iFanboy - Comic Books

The year is 2039 and the fabled Batman has emerged from the shadows of history. Let loose the dogs, because things are about to Booksplode. Special guest Scott Snyder (Batman, The Wake, Superman Unchained) joins Paul Montgomery to discuss Paul Pope's criminally under-appreciated Batman: Year 100. Here, the man beneath the cowl is both mythic and utterly human, an enigmatic soul dedicated to a safeguarding tomorrow's Gotham. Why does Snyder rank the work as of his top five favorite Batman stories? How does it continue to influence his own work? All that and heaps more Batman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this alarmingly sexy edition of the Pick of the Week Podcast, Josh Flanagan, Conor Kilpatrick and Paul Montgomery get all hot and bothered over a teetering tower of terrific comics books. Conor selects a (quite frankly) brutal bit of superhero deconstruction for the lead discussion. Later, the guys talk two potential television projects from DC Entertainment, then wander down memory lane to reminisce on their college era reading habits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Marvel Studios Movie Universe expands to the small screen with the debut of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.! Paul Montgomery and Conor Kilpatrick team-up to discuss the pilot episode--what worked and what didn't work? How was the cast? And what about Agent Coulson, who was last seen bleeding out on the floor of the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier? All of that plus speculation on what we'll see in future episodes and how it will tie-in to the Marvel movies, and mutual admiration for flying cars! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wait, Josh Flanagan chose WHAT as the Pick of the Week? That was the reaction of Paul Montgomery and Conor Kilpatrick had when word came down from on high but that's okay--in a long term relationship it's important to keep surprising your partner(s). Also, the other comic books of the week and Josh finally makes Paul laugh! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh returns, and we stumble slightly less through this new era. Paul doesn't want to sound like he does, and let's talk about greater NYC area carpet commercials. Also, there are a lot of comics that need to get covered, and by gum, we cover them. Hey Lord Vader, can you take a picture for us? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new era unfolds, but much remains the same. Though Josh sounds suspiciously like Ryan Haupt this week, Conor Kilpatrick and Paul Montgomery soldier on with a discussion of the first issue of the returning Batman: Black and White anthology series, a host of villainous tie-ins, and some large scale happenings through time and space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Total Running Time: 01:06:36 You're pretty much gonna be talking about what happens at the end, but before all of that, there's a lot of great comic book discussion. Also, Josh is laid low with a cold, and a deep sense of denial. If you like greek yogurt, you should probably skip this one. Also: the Junk Reading and threats! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Total Running Time: 02:47:50 iFanboy celebrates its 400th episode with an extra-sized all listener e-mail spectacular! We asked you, the iFanbase, to send us e-mails on any topic you wanted and boy did you deliver! Not only was it Paul Montgomery's first show whose recording was streamed live on the internet, but Josh Flanagan broadcast from his survivalist bunker, and Conor Kilpatrick drank giant beers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Total Running Time: 01:06:01 As Josh casts a spectral white glow across the sands of Cape Cod, special guest Mike Romo tags in, joining Conor Kilpatrick and Paul Montgomery to talk the best of the week in comics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Total Running Time: 00:53:42 Conor Kilpatrick's back! Then he's gone again! Then he comes back to talk the week in comics with Josh Flanagan and Paul Montgomery. The show completely falls apart at the end, everyone loves stationary, and the audio quality on this one is rough and you're just going to have to deal with it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Total Running Time: 01:05:06 With Conor off dispensing with a matter of grave national importance, special guest Jim Mroczkowski joins Paul Montgomery and Josh Flanagan for a discussion of this week's most captivating comics. Thinks get silly in a fashion that Graham Chapman would never tolerate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With a stalwart Conor lost in the time stream, the iFanboy Animation Brain Trust soldiers on, undaunted. Paul Montgomery, Chris Neseman and Ryan Haup look back on Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert's Flashpoint comic event and the animated feature is has now inspired. A polarizing visual style and ultra-violent tone make for a polarizing departure for the long-running DC Animated line, so should prospective viewers walk or run to join the Flash for his first starring role? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Total Running Time: 01:04:46 It can easily be said that this program contains more talk about Bill and Ted than any other podcast we’ve ever done. There’s also other stuff about comics, but at the end of the day, what are you really here for? We also have deep conversations about comic book art, and complain, just a bit more, about Man of Steel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Running time: 00:58.54 Special guests Brett White (Matt and Brett Love Comics, CBR, MTV's Splash Page) and David Accampo (Fuzzy Typewriter, Sparrow and Crowe: The Demoniac of Los Angeles) join Paul Montgomery to talk ninjas and bone claws. Does The Wolverine fall prey to the same mistakes as 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, or does director James Mangold bring honor to the troubled ronin? One way to find out, bub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conor calls in live from San Diego Comic-Con, and despite a shaky connection, we forge onward, while Josh and Paul enter phases of advanced heat stroke. Plus there’s also a problem with Baja Fresh. 2/3 of us may never recover. Comics: 00:01:42 – Deadpool #13 00:08:54 – Conan the Barbarian #19 00:12:49 – Ultimate Spider-Man #25 00:16:11 – Nova #6 00:19:07 – Batman ’66 #1 00:24:53 – The Death of Haggard West 00:26:43 – Invincible #104 00:28:57 – Thor: God of Thunder #10 00:31:59 – 100 Bullets: Brother Lono #2 00:33:42 – Revival #12 00:34:52 – Batman Beyond Unlimited #18 User Reviews: 00:35:50 – The Top 5 Community Picks of the Week! 00:36:53 – wheelhands reviews Wonder Woman #22. 00:39:27 – Creyes247 reviews Justice League of America’s Vibe #6. Audience Questions: 00:42:53 – Alan from Piscataway, NJ asks about explaining all character origins. 00:46:51 – Dave asks what events delivered all the way through, start to finish. 