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Mike, Paul, and Nick were LIVE on Twitch to talk comics, Nick makes a terrible Breaking Bad reference, and the gang tries to explain just what IS Oni Press? Get your late pledge for an IRCB Zine: ircb.fyi/zine Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics 00:02:21 - Fantastic Four Update! 00:10:16 - Those Not Afraid #1-3 00:26:35 - The Prince In The Basement 00:35:12 - Discord Picks 00:35:52 -...

"Pulverizing" Paul Jaissle, "Dangerous" Danny Martinez, and "The Zach Attack" Zach McCrary discuss the meeting of two great mediums: professional wrestling and comic books! Follow Zach's podcast, The Comics That We Love: https://kite.link/the-comics-that-we-love Follow Danny''s YouTube channel, Next Issue Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@nextissuepodcast Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in...

Mike, Kara, and Paloma talk comics! Sonic 3! Horror Comics! Marvel Snap! Step It Up! This episode is packed! Correction : Mike credited Javier Rodriguez as the artist on She-Hulk -- he was wrong! And he miscredited Gabriel Hernandez Walta on Phantom Road. YEESH! Get your late-pledge for Totally Not A Cult at https://ircb.fyi/zine Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics 00:03:41 - Through...

This episode originally aired on the IRCB Patreon: https://patreon.com/ircbpodcast The first episode of our new series about the covers  of the series The Wicked + The Divine. Kara and Tia dive deep on a few covers of issue #1 of WicDiv to kick off the series! Jamie/Matt cover : https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wicdiv/images/6/65/Issue1cover_Laura.jpg Headshots in millions of colors! : https://st...

Mike and Danny talk with long time podcast regular Brian! Who is Brian? What kind of TTRPGs does he like? And Brian fan casts Danny and Mike as Pokemon Gym Leaders?! Get your late pledge for the IRCB Zine, Totally Not A Cult: https://ircb.fyi/zine The Adarvaan #1 Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jdheriford/the-adarvaan-issue-1-heriford-wells-maiolo-wands The Song Survives Kickstar...

Mike, Paul, and Nick sat down to discuss Captain America's Madbomb Saga from 1976 written and drawn by Jack Kirby, a strangely prescient comic... Captain America: Madbomb Saga covers Captain America #193-200. Check out this article from Marvel about this incredible run: https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/marvel-flashback-captain-america-s-madbomb-saga Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in...

Mike, Kara, and Paul discuss comics in our Goodreads Theme of the Month: "WE KNOW MEN MAKE COMICS: Comics made by women & non-binary creators!" Check out our Goodreads Thread for this month's reading theme: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/23064657-march-2025-botm-comics-by-women-non-binary-creative-teams A Magical Girl Retires: https://www.harperlibrarybookclub.com/9780063373266/a-magical-gir...

This episode of IRCB originally aired on our Patreon in December 2024. You can find HUNDREDS of other exclusive podcast episodes at https://patreon.com/ircbpodcast Mike, Kara, and Danny all saw Kraven the Hunter (2024) . Mike has a meltdown. Kara tries to understand. Danny keeps the peace. Full spoilers ahead. Music provided by Infinity Shred . Find them on Bandcamp . IRCB Avatars by @ICELEVEL IRC...

Mike, Nick, and Danny were LIVE on Twitch! Mike shows off his new tattoo, we threaten to change the podcast, and Nick accuses Mike of being a Star Trek superfan. Note : There were some MINOR audio glitches with Nick's audio this week. Apologies! Check out Zona del Male: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dgw-zonadelmale1/zona-del-male-a-folk-horror-anthology THE IRCB ZINE "TOTALLY NOT A CULT" IS...

Mike and Zach are joined by special guest Nick Goode to talk comics and Nick's Kickstarter: Sussex. Plus: THE IRCB KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!!! Check out Sussex on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nickgoode/sussex-chapters-one-and-two Follow Nick online: https://www.instagram.com/goodie182/ https://web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/goodie182.bsky.social THE IRCB KICKSTARTER IS LIVE: https://ircb...

Kait, Paloma, and Kate dig into our Goodreads Theme of the Month, "OMG, You Haven't Read That Yet?!", and discuss a few comics they can't believe they haven't read yet! Join the Goodreads discussion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/23025725-february-2025-botm-omg-you-haven-t-read-that-yet Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics 00:00:50 - V for Vendetta 00:09:59 - Batman Year One 00:...

Mike and Kait chat comics with special guest Ben Kahn and their latest comic, Mr. Muffins: Defender of the Stars! THE IRCB ZINE GOES LIVE ON MARCH 3rd!! https://ircb.fyi/zine Follow Ben Kahn online: https://www.benkahncomics.com/ Progressively Horrific Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/progressively-horrified/id1537930514 Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics 00:01:30 - Jo...

Mike, Paul, and Danny discuss comics! Who'd have thought? Paul is going on a Fantastic Four journey, we discuss family paintings, and we imagine a more magical Honey I Shrunk The Kids. THE IRCB KICKSTARTER IS GOING LIVE ON MARCH 3RD!!! https://ircb.fyi/zine Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Start / Last Week in Comics 00:01:46 - Fantastic Four #1-7 00:09:31 - Dark Spaces: Wildfire 00:18:04 - Adrift on a Pain...

Mike, Danny, and Zach are back to basics this week chatting comics, Zach's love for DSTLRY comics, Mike's dedication to Pokémon Go, and Danny finally getting back into Star Wars comics. Check out the IRCB ZINE!!!! https://ircb.fyi/zine Bruno Catarino's Kickstarter “Bereavement”: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redwulfcomics/bereavement-a-36-page-murder-mystery-sci-fi-one-shot Timestamps: 00:0...

Mike and Kara have a nice conversation with Tia for her panelist episode! The origins of Tia's love of Kieron Gillen comics, her Wic+Div variant collection, and riding horses competitively?! Timestamps 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics 00:00:55 - IRCB Panelist Spotlight ft. Tia! 00:53:43 - Wrap Music provided by Infinity Shred . Find them on Bandcamp . IRCB Avatars by @ICELEVEL IRCB Logo by Kyl...

IT'S THE IRCB ANNUAL! Mike, Kara, Paul, and Kait talk comics, reflect on the last year of IRCB, and Mike explodes with information as he talks about what we have upcoming for IRCB in 2025--including an IRCB Kickstarter! CHECK  OUT THE IRCB KICKSTARTER: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikerapin/totally-not-a-cult-an-anthology-art-zine-curated-by-ircb?ref=7sr13g Read Mike's Patreon update (for...

Mike and Kait are joined by Chris Solis and Aubrey Lyn Jeppson to talk about our Goodreads Book of the Month, "The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien" by John Hendrix. PLUS their Kickstarter The Order of The Nun-Ya! Check out The Order of The Nun-Ya on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/solissequentials/theorderofthenunya OrderNunYa.com Follow Chris...

Mike, Paloma, and Danny plan out their 2025 Comics New Years resolutions and talk about some comics they've read. Take the IRCB Listener Survey here: https://forms.gle/4kRphg61Wm4unfw98 IRCB's Best Comics of 2024: https://ircbpodcast.com/best-comic-books-of-2024 Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Start / Show News! 00:05:10 - Hexagon Bridge 00:15:11 - When I Lay My Vengeance Upon Thee #1 00:22:35 - John Const...

Paul, Nick, and Kait sat down to discuss the comic Friday by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin -- just in time for winter to go into full swing! The Annual IRCB Listener Survey is LIVE! Music provided by Infinity Shred . Find them on Bandcamp . IRCB Avatars by @ICELEVEL IRCB Logo by Kyle Rose Producer : Mike Rapin Prooflistener : Zach McCrary Editor : Zander Riggs Music provided by Infinity Shred . Fi...

Mike, Danny, and Zach talk comics as they get into gear for the holiday season. Happy Holidays! Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics 00:01:07 - Freddie The Fix 00:07:44 - Plastic Man NO MORE! #1-4 00:14:09 - Bug Ego 1-5 00:25:25 - Discord Picks 00:26:12 - The City Beneath Her Feet #1 00:30:29 - Frontier 00:34:49 - The One Hand and The Six Fingers 00:44:34 - Wrap Music provided by Infin...

This week Mike and Brian talk with Kate in her panelist episode! Kate loves Lego, YA OGNs, and STILL hasn't read V for Vendetta since she joined the show in 2016! Timestamps 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics 00:00:53 - Briar Vol 1 00:06:45 - A.X.E Judgement Day 00:13:18 - Tin Can Society #1-3 00:20:54 - Discord Picks 00:21:28 - Stars in Their Eyes 00:23:52 - The New Gods #1 00:27:11 - Leviathan...

Kara, Paul, and Nick dig into Kraven The Hunter in comic book form by reading "Kraven’s Last Hunt" by J.M. DeMatteis, Mike Zeck, Bob McLeod, Zeck and Ian Tetrault, and Rick Parker! Timestamps: 00:00:00 - It’s Kraven Time! 00:47:10 - Wrap Music provided by Infinity Shred . Find them on Bandcamp . IRCB Avatars by @ICELEVEL IRCB Logo by Kyle Rose Producer : Mike Rapin Prooflistener : Danny Martinez E...

Paul, Nick, and Danny discuss a few comics they picked for the cover alone as part of our Goodreads Theme of the Month! Interview: Dennis Hopeless on Asking “What If?” in SHE’S RUNNING ON FUMES: https://www.freaksugar.com/interview-dennis-hopeless-on-asking-what-if-in-shes-running-on-fumes/ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Start / Last Week in Comics 00:00:57 - She’s Running on Fumes (OGN) 00:13:35 - Justic...

Brian, Kara, and Nick sat down to discuss Transformers Vol. 1 by Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicer from Image (Skybound) Comics! Music provided by Infinity Shred . Find them on Bandcamp . IRCB Avatars by @ICELEVEL IRCB Logo by Kyle Rose Producer : Mike Rapin Editor : Zander Riggs Music provided by Infinity Shred . Find them on Bandcamp . IRCB Avatars by @ICELEVEL IRCB Logo by Kyle Rose Support...

Mike, Kait, and Danny were LIVE on Twitch! This week they were talking about comics from our Goodreads Theme of the Month: Feel Good comics for when the seasons are making you feel down. Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics 00:01:05 - Jill and the Killers 00:09:30 - Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou vol. 3 00:19:08 - We Called Them Giants 00:26:28 - Discord Picks 00:27:21 - Cat Massage Therapy v...