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The Red Tornado gone haywire! The Freedom Fighters deployed! Wildcat down for the count! And the Anti-Monitor revealed! We close the book on issue #5 of the Crisis maxiseries in this episode. (3:00:05)

How can you lose when we talk PREVIEWS? We go through the January catalog for items shipping to stores beginning in March. (2:03:53)

Presenting a new type of CGS episode, in which the Geeks review brief-but-important story arcs selected from throughout comics history. Is it a Spotlight or a Book of the Month or... IS IT BOTH?? First, we train our gaze on a classic JLA/JSA team-up from 1980, 'Crisis on New Genesis' (Justice League of America [Vol. 1] #183-185), featuring Jack Kirby's New Gods and the first-ever JLA artwork by Ge...

In this Force-majeure episode, we share our mixed feelings about Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, the conclusion of the latest trilogy of Star Wars motion pictures: what it did right, where it went wrong, where our hopes lie for the future of Star Wars. Listen, and your journey toward the Dark Side will be complete!! (1:34:27)

After digging around in the chestnut-pit for this year's festive fable, Murd is pleased as plum pudding to present the first story ever told about the most famous reindeer of all: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, as penned by Robert L. May in 1939! Pull up an ice-block and lend an ear! (10:42)

When what to your wondering eyes should appear, but a Previews episode--our last of the year! We go through the December catalog for items shipping to stores beginning in February. (2:15:57)

More 'Worlds in Limbo' as Adam and Peter continue their super-scrutiny of Crisis #5. Plus, a quick initial reaction to Part One of the CW Network's CoIE TV event! (2:31:29)

It's a little late for Thanksgiving, but we've got lots of lovely leftovers for your listening leisure in our annual overstuffed holiday gobstopper episode!  We're thawing out and hashing up a range of topics from the current state of Marvel TV, to a titanic trio of trending trailers, to the CW Network's milestone 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' crossover event, to HBO's Watchmen, to Disney's Mandalor...

Ev'ry morning, ev'ry evening, ain't we got Previews? We go through the November catalog for items shipping to stores beginning in January. (2:28:41)

Chris, Murd, and Ian join Paul Spataro and Dr. Bill Robinson of the Back to the Bins podcast for another righteously retrogressive round-table on three older comics of the Geeks' choosing.  We've got ghosts, Jack O'Lanterns, and Chinese harvest festivals on the agenda, so travel back with us first to October... and then to the Bins! (2:00:10)

The last will and testament of the Monitor! Amok-time on two fugitive Earths! And the multiversal mother of all crowd scenes aboard the Monitor's satellite! Venture beneath the cover of CoIE #5 with Adam and Peter! (2:58:16)

Lover. Killer. Superhero. Spy. Natalia Alianovna Romanova, alias the Black Widow, has acted in many capacities during her six decades of appearances in Marvel Comics. Now, CGS chief intelligence officer Chris Eberle opens the Widow dossier to debrief the public on the lives, loves, and lethal labors of this intriguing character. Classified Information--Ears Only! (1:59:34)

Here's ghoulies and ghosties, long-leggedy beasties, and PREVIEWS that go bump in the night!  We go through the October catalog for items shipping to stores beginning in December. (2:34:21)

The Geeks quit clowning around and share their takes on the JOKER film (some SPOILERS occur... seriously!). Also, Ian's fast-paced fly-through of New York Comic-Con 2019; Kevin Feige's expanded role at Marvel Entertainment; Murd's encounter with Grant Morrison's sword-and-sorcery Santa saga, Klaus; mini-reviews of Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium, Grendel: Devil's Odyssey, and a Steve Ditko retr...

One cover. Ninety-plus characters. Two hosts. Three hours. Zero regrets. Before our discussion of the fifth chapter of Crisis, join us in a 'quick' review of the key players from the two prime Earths, as selected and depicted by George Perez. (3:16:56)

All we are saying is give Previews a chance!  We go through the September catalog for items shipping to stores beginning in November. (2:10:05)

Seventeen years and two reboots ago, Spider-Man took his first swing at the big screen, under the direction of Sam Raimi and supported by a memorable cast including Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and Willem Dafoe.  Today, with Spidey's cinematic future in question, the Geeks hearken back to that simpler time and spin their own web of praise and deprecation around the original Spider-Movie: the star...

The Geeks act as digital-audio docents, summarizing their experience of the Marvel exhibit at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia!  Other attractions include a salute to FlameCon 2019; the inevitable rundown of the Sony/Spider-Man cinematic situation (sheesh!); a tantalizing MCU casting announcement; a few very earnest reading recommendations; a bargain-store bonanza for Shane; Muddle the Murd,...

Come and get your Previews! We go through the August catalog for items shipping to stores beginning in October. (2:14:55)

August heat got you beat?  Cool off with a big, ice-cold pitcher of Comic Talk, featuring follow-ups to our recent Top 5 Animated Series of Our Youth episode; reactions to SDCC news & gossip; a full-scale, five-Geek review of Spider-Man: Far From Home; and more!  It's comic fun in the summertime! (2:26:50)

Previews comin' at'cha!  We go through the July catalog for items shipping to stores beginning in September. (2:27:42)

Get set for Saturday-morning sentimentality, as a packed clown-car of six Geeks share fond memories of the cartoon shows they loved most in their younger days (ages 0-18). Best enjoyed with a bowl of cereal or your favorite after-school snack! (WARNING: Discussion gets a little... confessional... at times.) (2:27:32)

It was the worst of times for Daredevil; it was the best of times for his readers! It was 1986, and comics auteur Frank Miller was making his second pass at writing Marvel's Daredevil series, accompanied this time by master draftsman David Mazzucchelli as artist. What Miller accomplished over seven revolutionary issues (Daredevil #227-233), collectively titled 'Born Again,' was the total decimatio...

Yes, it's one of THOSE episodes--when anything can be discussed, and is!  Topics include the tragic anticlimax of the Vertigo imprint (along with most other imprints at DC); the impending return of the Legion of Super-Heroes, the JSA, and Wally West to active status in the DC Universe; fond reminiscences of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, plus tons of other televisual tangents; Ian's take on Dark...

Ian Levenstein, Geek of Two Worlds, assumes an ambassadorial role in this episode, as he lobbies for greater mutual appreciation among fans of American and Japanese comics.  He begins by making some genre-specific manga reading suggestions for his fellow Geeks; then, in a live recording of a panel he co-moderated at AnimeNEXT 2019, he recommends some American comics to a roomful of otaku. (Say, ho...