00:50:05 – Callum from The Isle of Man asks where we stand on letter columns. Sponsors: Amazon – Get all your comics, DVDs, video games, electronics and more and help iFanboy out in the process! Music: “If You Want Me to Stay” Sly and the Family Stone Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Total Running Time: 01:04:41 In the midst of the heat and hectic July scheduling, Conor Kilpatrick, Josh Flanagan, and Paul Montgomery are back together to talk comics! This week things get weird. We're sorry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Total Running Time: 01:02:23 With Conor off returning the iFanboy Bell to its clandestine shrine, resident Man of Science Ryan Haupt joins Josh Flanagan and Paul Montgomery for this week's broadcast. This week, Josh provokes the Doctor Who fans, Ryan learns some production jargon, and Paul adopts a new catch phrase. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A week in which the major comic book companies dumped an entire truck load of new comic books on our unsuspecting hosts can mean only one thing… it’s the return of THE BELL! Conor Kilpatrick, Josh Flanagan, and Paul Montgomery tremble before its mighty wrath and so shall you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the wake of Zack Snyder's Man of Steel film, Paul Montgomery, Conor Kilpatrick and Mike Romo look back a decade to another Superman origin story. In 2003, Mark Waid and Leinil Yu modernized the American myth of Krypton's last son in Superman: Birthright. What's changed? What remains the same? And does anyone have any second thoughts about Man of Steel? Brace yourselves for another Booksplode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's finally happened. Josh Flanagan has run off and joined a biker gang. So stepping up to the mic to join Conor Kilpatrick and Paul Montgomery this week in his stead is Dave Accampo, Paul's co-host on the Fuzzy Typewriter podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three men of discerning taste--one of them in a stationary automobile--discuss the best and not quite best comic books of the week. Elsewhere, Bob Reynolds weeps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Flanagan makes a rare special edition podcast appearance as he joins Conor Kilpatrick and Mike Romo to talk about Man of Steel! Does Zach Snyder, David Goyer, and Christopher Nolan's attempt to bring Superman into the modern world soar? Has Warner Bros. finally found success outside of Gotham City? Is everyone on the show exhausted? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s all about Kurt Busiek (rhymes with “music”) as the creator gets the double whammy, with both Pick of the Week and Book of the Month honors with one show. Has it ever happened before? Who has time to check. All we know is that Conor is hungry and really wants a bagel. Good comics await, and the temperatures are more moderate. That makes for a good show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mercury is through the roof up in this podcast (at least for 33.3% of the crew)! Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery and Josh Flanagan pant over the week's hottest comic book titles as one NCIS: Los Angeles star waxes poetic on mutated sharks. Dive in for the commentary, stick around for the heat crazies! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In week where one comic book really showed the rest how it's done, another one ended an epic run, and a third began an unwelcome crossover, Conor Kilpatrick worked blue, Josh Flanagan was sleepy, and Paul Montgomery espoused some... interesting ideas about population control. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seventy-five years ago, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster ushered an orphan son of Krypton through the fields of Kansas and up, up and away to the height of popular acclaim. These days, you'd be hard pressed to find someone unaware of Superman or his mild-mannered counterpart Clark Kent, but NPR's Glen Weldon knows the character better than most. Thankfully, he's sharing history and insight in the pages of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography. We spoke with the author at length about the best and worst iterations of the storied hero, from comics to radio to film and even the Broadway stage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week? This was not our kind of week. That’s not to say comics were bad, but we had to work to find the standouts. And yet, it wasn’t impossible. Still, by the end of the overlong episode, there were script problems, and mean things are said to each other. Forget it. We’re gonna go play Warcraft III. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time to boldly go back where... well, where many have been before! Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery, and Mike Romo have gathered to talk about Star Trek Into Darkness! Where did everyone's Star Trek fandom begin? How did the sequel stack up against the first film that they loved so much? What about the villain? Where can the story go in a third film? How does Robocop fit into all of this? It's a wide-ranging discussion that covers A LOT of ground! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The three iFanboys reunite to herald the coming of space sharks! This week, Paul Montgomery, Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick sail the solar winds from the ruined shores of future Asgard to the interior of Deadpool's head and the tumult of modern Riverdale! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Professor Ryan Haupt once again M.I.A. due to important matters of science, 75% of the iFanboy Animation Brain Trust reconvenes to discuss returns to discuss the latest from the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line: Superman: Unbound! It’s the first film not produced by Bruce Timm, and one that Warner Bros. hopes will capitalize on the buzz around Man of Steel, this summer’s live action return to the screen for Superman. Is it successful? Is it fun? Is it really a Supergirl and Lois Lane movie? Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery, and Chris Neseman talk it out.Plus! We look ahead to Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, return to discussing the uncertain future of the line, and wonder if there could possibly be any stories from The New 52 that could receive the animated treatment? (Spoiler alert: Not many.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ryan Haupt Week concludes as he steps in for an absent Josh Flanagan to talk the week that was in comics alongside Paul Montgomery and a sleepy Conor Kilpatrick! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hold on to your giant plush rabbits and watch out for that underwater rebar! It's time to talk about Iron Man 3! Join Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery and Scientist Supreme Ryan Haupt for a spoiler-laden examination of all things Extremis and 1999 party playlists! Does Marvel Studios' first post-Avengers outing succeed? Does incoming director Shane Black capably step into armor once tailored to Jon Favreau? Just who is Trevor Slattery? And is it worth sticking around past the credits? Find out in the latest iFanboy Special Edition Podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who is Henry Lyme? Join Paul Montgomery and Scientist Supreme Ryan Haupt as they bend spoons in an effort to unravel the mysteries of Matt Kindt's Mind MGMT! Why did the passengers and crew of Flight 815 (no, not that Flight 815) lose their memories up there in the clouds? What's up with Ewan McGregor's accent in 2009's Men Who Stare at Goats? What does heterochromia mean? What other easter eggs lay hidden throughout this, our May 2013 Book of the Month? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

