iFanboy - Comic Books

Unofficial Old Home Month continues as old pal and former iFanboy columnist Jim Mroczkowski sits in for Josh Flanagan and joins Conor Kilpatrick in this weirdly light week of comics that nevertheless yielded three solid Pick of the Week candidates.Note: Time codes are subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor.Running Time: 00:54:10Pick of the Week:00:02:25 – Daredevil #662 (1)Comics:00:11:57 – Danger Street, Book Nine00:16:44 – From the World of Minor Threats: The Alternates #100:20:11 – The Incredible Hulk #785 (4)00:24:06 – Saint John #100:27:46 – Green Lantern #300:29:32 – Werewolf by Night #1Patron Pick:00:31:35 – Avengers Inc. #1Patron Thanks:00:40:22 – Ray CookAudience Questions:00:42:10 – Mike H. from Buffalo, New York thinks that Jonathan Hickman is villainizing the Marvel Universe.Brought To You By:• Better Help – This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ifanboy and get on your way to being your best self.• iFanboy Patrons – Become one today for as little as $3/month! Or make a one time donation of any amount!• iFanboy T-Shirts and Merch – Show your iFanboy pride with a t-shirt or other great merchandise on Threadless! We’ve got twelve designs!Music:“St. Jimmy”Green Day Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Montgomery returns to the fold this week, and what a week of great books it was. Like really great. You just wouldn't believe how great it was. You might think other weeks have been great, but that's just peanuts compared to this week. Also, please enjoy the end of the show, where neither host can recall any relevant names. This is going to be a problem.Note: Time codes are subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor.Running Time: 01:11:59Pick of the Week:00:02:30 - Birds of Prey #1Star Wars Corner:00:14:07 - Star Wars #38/Dark Droids #2Comics:00:26:05 - Swan Songs #300:34:22 - Fantastic Four #70400:40:37 - The Sacrificers #200:45:42 - Tear Us Apart #100:49:18 - Shazam! #3Patron Pick:00:50:40 - Birds of Prey #1Patron Thanks:00:54:12 - Ras FletcherAudience Questions:00:56:33 - Chris wants to know what we mean when we say something looks "European".Brought To You By:• Factor Meals - Get 50% off with code IFANBOY50• iFanboy Patrons - Become one today for as little as $3/month! Or make a one time donation of any amount!• iFanboy T-Shirts and Merch - Show your iFanboy pride with a t-shirt or other great merchandise on Threadless! We've got twelve designs!Music:"Divide and Conquer"Hüsker Dü Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hot dog talk leads to contention but you can still rely on the Jamokes and Dr. Haupt to help you ketchup on this week’s comics!Note: Time codes are subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor.Running Time: 01:17:59Pick of the Week:00:02:33 – Marvel Age #1000Comics:00:20:14 – Batman/Catwoman: The Gotham War – Battle Lines #100:26:21 – Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #100:34:17 – Local Man: Gold00:38:20 – Action Comics Presents: Doomsday Special #100:41:37 – The Hunger and the Dusk #200:44:42 – Blade #2Patron Pick:00:48:07 – Marvel Age #1000Patron Thanks:00:50:30 – Kenneth DerrickAudience Questions:00:53:31 – Mike H. from Buffalo, New York wants to know how noisy the Green Lantern Corps is?00:59:29 – Dan B. pits the nerds against the jocks asking which type of trivia is more useless?01:05:54 – Pete B. asks how the Jamokes would run a Metropolis-based hot dog cart.Brought To You By:• Better Help – This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ifanboy and get on your way to being your best self.• iFanboy Patrons – Become one today for as little as $3/month! Or make a one time donation of any amount!• iFanboy T-Shirts and Merch – Show your iFanboy pride with a t-shirt or other great merchandise on Threadless! We’ve got twelve designs!Music:“Margaritaville”Jimmy Buffett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thanks to our awesome Patrons, we’re proud to present another episode of Mediasplode!Running Time: 01:13:23This month, Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick are joined by their original Pick of the Week co-host Ron Richards to discuss…What We’ve Been Enjoying:00:01:40 – Ron has been watching Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.00:07:25 – Josh has been catching up on The Crown and 1883.00:13:24 – Conor has been watching Minx, Justified: City Primeval, Reservation Dogs, Only Murders in the Building, Heels, Billions, and Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (and he forgot to mention Dark Winds!), and mourning the end of Riverdale.Game Time:00:17:03 – The 80s Comedy Draft!SPOILERS ABOVE!What’s a Mediasplode? It’s a monthly special edition show in which we talk about what we are enjoying in media outside of the realm of comic books. It’s like our All Media Year End Round-Up but in a shorter, monthly format.Music:“Here I Go Again (20th Anniversary Remaster)”Whitesnake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let iFanboy enhance your pleasure this week while the show goes long and a painful decision is made that hasn’t had to be made in a while.Note: Time codes are subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor.Running Time: 01:04:45Pick of the Week:00:02:06 – The Penguin #1Comics:00:12:09 – The Invincible Iron Man #659 (9)00:18:54 – Dark Knights of Steel #1200:23:32 – Dead Romans #600:32:34 – The Amazing Spider-Man #926 (32)00:36:21 – Big Game #200:39:25 – Marvel Unleashed #100:41:41 – Jean Grey #1Patron Pick:00:47:38 – The Immortal Thor #762 (1)Patron Thanks:00:54:49 – Wayne McNicolBrought To You By:• iFanboy Patrons – Become one today for as little as $3/month! Or make a one time donation of any amount!