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It’s been a week since GenCon concluded, so it’s probably time to release Wayne’s last journal concerning the big show.  Wayne reflects on the costume contest, Felicia Day and The Guild, and the dealer room.  Plus, his final thoughts!

In the heady days following the end of the Wakanda-Latveria War and while Wayne was off at GenCon and Jonathan was under the weather, the rest of us all got together to discuss the week’s comics.  Join Aron, Paul, and Tim for a measured, reasoned response to the week’s comics.  Plus, sex with clones! SHADOWLAND […]

In today’s episode of The GenCon Journal, Wayne describes his very first Battletech experience, shares his thoughts concerning the board game lending library, and turns his nose up at pay-to-play con games.  Listening to this episode, you will believe a man’s feet can hurt!

Funnybooks’ Wayne is our man-on-the-floor at this year’s GenCon currently rolling like exploding dice in Indianapolis.  In the first of his GenCon Journals, he describes his experience as a first time GenCon attendee, he dives into True Dungeon, and even captures a special message from The Podge Cast’s Luke Meyer. Woot!

Did you know that Venice was sinking?  Apparently, the city of Venice floods at least 100 days per year, especially in the tourist areas. What does that have to do with Christopher Golden, writer of the upcoming Baltimore: The Plague Ships mini-series from Dark Horse Comics?  Well, not only do we talk with Golden about […]

If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it is that tacos are awesome.  If there are two things we can all on agree on it is that crimes must be punished, wrongs must be righted, injustice will not stand.  In this week’s episode of Funnybooks, we kick the show off by addressing the […]

We’re all about excrement this week on Funnybooks!  From ass webs to armor pooping, Aron, Paul, Wayne, Jonathon, and Tim chat about the week’s comics through a crappy Skype connection. Time Masters: Vanishing Point #1 Heroic Age: Prince of Power #3 Avengers #3 New Avengers #2 Legion of Super-Heroes #3 Amazing Spider-Man #638 (OMIT) New […]

Your Funnybooks chaps Paulie, Wayne, and Tim have a delightful chat with current Avengers Academy writer, Christos Gage. There’s so much goodness in this interview, that we have to describe it with exclamation points. Marvel at how Christos calls Tim “Chip” repeatedly! Find out the startling secret of how Christos got into writing comics! Discover […]

The countdown to Paul’s intervention continues as he shocks and horrifies us with reviews and observations.  Join Aron, Tim, Wayne and Jonathan for yet another horrific episode featuring Paulie’s desperate spiral into madness. Choose Your Corey! Nicholas Cage and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and a movie discussion that ends badly. BRIGHTEST DAY UPDATE Booster Gold #34 […]

Paul and I can’t tell time. Specifically, we can’t convert the time difference between the U.S. and the U.K.  Fortunately, Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning have mastered such pedantic concepts as time, thus affording us the opportunity chat with them one Saturday morning. We chat about Dan’s novel work in the Warhammer 40K universe such […]

When you’re listening to Paul’s InterventionCast at some future date, you’ll know that his long, desperate spiral into depravity started here.    Bookmark this page, then join Aron, Jonathan, Wayne, and Tim as they listen in stupefied horror while Paul confesses his sins absent even one ounce of shame. Paul’s (other)moral dilemma How much does color […]

We’ve been at this podcast business for a year now.  We’ve had 52 weekly episodes (this is episode 53), plus 24 New Comic Book Day Interviews. In a podcast chock full of awesome transitions, we talk about summer movies, reflect on how a year’s worth of comics podcasting has changed us, and talk about the […]

The X-Men are about to face their deadliest threat…Vampire A Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse!  No, that’s not right…but they are about to start a brand new ongoing series, an adjectiveless X-Men #1, written by Vampire A Go-Go and Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse novelist Victor Gischler!  Not only that, the premiere of the series […]

You’d think we didn’t talk every week.  We had a crazy ton to talk about.  From DC’s entry into digital comics, ethics of mail-order, talking about Ron Marz’ Twitter comments from last week, and – oh yes – the week’s comics.  Join Aron, Paul, Wayne, and Tim as we crank out an old school epic […]

Green Arrow #1 comes out this week.  To celebrate, we have Green Arrow writer J.T. Krul! In this week’s New Comic Book Day Interview, we chat with J.T. (call him J.T.  Never call him Jeffery.  He’ll kill you if you call him Jeffery) about his experience working as a production assistant on Seinfeld and his […]

Believe it or not, Jonathan actually read not one – but THREE – DC books this week. Join Aron, Paul, Tim, and Wayne as they bear witness in stark amazement at this freakish, perhaps bizarro turn of events!  Plus, Wayne’s Awkward Confessions! I am Groot! Jonah Hex Inception, Dreamscape, and Aron’s lust for Spielberg’s wives […]

While we love all of our interviews, every once in a while, we here at Funnybooks have an interview experience that far surpasses anything we expected.  Today’s New Comic Book Day Interview with Top Cow publisher Filip Sablik is far and away one of our best. We talk with Sablik about everything Top Cow – […]

Aron, Paul, Wayne and Tim talk a little about the Supers RPG they’ll be recording, tease an upcoming interview and also talk about the week’s comics. Brightest Day Update Justice League Generation Lost 3 – W A Booster Gold 33 Heroic Age Update Invincible Iron Man 27 Avengers Academy 1 Young Allies 1 Prince of […]

Aron, Paul, Wayne, Jonathan and Tim bring an episode chock full of p0rn, heroes, and p0rn.  We had a lot to talk about this week.  In fact, be sure to stick around after most of the guys leave to hear Aron share his secret shame. Batman XXX: A Porn Parody Advertising Brightest Day #3 Avengers […]

David Petersen, the immensely talented “arter/writist” of Mouse Guard, joins Aron, Paul, and Wayne for an depth conversation of such mousey goodness that it can barely be contained by mere digital media.  Subjects ranging from Petersen’s all-new Legends of the Guard, why the books are “that shape,”  The Mouse Guard Role Playing Game, Mouse Guard: […]

While Jonathan is off on a secret mission (shhh!), Aron, Paul, Wayne, and Tim talk about him behind his back, honor a fallen hero, and discuss the week’s comics. War of the Supermen #4 Thor 610 Secret Avengers 1 Fantastic Four 579 Thunderbolts 144 Listener Mail Brightest Day Update Green Lantern Corps 48 Green Lantern […]

In this week’s interview, we chat with Ron Marz, creator of the crab-mask-wearing Green Lanterm, Kyle Rayner.  Ron is the current writer of Top Cow’s Witchblade, Magdalena, and Velocity.  We talk to him about stuffing women into refrigerators and all those artifacts in the Top Cow-niverse! It’s an awesome primer we have for Artifacts.  Check […]

It was bound to happen.  Paul was whisked screaming into the jungle by the smoke monster.  Screaming.  Like a little girl.   We mourn his loss as he’d want us to, by talking about the week’s comics. Paul’s away this week, apparently testifying before Congress Wayne is all that and a bag of chips Aron sucks […]

Fred Van Lente is a tease. Seriously, the writer of such books as Iron Man: Legacy, Incredible Hercules, Marvel Zombies, Amazing and Web of Spider-Man teases all kinds of hot, gooey awesomeness in his interview with Paul.  He’s got lots of stories in the pipeline at Marvel and he talks all about ’em in this […]

It’s been a couple of weeks since we talked about new books, so settle in for our epic discussion of the books that have come since Free Comic Book Day.  Aron, Paul, Wayne, Jonathan, and Tim all got up extra early so that we could cram in some extra awesome into this week’s show. White […]