WE'RE BACK! Sorry for the late posting, but we figured that since you already had to wait on us for ten weeks, what's a few more hours, right? Show Notes: Luke Cage Official Trailer at YouTube.com. Wonder Woman Comic-Con Trailer at YouTube.com. Justice League Official Comic-Con Trailer at YouTube.com....
Stephen, Adam & Rob grab their copies of the Feminine Mystique to critique the second part of Brian Bendis & Alex Maleev's Daredevil run, and then they burn the midnight oil with incoming Batman writer Tom King as they discuss his plans for the Caped Crusader, his time in the CIA and how it influenced his creator-owned series Sheriff of Babylon, and the origins of his run on Vision in his debut novel A Once Crowded Sky!
Stephen and Adam pay tribute with a final word on their favorite creator that brought them closer together as friends through comics, travel and attitude, Darwyn Cooke. Show Notes: Inside cover doodles of Batman in Batman Ego & Other Stories , The Spirit in volume 1, and Doop in X-Force - Famous, Mutant & Mortal . MegaCon 2008 Green Lantern sketch with detail of the playing card from the New Frontier Casino, reprinted in Retroactive by Brandstudio Press. Issue #6 Page 8 from The Spirit ,...
Stephen, Rob and Adam shake off the post-Free Comic Book Day haze to give the final word on this year's festivities (and a hit towards 2017), provide their spoiler-filled review of Captain America: Civil War, and express their amazement at the poignancy of the first volume of Brian Bendis & Alex Maleev's Daredevil, even 14 years later!
Stephen, Rob and Adam surprise even themselves with their enthusiasm as they dig into the first six issues of Stan Lee & Jack Kirby's original Fantastic Four, featuring the first appearance of the FF (obvs.), the Mole Man, the Skrulls, Miracle Man (?) and Doctor Doom and the return of Namor the Sub-Mariner as well as gag ads, in-House of Ideas promotions, the very first Marvel No Prize, socio-political impacts and MORE!
Preacher pt. 6 (of 6) Stephen, Rob and Adam round out their first book club by bringing Preacher to a close, run through the laundry list of "Black"/ sci-fi/ post-apocalyptic/ paranormal/ crime noir announcements from Emerald City Comic Con's Image Expo, and gush over the prolonged Star Wars excited provided by the first Rogue One teaser trailer! Show Notes: " Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Official Teaser Trailer " at You Tube.com. " Harrison Ford Wasn't The Only Person Injured On The Set Of Star...
SPOILERS!!! To borrow a Jermaine-ism, because you demanded it, seriously, like even when we weren't at work people were asking us, it's a no-holds-barred, SPOILER-filled review of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice with Stephen, the film most vocal opponent RIley, and it's most hopeful supporter Pete, plus a rundown of the creative teams, release dates and formats of DC Rebirth titles shipping in June! Show Notes: Batman v. Superman still ranked at 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.com , compared to 99% f...
Preacher pt. 5 (of 6) Stephen, Rob and Adam get you up to speed on the latest comic-related mature readers/ viewers release dates out of SXSW, including Preacher, Outcast, Daredevil and Batman v. Superman, and take a break from their pursuit of the almighty to seek justice, and a brass ring podcast guest, in their own neck of the woods! Show Notes: " Preacher Premiere Date, Trailer, Images, And More " at Den of Geek.us. " Outcast Season 2 Greenlit Ahead of Show's June debut " at Coming Soon.net....
Stephen, Rob and Adam share their local cues, reach their Preacher threshold and tell you which midwestern and deep south states to avoid in the last episode! Show Notes: " Looming End " by Torchrunner on YouTube.com. Torchrunner's March Midwest Tour ! The full original Goosebumps bibliography at Wikipedia.org. The superhero story that Stephen mentioned was, super generically, #25 Attack of the Mutant. The book with the executioner cover that Rob mentions was #27 A Night in Terror Tower . St. Lo...
Stephen and Pete catch you up on the last three days of announcements from the ComicsPRO Annual Membership Meeting, including new titles from Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez and Marvel Star Wars, Image publisher Eric Stephenson's remarks, and MORE!
Stephen and Pete come to you LIVE from the ComicsPRO Annual Membership Meetings with their reactions to the Day One announcements from Dark Horse, DC Collectibles, DC Sales & Marketing and, most importantly, DC Rebirth!
Preacher pt. 3 (of 6) Stephen, Rob and Adam put their reservations about the Deadpool feature film out on front street, bat about their best guesses as to what DC's Rebirth Initiative could be prior to the hopeful reveal at next week's ComicsPRO Annual Membership Meeting, and plot the chronology of Preacher's Ancient History throughout Book Three! Show Notes: " Rebirth - What Is It? Our Three Best Guesses " at News-a-rama.com. " Tuba Ruba " at YouTube.com. - I'm not crazy!...
Preacher pt. 2 (of 6) Stephen, Rob and Adam break the seal on Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens spoilers a month after the release and dig into the unerlying themes of the second book of Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon's Vertigo opus!
Preacher Pt. 1 (of 6) Stephen, Rob and Adam recount their days in short pants, running around the yard arguing over who would be the Red, Black or Blue Power Rangers and those feeling that issue #0 from Boom Studios brought back before going in the complete opposite direction and recalling the way Preacher #1 knocked them straight on their butts! SHOW NOTES: " 'Mighty Morphin Power Rangers': Where are they now? " at Entertianment Weekly.com. " Jason David Frank still calling for UFC's CM Punk: I...
Stephen is joined by new co-hosts Rob and Adam as they go through the best that 2015 had to offer the industries and lay out plans for upcoming, ongoing segments! Show Notes: " Star Wars, Paper Girls, Lumberjanes And Funko Are The Big Winners Of the Diamond Gem Awards 2015 " at Bleeding Cool.com. " Diamond Announces Top Selling Comic Books & Graphic Novels of 2015 " at Diamond Comics.com. " How Matt Pizzolo And Matthew Rosenberg Self-Distributed 'We Can Never Go Home' For Local Comic Shop Da...
To celebrate the show's five year anniversary on Wednesday, Stephen & Carly take time out of their seaside vacation to record the program's first feature-length commentary track, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope! Enjoy!
Jermaine and Stephen greet you this Halloween not with tales of terror and woe, but those of conventions from the past and the not-so-distant future, as Valerie joins them to recount the events of TF Con and the Asheville Comic Expo and NC Comicon Director of Media Brockton McKinney drops by to get you ready for this year's show, taking place November 13th through the 15th, including some EXCLUSIVE NEWS for fans of the Walking Dead and Umbrella Academy! Show Notes: All Levels ($200 VIP, $40 Week...
Acme's resident rednecks Stephen and Riley tear through reviews of Jughead #1, What If? Infinity Inhumans #1, What If? Infinity Thanos #1, Paper Girls #1, Lando #5, Plutona #2, Detective Comics #45, Saints #1, Amazing Spider-man #1, All-New All-Different Marvel Point One #1, Doctor Strange #1, Invincible Iron Man #1, Contest of Champions #1, Siege #4, Secret Wars #6, Batman & Robin Eternal #1 and Axcend #1! Show Notes: Plastic Galaxy: The Story of Star Wars Toys available on Hulu.com. Nailbi...
Jermaine recounts his trip to the Diamond Retailer Summit and Baltimore Comic Con, including being sold out by Mark Waid for "stealing" the dessert of Archie Comics president Mike Pellerito, and then he's joined by Stephen in attempt to prepare you for the monster week of new releases to come!
Stephen and Riley try to decide if their eyes are bigger than their bookshelves as they thumb through the October Previews catalog featuring items shipping in December, what with the prospect of signed slipcases for NOS4A2 and Essex County, original art reproductions of Dark Knight Returns and Wally Wood, and first-time-in-print panoramas for Private Eye! Show Notes: " Discussions With Scott Allie: On Stepping Away From Being EIC, The Craft of Editing, And His Ongoing Projects At Dark Horse " at...
Join us on our voyage to Lando Calrissian's very own pleasure moon as Jermaine and Stephen knock out the second half of the September Previews catalogue just a week before its due date, dig deeper into what the Secret Wars delays mean for us as a business, and address the dangers of Star Wars addiction in the run-up to the Force Awakens! Show Notes: Follow Thomas Boatwright on Instagram ! " 8 Comics Have Been Cancelled by DC " at IGN.com. Marvel Solicitations for November 2015 : All-New, All-Dif...
Coming to you a week late due to travel and pressing shipment processing needs, Stephen, Riley and Austin analyze the packaging and pricing of The Dark Knight III: The Master Race, give their thoughts on Secret Wars #9 of 8, and get through the Dark Horse, DC and IDW sections of the September Previews catalogue for items shipping in November before being so rudely interrupted by work! Show Notes: Solicitations for Dark Knight III Master Race #1 (of 8) and Collectors Edition HC , so you know what...
The final installment of the Secret Wars first half debriefing concludes with a focus on the Battleworld and War Zone tie-ins to the collossal Marvel event! Show Notes: Secret Wars Battleworld map !
Jermaine, Stephen and Valerie talk with former retailer/ current attorney and director/ producer/ writer of the My Comic Shop DocumentARy and My Comic Shop History podcast Anthony Desiato for a look behind the scenes and "Where Are They Now?" session a month removed from the conclusion of the show's first season and the closing of Alternate Realities. Then it's part two of your Secret Wars Debriefing with Jermaine, John and Michael and they take you up through the events of Secret Wars #2 before...
Don't let the title confuse you, we're in perfectly fine spirits, but those adjectives are the first salvo in a bevy of 118 critical reviews of Fox's brand-new Fantastic Four film that have lead to a 10% score of Rotten Tomatoes! Jermaine has already scene it, and in an uncharacteristic display of audience candor, he answers all of Stephen's and Jay's spoiler-filled questions before giving the comic-reading, movie-going public a chance to spend their dollars. Then it's the first installment in a...
Stephen, Riley and Pete go rogue as they participate the first episode in nearly four years to be recorded on an active sales floor, a la Tell 'Em Steve-Dave, and they do a bang-up job of rambling through an entire Previews catalogue in less than an hour! Show Notes: Dark Horse Solicitations Hellboy & the BPRD 1953 Phantom Hand & Kelpie #1 Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfade #1 DC Solicitations Batman Eternal #1-5 Superman Lois & Clark #1 Telos #1 Titans Hunt #1 Justice League Gods &am...
Jermaine and Stephen get back in the driver's seat to catch up on the news our of San Diego Comic Con 2015, a month's worth of new releases, and the Ant-Man movie! Show Notes: " SDCC '15: About 60,000 people show up without badges " at Comics Beat.com. " The Suicide Squad trailer was great, why does Warner Bros. sound so angry about it? " at Polygon.com. " 'Faraday Cage' definition " at Wikipedia.com. " Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Comic-Con Trailer " at YouTube.com. " Suicide Squad Comi...
On the eve of Indpendence Day, the one night game a year, Stephen and Riley do their best to keep up with all of the news coming out of San Francisco & the Image Expo and Bleeding Cool & Marvel Comics and Jermaine and Jay sit down with Manifest Destiny co-creator and artist Matthew Roberts! Show Notes: Bleeding Cool's #ImageExpo posts " Marvel Just Revealed Its Entire 'All-New, All-Different' Comic Universe " at iO9.com. Read Private Eye now, well ahead of the November print release, at ...
In a return to form, Jermaine, Stephen, Austin and Valerie recap their adventures before, during and after HeroesCon 2015 in Charlotte, NC, bring you up to speed on the latest announcements for the All-New, All-Different Marvel Comics post-Secret Wars, give a broad overview of DC's Divergence soft relaunch, and implore you to pick up next week's We Stand on Guard when they tell you! Show Notes: " HeroesCon: DeConnick to End Run on Captain Marvel; Milkfed Criminal Masterminds Talk New and Upcomin...
Stephen does his best homage to our sister-show, Stuff Said with Gregg Schigiel, and who better to put in the hotseat than the cartoonist/ publisher/ host himself?! Show Notes: " 'All-New, All-Different Marvel' Teaser Features Wolverine, Daredevil, Thing " at Comic Book Resources.com. Scott Pilgrim reference for the library where the Toronto Comics & Arts Festival takes place. Hatter Entertainment.com , the online home of Gregg Schigiel. Follow Gregg on Twitter . Cruisin' Together #13 - Days...
