iFanboy - Comic Books

Here there be dragon! Scottish braves Paul Montgomery, Conor Kilpatrick and Josh Flanagan mix up their Gruber family tree while divulging a dubious understanding of their own shared heritage, all while yammering about the week's finest comics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"TETSUO!" "KANEDA!" Paul Montgomery and special guest Skottie Young discuss the first two volumes in Katsuhiro Otomo's landmark manga saga Akira. “Welcome to Neo-Tokyo, built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by a blast of unknown origin that triggered World War III. The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, change forever when paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo,...

Paul Montgomery has returned to join Conor Kilpatrick and Josh Flanagan in discussing the week in comic books! Plus–just how cool of a lady was Martha Washington? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Look who’s back! Josh Flanagan comes out of Talksplode hiatus to speak with a couple of bona fide comic book creators about the process, mind, and lifestyle of the creator-owned comic book maker. From the mind of the artist, to the way to make it work with your life, to the challenges of the modern market, the conversation covers a ton of ground, and is a real insight to what it means to make comi...

With Paul Montgomery out doing who knows what, old pal Jim Mroczkowski steps in to talk about the week in comic books with Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Paul Montgomery out doing who knows what, old pal Jim Mroczkowski steps in to talk about the week in comic books with Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Paul Montgomery out doing who knows what, old pal Jim Mroczkowski steps in to talk about the week in comic books with Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now that was a proper week of comics. We talk about the books of the week, only a bit of World War II, and Conor’s older friend. Also: Elephant stuff. Additionally, we run down some of the new series announced at ImageEXPO 2014, and have a Book of the Month that actually falls within the first half of said month. It is truly a New Year’s miracle! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...

While the first week of the New Year didn't boast heaps of new comics, Josh, Conor and Paul missed each other too much to delay their reunion any further. Listen as they ring in 2014 with a few extra audience questions and a joyous dirge for a dearly departed series that took a bow over the break. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s the eighth annual iFanboy All-Media Year End Round-Up! Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery, and special guest Mike Romo discuss everything they enjoyed in media in 2013. Movies, television, music, books, video games, and comics--it's all here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk through a lot of great comics, run the Picks of the Week by the numbers, and then if you’re not a Band of Brothers fan, you might want to skip the end bit. We don’t recommend this course of action. It’s the last regular show of the year! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the year winds down, Conor Kilparick, Josh Flanagan, and Paul Montgomery gather to talk the week of comics but to also hand out some year end awards! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Montgomery and Timmy Wood stare, unblinking, into the Eye of Agamotto as they revisit 2007's Doctor Strange: The Oath by The Private Eye team of Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin! Steven Strange has been struck by a silver bullet fired from the same accursed pistol Hitler used to end his life! Can the Night Nurse restore the Sorcerer Supreme to health? What's wrong with Wong? What are master...

Drunk on Thanksgiving tryptophan, Conor and Josh drive a relatively sober Paul to the brink of madness in a rundown of the week's best comics. It being the first of December, Paul also surprises his fellows with the new Book of the Month selection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Band of Brothers , Scooby-Doo , Friday Night Lights , drugs, and Conor’s sex comic! Also we go with the more traditional “talking about comics” routine. We do not get that guy’s name right, and we don’t know how to talk about color. So just a regular show. Total Running Time: 01:08:18 Comics: 00:02:18 – Harley Quinn #0 00:10:33 – The Wake #5 00:16:33 – Zero #3 00:19:21 – Afterlife with Archie #2 0...

Band of Brothers, Scooby-Doo, Friday Night Lights, drugs, and Conor’s sex comic! Also we go with the more traditional “talking about comics” routine. We do not get that guy’s name right, and we don’t know how to talk about color. So just a regular show. Total Running Time: 01:08:18 Comics: 00:02:18 – Harley Quinn #0 00:10:33 – The Wake #5 00:16:33 – Zero #3 00:19:21 – Afterlife with Archie #2 00:2...

We’ve got a man down... but not out! In the midst of intense physical pain, Josh Flanagan mans up to join Conor Kilpatrick and Paul Montgomery to discuss the week in comic books! There might be narcotics involved. Those are fun! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After the 5th week last week, comics are back this week, and we're here to talk about fun, and the culmination of Stan Lee's fantasy. Not that one. We're not even sick of talking about new, excellent Marvel #1 issues, so off we go. Josh will try very hard to get on topic, with little success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To me, Mjölnir! For Asgard! Conor Kilpatrick and Paul Montgomery assemble to discuss Thor: The Dark World! How does the sequel stack up to Thor's thunderous big screen debut in 2011? There are laughs! There are tears! Dudes get hit in the face with hammers! All of that plus just what to make of that mid-credits sequence and what does it mean for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Learn m...

The culmination of Mike Costa's "Arms of Doctor Octopus" caper takes the gold in a typically oddball fifth week of comics. Josh Flanagan, Paul Montgomery and Conor Kilpatrick wholeheartedly embrace that pick as well as November's Book of the Month selection, The Fifth Beatle, about the Fab Four's enigmatic manager Brian Epstein. All that and more on this week's furry little show. Learn more about...

The culmination of Mike Costa's "Arms of Doctor Octopus" caper takes the gold in a typically oddball fifth week of comics. Josh Flanagan, Paul Montgomery and Conor Kilpatrick wholeheartedly embrace that pick as well as November's Book of the Month selection, The Fifth Beatle, about the Fab Four's enigmatic manager Brian Epstein. All that and more on this week's furry little show. Learn more about...

The culmination of Mike Costa's "Arms of Doctor Octopus" caper takes the gold in a typically oddball fifth week of comics. Josh Flanagan, Paul Montgomery and Conor Kilpatrick wholeheartedly embrace that pick as well as November's Book of the Month selection, The Fifth Beatle, about the Fab Four's enigmatic manager Brian Epstein. All that and more on this week's furry little show. Learn more about...

It's another voluminous head of glorious comic book discussion as Paul Montgomery, Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick comb through the week's picks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Josh off possibly doing some primal screaming in the woods, Ali Colluccio steps up to the microphone to talk the week that was in comics with Paul Montgomery and Conor Kilpatrick! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Romo is here! Mike Romo is here! Paul took a powder this week, and we forge ahead, some of us broadcasting from a car in the garage, triggering grim deja vu. The comics were hot and the car kept getting hotter, but we've got books of the week, and most of them were #1 issues. We check in on some of the comics announced at New York Comicon as well, and weigh in well before it's wise. Also, we...