• iFanboy T-Shirts and Merch – Show your iFanboy pride with a t-shirt or other great merchandise on Threadless! We’ve got twelve designs!Music:“Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)”The Byrds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thanks to iFanboy Patrons, it's Talksplode time.Rick Remender, writer, artist, TV showrunner, teacher, story factory, father, punk rock skateboard kid, old man, and a long time friend of this podcast returns to Talksplode for a record seventh appearance over a fifteen year span. But not one of those chats was Rick and Josh alone, and they get into it. Where does this creative drive come from? Did comics almost lose him? How did he know to stay on this uncharted path of self determined comic book and story creation? Will we be able to come back and talk about The Scumbag a lot more? With his imprint, Giant Generator set to release a new spate of varied stories, like The Sacrificers and The Holy Roller, Rick gives his first long form interview in 3 years, and we're very happy with it.Total Running Time: 01:16:55Music:“Generator"Bad Religion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do they like it? Do they not? Why not? Is this all just whining? And what about the dentist? All these questions and more are proposed, answered and also not answered, but know that Groo is hungry and Puck is short. That might be it.Note: Time codes are subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor.Running Time: 01:13:04Pick of the Week:00:02:26 - Void Rivals #3Comics:00:16:26 - Batman/Superman: World's Finest #1800:24:50 - Groo in the Wild #200:29:54 - Wild's End #3Krakoa Corner:00:34:26 - Uncanny Avengers #100:40:37 - Alpha Flight #100:43:12 - Dark X-Men #1Patron Pick:00:46:13 - The Cull #1Patron Thanks:00:56:16 - Tony the Disney DadAudience Questions:00:58:04 - Greg from Philly has a fun little comic book game for us.Brought To You By:• Better Help - This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ifanboy and get on your way to being your best self.• iFanboy Patrons - Become one today for as little as $3/month! Or make a one time donation of any amount!• iFanboy T-Shirts and Merch - Show your iFanboy pride with a t-shirt or other great merchandise on Threadless! We've got twelve designs!Music:"Into the Void"Black Sabbath Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The iFanboy Animation Brain Trust — Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery, and Ryan Haupt — discuss the latest release from the DC Universe Animated Original Movie line… Justice League: Warworld ! Plus, the second half of the show is a messy free for all as we look ahead to Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths and Watchmen and back at Batman: Mask of the Phantasm and The Flash and discuss the rewatchability of the entire line of films, and the travesty of WB’s seeming obsession with romantically linking Bruce Wayne And Barbara Gordon!Running Time: 00:31:25Music:“All Around the World”Oasis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Jamokes go so far down memory lane it turns into a boulevard.Note: Time codes are subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor.Running Time: 01:00:00Pick of the Week:00:02:19 – The Enfield Gang Massacre #1Comics:00:11:43 – The Amazing Spider-Man #92500:20:36 – Danger Street, Book Eight00:22:31 – WildC.A.T.S. #1000:25:56 – Mech Cadets #100:27:55 – Superman 2023 Annual #100:30:54 – Barnstormers #200:32:52 – Immortal X-Men #1400:34:44 – Swan Songs #2Patron Pick:00:36:08 – The Enfield Gang Massacre #1Patron Thanks:00:36:56 – James DarlingAudience Questions:00:42:34 – Aaron B. was thinking about his own personal Comic Book Ages and wants to know about the iFanboys’ Comic Book Ages.Brought To You By:• Factor Meals – Get 50% off with code IFANBOY50• iFanboy Patrons – Become one today for as little as $3/month! Or make a one time donation of any amount!• iFanboy T-Shirts and Merch – Show your iFanboy pride with a t-shirt or other great merchandise on Threadless! We’ve got twelve designs!Music:“Rags to Riches”Tont Bennettand“Sugar Man”Rodriguez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blood donations! Formal storytelling! Time dilation! Gruesome uses of mutant abilities! And more from Dr. Ryan Haupt and Josh Flanagan this week. Get yourself a free cookie and have yourself a read and then a listen.Running Time: 01:16:03Pick of the Week:00:02:42 - Fantastic Four #703Comics:00:11:59 - Doctor Strange #43200:20:40 - X-Men #2500:24:47 - Star Wars: Dark Droids #100:31:54 - Sins of the Salton Sea #300:36:41 - Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent #600:39:25 - Hey Kids! Comics! vol. 3 #500:40:36 - Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. 1957 -- From BelowPatron Pick:00:42:51 - The Sacrificers #1Patron Thanks:00:57:14 - Steven T. SifertAudience Questions:01:01:08 - Scott from OR asks about comic convention memories and experiences.Brought To You By:• Better Help - This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ifanboy and get on your way to being your best self.• iFanboy Patrons - Become one today for as little as $3/month! Or make a one time donation of any amount!• iFanboy T-Shirts and Merch - Show your iFanboy pride with a t-shirt or other great merchandise on Threadless! We've got twelve designs!Music:"Tequila"The Champs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices