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Reviews: Archie #710: Archie and Katy Keene, Atlantis Attacks #1, Green Lantern: Legacy, Quantum and Woody #1 Jimmy has to do a quickie solo episode so he recruits his favorite audio reviewers to help out. Thanks to Emily, Emmy, Jon and Melissa! News includes: Atari is building hotels, The Boys returns to comic books, a Doctor Who surprise and more!  Leave your iTunes comments! 5 stars and nothing...

Reviews: Batman #86, Thor #1, The Adventures of Paddington, Avenue 5, Crisis On Infinite Earths Crossover Jimmy is joined in studio by good pal Jon Hoche! They chat about The Witcher (Jimmy finally started on it) and could have gone on for hours about the Crisis x-over on The CW. News includes: Random House Graphics launches, HBO says no more Watchmen, the animated series adaptation of Mike Maihac...

Reviews: Black Spot, A Christmas Carol, Doctor Who, Dracula, The Witcher, Jumanji 2: The Next Level, Star Wars #1 Another awesome review special! Jimmy recruits some of his favorite audio reviewers (Melissa, Jon, Emmy) to help him review some TV with a film and comic thrown in there for good measure. Some you may have seen. Some not. Maybe we'll entice you to check them out then! Let us know your...

As usual, we're just a bit late with our "Best of" list but we got there finally. Jimmy welcomes friends Heidi MacDonald and Jon Hoche to do their annual podcast picking their favorite comics, TV, film and more of 2019. This is the favorites that we read/saw/etc. We didn't read/see everything so there are probably some things that are left out that may have made it. Just our opinions! But we think...

Reviews: The Mandalorian, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Happy New Year to all! We ended 2019 with some hot Star Wars action so we thought we'd chat about it! Jimmy recruited some of his favorite audio reviews to talk about The Mandalorian series on Disney+. Does Baby Yoda make it all worth it? Will The Mandalorian take his helmet off? Just how many celebrity guest spots were there? Jimmy also g...

Reviews: The Crow: Hark the Herald One-Shot, Hazel & Cha Cha Save Christmas, Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Holiday Special 2019, Jem and the Holograms Holiday Special 2015, Klaus and the Life & Times of Joe Christmas, Marvel Holiday Magazine #1-4, Donald Duckling: The Beauty of Christmas with Everyone, Archie Christmas Spectacular 2019 #1  Happy Christmas to all! Jimmy's Christmas present to y...

Reviews: Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child #1, Dying Is Easy #1, Skulldigger and Skeleton Boy #1, Watchmen finale Jimmy is joined in studio by old pal Jon Hoche! They discuss the recent slew of nerdy trailers including Wonder Woman, Ghostbusters and Stargirl. They also saw that Watchmen finale and have a lengthy and spoilery talk on it all. News includes: Gary Larson The Far Side returns, Dyna...

Reviews: Fist of Justice #0, Rex Libris #1, First Strike #0, The X-Files: Origins #1, Darkstalkers #0, The Sadhu #1, Eartha Kitt: Femme Fatale #0, Niko and the Sword of Light #1, Lady Mechanika #0, Mercury Heat FCBD Edition.  It's Jimmy's birthday so he decided to give YOU a present. Free comics! Well, more like comiXology is giving them to you for free. He picked 10 random comics from their "free...

Reviews: Deadpool #1, Joker: Killer Smile #1, Glow vs. The Babyface #1, Heartbeat #1, The Mandalorian, Frozen II Jimmy is finally joined in the studio with a co-host! Someone he hasn't seen in about 10 years. Ashley Kate Adams sits in on the nerdy fun to discuss her upcoming film project Boy Hero as well as some of her other artistic endeavors. Boy Hero deals with the comic book trial of 1954 and...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got loads of interviews! He interviewed about 27 people and got around 7.5 hours worth of content. So over the next 2-3 weeks, you will get to hear them all! In this episode, you'll hear from creators Rachael Smith, Marc Ellerby, Laura Wildgoose and Matt Gibbs. Rachael chats about Stand In Your Power, her follow up to Wired Up Wrong t...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got loads of interviews! He interviewed about 27 people and got around 7.5 hours worth of content. So over the next 2-3 weeks, you will get to hear them all! In this episode, you'll hear from Unbound creators Chuck Mullin, Reimena Yee and Tom Woodman. Chuck chats about her funny and poignant comic Bird Brain that deals with her mental...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got loads of interviews! He interviewed about 27 people and got around 7.5 hours worth of content. So over the next 2-3 weeks, you will get to hear them all! In this episode, you'll hear from Barry Nugent, Robin Hoelzemann and Conor Boyle. Jimmy chatted with old pal Barry to talk about his Unseen Shadows universe he created in books,...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got loads of interviews! He interviewed about 27 people and got around 7.5 hours worth of content. So over the next 2-3 weeks, you will get to hear them all! In this episode, he talked with 3 creators whom have comics out with Avery Hill Publishing. While in London, Jimmy sat down with Katriona Chapman about her own comics, her job as...

