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The iFanboy.com Comic Book Podcast is a weekly talk show all about the best new current comic book releases. Lifelong friends, Conor Kilpatrick and Josh Flanagan talk about what they loved and (sometimes) hated in the current weekly books, from publishers like Marvel, DC, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, BOOM! Studios, IDW, Aftershock, Valiant, and more. The aim is to have a fun time, some laughs, but to also really understand what makes comic books work and what doesn’t, and trying to understand the craft of this great, often under appreciated art form. Sometimes they agree, and sometimes… they don’t. With decades of experience talking about comics, interacting with comic book professionals, this is all about the love of an art form. If the names Brian Michael Bendis, Amanda Conner, Geoff Johns, Gene Luen Yang, Donny Cates, Jason Aaron, Kelly Thompson, David Marquez, Kelly Sue de Connick, Kieron Gillen, Charles Soule, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Scott Snyder, Tom King, Mitch Gerads, Esad Ribic, Rick Remender, Nick Spencer, John Ridley, Skottie Young, Chip Zdarsky, Jöelle Jones, David F. Walker, Grant Morrison, and Darwyn Cooke get you excited, then this is the place for you. This podcast is so good, you don’t even need to read comic books or graphic novels to enjoy it, but it’s a lot better if you do.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Dec 11, 2011 • 59min
iFanboy.com Pick of the Week #314 - Betrayal of the Planet of the Apes #2
December 11, 2011 – With Ron Richards away, iFanboy.com editor Paul Montgomery steps in just in time for Josh Flanagan to reveal a dark secret, Conor Kilpatrick’s plan to put comics out on a reliable monthly schedule. Plus: reel-to-reel editing and… STDs? Oh, yeah– and comics! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 4, 2011 • 1h 3min
iFanboy.com Pick of the Week #313 - Near Death #3
December 4, 2011 – With no major releases from DC Comics, it might have been a light week for comics but Marvel Comics more than made up for it with some great books. And this week on the show, Josh Flanagan gets ganged up on by Ron Richards and Conor Kilpatrick… or does he? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 1, 2011 • 1h 9min
Talksplode #48 – Filip Sablik, Top Cow and Pilot Season
December 1, 2011 - On this episode, Top Cow Publisher Filip Sablik takes some time to talk about this year’s Pilot Season contest. With eight new #1 issues each vying for the chance to continue their stories, we go through this year’s offerings, and talk about what goes into making these kinds of comics. We also catch up on the world of Top Cow, what role founder Marc Silvestri takes, and about the cool stuff coming out from the Minotaur imprint. We also touch on Filip’s work as a comic book writer, and fitting that into his other editorial work.
Voting on Pilot Season begins on December 5 on TopCow.com.
You can purchase, download, and read all the of this year’s Pilot Season offerings on Graphicly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 27, 2011 • 1h 2min
iFanboy.com Pick of the Week #312 - Comic Book Comics #6
November 27, 2011 –It’s a post Thanksgiving comics extravaganza as Josh and Ron joined by Jim Mroczkowski in the celebration of the past week’s worth of comics. It’s a podcast of amazingness as there’s very little controversy, just a good time comic bookin’ for all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 20, 2011 • 1h 3min
iFanboy.com Pick of the Week #311 - Batman #3
November 20, 2011 – Startling confessions of reading practices! Dangling participles in relation to Frank Miller! Inflammatory comments about ethnic groups! Bastardization of the English language! Inappropriate comparisons of comics to infectious diseases! It’s just another week in the iFanboy podcast as Josh, Conor and Ron can’t stay out of their own way. With a little bit of Keanu for good measure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 17, 2011 • 1h 41min
Talksplode #47 – Making and Drawing Comics with Kevin Mellon and Declan Shalvey
November 17, 2011 - After our last Talksplode episode about making comics with Blair Butler and Charles Soule from the writer’s perspective, we’re coming at it from the drawing table. Joining Josh Flanagan are Declan Shalvey (Thunderbolts, Northlanders) and Kevin Mellon (Heart, Gearhead). The conversation is long and ranges through many aspects of being an artist in today’s comic book industry. We’ll talk about the origins and breaking in stories, as well as the highs and lows of the industry. We talk about some of the challenges a comic book artist faces, and how writer and artist collaborate.
There’s a lot of information to be gained, learning from people who’ve been there, and are still working at climbing their ladder, whatever that ladder may be. If you have any interest in making comics, either as an artist, writer, or whatever, this is an invaluable conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 13, 2011 • 58min
iFanboy.com Pick of the Week #310 - Uncanny X-Force #17
November 13, 2011 – Do you think John Byrne is pure and clean? Do you write emails that don’t quite sound like normal English? If you like this and can tolerate comic books to a certain extent, this could be the show for you! Warcraft dreams! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 6, 2011 • 59min
iFanboy.com Pick of the Week #309 - Fear Agent #32
November 6, 2011 – Do you like sci-fi? How about Image Comics? If so, this is the episode for you! Also, there may be a gas leak in Conor’s apartment, Ron gives his mouth a nickname and Josh makes a stunning confession! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 30, 2011 • 1h 1min
iFanboy.com Pick of the Week #308 - Wolverine and the X-Men #1
October 30, 2011 – A great week of comics and a mighty stack to get through, which means…THE BELL IS BACK! Join us as we work through the notable books this week in 15 seconds or less. There is no harsher mistress than the bell! Beware! And listen, we know they’re not pamphlets… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 23, 2011 • 1h 9min
iFanboy.com Pick of the Week #307- Uncanny X-Men #544
October 23, 2011 – Still recovering from the New York Comic Con, we get back to a semblance of normalness as the streak of consecutive picks of the week by DC Comics is broken by Ron and his love for all things X-Men and Marvel. It was bound to happen sooner or later. Deal with it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
