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Reviews: Archie Meets the B-52s #1, Doctor Tomorrow #1, On the Stump #1, Wolverine #1 Jimmy delivers another quickie for you with the help of friends Emily, Melissa and Jon! News includes: Dan Didio is out at DC Comics, a Freakangels anime adaptation is on the way, Jen Wang's graphic novel The Prince and the Dressmaker is being adapted into a musical and more! Do tune in to check it out! Leave you...

Jimmy recruits some friends to review the new Netflix show Locke & Key. If you didn't know, it's based on the comic book series of the same name by Joe Hill/Gabriel Rodriguez. How true to the comic is the TV series? What keys will we see? Is it more Stranger Things or more Goosebumps? Tune in to find out! Thanks to my reviewers Melissa, Heidi, Kirstie, Stephen and Jeff! And many thanks to Producer...

Reviews: Alienated #1, Nebula #1, Superman: Heroes One-Shot, Duncanville series premiere Jimmy delivers a quick half-hour of nerdy goodness to you. Of course, with the help of friends Emily, Emmy, Marta and Jon! News includes: A Batman themed food extravaganza is opening in the UK this year, Tenacious D are doing a graphic novel, Mark Waid is new Humanoids publisher and more! Do tune in to check i...

Reviews: Adler #1, The After Realm Quarterly #1, The Man Who Effed Up Time #1, X-Men/Fantastic Four Vol. 2 #1, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part 3, Katy Keene series premiere, Birds of Prey Emily Edwards returns to the CNI studio to right some wrongs! The kids talk about the Oscars and that wonderful Parasite sweep as well as Phoenix's win in Joker . Loads of reviews in comics, TV and film a...

Jimmy sits down with old pal of almost 30 years Michael Emerson to talk about series one (and that finale!) of his new hit CBS series EVIL. They also talk about other TV and film, acting, fun fan encounters and more. For newbies to the podcast, our interviews are more conversations and not your typical Q&A. So just think of it as 2 old pals chatting about stuff and 1 happens to be a famous person....

Reviews: Arrow series finale, The Good Place series finale, Evil s1 finale Jimmy recruits some of his pals to send in audio reviews for the ARROW series finale, THE GOOD PLACE series finale and EVIL season 1 finale. ARROW brought us 8 seasons of the iconic DC Comics hero and created a whole superhero universe for The CW. We got 4 great seasons of THE GOOD PLACE that showed us both hilarity and hea...

Reviews: Archie #710: Archie and Katy Keene, Atlantis Attacks #1, Green Lantern: Legacy, Quantum and Woody #1 Jimmy has to do a quickie solo episode so he recruits his favorite audio reviewers to help out. Thanks to Emily, Emmy, Jon and Melissa! News includes: Atari is building hotels, The Boys returns to comic books, a Doctor Who surprise and more!  Leave your iTunes comments! 5 stars and nothing...

Reviews: Batman #86, Thor #1, The Adventures of Paddington, Avenue 5, Crisis On Infinite Earths Crossover Jimmy is joined in studio by good pal Jon Hoche! They chat about The Witcher (Jimmy finally started on it) and could have gone on for hours about the Crisis x-over on The CW. News includes: Random House Graphics launches, HBO says no more Watchmen, the animated series adaptation of Mike Maihac...

Reviews: Black Spot, A Christmas Carol, Doctor Who, Dracula, The Witcher, Jumanji 2: The Next Level, Star Wars #1 Another awesome review special! Jimmy recruits some of his favorite audio reviewers (Melissa, Jon, Emmy) to help him review some TV with a film and comic thrown in there for good measure. Some you may have seen. Some not. Maybe we'll entice you to check them out then! Let us know your...

As usual, we're just a bit late with our "Best of" list but we got there finally. Jimmy welcomes friends Heidi MacDonald and Jon Hoche to do their annual podcast picking their favorite comics, TV, film and more of 2019. This is the favorites that we read/saw/etc. We didn't read/see everything so there are probably some things that are left out that may have made it. Just our opinions! But we think...

Reviews: The Mandalorian, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Happy New Year to all! We ended 2019 with some hot Star Wars action so we thought we'd chat about it! Jimmy recruited some of his favorite audio reviews to talk about The Mandalorian series on Disney+. Does Baby Yoda make it all worth it? Will The Mandalorian take his helmet off? Just how many celebrity guest spots were there? Jimmy also g...

Reviews: The Crow: Hark the Herald One-Shot, Hazel & Cha Cha Save Christmas, Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Holiday Special 2019, Jem and the Holograms Holiday Special 2015, Klaus and the Life & Times of Joe Christmas, Marvel Holiday Magazine #1-4, Donald Duckling: The Beauty of Christmas with Everyone, Archie Christmas Spectacular 2019 #1  Happy Christmas to all! Jimmy's Christmas present to y...

Reviews: Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child #1, Dying Is Easy #1, Skulldigger and Skeleton Boy #1, Watchmen finale Jimmy is joined in studio by old pal Jon Hoche! They discuss the recent slew of nerdy trailers including Wonder Woman, Ghostbusters and Stargirl. They also saw that Watchmen finale and have a lengthy and spoilery talk on it all. News includes: Gary Larson The Far Side returns, Dyna...

Reviews: Fist of Justice #0, Rex Libris #1, First Strike #0, The X-Files: Origins #1, Darkstalkers #0, The Sadhu #1, Eartha Kitt: Femme Fatale #0, Niko and the Sword of Light #1, Lady Mechanika #0, Mercury Heat FCBD Edition.  It's Jimmy's birthday so he decided to give YOU a present. Free comics! Well, more like comiXology is giving them to you for free. He picked 10 random comics from their "free...

Reviews: Deadpool #1, Joker: Killer Smile #1, Glow vs. The Babyface #1, Heartbeat #1, The Mandalorian, Frozen II Jimmy is finally joined in the studio with a co-host! Someone he hasn't seen in about 10 years. Ashley Kate Adams sits in on the nerdy fun to discuss her upcoming film project Boy Hero as well as some of her other artistic endeavors. Boy Hero deals with the comic book trial of 1954 and...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got loads of interviews! He interviewed about 27 people and got around 7.5 hours worth of content. So over the next 2-3 weeks, you will get to hear them all! In this episode, you'll hear from creators Rachael Smith, Marc Ellerby, Laura Wildgoose and Matt Gibbs. Rachael chats about Stand In Your Power, her follow up to Wired Up Wrong t...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got loads of interviews! He interviewed about 27 people and got around 7.5 hours worth of content. So over the next 2-3 weeks, you will get to hear them all! In this episode, you'll hear from Unbound creators Chuck Mullin, Reimena Yee and Tom Woodman. Chuck chats about her funny and poignant comic Bird Brain that deals with her mental...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got loads of interviews! He interviewed about 27 people and got around 7.5 hours worth of content. So over the next 2-3 weeks, you will get to hear them all! In this episode, you'll hear from Barry Nugent, Robin Hoelzemann and Conor Boyle. Jimmy chatted with old pal Barry to talk about his Unseen Shadows universe he created in books,...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got loads of interviews! He interviewed about 27 people and got around 7.5 hours worth of content. So over the next 2-3 weeks, you will get to hear them all! In this episode, he talked with 3 creators whom have comics out with Avery Hill Publishing. While in London, Jimmy sat down with Katriona Chapman about her own comics, her job as...

For anniversary episodes, normally there is a live recording at a bar with special guests, songs, comedy bits and more. This time for the epic 1000th episode, and due to busy schedules and time of year, Jimmy and Producer Joe decided to just go back to their roots and record the podcast together. While not in the same physical place to record, they did it over the internet and just did what they l...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got loads of interviews! He interviewed about 27 people and got around 7.5 hours worth of content. So over the next 2-3 weeks, you will get to hear them all! In this episode, he talked with 2 creators whom have comics out with great UK publisher SelfMadeHero. Glyn Dillon talks about the re-release (with extras!) of his award winning g...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got loads of interviews! He interviewed about 27 people and got around 7.5 hours worth of content. So over the next 2-3 weeks, you will get to hear them all! In this episode, he talked with several creators whom have comics out with ComiXology Originals. Monica Gallagher discusses her book The Black Ghost along with her creator owned...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got loads of interviews! He interviewed about 27 people and got around 7.5 hours worth of content. So over the next 2-3 weeks, you will get to hear them all! In this episode, you can hear Jimmy travel up to Harrogate from Cambridge with his married friends Emma Vieceli and Andrew Ruddick. Thanks to Andrew's deft driving, we survived t...

Jimmy attended the Thought Bubble Festival in Harrogate, UK and got loads of interviews! He interviewed about 27 people and got around 7.5 hours worth of content. So over the next 2-3 weeks, you will get to hear them all! In this episode, he talked with The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard about his time on the book and what's next. Near the end of the show, he had a quick discussion with Kieron...

Jimmy is in London trying to find a way to get The Queen to let him live there. No luck so far! Meanwhile, he's gotten a few interviews while there before the big Thought Bubble Festival this weekend. In this episode, he met Lizzy Stewart at the South Bank Centre for a wonderful chat about her new graphic novel with Avery Hill Publishing called WALKING DISTANCE. It's about her walks around London...