That's more like it! Comics delivered a whole bunch of great comics this week, some new and some old. Listen to the show, won't you, and try to keep us in Ferraris! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Awash in a sea of alarmingly lackluster week of comics, Paul Montgomery, Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick discover that the cream truly does rise to the top. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Booksplode strikes back with a vengeance as Paul Montgomery, Josh Flanagan and Jeff Reid dissect the Dadaist oddity that is Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again. Published 15 years after the landmark mini-series Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, this three-issue sequel was a notorious departure in form and lucidity. We're not going to claim to understand it entirely, but one of us with glasses might hail it one of the best and most important works of all time. It's Josh. He kind of says that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, you hosers, listen up! The gangs all back together, eh, as Conor Kilpatrick returns to talk about comics with those two knobs, Paul Montgomery and Josh Flanagan. Beauty, eh? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’ve got a case of Loikamania, as podcast host, and all around beloved comics figure, Pat Loika fills in for Conor Kilpatrick. There’s, well, there’s a lot of Marvel talk this week. It couldn’t be avoided. Also, did you know that Josh very, very old? He is. Will Pat ever return? Will Paul graduate to middle school? Who joined X-Face Scott? None of these questions are answered! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though he claimed last week he wouldn't be here, Conor Kilpatrick braves Death, War, Conquest and Famine to talk comics with fellow desperadoes Paul Montgomery and Josh Flanagan. This week, Paul pauses Bioshock Infinite just long enough to name a pale horse in the Pick of the Week race and make some dubious suggestions about iFanboy guerrilla marketing. Meanwhile, Conor sees Hitlers were there aren't any and Josh remains fixated on the anachronism of the stop/pause conundrum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conor Kilpatrick has returned from his meandering jaunt through the land of gators to talk the week that was in comics with Josh Flanagan and Paul Montgomery! This week, Josh decides who his favorite comics writer is, Paul realizes that he's getting older, and more secrets from Conor's double life are revealed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Booksplode makes its SMASHING return as Paul Montgomery, Jim Mroczkowski, Ryan Haupt and Timmy Wood swear a war-bond and discuss Greg Pak's Planet Hulk story line. Where was Bruce Banner during the events of Marvel's Civil War? Why was he so ticked when he turned up again in its fallout? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

