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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
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Mar 2, 2014 • 1h 2min
iFanboy Pick of the Week #425 – Black Science #4
On the cusp of his early 40s, Josh Flanagan joins Conor Kilpatrick and Paul Montgomery to talk about the comics. It was a big week, but the boys manage to discuss everything. All of the comics. Plus, Conor's captainship and Paul's curious fixation on sinuses stand revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 27, 2014 • 1h 5min
iFanboy’s Booksplode #14 - Akira, vols. 3 and 4
Paul Montgomery and Skottie Young continue their their brain-popping journey through Katsuhiro Otomo's landmark (toppling) Akira saga with volumes 3 and 4.
In the 21st century, the glittering Neo-Tokyo has risen from the rubble of a Tokyo destroyed by an apocalyptic telekinetic blast from a young boy called Akira -- the subject of a covert government experiment gone wrong now imprisoned in frozen stasis. But Tetsuo, an angry young man with immense and rapidly growing psychic abilities, has done the unthinkable: he has released Akira and set into motion a chain of events that could once destroy the city and drag the world to the brink of Armageddon. Resistance agents and an armada of government forces race against the clock to find the child with godlike powers before his unthinkable destructive abilities are unleashed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 23, 2014 • 1h 13min
iFanboy Pick of the Week #424 – Daredevil #36
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
Feb 16, 2014 • 1h 10min
iFanboy Pick of the Week #423 – She-Hulk #1
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
Feb 9, 2014 • 1h 20min
iFanboy Pick of the Week #422 – Minimum Wage #2
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
Feb 5, 2014 • 41min
iFanboy Special Edition Podcast - ‘Justice League: War’
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
Feb 2, 2014 • 1h 19min
iFanboy Pick of the Week #421 – Thor: God of Thunder #18
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
Jan 30, 2014 • 1h 3min
iFanboy’s Booksplode #13 - Akira vols. 1 and 2
"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
Jan 26, 2014 • 1h 10min
iFanboy Pick of the Week #420 – All-New Invaders #1
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
Jan 23, 2014 • 1h 31min
Talksplode #65 - Making Comics with Charles Soule and Joe Mulvey
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