For anniversary episodes, normally there is a live recording at a bar with special guests, songs, comedy bits and more. This time for the epic 1000th episode, and due to busy schedules and time of year, Jimmy and Producer Joe decided to just go back to their roots and record the podcast together. While not in the same physical place to record, they did it over the internet and just did what they l...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got loads of interviews! He interviewed about 27 people and got around 7.5 hours worth of content. So over the next 2-3 weeks, you will get to hear them all! In this episode, he talked with 2 creators whom have comics out with great UK publisher SelfMadeHero. Glyn Dillon talks about the re-release (with extras!) of his award winning g...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got loads of interviews! He interviewed about 27 people and got around 7.5 hours worth of content. So over the next 2-3 weeks, you will get to hear them all! In this episode, he talked with several creators whom have comics out with ComiXology Originals. Monica Gallagher discusses her book The Black Ghost along with her creator owned...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got loads of interviews! He interviewed about 27 people and got around 7.5 hours worth of content. So over the next 2-3 weeks, you will get to hear them all! In this episode, you can hear Jimmy travel up to Harrogate from Cambridge with his married friends Emma Vieceli and Andrew Ruddick. Thanks to Andrew's deft driving, we survived t...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got loads of interviews! He interviewed about 27 people and got around 7.5 hours worth of content. So over the next 2-3 weeks, you will get to hear them all! In this episode, he talked with The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard about his time on the book and what's next. Near the end of the show, he had a quick discussion with Kieron...

Jimmy is in London trying to find a way to get The Queen to let him live there. No luck so far! Meanwhile, he's gotten a few interviews while there before the big Thought Bubble Festival this weekend. In this episode, he met Lizzy Stewart at the South Bank Centre for a wonderful chat about her new graphic novel with Avery Hill Publishing called WALKING DISTANCE. It's about her walks around London...

Jimmy is in London trying to find a way to get The Queen to let him live there. No luck so far! Meanwhile, he's gotten a few interviews while there before the big Thought Bubble Festival this weekend. In this episode, he met Lucy Sullivan at the Barbican Centre for an absolutely delightful conversation about her upcoming new graphic novel with Unbound called BARKING. It deals with mental health an...

Comic News Insider: Episode 993 is now available fJimmy is heading to Thought Bubble Festival in the UK next week and boy does he have a ton of interviews lined up. In a span of 3 weeks, he read about 3,000 pages of comics and 300 pages of an actual NON-comic book to prep for those interviews. In this episode, he's going to talk, review and possibly gush over a bunch of the stuff he's read. Amazin...

Lots of new TV shows out there and a few season finales to discuss! So Jimmy recruits some of his favorite audio reviewers to lend a hand. Thanks to Melissa, Emily, Heidi, and Nic! Jimmy says good-bye to Preacher and The Terror: Infamy. And is moved by the touching tribute of the season 4 premiere for Riverdale. Quite a few new shows debuting so check out the reviews to see if you might be interes...

Jimmy covered the press room for Syfy's upcoming show Resident Alien . Attending cast/producers were Alan Tudyk, Sara Tomko, Corey Reynolds, Chris Sheridan, and Peter Hogan! Based on the comic of the same name from Dark Horse Comics, how true to it does it remain? How does the show balance the humor and sci-fi? What did Tudyk do to find his character? Tune in to find out! Leave your iTunes comment...

Jimmy covered the press room for Hulu's Runaways . Attending cast/producers were Allegra Acosta, Ariela Barer, Rhenzy Feliz, Virginia Gardner, Lyrica Okano, Gregg Sulkin, Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage and Jeph Loeb! What's coming for the next season? How will new big bad Elizabeth Hurley's character fit in? Why is the season going "dark"? Tune in to find out! Leave your iTunes comments! 5 stars...

Jimmy talked to 3 amazing creators about their new books. Shea Fontana wrote the new DC: Women of Action and talks about the female heroes and creatives of DC Comics. Jimmy also chatted with old pal Erica Schultz about her new Comixology Originals comic called Forgotten Home as well as some other projects in the works. Cynthia Von Buhler discussed her new comic that she wrote/drew called The Illum...