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Episode 45: Captain Lawn Dart
It's a jam-packed episode this week! We start off by briefly discussing the recent Internet kerfuffles over (some) creators vs. cosplayers at comic conventions, and the complaints that Marc Andreyko's current storyline in Batwoman depicts the practical...
Episode 44: Jedi Montessori Academy For The Bacterially Challenged
The first Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens teaser trailer dropped on Friday. It's 88 seconds long, it features less than half of that in new footage, it gives us almost no story context... and it's enough to get the geek world shrieking like te...
Episode 43: Aquaman. In The Dome. With A Swiffer.
The world of comics is big, complex, and sometimes even literary... and we are not. So we open this show talking about the return of Underoos. Which might sound frivolous, but when you consider that those underwear packs were the only place we middle-a...
Episode 42: Rear Admiral Cyberman
This week we added and installed a ton of new studio equipment for the show... and then used it to spend a few minutes laying in movie sound clips like middle-market Morning Zoo jocks. - Once we got that out of our system (and it is out of our system,
Episode 41: SDCC 2015: The Struggle Is Real
Pre-registration for San Diego Comic-Con 2015, for people who attended SDCC in 2014, came and went yesterday, and it marked the first disappointment for would-be attendees who didn't manage to snag passes... including us.
Episode 40: Press Play For Zola
In case you didn't notice, this week was all about Marvel Studios. They released the extended trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron on Monday, and Tuesday they announced their Phase Three slate of movies to be released between 2016 and 2019,
Episode 39: Filthy Manny: The Time Lord Who Tried, But Couldn’t
This week we're joined by our longtime contributor Lance Manion, who, similarly to Amanda, has been watching Doctor Who since the 1970s. So, being most of the way through Peter Capaldi's first season as The Doctor, we talk about the season so far,
Episode 38: Slash Sausage Fiction
At last week's New York Comic Con, Marvel announced that writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Esad Ribic would be bringing us an updated version of Secret Wars. And after months of Marvel hyping up their version of the Multiverse in Avengers, New Avengers,
Episode 37: 50 Shades of Lobo
With the cancellation of Vortexx on the CW network, this is the first weekend that has had no Saturday morning cartoons on a major television network. And given that seeing superheroes on TV was a large part of what got Amanda and I into comics in the ...
Episode 36: Kidnapping, Sadness And Donkey Shows
Gotham premiered on NBC this past week, so Amanda and I talk about the first episode. We discuss what we thought worked, what didn't, why we don't want to see all the fan service super villains we got in this first episode... and frankly,