iFanboy - Comic Books

Hey, you hosers, listen up! The gangs all back together, eh, as Conor Kilpatrick returns to talk about comics with those two knobs, Paul Montgomery and Josh Flanagan. Beauty, eh? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’ve got a case of Loikamania, as podcast host, and all around beloved comics figure, Pat Loika fills in for Conor Kilpatrick. There’s, well, there’s a lot of Marvel talk this week. It couldn’t be avoided. Also, did you know that Josh very, very old? He is. Will Pat ever return? Will Paul graduate to middle school? Who joined X-Face Scott? None of these questions are answered! Learn more about yo...

Though he claimed last week he wouldn't be here, Conor Kilpatrick braves Death, War, Conquest and Famine to talk comics with fellow desperadoes Paul Montgomery and Josh Flanagan. This week, Paul pauses Bioshock Infinite just long enough to name a pale horse in the Pick of the Week race and make some dubious suggestions about iFanboy guerrilla marketing. Meanwhile, Conor sees Hitlers were there are...

Conor Kilpatrick has returned from his meandering jaunt through the land of gators to talk the week that was in comics with Josh Flanagan and Paul Montgomery! This week, Josh decides who his favorite comics writer is, Paul realizes that he's getting older, and more secrets from Conor's double life are revealed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Booksplode makes its SMASHING return as Paul Montgomery, Jim Mroczkowski, Ryan Haupt and Timmy Wood swear a war-bond and discuss Greg Pak's Planet Hulk story line. Where was Bruce Banner during the events of Marvel's Civil War? Why was he so ticked when he turned up again in its fallout? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

March 17, 2013 - This show is out on St. Patrick's Day, and yet there are no references at all. In fact, we're down one Kilpatrick! Jim Mroczkowski, our intrepid columnist fills in ably, and Paul starts off with a twang. There are things liked, and things unliked, and reasons given for nearly all of it. No children, fictional or otherwise, were harmed in the recording of this episode. Learn more a...

March 10, 2013 - It's your weekly dose of hot and sweaty threeway comic book talk! On this episode, Josh Flanagan has his sense of identity crushed, Conor Kilpatrick commits an embarrassing 80s cartoon error, and Paul Montgomery makes a startling admission in the final seconds of the show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

March 3, 2013 - Josh has stopped coughing, and a fictional character has stopped fictionally breathing. Plus we question Paul's choices of 80s sci-fi film. Then Josh questions Conor, and Conor questions right back. Listen, it's all very complicated, but you'll be able to hear everyone, so that's something. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

February 24, 2013 - An appropriately cough-addled Josh Flanagan stirs the ashes with his Pick of the Week, the finale to a series he's enjoyed consistently for over a decade. He's joined by Paul Montgomery and Conor Kilpatrick to discuss highlights from the rest of the week's books, including wreathed goats, cats in vacuums and both good and bad vibrations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

February 17, 2013 – In an unusual week of comic books, Paul Montgomery chooses an under-the-radar release as his very first Pick of the Week. He then joins Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick in discussing the highlights from rest of this week’s comics as well as pianos, classic comic strips, and the marketing virtues of vandalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

February 10, 2013 – Listen up, maggots! This week Conor Kilpatrick and Paul Montgomery talk comics while Josh Flanagan adopts a new hard-nosed personality. It’s a little off-putting and frankly, inappropriate. Also, the age old question is answered: just how delicious are donuts? (A lot). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charles Soule is set to have a busy 2013. Starting in April, he’s the new ongoing writer of Swamp Thing following Scott Snyder’s exit from the title. We talk about how the opportunity came about, how he’s approached the project, and his trip down to Louisiana to really understand where the character is from. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

February 3, 2013 – It’s all new, but it’s just the same. Josh and Conor are joined by their new permanent co-host, who has brought more television metaphors than any same man would know what to do with. We all read and talk about a lot of Punisher, and are thrown off by all the changes Paul brings in with his clipboard and red pen. Boss Nass is the first thing to go. Learn more about your ad choic...

January 31, 2013 - With Professor Haupt off performing meatball surgery in a dubious tenement, 75% of the iFanboy Animation Brain Trust returns for the second half of Warner Bros.’ Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Boasting two of the most savage and iconic death matches in comic history, this is likely the pinnacle of ambition for Timm and his team. You might be shocked at just much survived the t...

January 27, 2013 – It’s Ron’s last Pick of the Week podcast as he makes his exit from iFanboy to go to the publishing side of comics at Image Comics, so the guys thought it would be a good time to a live broadcast of the podcast. And you know what that means? Extra long podcast filled with booze, some arguing and a little bit of emotion. You’ll want to listen to this whole thing as it’s filled wit...

January 20, 2013 – A cloud looms overhead as this marks Ron’s second to last pick of the week podcast, but that doesn’t stop Josh, Conor and Ron from talking the mastery of Batman and the other great comics that came out this week and other interesting bits of discussion. Most importantly, we get cameos from both Michael Caine and Eddie Vedder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

January 13, 2013 – “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away–” “WHAT?!” “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Ron Richards, Josh Flanagan, and Conor Kilpatrick sat down to ta–” “WHAT?!” “I said, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Ron Richards, Josh Flanagan, and Conor Kilpatrick sat down to talk about the week in comics, as well as oth–” “WHAT?!” “Sigh.” Learn more about your ad cho...

January 6, 2013 – It’s the first podcast of the year and the guys are a little but rusty, but they get their act together in time to deliver a stellar entry into the new year along with BONUS material at the end of the show. Happy New Year! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

December 30, 2012 – It’s the seventh annual iFanboy All-Media Year End Round-Up! Josh Flanagan, Ron Richards, and Conor Kilpatrick discuss everything they enjoyed in media in 2012. Movies, television, books, podcasts, music, video games, and comics–it’s all here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

December 23, 2012 – It’s the last pick of the week podcast for 2012 and Josh, Conor and Ron go out with a bang, with a celebration of what’s new in comics, a discussion of double shipping, and a flashback to past math based entertainment. ‘Tis the season! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

December 12, 2012 – The holidays are coming and Josh, Conor and Ron are starting to get in the mood to celebrate Bing Crosby and the insanity of Wolverine’s personal life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

December 9, 2012 – It’s two against one as Ron Richards and Conor Kilpatrick share a microphone and Josh Flanagan is left all by his lonesome to wonder if they are rolling his eyes when he talks (they are). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

December 2, 2012 – The gang’s back together for the start of December as Conor Kilpatrick, Josh Flanagan, and Ron Richards gather to discuss the week that was in comics… and perhaps also 80s toy makers, Goodfellas, and the iFanboy staffer that’s on thin ice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

November 25, 2012 – It’s a special Thanksgiving holiday edition of the Pick of the Week Podcast. That means that Conor is MIA, navigating numerous Thanksgiving deliciousness, so Josh and Ron are left to carry the banner on this holiday. And what better way to kick things off than to hear about Josh’s enjoyment of Baltimore: The Play from Dark Horse Comics. We breakdown the recent Marvel NOW! relea...

November 18, 2012 – Just before departing to join the absent Conor for the most Eisner-iffic wedding celebration ever, Ron managed to record a show with Josh and our own Paul Montgomery. The one clear thing about this week is that there were a lot of good books, and Ron was forced to choose one. We may have also spent a lot of time just prior to the show talking about original music from Return of...