iFanboy - Comic Books

Paul from Philadelphia, you’re on the air! Mere moments before the show was set to record, Tropical Storm Arthur, making its way up the east coast, knocked out Paul Montgomery’s power. But he’s a professional and won’t let that stop him talking about the week in comics with Conor Kilpatrick! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week: terrible costume designs, hair metal, polar bears, and polar madness! Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery, and temp host Josh Flanagan get into all the comics of the week and perform jokes at a very low hit rate. This week, we’ve got 100% less scientific points of view and Ghostbuster discussions. Plus, we do the July Book of the Month super early. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did someone call for the doctor? Josh Flanagan's off who knows where, doing who knows what--so former iFanboy columnist, current member of the iFanboy Animation Braintrust, and co-host of Science...sort of, Ryan Haupt joins Paul Montgomery and Conor Kilpatrick to talk about the week in comics! Also, dinosaurs. Lots of talking about dinosaurs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What we talk about when we talk about Ghostbusters. And Batman '89. And maybe even some comics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul is going to watch Ghostbusters! Also, we talk about comics. We’ll have to talk about Ghostbusters later. We suppose it’s still worth listening to, if you’re into that thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Comics! Drugs! Vegas! Josh Flanagan, Paul Montgomery, and Conor Kilpatrick are back once again to discuss the week that was in comics! Plus, a startling admission by Paul leads to one of the longer digressions in recent memory! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special guest host Josh Flanagan joins Paul Montgomery and Conor Kilpatrick to chat about the week in comic books! Plus, everyone has trouble remembering things, and Josh weighs in on the TV adaptation of his favorite comic book character! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the X-Men return to the past so to does iFanboy as co-founder Ron Richards returns to the show to talk X-Men: Days of Future Past with Conor Kilpatrick and Paul Montgomery! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With their milestone 1000th iTunes review achieved, iFanboy shakes up the roster! Now that Josh Flanagan has retired (not really), incumbent iFanboy Jeff Cannata joins Conor Kilpatrick and Paul Montgomery for his very first show! It's also as good a time as any to discuss the massive wave of new comic book properties heading to television next season! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery and Josh Flanagan are dancing monkeys for you amusement. But can a monkey read comics and then tell you the best one? Well?? Can they??? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The iFanboy Animation Brain Trust — Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery, and Ryan Haupt — reconvene to discuss the latest DC Universe Animated Original Movie! How does the film stack up against the other Batman offerings? What does a shared universe of animated films mean for the future of the film series? Was it a mistake to bring Damian back in the comics in the first place? All of this is discussed… and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery and Josh Flanagan buck format and decide to talk comics, though technically that's what they do every week. It's not all fun and games though. Just as Josh and Conor's staged intervention over Paul's pro wrestling fandom crumbles, Josh confronts a lifelong donut fixation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery, and former iFanboy writer Timmy Wood collectively do whatever a spider can! Assuming that what a spider can do is gather together to discuss The Amazing Spider-Man 2! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Flanagan, Paul Montgomery, and Conor Kilpatrick like a lot of comics this week, and that’s way better than other weeks when they didn’t like any comics. Also, find out what Paul likes to do with a shovel and a corpse. Then there are some out of practice voices at the end. Plus, we’re on the march to 1,000 reviews. Then we’re done! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Flanagan is tired, Conor Kilpatrick is hung over, and Paul Montgomery is Paul Montgomery, as the guys return to talk about the week that was in comics! No one dies at the end of this episode. We think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Flanagan is still back, just in time for a major schism! After nearly a year of congenial discussion, the iFanboys amiably disagree on a book they never thought would be a point of contention. There are also laughs in abundance, as Paul Montgomery and Conor Kilpatrick walk Josh through a vaguely cheery postpartum fugue state. Comics! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's no dream. Josh Flanagan is back, and it's his Pick of the Week. Will he let Paul finish a sentence? Yes, but not all of them. It was a tough week to have to make the call, but it was not without highlights. Finally, Josh has some parting words for his partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The past has returned to haunt Captain America (in more ways than one) in Captain America: The Winter Soldier... and iFanboy has returned to talk about it! Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery, and special guest Jeff Cannata from DLC and Newest Latest Best are called into duty to talk all things Captain America, speculate on where the story will go next, and contemplate the possibility of a Civil War film! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Josh Flanagan still nowhere to be found, Let’s Talk Comics host James Viscardi returns to the show to join Paul Montgomery and Conor Kilpatrick to discuss the week that was in comics, plus anonymous browser searches, unusual homework assignments in high school, and the difficulties of reading comics in the shower! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marvel's most accomplished spy and its deadliest vigilante team up for lengthy briefings and dangerous field operations in the latest direct-to-video animated feature from Madhouse. Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery and Ryan Haupt engage in a brief, not so clandestine discussion of this curious team-up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Flanagan's still off on paternity leave so this week Paul Montgomery calls upon his Fuzzy Typewriter co-host Dave Accampo to join himself and Conor Kilpatrick to talk about the week in comic books! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Josh Flanagan off on paternity leave, Paul Montgomery and Conor Kilpatrick tag in Ali Colluccio to discuss the best of the week in comics, dirigibles, grim-dark nihilism, and scotchy scotch scotch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery, and Josh Flanagan gather together to discuss the week that was in comics books, including lots of number one issues! Plus, The Yellow King, Adele Nazeem, and no one wants to live with one of the iFanboys! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the cusp of his early 40s, Josh Flanagan joins Conor Kilpatrick and Paul Montgomery to talk about the comics. It was a big week, but the boys manage to discuss everything. All of the comics. Plus, Conor's captainship and Paul's curious fixation on sinuses stand revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Montgomery and Skottie Young continue their their brain-popping journey through Katsuhiro Otomo's landmark (toppling) Akira saga with volumes 3 and 4. In the 21st century, the glittering Neo-Tokyo has risen from the rubble of a Tokyo destroyed by an apocalyptic telekinetic blast from a young boy called Akira -- the subject of a covert government experiment gone wrong now imprisoned in frozen stasis. But Tetsuo, an angry young man with immense and rapidly growing psychic abilities, has done the unthinkable: he has released Akira and set into motion a chain of events that could once destroy the city and drag the world to the brink of Armageddon. Resistance agents and an armada of government forces race against the clock to find the child with godlike powers before his unthinkable destructive abilities are unleashed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No lovelife talk this week. Just comics, and only comics take over, as we get in deep with an excellent week of sequentials and raccoon based cinema. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Love is in the air! It's time to celebrate Valentine's Day, and the call went out to the audience for their questions about love and boy, did they deliver! Also, there were comics this week and an abundance of great ones! Conor Kilpatrick, Josh Flanagan, and Paul Montgomery love each and every one of you equally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conor, ever absent, has left us this episode, and so we invited Jim Viscardi of the Let's Talk Comics podcast to fill in, and so he did, which apparently caused Josh to just ramble on and on and on. We still can't be sure how to say Mitch Gerads' name, and that's just gonna have to be OK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vic-to-ry! Vic-to-ry! The iFanboy Animation Brain Trust assembles once more! Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery and Ryan Haupt set aside their differences to suss out Justice League: War, the latest direct-to-video feature from DC Animation, and the first in a line of New 52 adaptations. How well does Geoff Johns and Jim Lee's "Origin" story line translate to animation, and is this a strong pilot for the studio's future endeavors? Is Steve Trevor doomed to always finish last? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here there be dragon! Scottish braves Paul Montgomery, Conor Kilpatrick and Josh Flanagan mix up their Gruber family tree while divulging a dubious understanding of their own shared heritage, all while yammering about the week's finest comics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"TETSUO!" "KANEDA!" Paul Montgomery and special guest Skottie Young discuss the first two volumes in Katsuhiro Otomo's landmark manga saga Akira. “Welcome to Neo-Tokyo, built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by a blast of unknown origin that triggered World War III. The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, change forever when paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, making him a target for a shadowy agency that will stop at nothing to prevent another catastrophe like the one that leveled Tokyo. At the core of the agency’s motivation is a raw, all-consuming fear of an unthinkable, monstrous power known only as Akira. Katsuhiro Otomo’s stunning science fiction masterpiece is considered by many to be the finest work of graphic fiction ever produced, and Otomo’s brilliant animated film version is regarded worldwide as a classic.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Montgomery has returned to join Conor Kilpatrick and Josh Flanagan in discussing the week in comic books! Plus–just how cool of a lady was Martha Washington? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Look who’s back! Josh Flanagan comes out of Talksplode hiatus to speak with a couple of bona fide comic book creators about the process, mind, and lifestyle of the creator-owned comic book maker. From the mind of the artist, to the way to make it work with your life, to the challenges of the modern market, the conversation covers a ton of ground, and is a real insight to what it means to make comics. Charles Soule (Swamp Thing, Thunderbolts, Letter 44, Superman/Wonder Woman) has risen through the ranks of comic book writers over the last year to the point where he’s currently writing seven ongoing series, with a mix of DC, Marvel, and indie series. He’s a returning guest. You can find him on Twitter here. Joe Mulvey is the creator of Scam from ComixTribe, a writer and artist who is paving his own way through comics. He’s currently in the process of a Kickstarter campaign for the SCAM Ultimate Collection, featuring a short story written by Josh himself, as well as hundreds of pages of other content from a host of great names in comics. You can follow Joe on Twitter as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Paul Montgomery out doing who knows what, old pal Jim Mroczkowski steps in to talk about the week in comic books with Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now that was a proper week of comics. We talk about the books of the week, only a bit of World War II, and Conor’s older friend. Also: Elephant stuff. Additionally, we run down some of the new series announced at ImageEXPO 2014, and have a Book of the Month that actually falls within the first half of said month. It is truly a New Year’s miracle! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While the first week of the New Year didn't boast heaps of new comics, Josh, Conor and Paul missed each other too much to delay their reunion any further. Listen as they ring in 2014 with a few extra audience questions and a joyous dirge for a dearly departed series that took a bow over the break. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s the eighth annual iFanboy All-Media Year End Round-Up! Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery, and special guest Mike Romo discuss everything they enjoyed in media in 2013. Movies, television, music, books, video games, and comics--it's all here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk through a lot of great comics, run the Picks of the Week by the numbers, and then if you’re not a Band of Brothers fan, you might want to skip the end bit. We don’t recommend this course of action. It’s the last regular show of the year! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the year winds down, Conor Kilparick, Josh Flanagan, and Paul Montgomery gather to talk the week of comics but to also hand out some year end awards! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Montgomery and Timmy Wood stare, unblinking, into the Eye of Agamotto as they revisit 2007's Doctor Strange: The Oath by The Private Eye team of Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin! Steven Strange has been struck by a silver bullet fired from the same accursed pistol Hitler used to end his life! Can the Night Nurse restore the Sorcerer Supreme to health? What's wrong with Wong? What are master and manservant willing to do to save the other's life? What's Night Nurse's overhead? Why isn't there more of this? All that and more on the latest thrilling installment of iFanboy's Booksplode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drunk on Thanksgiving tryptophan, Conor and Josh drive a relatively sober Paul to the brink of madness in a rundown of the week's best comics. It being the first of December, Paul also surprises his fellows with the new Book of the Month selection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Band of Brothers, Scooby-Doo, Friday Night Lights, drugs, and Conor’s sex comic! Also we go with the more traditional “talking about comics” routine. We do not get that guy’s name right, and we don’t know how to talk about color. So just a regular show. Total Running Time: 01:08:18 Comics: 00:02:18 – Harley Quinn #0 00:10:33 – The Wake #5 00:16:33 – Zero #3 00:19:21 – Afterlife with Archie #2 00:23:18 – Scooby-Doo Team-Up #1 00:31:15 – Thunderbolts #18 00:33:33 – B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth #113 00:37:34 – Sex Criminals #3 00:38:41 – Uncanny X-Men #14 00:41:47 – Young Avengers #12 Audience Question: 00:43:48 – Sam from London wants to know if another crash is on the way. 00:48:39 – Doug from Maine asks if there are some comic concepts that just don’t work today. 00:54:16 – Stewart asks about “edu-tainment” comics. 00:57:44 – Ryan, also from Maine, needs booth knowledge. Sponsor: Amazon – Get all your comics, DVDs, video games, electronics and more and help iFanboy out in the process! Music: “Too Many Puppies” Primus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’ve got a man down... but not out! In the midst of intense physical pain, Josh Flanagan mans up to join Conor Kilpatrick and Paul Montgomery to discuss the week in comic books! There might be narcotics involved. Those are fun! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After the 5th week last week, comics are back this week, and we're here to talk about fun, and the culmination of Stan Lee's fantasy. Not that one. We're not even sick of talking about new, excellent Marvel #1 issues, so off we go. Josh will try very hard to get on topic, with little success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To me, Mjölnir! For Asgard! Conor Kilpatrick and Paul Montgomery assemble to discuss Thor: The Dark World! How does the sequel stack up to Thor's thunderous big screen debut in 2011? There are laughs! There are tears! Dudes get hit in the face with hammers! All of that plus just what to make of that mid-credits sequence and what does it mean for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The culmination of Mike Costa's "Arms of Doctor Octopus" caper takes the gold in a typically oddball fifth week of comics. Josh Flanagan, Paul Montgomery and Conor Kilpatrick wholeheartedly embrace that pick as well as November's Book of the Month selection, The Fifth Beatle, about the Fab Four's enigmatic manager Brian Epstein. All that and more on this week's furry little show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's another voluminous head of glorious comic book discussion as Paul Montgomery, Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick comb through the week's picks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Josh off possibly doing some primal screaming in the woods, Ali Colluccio steps up to the microphone to talk the week that was in comics with Paul Montgomery and Conor Kilpatrick! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Romo is here! Mike Romo is here! Paul took a powder this week, and we forge ahead, some of us broadcasting from a car in the garage, triggering grim deja vu. The comics were hot and the car kept getting hotter, but we've got books of the week, and most of them were #1 issues. We check in on some of the comics announced at New York Comicon as well, and weigh in well before it's wise. Also, we know it wasn't the best connection, but it gets better as you keep going. Our apologies. Also apologies to the British and Phish fans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Something must be in the water, or maybe in the air, but whatever the reason, it's a meandering episode of the Pick of the Week Podcast as Conor Kilpatrick, Josh Flanagan, and Paul Montgomery discuss the week that was in comic books, as well as the dangers of Times Square, the final season of The Wire, and the proper pronunciation of a certain New England fish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices