Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

Just in the nick of time, with days to spare, it's time for Previews! The Speakers of Geek crack open all the catalogs for comics mainly set for May 2024 release. Highlights include Jonathan Hickman and Sanford Greene's Doom, Garth Ennis' return to Nick Fury, Space Ghost is back at Dynamite, Mark Russell's Death Ratio'd, Remender and Posehn's Grommets, I Can Count to Ten and much more! (2:51:23)

The Speakers of Geek give their nominations for the CGS Best Comic Books of 2023 Awards, along with the choices made by YOU, the listeners! Who will be selected in each of the sixteen categories as our favorites? Listening in will solve that question. Happy voting! (2:40:51)

The countdown to Comic Geek Speak's 20th Anniversary begins here! What better way to start the celebrations than to announce early plans for a gathering in Reading, Pa. for March 2025! Listen in to hear how we are hoping to involve you, the listeners! And then Peter, Pants, Shane and Bryan continue the geek topics with: Broadway Geek Speak, a rousing trivia segment led by Pants based on Overstreet...

It's the nineteenth anniversary of CGS! And we're joined by artist extraordinaire and longtime member of the CGS Community, Dave Wachter, to discuss his latest book, Uncanny Valley. We learn how Dave first got into comics and then subsequently got back into them in the 2000s, as well as his recent run on Punisher and getting to design the new legacy version of the character, getting to draw the Pl...

Pants and Peter cover various topics such as: Old Pants Speak, a Tom King signing in Baltimore, January’s Original Art Expo in Orlando, behind the scenes info on the 52 weekly comic series, recent Comic Link results, trivia from the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, Newsstand vs Direct Market covers, current reading including Gotham City Year One, Dawn of DC, and Green Arrow, as well as older tit...

Shane, Murd and Ian are here to bring you this month's Previews! Image Catalog Issue 7, DC Connect issue 45, Marvel Previews Vol 6 issue 29, and Diamond Previews issue 425 are the books this month, with comics mainly set for a April 2024 release. Highlights include the return of Disney's Hercules, a reboot for Deadpool, Brainiac returns for a Superman crossover, RoboForce is back, and bunches of o...

It's Comic Talk time once more! We start things off with show announcements and discuss recent news about Cadence Comic Art. Next, we review Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Echo, What If...? and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. And then, World of Toys talk, recent reads of Action Comics, Zorro: Man of the Dead, titles from the Energon Universe, DC's How To Lose Guy Gardner in 10 Days, the new Superior...

IT'S A MADHOUSE!!! We finally make a monkey out of you, as we return for another entry in our Retro Movie Review series, this time with Chris' choice, the original Planet of the Apes. This classic Rod Serling and Franklin J. Schaffner science fiction opus crafted a franchise that is still cooking 56 years later. The Speakers of Geek discuss the minutia of the film itself, the world building, Charl...

It's the first Previews of 2024! Chris, Murd and Ian bring forth a doozy of a read-through of Image Catalog Issue 6, DC Connect issue 44, Marvel Previews Vol 6 issue 28, and Diamond Previews issue 424, clocking in at nearly three hours of choice selections, with books mostly set for a March 2024 release! Highlights include Biker Mice From Mars, The Last Mermaid splashes onto shore, Greg Weisman br...

Bryan, Peter, Shane, Kevin and Adam gather to discuss: Colonoscopy Geek Speak, the defunct Warner Bros. Studio Store, Where were you when Superman died?, Golden Eagle memories, G.I.Joe 301, Low by Remender and Tocchini, Killadelphia by Barnes and Alexander, '90s X-Force comics, Happy Days 50th Anniversary trivia, an in-depth review of Ultimate Spider-Man 1 by Hickman and Checchetto, celebrating 25...

One last episode before the year concludes, as Murd, Shane, Chris and Ian go through the various December Previews catalogs, with books mostly set for a February 2024 release date. This spans Image Catalog Issue 5, DC Connect issue 43, Marvel Previews Vol 6 issue 27, and Diamond Previews issue 423. Highlights include the new batch of Free Comic Book Day issues, the return of Thundercats (HOOOOOOO!...

Reach deep into the toe of your stocking and you'll find the last delicious morsel of this classic of Christmas literature as read by Murd, in which L. Frank Baum describes how dear old Santa Claus overcame the last few obstacles (including Death itself!) in his neverending quest to make all the children of the world happy at Christmastime. Happy Holidays from CGS! (31:54)

Matt, Shane, Murd, Chris and Ian convene with merriment, as it is time for this year's Cornucopia! Plenty to discuss in this one, including the merits of VHS, Special and Unspecialized Star Wars, the alternate fate of Jason Todd released after all these years, the official death of Comixology as an app, Belgian comic book acquisitions in the form of The Adventures of Blake and Mortimer, a spoiler-...

Bryan, Peter, Shane, Pants and Adam gather to discuss: Cuisine Geek Speak, Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns cover debate, some recent local conventions, Hiroshi Sumi’s Voice of a Star Wars Fan short film, holiday ornaments, Star Wars: Dark Empire from Dark Horse by Tom Veitch and Cam Kennedy, Dave Filoni's promotion at LucasFilm, Dr. Who 60th Anniversary specials, Adventures of Captain America b...

To me, my X-Men! The Speakers of Geek discuss their Top 5 favorite X-Men of all time. There is plenty of crossover between lists, an amazing Murdoughnian surprise as one would expect, and some other unique choices along the way. Get some training in in The Danger Room, grab yourself a belt with an X on it, and practice your Claremontian narration! (1:59:38)

What's more festive than gathering round a table with turkey, cranberry sauce, gravy, stuffing and pumpkin pie? Previews, of course! Murd, Chris and Ian gorge themselves on Image Catalog Issue 4, DC Connect issue 42, Marvel Previews Vol 6 issue 26, and Diamond Previews issue 422, with books mostly scheduled for release in January 2024. Highlights include some new Garth Ennis, Greg Pak's Lilo &...

Flash back to last year's Anime NYC 2022, just in time for this year's Anime NYC. Interviews include manga translator for books such as Cat + Gamer and Marvel's Demon Wars, writer Zack Davisson, as well as artist Robert Wilson IV from Oni Press' Heartthrob, Vault's Barbaric: The Harvest Blades, Bitch Planet issue 3, and a bunch of posters for bands such as Metallica and Weird Al! We then flash for...

As Marvel begins republishing this long in limbo property, we here at Comic Geek Speak gather together to discuss the first twelve issues of the 1979 classic the Micronauts! With the help of Ryan Drost of the Star Joes Podcast we cover the history on the original toy line, what led Bill Mantlo to the comic book series in the first place, who Marvel nearly had draw the title before Michael Golden s...

The Speakers of Geek cover several topics including: cheering on the Phillies, Concert Geek Speak, honoring the legacy and career of Keith Giffen, original art and sketches, our first Giffen comics, Pants' trip to Baltimore and New York comic conventions, and CGS History for September and October. As well as a return segment of Off the Rack Reviews on the first issues of Transformers by Daniel War...

Previews time yet again! The Speakers of Geek mull over Image Catalog Issue 3, DC Connect issue 41, Marvel previews Vol 6 issue 25, and Diamond Previews issue 421, for books mainly set for a December 2023 release. Highlights include Marvel's latest Timeless adventure, the conclusion of Zdarsky's Mindbomb storyline in Batman, Brubaker and Phillips' Where the Body Was, the return of Valiant thanks t...

Recently, Toy Fair held their (usually) annual event at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City on September 30th through October 3rd, 2023. Ian attended the trade show for the first time, and he discusses the event with Kris Naudus on this very episode. They delve into just what exactly Toy Fair is, where it will be headed come 2025 after 100+ years in NYC, how this year's event compared to prev...

Comic book creator Sean Chen joins us for the first time to talk about his new Kickstarter EVERMIND, co-created with actor Daniel Wu. We get a chance to learn about Sean's career in comics, his time at Valiant, working on Iron Man and some fascinating insights on how he first got into the business. Afterwards, Murd recounts his trip to the Spider-Man in Popular Culture Conference at Bowling Green,...

Shane! Chris! Ian! Previews! These books are in issue 2 of Image's catalog, DC Connect issue 40, Marvel previews Vol 6 issue 24, and Diamond Previews issue 420, for books mainly set for a November 2023 release. Highlights include a Gang War at Marvel, a Beast World at DC, the return of The Outsiders, Howard the Duck is back, Christmas comes early with Image's The Deviant, GI Joe returns, and so mu...

We go all the way back to 1984 for tonight's Retro Movie Review; long before the Internet, podcasts, or Zoom were even a dream in the wind. Instead, we found ourselves getting lost in the pages of a story book...quite literally. That's right, for Murd's selection, the crew of Ian, Chris, Shane and Murd discover together the true majesty that is The Neverending Story! What say they about one of Mur...

A collection of Bryan, Peter, Shane, Murd and Pants tell us all to get off their lawns with an