iFanboy - Comic Books

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

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