Character Corner - A Podcast on Your favorite Comic Book Characters

All good things must come to an end and so it is with our read through the Invincible series. Now it’s well known that even the best series have a hard time sticking the landing. How did Invincible do? Well…it stuck the landing. Kirkman really gives this series the ending it deserved and it felt like it came full circle and was completely earned.  Of course it also comes with a lo...

Now the fun begins. Secret Warriors gave us a taste of what was in that crazy brain of Hickman. S.H.I.E.L.D. is where we really start to see things form. This is the series that will have readers going back to issue 25 of Secret Warriors to start piecing things together. It’s also where the foundations for what Hickman does in his Fantastic Four run gets set.  We not only get the founda...

So it’s time to dive into something really good. We’re starting our “Into the Hickmanverse” series where we cover the major Marvel runs of Jonathan Hickman. Now if you’ve been a long time listener, then you’ll know that we’ve not only talked about the works of Hickman a lot but we’ve also covered a lot of them already. But you’re still not goin...

So we’re getting close to the end of our Invincible Comic Book Book Club and it would be an understatement to say things have escalated. To be honest, things get so intense in these 5 volumes, I was so traumatized, I thought I had already released this episode. So apologies for the delay but we’re finally back.  So what happens in these 5 volumes? Oh nothing, just…. Allen de...

One of the biggest differences between the Invincible comic series and the Amazon Prime Video adaptation is the pace. The comic really doesn’t give you a chance to catch your breath. And just to be clear, that works for the comic media. In these three volumes we get so much. From the “Invincible War” to Conquest to the Viltrumite War (and a bunch of stuff in between), these 5 vol...

We’re finally back with part 2 of our Barry Allen and the Flash family Character Corner series. We handle this episode a little different than our typical episodes. While we still bring up issues to read, we really focus on the discussion of the evolution of the Flash and the Flash family. Particularly under Mark Waid’s run. His run is really what helped define the modern take on The F...

It’s the battle of the bald headed bastards (no not Kriss & Dpalm), Zordon and Professor Xavier. Who is more likely to put your kids in a dangerous, life threatening situation? We’ve determined they’re both trash but at least Xavier will shoot you some money on the side after wiping your mind of the fact that you ever had kids. Anyway, we’re back with another Pull List....

We’re back with the next 5 volumes of Invincible and cover volumes 6 through 10. Invincible is an interesting series because it’s able to navigate accelerated storytelling with seeding things that don’t pay off until volumes later. It’s a good combination that both continually rewards the reader while also giving them something to look forward to.  In these 5 volumes,...

This feels like a long time coming. It’s actually quite amazing that it’s taken us this long to cover Barry Allen. We’re slowly making our way through the original seven members of the Justice League (Martian Manhunter is the only remaining member left and we’ll cover him soon). There’s a few reasons why it’s taken us such a long time to cover the character that...

Is World Domination a father-son bonding activity? Kriss and Dpalm dive into Robert Kirkman’s Invincible with the first five volumes. The first 5 volumes of this series are a great introduction to the world that Kirkman has set up. It’s also a great example of how those that say they want a “dark”, R-rated Justice League (looking at those lost SnyderCut stans), just need to...

First Character Corner of 2021 and we timed it to come out the same weekend that Marvel premieres its first Disney+ TV series: WandaVision. So, of course we had to tackle the Wanda Maximoff, The Scarlet Witch and her husband (ex-husband technically) Vision. These two characters actually have a pretty robust history and in the case of Wanda, have some pretty serious consequences in the Marvel Unive...

We’re cutting it close but we’re squeezing in a final Character Corner/Pull List episode of 2020. This has been a long, stressful year that’s disrupted our  normal schedule but we didn’t want to close out the year without one more episode. Plus, despite everything going on, it’s actually been a really great year for comics. There’s good stuff all around. Kr...

With the release of the Miles Morales: Spider-Man game for Playstation 4 & 5, it’s the perfect time to do a follow-up on Miles Morales. Back in 2015 we did a Character Corner on Miles ( Listen here ). Since then a lot has happened. Matter of fact, around the time of that episode, Miles was making the huge transition from the 1610 Ultimate Universe to the main 616 universe through Jonatha...

It’s that time again…time for another episode of the Pull List one the Character Corner podcast. Kriss caught up on what Scott Snyder did on Justice League and is doing with his anti-Crisis Crisis, Dark Knight Death Metal and we have thoughts.  Outside of the DC & Marvel super heroes, Power Rangers remains great and if you haven’t been reading the Star Wars books you’re really missing out...

It is good to be back. After taking an impromptu hiatus in September  we’re back with a new episode of the Character Corner. We’re wrapping up our  Superman series with Part 2. We pick up right where we left with the aftermath of the Death of Superman after his epic fight with Doomsday. Like the first episode, while we talk about issues and storylines, we also focus a lot on...

We’re back with another Character Corner episode. This time we’re diving into the first part of a two part series on the man himself, Superman. Created in 1938 by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, Superman is the first superhero and is the birth of the Golden Age. The first part of this series is going to focus more on the overall history and context of Superman and not really digging into...

Covid made the release of comics a little wonky. But we’re finally getting back to a normal schedule so the Pull List is back. We actually have a lot of books to talk about. One thing we do ask though is…when the hell is Saga coming back? It’s been almost two years since we got an issues and it really drives home the fact that when it comes to independent books, nothing is guaran...

Kriss, Dpalm and Justin wrap up their revisit of Nick Spencer’s Captain America run with the Secret Empire tie-in issues for both Captain America books as well as the Secret Empire cross-over event itself. As with the Captain America solo books, we discuss how relevant and timely some of the things Spencer brings  up are. From how evil Steve Rogers talks about Inhumans to  how easy...

Nothing like squeezing in one more Character Corner episode at the 11th hour.  Anyway, Kriss and Dpalm are back with Part 2 of their Captain America Character Corner. In the first episode we covered Steve Rogers and in this episode we cover all the other men that have held the Shield (Minus Sam since we covered Sam a few years ago) . While Steve Rogers was a Golden Age Character that eventual...

We’re back with a new episode of the Character Corner and this time we’re covering the legend himself: Captain America Steve Rogers. This will actually be a two part episode with the second episode focusing on the other holders of the shield (Bucky, Sam, Isaiah and others).  For this episode though, we wanted to focus on Steve Rogers and some of the key runs for the character and...

We’re finally back with a proper Character Corner. We get back to our roots with this episode. We’re not doing Creator Spotlight runs or a Comic Book Book Club. No this time we’re just going to take one character and tackle their history and we go for a big one: The Hulk. Created in May of 1962 (seriously, we didn’t plan on doing this episode in May, it just happened), Bruc...

April  has been a long year and so we’re doing a bit of switching up. We  were supposed to be doing a Hulk Character Corner this month but life was just so busy that didn’t happen. We still wanted to put out a show for the fans though. So we decided to put part 3 of our Tom King Batman Run up for all listeners on the MTR Network. Part 1 and Part 2 are up on the Premium feed s...

2020 has been a weird decade. Yes you read that right. We finally come back for a  Pull List episode to discuss some of the comics we’re reading only to record on April 1st and there be no new comics released for Marvel or DC due to a world wide pandemic. Yeah, not an April’s Day joke. The good news is there are still a ton of  comics to read and now is the perfect time to ca...

On this episode we wrap up our read of Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps with the last 4 volumes.  Volume 4 Fracture Volume 5 Twilight of the Guardians Volume 6 Zod’s Will Volume 7 Darkstars Rising There are some really great moments in the remainder of this run. Last time we talked about how great Guy Gardner was and this time it’s John Stewart. This run really shows how str...

On this episode we start the first of our two part Comic Book Book Club on the DC Rebirth run of Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps. We’ve covered the Green Lanterns before in a regular Character Corner but we really wanted to dive into this Rebirth run because it’s really great. For this first episode we cover the first three volumes: Volume 1: Sinestro’s Law Volume 2: Bottl...