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Reviews:  City Boy #1, Storm Vol. 4 #1, The Flash series finale, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, The Little Mermaid As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out with this week's reviews. Thanks to Edie, Therese, Melissa, and Ricky! Jimmy does the news for the vacationing Emily which includes: Alligator Loki gets a comic, The Nib shuts down, Eisner Awards drama and more! As...

Reviews:  Avengers Vol 8. #1, Disney Villains: Maleficent #1, Miss Truesdale and the Fall of Hyperborea #1, Vigil #1 As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out with this week's comic and TV reviews. Thanks to Edie, Marta, Melissa, and Ricky! And to news anchor Emily for the news which includes: lots of TV cancellations, Disney to close Star Wars hotel, HAWKEYE spin-off ECH...

Reviews: King Kong: The Great War #1, Murder Inc: Jagger Rose #1, Silk Vol. 5 #1, Spirit World #1, Fear the Walking Dead s8 premiere, The Muppets Mayhem s1, Titans series finale As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out with this week's comic and TV reviews. Thanks to Edie, Marta, Melissa, Ricky and Jon! And to news anchor Emily for the loads of news which includes: Lana...

Reviews: Shazam vol 4 #1, Star Wars: Visions s2 premiere, Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures series premiere, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out with this week's comic and TV reviews. Thanks to Edie, Marta and Emily! And to news anchor Emily for the loads of news which includes: SWEET TOOTH will return for a 3rd & final season, more JUST...

Jimmy's friend and famed Great British Bake-Off finalist, cookbook author, card game maker, and so much more is now making her debut as a graphic novel writer! She's in NYC this week to appear on the Today Show (catch her appearance on their YouTube). Jimmy went out to dinner with her and her partner Nabil (Thought Bubble Festival Founder/Director) on Monday and chatted after. Her brand new graphi...

Reviews:  Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures One-Shot, Star Wars: Darth Vader - Black, White & Red #1, Sweet Tooth s2, Peter Pan & Wendy, Duty After School As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out with this week's comic and TV reviews. Thanks to Edie, Melissa, Marta and Producer Joe! And to news anchor Emily for the loads of news which includes: Amazon Prime has 3 u...

Reviews:  The Ark s1 finale, Drops of God series premiere, The Mandalorian s3 finale As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out with this week's comic and TV reviews. Thanks to Edie, Melissa and Marta! And to news anchor Emily for the loads of news which includes: Marvel Comics celebrates 84th anniversary with new one-shot comic, K-Pop groups contribute to new South Korean...

Reviews:  The Great British Bump Off #1, Exorcists Never Die #1, The Seasons Have Teeth #1, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, The Super Mario Bros. Movie As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out with this week's comic and TV reviews. Thanks to Ricky, Edie, Therese and Marta! And to news anchor Emily for the loads of news which includes: lots of Star Wars news incl...

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MOCCA) Festival was over the weekend and Jimmy attended both days. He did some interviews w/ some amazing creators! In this episode, you'll hear from creators Ashling Tu and Vyolet Jin! Originally from China, they moved to the U.S. to study and work on art. They are part of StarryHouse Studio and collaborated on the incredible PERFECT BLUE multi-media project....

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MOCCA) Festival was over the weekend and Jimmy attended both days. He did some interviews w/ some amazing creators! In this episode, you'll hear from creators Noah Van Sciver and David Reuss. Noah chats about his new collection w/ Fantagraphics called AS A CARTOONIST, if life is better with or without a mustache, skulking the catacombs in France, how he got int...

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MOCCA) Festival was over the weekend and Jimmy attended both days. He did some interviews w/ some amazing creators! In this episode, you'll hear from creators Hyesu Lee and Jess Ruliffson. Hyesu talks about her journey from South Korea to London to Brooklyn, doing a NYC Subway mural, her upcoming graphic novel and more. Jess discusses her new book INVISIBLE WOU...

Reviews:  The Ambassadors #1, Harley Quinn vol. 4 #28, Dungeons & Dragons Saturday Morning Adventures #1, Rocketman & Rocketgirl #1, Riverdale s7 premiere The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MOCCA) Festival was over the weekend and Jimmy attended both days. He gives his recap here talking about the overall show from setup to exhibitors to atmosphere to interviews and more. He also teases the inte...

Reviews: Dead Romans #1, The Neighbors #1, Order and Outrage #1, Digman! As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out. Thanks to Ricky, Melissa, and Marta! And to news anchor Emily for the news which includes: DC Comics is retelling the origin of The Batman and Joker's meet-cute, a new TMNT based on the comics is coming, Marvel shows are getting pushed back and more! Also, g...

Reviews:  Agent Elvis, Gotham Knights series premiere, Shadow and Bone s2, Shazam! Fury of the Gods As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out. Thanks to Marta, Melissa, and Emily! And to news anchor Emily for the news which includes: DC Comics is going all out for Pride, K-Pop band NCT 127 is releasing the first officially licensed K-Pop graphic novel, Marvel's Hellfire G...

Reviews:  Clear #1, Predator Vol 4 #1, Stone Heart #1, Kung Fu s3 finale, The Last of Us s1 finale, Avatar: The Way of Water As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out. Thanks to Therese, Melissa, and Edie! And to news anchor Emily for the news which includes: Ash and Pikachu are handing over the reigns to a new trainer in the long running Pokemon animated series, Brian Mi...

Reviews: Hallow's Eve #1, Hunt. Kill. Repeat. #1, Phantom Road #1, John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction: The Envoy #1, The Mandolorian s3 premiere As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out. Thanks to Marta, Melissa, Ricky and Edie! And to news anchor Emily for the news which includes: Marvel to start new 20th Century Studios imprint, a new Hellboy is found, Battle Ch...

Reviews:  Blue Book #1, Local Man #1, Godfell #1, Moriarty: Clockwork Empire #1 A quick CNI episode for you! As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out. Thanks to Marta, Melissa, Ricky and Edie! And to news anchor Emily for the news which includes: Marvel's Ultimate Comics line returns, Dead Boy Detectives moves to Netflix, Robert Kirkman is back with a new comic series an...

Reviews:  Betty: The Final Girl #1, Masters of the Universe: Masterverse #1, The Last Barbarians #1, Torrent #1, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Another week, another Marvel film! Did you see it? As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out. Thanks to Marta, Melissa, Ricky, Jon and Therese! And to news anchor Emily for the news which includes: LEGO to release a BTS set, DC...

Reviews:  Harrower #1, Monarch #1, Space Job #1, Harley Quinn "A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special", Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Velma season finale Hope everyone had a SUPER weekend! We're back with another regular episode. As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out. Thanks to Marta, Melissa, Ricky, and Edie! And to news anchor Emily for the news which i...

Reviews: Almighty #1, Avatar the Last Airbender: Aang's Unfreezing Day, Where Monsters Lie #1, The Ark season premiere, Extraordinary s1, Wolf Pack season premiere Getting back in the groove with these regular format shows. As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out. Thanks to Marta, Melissa, Ricky, Steph and Producer Joe! And to news anchor Emily for the news which includ...

Reviews: Archie vs. The World one-shot, Inferno Girl Red # 1, Night Walkers #1, White Savior #1, Zombie Makeout Club Vol 1. We're back with some comic book reviews! As usual, Jimmy recruits some of his favorite reviewers to help out. Thanks to Marta, Melissa, Ricky and Jon! And news anchor Emily is here giving the news which includes: Wheel of Fortune is looking for Star Wars fans to be contestant...

Reviews: Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre, The Last of Us s1 premiere, Star Wars: The Bad Batch s2 premiere, Velma s1 premiere, Willow s1, Jung_E WHAT'S THIS? A regular format podcast?! Yep! We haven't been doing many of these lately due to review specials, convention specials, etc. But we will try to get to doing more of them in the future if we can. Times are busy though! As usual...

S. Craig Zahler (Writer/Director: Bone Tomahawk, Dragged Across Concrete, Brawl in Cell Block 99) joins Producer Joe to talk about his original graphic novel, Organisms From an Ancient Cosmos (Dark Horse). Craig talks about his creative process, passion for hard science fiction, and his long time love of the comic book and animation mediums.   Also, get a hold of us! Thanks for listening!

Last week, Jimmy, Producer Joe, Heidi MacDonald and Ricky Serrano Denis chatted about their personal Best of 2022! This week, Jimmy recruited many of his favorite reviewer friends to send in 3 of their favorite things in entertainment for 2022. Thanks to great friends Melissa, Marta, Jon, Steph, Ashley, Therese, and Edie! Some more great choices and some that weren't mentioned in last week's big s...

Jimmy and Producer Joe welcome back Heidi MacDonald (The Beat Chief) and Ricky Serrano Denis (The Beat Staff Writer) to talk about our personal Best of 2022! As usual, it's purely subjective and it's what we read/saw in 2022. And we didn't read/see everything so there may be a lot we missed. Sorry about that but we think you will enjoy our picks. What were some of your favorites? Also, get a hold...