iFanboy - Comic Books

With a stalwart Conor lost in the time stream, the iFanboy Animation Brain Trust soldiers on, undaunted. Paul Montgomery, Chris Neseman and Ryan Haup look back on Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert's Flashpoint comic event and the animated feature is has now inspired. A polarizing visual style and ultra-violent tone make for a polarizing departure for the long-running DC Animated line, so should prospect...

Total Running Time: 01:04:46 It can easily be said that this program contains more talk about Bill and Ted than any other podcast we’ve ever done. There’s also other stuff about comics, but at the end of the day, what are you really here for? We also have deep conversations about comic book art, and complain, just a bit more, about Man of Steel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

Running time: 00:58.54 Special guests Brett White (Matt and Brett Love Comics, CBR, MTV's Splash Page) and David Accampo (Fuzzy Typewriter, Sparrow and Crowe: The Demoniac of Los Angeles) join Paul Montgomery to talk ninjas and bone claws. Does The Wolverine fall prey to the same mistakes as 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, or does director James Mangold bring honor to the troubled ronin? One way...

Conor calls in live from San Diego Comic-Con, and despite a shaky connection, we forge onward, while Josh and Paul enter phases of advanced heat stroke. Plus there’s also a problem with Baja Fresh. 2/3 of us may never recover. Comics: 00:01:42 – Deadpool #13 00:08:54 – Conan the Barbarian #19 00:12:49 – Ultimate Spider-Man #25 00:16:11 – Nova #6 00:19:07 – Batman ’66 #1 00:24:53 – The Death of Hag...

Total Running Time: 01:04:41 In the midst of the heat and hectic July scheduling, Conor Kilpatrick, Josh Flanagan, and Paul Montgomery are back together to talk comics! This week things get weird. We're sorry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Total Running Time: 01:02:23 With Conor off returning the iFanboy Bell to its clandestine shrine, resident Man of Science Ryan Haupt joins Josh Flanagan and Paul Montgomery for this week's broadcast. This week, Josh provokes the Doctor Who fans, Ryan learns some production jargon, and Paul adopts a new catch phrase. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A week in which the major comic book companies dumped an entire truck load of new comic books on our unsuspecting hosts can mean only one thing… it’s the return of THE BELL! Conor Kilpatrick, Josh Flanagan, and Paul Montgomery tremble before its mighty wrath and so shall you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the wake of Zack Snyder's Man of Steel film, Paul Montgomery, Conor Kilpatrick and Mike Romo look back a decade to another Superman origin story. In 2003, Mark Waid and Leinil Yu modernized the American myth of Krypton's last son in Superman: Birthright. What's changed? What remains the same? And does anyone have any second thoughts about Man of Steel? Brace yourselves for another Booksplode! L...

It's finally happened. Josh Flanagan has run off and joined a biker gang. So stepping up to the mic to join Conor Kilpatrick and Paul Montgomery this week in his stead is Dave Accampo, Paul's co-host on the Fuzzy Typewriter podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three men of discerning taste--one of them in a stationary automobile--discuss the best and not quite best comic books of the week. Elsewhere, Bob Reynolds weeps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Flanagan makes a rare special edition podcast appearance as he joins Conor Kilpatrick and Mike Romo to talk about Man of Steel! Does Zach Snyder, David Goyer, and Christopher Nolan's attempt to bring Superman into the modern world soar? Has Warner Bros. finally found success outside of Gotham City? Is everyone on the show exhausted? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic...

It’s all about Kurt Busiek (rhymes with “music”) as the creator gets the double whammy, with both Pick of the Week and Book of the Month honors with one show. Has it ever happened before? Who has time to check. All we know is that Conor is hungry and really wants a bagel. Good comics await, and the temperatures are more moderate. That makes for a good show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

The Mercury is through the roof up in this podcast (at least for 33.3% of the crew)! Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery and Josh Flanagan pant over the week's hottest comic book titles as one NCIS: Los Angeles star waxes poetic on mutated sharks. Dive in for the commentary, stick around for the heat crazies! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In week where one comic book really showed the rest how it's done, another one ended an epic run, and a third began an unwelcome crossover, Conor Kilpatrick worked blue, Josh Flanagan was sleepy, and Paul Montgomery espoused some... interesting ideas about population control. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seventy-five years ago, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster ushered an orphan son of Krypton through the fields of Kansas and up, up and away to the height of popular acclaim. These days, you'd be hard pressed to find someone unaware of Superman or his mild-mannered counterpart Clark Kent, but NPR's Glen Weldon knows the character better than most. Thankfully, he's sharing history and insight in the page...

This week? This was not our kind of week. That’s not to say comics were bad, but we had to work to find the standouts. And yet, it wasn’t impossible. Still, by the end of the overlong episode, there were script problems, and mean things are said to each other. Forget it. We’re gonna go play Warcraft III. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time to boldly go back where... well, where many have been before! Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery, and Mike Romo have gathered to talk about Star Trek Into Darkness! Where did everyone's Star Trek fandom begin? How did the sequel stack up against the first film that they loved so much? What about the villain? Where can the story go in a third film? How does Robocop fit into all of this? It...

The three iFanboys reunite to herald the coming of space sharks! This week, Paul Montgomery, Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick sail the solar winds from the ruined shores of future Asgard to the interior of Deadpool's head and the tumult of modern Riverdale! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Professor Ryan Haupt once again M.I.A. due to important matters of science, 75% of the iFanboy Animation Brain Trust reconvenes to discuss returns to discuss the latest from the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line: Superman: Unbound! It’s the first film not produced by Bruce Timm, and one that Warner Bros. hopes will capitalize on the buzz around Man of Steel, this summer’s live action...

Ryan Haupt Week concludes as he steps in for an absent Josh Flanagan to talk the week that was in comics alongside Paul Montgomery and a sleepy Conor Kilpatrick! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hold on to your giant plush rabbits and watch out for that underwater rebar! It's time to talk about Iron Man 3! Join Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery and Scientist Supreme Ryan Haupt for a spoiler-laden examination of all things Extremis and 1999 party playlists! Does Marvel Studios' first post-Avengers outing succeed? Does incoming director Shane Black capably step into armor once tailored to J...

Who is Henry Lyme? Join Paul Montgomery and Scientist Supreme Ryan Haupt as they bend spoons in an effort to unravel the mysteries of Matt Kindt's Mind MGMT! Why did the passengers and crew of Flight 815 (no, not that Flight 815) lose their memories up there in the clouds? What's up with Ewan McGregor's accent in 2009's Men Who Stare at Goats? What does heterochromia mean? What other easter eggs l...

That's more like it! Comics delivered a whole bunch of great comics this week, some new and some old. Listen to the show, won't you, and try to keep us in Ferraris! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Awash in a sea of alarmingly lackluster week of comics, Paul Montgomery, Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick discover that the cream truly does rise to the top. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Booksplode strikes back with a vengeance as Paul Montgomery, Josh Flanagan and Jeff Reid dissect the Dadaist oddity that is Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again. Published 15 years after the landmark mini-series Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, this three-issue sequel was a notorious departure in form and lucidity. We're not going to claim to understand it entirely,...