Comic Patrol Pod

On the heels of out official episode, Bat Meat (Epi #42), we bring you the sequel to one of the books we covered there, Batman: Dark Victory. The successor to the overrated Batman: The Long Halloween, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale are back to continue their Bat-ventures. As always with our Arc Analysis episodes, spoilers contained within, so check it out and see how we stack it up on it's own and against...

We don't often do news-y episodes, but when something as big (and as great) as DC Fandome happens, even D'Lethal Weapons take notice. We talk about a heap of reveals that DC dropped on top of our nerdy little heads this weekend; from The Batman to Suicide Squad to Wonder Woman and even more Batmen, check out our new name for the whole thing: The DCFU.

Back in April, DC Comics Twitter sent out a simple question - which 3 books are in your reading pile out of the following nine: Batman The Dark Knight Returns Batman Gotham by Gaslight Batman The Killing Joke Batman The Long Halloween Batman Knightfall Batman Year One Batman The Court of Owls Saga Batman Hush Batman R.I.P. In today's meaty episode, we break down the exact definitive top 3 list (it...

Back at it again with our next Dawn of X episode: this is our 4th entry, Morning of X! Fantastic 4 meet the X-Men, Domino and Colossus share battle scars, Kate has to sink or swim, Sunspot and Deathbird romancing violence, we learn about the Crucible, Exodus is in some books, holy Nightcrawler, and remember Warwolves?  Covered in this episode: X-Men/Fantastic 4 #1 & #2 X-Force #7 X-Men #7 Excalibu...

It's been a very very very long time coming, but we're finally here: The Hero Draft Finale! It's down to our two finalists: Rogue and Psylocke - and we're here to give you backstory on them both, as well as set up the 3 different scenarios they will find themselves in for this final round - And it's up to you who will be crowned the champ. The 3 rounds consist of: 1. A fight of their 90's iteratio...

If you know Comic Patrol, then you know we can't help but bring back snippets of our beloved 90s comic book cartoons.  This time around, it's a deep cut from season 4 of the X-Men Animated Series which should have (and kind of is) essentially the series final arc: Beyond Good and Evil.  It's Apocalypse, it's Sinister, it's Magneto, and telephaths and time manipulation and an existensial crisis.. I...

Welcome to our next DoX update episode - it's been a whiiiiiile (thanks, 2020), but we're back with more X-books. Wolvie dazed and confused in the snow! Militant Hank McCoy! Sunspot the mack! And the end of Fallen Angels (and possibly some other mutant[s])! There's a lot happening in this update. Thankfully, Coke N Dank have all the summaries, commentary and hot takes you can (maybe) handle. Cover...

[Keg Week Pt 5] The final entry in our first ever Keg Week, and we'd like to say that it is a doozy. Published in 2012, The Secret History of the Foot Clan sheds light on how the ninja gang got it's checkered start while also linking it all to the present day.  We can't even pretend like it's a bad comic. It's good. It's really, really good. Listen in to find out why... Or eff off.  -- If you want...

[Keg Week Pt 4] Michael Bay can't help himself. He just can't. This movie proves that, even if it is his best version of the Turtles... while compared to the abysmal 2014 film. There is a lot to talk about when it comes to TMNT: Out of the Shadows because there are both good, and bad things about it. A heap more of one of those things, but listen in to find out whether it's the good stuff or the b...

[Keg Week Pt 3] Welcome to the middle of our TMNT Keg Week, and return of Comic Patrol.  What started out as a part two to our "Odd Crossovers" (Epi #34), quickly became a TMNT Crossovers episode based on two things: 1. How many crossovers the Turtles have been in since their conception, and 2. How much we fucking love the Turtles. These aren't every crossover they've ever been in, but there are d...

[Keg Week Pt 2] When two of our all-time favourite properties meet in a movie, you already know we have to Bottle Cap it.  The title is as the movie does: Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and boy does the movie ever do what it does. Listen inside to our Bottle Cap Review of it - and spoiler: it may set a new record for the amount of bottle caps it does (or doesn't) get.

[Keg Week Pt 1] AND WE'RE BACK! Been a while, and because of that, we're kicking off a very special week that we call a Keg Week, where we drop content every day between Monday and Friday on a certain theme. For our first Keg Week, we chose none other than our beloved TMNT, so here is our Arc Analysis of the comic book that literally started it all: 1984 Mirage Comic's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...

Coke & Dank scratch the surface of racism and its impact on the social climate of society in this special episode, before we return to form. Black Lives Matter.

Just in time for the movie to come out, Bloodshot (bang bang!) is here in comic book form for the 10th installment of our Arc Analysis series. Disclaimer: This book has a lot of blood and a lot of shots, which is fitting to it's name. It was part of the 2012 Valiant Universe 'reboot', and is the starting point for one of their main flagship characters. It's gory, it's bloody, it's action-y, but do...

Across the Pages (AxP) is our series where we take two similar-ish characters/teams/properties from different creators or publishers and give their various forms of media a well-deserved spotlight. This time it's all about spies, MI6 and gadgets galore: James Bond and Ninjak. How similar are these two chaps? Well, aside from body armour and actually being a ninja, pretty damn close. Secret Agent M...

Comic books and video games have a long(ish) history, going back a few decades: sometimes adaptations, sometimes continuations, sometimes filler and other times trash. With co-host Dank away in another galaxy, we have our 3rd(ish) team member fill in, who just happens to love video games as much as Coke does: introducing Whippet! The two Weapons go through a bunch(ish) of video game based comic bo...

You've never read anything like this before. Trust us, you haven't. Oh, you have, huh? You've read an 80's, hip-hop influenced, samurai-themed spin on Romeo and Juliet, that positions the title characters out of the spotlight to focus on Tybalt (and his underground sword-dueling gang) instead, while written in iambic pentameter? Is that a yes? Well then, keep it moving, I guess... But for those of...

Across the Pages (AxP) is our series where we take two similar-ish characters/teams/properties from different creators or publishers and give their various forms of media a well-deserved spotlight. This time around, for our 4th go at AxP, it's The Fox and The Bat: Zorro and Batman. Zorro enters his 101st year in 2020 and Batman his 81st, so it isn't hard to tell that these two have HISTORY. They a...

Ok, wait. Let us explain! This isn't what it looks like... ok, it is exactly what it looks like: an 80's Zorro parody flick where Zorro injures himself and his flamboyant twin brother takes over the cowl in the meantime. That's really it. Oh ya, plus some solid laughs and not as many gay jokes as you might expect (there are definitely still gay jokes and the like tho).  We break this movie down -...

Welcome to our next DoX update episode - it's been a little while, but we're back with more X-books. Boom Boom to the rescue! Apocalypse in a suit! Kate and Emma new besties? Psylocke's enemy revealed, monsters and dragons galore, and a few new deaths are all ahead for your eargasming pleasure. Last time we did all the #2's and #3's, but this time around, we're covering the #4's and a few #5's (th...

Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez created Locke and Key.  Coke and Dank now breakdown Locke and Key. From IDW, a 2008 story about mystery, suspense, family and self-discovery. We go through the story, talk about the characters, the plot and all the best parts of this creative, twisted world. -- If you want to request a comic book arc for Arc Analysis, hit us up on twitter or  ComicPatrolPod@gmail.com...

We had another episode idea slated and sketched out, but with the new Morbius trailer - and the thoughts that come along with - we switched things up and tossed out the episode outline. This is a little bit different: no script, no show prep, no notes - we just have a discussion about the new trailer, the Sony-Spider-Movie-Verse, the relationship with Marvel Studios, their other planned movies, an...

It has been a long time coming, but we have finally bottle capped a Batman TAS arc: Two-Face Pt 1 and 2. Arguably the best cartoon from our childhood, this story takes place across season 1, episodes 10 and 11, and is the birth/beginning of Harvey Dent's full transformation into Big Bad Harv A.K.A. Two-Face. How does Batman deal with his mentally ill friend turning full heel, while crime rings aro...

Merry Christmas! This was supposed to be our very festive Christmas episode, where we twist the 12 days of Christmas into the 12 days of comic book deaths.... But, our December was a mess, and so you guys are all getting this wonderfully joyous episode later than anticipated. And you'll like it too, goddammit. In this one, we talk about and rate (because we're morbid like that) a dozen different c...

There are SO. MANY. BOOKS. And because of that, we are breaking away from our usual episodes, and bringing you the first (of many) independent Arc Analysis series episodes. The first one up - or 7th if you've been keeping up - is the creepy and moody Image Comics' Gideon Falls: The Black Barn (issues #1 to #6) buy Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino. We break it down inside, and are quite split on t...