March 17, 2013 - This show is out on St. Patrick's Day, and yet there are no references at all. In fact, we're down one Kilpatrick! Jim Mroczkowski, our intrepid columnist fills in ably, and Paul starts off with a twang. There are things liked, and things unliked, and reasons given for nearly all of it. No children, fictional or otherwise, were harmed in the recording of this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

March 10, 2013 - It's your weekly dose of hot and sweaty threeway comic book talk! On this episode, Josh Flanagan has his sense of identity crushed, Conor Kilpatrick commits an embarrassing 80s cartoon error, and Paul Montgomery makes a startling admission in the final seconds of the show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

March 3, 2013 - Josh has stopped coughing, and a fictional character has stopped fictionally breathing. Plus we question Paul's choices of 80s sci-fi film. Then Josh questions Conor, and Conor questions right back. Listen, it's all very complicated, but you'll be able to hear everyone, so that's something. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

February 24, 2013 - An appropriately cough-addled Josh Flanagan stirs the ashes with his Pick of the Week, the finale to a series he's enjoyed consistently for over a decade. He's joined by Paul Montgomery and Conor Kilpatrick to discuss highlights from the rest of the week's books, including wreathed goats, cats in vacuums and both good and bad vibrations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

February 17, 2013 – In an unusual week of comic books, Paul Montgomery chooses an under-the-radar release as his very first Pick of the Week. He then joins Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick in discussing the highlights from rest of this week’s comics as well as pianos, classic comic strips, and the marketing virtues of vandalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

February 10, 2013 – Listen up, maggots! This week Conor Kilpatrick and Paul Montgomery talk comics while Josh Flanagan adopts a new hard-nosed personality. It’s a little off-putting and frankly, inappropriate. Also, the age old question is answered: just how delicious are donuts? (A lot). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charles Soule is set to have a busy 2013. Starting in April, he’s the new ongoing writer of Swamp Thing following Scott Snyder’s exit from the title. We talk about how the opportunity came about, how he’s approached the project, and his trip down to Louisiana to really understand where the character is from. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

February 3, 2013 – It’s all new, but it’s just the same. Josh and Conor are joined by their new permanent co-host, who has brought more television metaphors than any same man would know what to do with. We all read and talk about a lot of Punisher, and are thrown off by all the changes Paul brings in with his clipboard and red pen. Boss Nass is the first thing to go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

January 31, 2013 - With Professor Haupt off performing meatball surgery in a dubious tenement, 75% of the iFanboy Animation Brain Trust returns for the second half of Warner Bros.’ Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Boasting two of the most savage and iconic death matches in comic history, this is likely the pinnacle of ambition for Timm and his team. You might be shocked at just much survived the translation from page to screen, from swastika bosoms to Dutch himself, but just how important is that faithful hand? As with the first half, Conor, Paul and Chris are somewhat divided in their verdict, but some opinions just may actually have shifted in the intermission. Plus! Just how terrifying is Michael Emerson’s Joker? Should Clark button up that blouse when handling bald eagles? Just how stoked are we for upcoming outings Superman: Unbound and Flashpoint? What iconic stories remain untapped but deserving of the animated treatment? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices