Character Corner - A Podcast on Your favorite Comic Book Characters

We’re finally back with another Character Corner. Sorry for the delays, been having a lot going on outside of the network and so it’s taken us a while to get back to where we need to be. We’ll definitely be back to a more normal schedule in 2019. We do have a schedule for the rest of 2018 and it’s as follows: Ultimate Spider-Man Part 2 (Hi) The Legacy of Stan Lee Doom Patrol Aquaman Part 1 & 2...

In October 2000, Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley launched Ultimate Spider-Man and it quickly became the the ultimate success story for the ultimate line. Benis and Bagley held the record for the longest continual run on a Marvel comic series by two people. Having one creative team for so long allowed Ultimate Spider-Man to take chances and explore the world of a teenage Peter Parker in ways r...

We wrap up our discussion about the Robins with Tim Drake and Damian Wayne (with a slight detour to discuss Stephanie Brown). We’ve covered Tim , Stephanie before in their own Character Corners and touched on Damian’s origin in Batman Part 3 .  So in this episode we’re going to do less of a complete deep dive and more of a conversation about each and where they are now.&#160...

Kriss and Dpalm are back with another Character Corner episode. This time its Part 1 of a two part series on the Robins. We ’ ve covered most of the Robins already in previous episodes like Batman’s Rogue Gallery, Tim Drake, all the Batgirl episodes and our three part Batman series. But we ’ ve never really dug deep into each of the Robins and gone into their differences and how they tell th...

We wrap up our creator spotlight on Jonathan Hickman with him destroying and rewriting the Marvel Universe(s). Hickman’s Avengers run is so good because it ties in with his previous work with the Fantastic Four and S.H.I.E.L.D. perfect and really brings everything home. The way that New Avengers and Avengers seem to start off as different books but slowly reveal to be telling the same story...

We’re continuing our look at Jonathan Hickman’s Marvel run by going all the way back to the beginning and talking about his Secret Warriors and S.H.I.E.L.D. runs. We only touch on a bit of Secret Warriors since we’ve covered that before but we’ve never talked about S.H.I.E.L.D which has its foundations laid in Secret Warriors and explains several things from Hickman’s Fantastic Four run (Ever want...

We’re continuing our Summer of Character Corner expansions with a new Character Corner/Comic Book Book Club hybrid. We’re kicking off our discussion of Jonathan Hickman’s Marvel run by discussing his wonderful Fantastic Four Run. Hickman fundamentally changed the Marvel Universe, starting in 2009 with Secret Warriors all the way through the 2015 Secret Wars. We’ll be revisi...

Kriss and Dpalm are back with another…wait…is this a Character Corner or a  Comic Book Book Club? If you didn’t know we’re trying something new on the Character Corner podcast feed. We’ll still be doing break downs of our favorite characters but in order to bring new content to the listeners, we’re also going to be bringing some Comic Book Book Club episode...

In 2005, the Transformers comic license had found it’s way to IDW Publishing and back into the hands of beloved Transformers scribe Simon Furman. Only, things didn’t necessarily go according to plan in those initial issues as the man behind the keyboard spun a tale largely absent the well worn trappings of the franchise. To say the fan base was uneasy is to put it mildly so fresh off o...

With Deadpool 2 hitting theaters this weekend we’ve finally recorded our Character Corner episode on Nathaniel Christopher Charles Summers, aka, Cable. Now first off, we’ve touched on a lot of the early years with Nathan/Cable already in some previous Character Corners. We cover Nathan’s birth and being sent to the future in the Cyclops & Alex episode as well as him being gen...

%CODE_MCF% Kriss talks with Sam Stevquoah about his own production company’s flagship animated project,  Mill City’s Finest . Sam describes Mill City’s Finest as an “urban, superhero coming of age story” in the same vein as Young Justice and Static Shock .  We chat about how Sam got involved in animation, what makes this series so unique and culturally diver...

Avengers Infinity War is in theaters now and is already crushing records (and souls). While you wait for Avengers 4 to come out, now is a perfect time to catch up on Thanos in the comics to see just how accurate the movie is. But before we can get into Thanos, we first have to give a brief overview of Marvel Cosmic. We’ve touched on Marvel Cosmic a bit with Inhumans and when we talked Alex S...

We finish up the Dark Knight himself with what might be the greatest and longest streak of great stories for a solo character. From the time Grant Morrison takes over Batman to today’s Tom King Run, we have what is arguably the best storytelling at DC. It gets weird, it gets crazy and it brings in things all the way from the 50’s & 60’s. If you want to truly understand Bruce Wayne and Batman,...

%CODE_BAT2% We’re back with Part 2 of our Batman Character Corner. Part 1 focused mostly on the early comics up through the introduction of Tim Drake in Batman #440. For this episode, before diving back into the comics, we wanted to cover the other media that Batman has been prevalent in. Considering that TV has had a big impact on Batman in the comics, we felt throwing this episode in between the...

It all started with an idea. 10 years ago Marvel Studios launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe and nothing was the same again. Ten years and 18 (soon to be 19) films and over 15 BILLION dollars. It’s the highest grossing movie franchise of all time and Marvel Studios is one of the most innovative companies and movie studios there is. So how did it all start? We break it down and go over the histo...

This time on the Character Corner we’re finally talking about The Batman. We’ve talked around Batman for a while now. We covered him a bit in our Suicide Squad Character Corner, then the Rogue Wars episode on is villains. We’ve also covered one Robin and all of the Batgirls and even Batwoman. So it’s about time we finally dive into discussing the big guy himself. We’ll be breaking this out into th...

%CODE_APOCALYPSE% We’re back with another Character Corner. This time we’re doing double the trouble with two classic X-Men villains: Apocalypse and Mister Sinister. It’s actually pretty fitting that we do these two at this point. We recently did an episode on the Summers brothers, Scott & Alex. And we’re also planning on doing an episode on Cable and the rest of the Su...

*Note* Excuse the audio issues this episode. I was partly sick when recording this and didn’t check my settings.* %CODE_LEXLUTHOR% We’re back! While our Summers Brothers episode was technically the first Character Corner of 2018, we recorded it in 2017, so this Lex Luthor episode is the first real episode of 2018. And you all are in for a treat. This episode is slightly different from our ot...

http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/6121556 We’re starting 2018 off right by going through the essential comic books for Scott Summers and Alex Summers. That’s right it’s Cyclops and Havok time. Any chance we can get to talk X-Men, we’re going to leap at it. This was a fun episode to do because Cyclops and Havok have such long and rich histories not only with the X-Men but X-Factor...

We’re back to wrap up our Batgirls Character Corner with two special characters: Cassandra Cain and Kate Kane. Now, Kate really isn’t a Batgirl as she never took up the mantle and her origin as Batwoman is pretty much autonomous from Batman but we’re including her in this series anyway. Cassandra is also an interesting case. She’s definitely a Batgirl, as she’s the fi...

It’s been a while but….WE’RE BACK! Feels like a while since we’ve done a Character Corner. But we’re back now and it’s time to enter once again into the Bat-Family, this time with the mantle of Batgirl. To the uninitiated, the Batgirl mantle might just seem like the female-version of the Robin mantle. But that couldn’t be further from the truth.  We s...

Thor: Ragnarok drops this week and so it’s time to wrap up our Thor Character Corner with part 2. First we quickly cover what happened when we last left Thor during part 1. Ragnarok happened and Thor and the rest of Asgard died. And Thor stayed dead for a while. When the road to Civil War started, Thor was still gone but Mjolnir makes an appearance, falling to Earth as the Gods died, tearing...

We’re a few weeks out from Thor: Ragnarok being released so I guess it’s time to drop our latest Character Corner: Thor Part 1! First off, we recorded this over a month ago so please excuse any outdated references. If you’re listening to this I’m assuming Trump hasn’t killed us all so that’s a positive. Anyway, in this first part of a two part series, we cover Thor Volume 1 and Thor Volume 2. Our...

Journey with The Doctor and Tim Lewinson, writer and creator of Savage Empire, into a world of time rifts, urban warfare, and dinosaurs.  Tim joins me to discuss his debut novel, how his work in video games lent itself to writing, the difference between the media, creating a diverse world with 3 dimensional characters, and the amazing story that Savage Empire introduces. Find Timothy on Twitt...

We’re back with another Character Corner and this time we’re covering the Inhumans. First off, let’s make it clear that we’re mainly focused on the Royal Family of the Inhumans. The “Nuhumans” or the Inhumans created on earth due to the Terrigen bomb that Black Bolt sets off during the events of Infinity are definitely a separate category. We might cover some of the more famous “Nuhumans” in a lat...