iFanboy - Comic Books

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

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

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,...

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