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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
May 8, 2011 • 1h 2min
iFanboy.com Pick of the Week #283 - Moon Knight #1
May 8, 2011 - Gathered at Ron's sister's house, Ron Richards, Conor Kilpatrick, Josh Flanagan decided to spontaneously jump on USTREAM to live stream the recording of this week's show! Featuring special appearances by Mark Wahlberg, NY1's Lewis Dodley, and Ron's niece Amelia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 6, 2011 • 35min
iFanboy.com Special Edition Podcast - Thor
May 6, 2011 - 'Pon this day, Conor Kilpatrick, Ron Richards, and Josh Flanagan did gather to discuss the latest of Marvel Studios' big summer movies - Thor! What was good? (A lot.) What was bad? (Not much.) What was ugly? (Certainly not a shirtless Chris Hemsworth.) And how does it hold up to the previous Marvel Studios films that are paving the way for The Avengers? Find out now! Verily! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 1, 2011 • 1h 4min
iFanboy.com Pick of the Week #282 - New York Five #4
May 1, 2011 - If we might be so bold, it's a good 'un this week, with lots and lots of comics, and brainteasing Superman conundrums. If you're holdin' or not, come along and see. Also, Muppets Take Manhattan is explored. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 28, 2011 • 29min
Talksplode #38 with Mark Andrew Smith, writer of Gladstone's School for World Conquerers
April 28,2011 - Mark Andrew Smith lives and teaches English in Taiwain, but over the past few years he's amassed a number of credits and accolades in the comics industry. He co-created the Eisner Award winning Popgun anthology series and developed a number of creator-owned works through Image Comics. 2011 sees the debut of a new all-ages ongoing called Gladstone's School for World Conquerors as well as a second volume of his celebrated New Brighton Archaeological Society. Mark talks to us about the perils and pitfalls of producing all-ages work and discusses both failures and successes in crowdsourcing through Kickstarter. How do you make such fundraising websites work for you, and what does it all mean for the industry? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 24, 2011 • 1h 4min
iFanboy.com Pick of the Week #281 - Sixth Gun #11
April 24, 2011 - There's disagreement from the start on this one! But we get it together, and cover a whole lot of comic ground. Like baseball or not, that's not the point. Also, ignore the construction and coughing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 17, 2011 • 1h 1min
iFanboy.com Pick of the Week #280 - Punisher Max #12
April 17, 2011 - This week Ron Richards really doesn't like photos in comics, reveals his philosophy on the history and importance of the Uncanny X-Men, and has trouble remembering a classic childhood cartoon. Conor Kilpatrick and Josh Flanagan are also on the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 10, 2011 • 58min
iFanboy.com Pick of the Week #279 - Uncanny X-Men #534.1
April 10, 2011 - Ron Richards and Conor Kilpatrick return from a long month of comic book conventions to leap into the welcoming and loving arms of Josh Flanagan. Or something like that. Either way, they talk comic books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 7, 2011 • 56min
Talksplode #37 with Matt Fraction of Fear Itself, Uncanny X-Men + Casanova
April 7, 2011 - With the release of the mega event, Fear Itself, from Marvel Comics, we thought it would be a good time to chat with writer Matt Fraction. Fraction tells us what the approach to Fear Itself has been, how he's handling the event status and yet making it a managable, contained story, and what the fan reaction to the book is so far. We also get a tease of what's to come in his upcoming The Mighty Thor.
In addition to Fear Itself and Thor, we talk a bit about the close of Fraction's run on Uncanny X-Men and he feels he did on the title and what's to come for Marvel's mutants. On the creator side of things, we get an update on the progress of Casanova and what Fraction's thoughts are around creator owned work vs. work for publishers like Marvel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 3, 2011 • 1h 6min
iFanboy.com Pick of the Week #278 - Walking Dead #83
April 3, 2011 - The road calls again, with Ron and Conor away at WonderCon in San Francisco, Josh breaks every conceivable rule and talks about what actually happens in the comic book you don't talk about. Staff writers Paul Montgomery and Ryan Haupt join in and say a lot nice things about a lot of very good books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 31, 2011 • 48min
Talksplode #36 with Ruwan Jayatilleke - Thor + Loki: Blood Brothers
March 31, 2011 - Building off the momentum of last year's motion comic, Iron Man: Extremis, Marvel is back but now with a story about Thor. Recently dubbed Marve Knights Animation, Ruwan Jayatilleke of Marvel, returns to tell us all about the exciting new animation project that pits brother against brother as Loki makes his power move against Asgard, Odin and Thor. We discuss the production of the new animation project, the success of the previous one, the evolution from motion comic to animation and much much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
