman comics and French reruns of Astroboy. From then on she went through school basing every project, from art to English, on geek topics, a trend that reached its apex in university where she wrote a 10 page essay on Battle Royale. Now a MSVU graduate with a Bachelor's degree in advance English (which gives her a license to say THEE and THOU in everyday speech) she work for the government doing shadowy clerical stuff, like filing explosive pen requisition forms and making killer spread-sheets. She is married to the Man in the Hat, Larry Gent, which as far as she concerned keeping him from hurting himself is her true full time job since he believes himself to be Batman (she's had way too many homemade bat-arang incidents).