Rolled Spine Podcasts

Note: We like our language NSFW salty, and there be spoilers here… Face Front, True Believer! Dr. Anj of Supergirl Comic Box Commentary fame finally joins Diabolu Frank & Mister Fixit for an episode focusing on the Were-Woman ! Connecting the dots of Tigra’s various late Bronze Age solo and guest appearances, we cover Marvel Chillers #4 and Marvel Two-In-One #19 (both 1976,) Fantastic Four #17...

Note: We like our language NSFW salty, and there be spoilers here… Face Front, True Believer! Longtime listeners will know the name, as his legend echoes through many episodes, but this edition marks the coming of… FRY-HOLE! Our special guest joins Mister Fixit, Illegal Machine, & Diabolu Frank to discuss his favorite Marvel Super Hero, the God of Thunder, Miiiighty Thoooorrrr!!! We finally ha...

Note: We like our language NSFW salty, and there be spoilers here… Face Front, True Believer! We’re cleaning out the closet with lots of old audio and unaddressed letters in the Mighty Marvel Mail Bag! Illegal Machine, Diabolu Frank, & Mister Fixit are joined by special guests Count Drunkula, The Irredeemable Shag & Pekita Trotamundos! Excelsior! Promos Secret Origins Podcast Dead Bothan S...

Note: We like our language NSFW salty, and there be spoilers here… Face Front, True Believer! The world renowned San Diego Comic-Con International held its 2016 gathering this weekend before last, and our vociferous speakers Diabolu Frank, Mister Fixit and Illegal Machine have graciously spent an hour and change discussing the scintillating revelations of this momentous occasion in a bonus second...

Note: We like our language NSFW salty, and there be spoilers here… Face Front, True Believers! A very belated episode arrives with Curtis joining Frank for a general discussion, including early comics reading, cosmic books, and zombies! Excelsior! Odyssey Unleashed Podcast Top 5 Comics Podcast Top 5 Comics (CO) As you can tell, we love a fierce conversation, so why don’t you socialize with us, eit...

Note: We like our language NSFW salty, and there be spoilers here... Face Front, True Believers! Spoilers are in full effect for our entire Captain America discussion this week as Mister Fixit & Diabolu Frank debate "Hail Hydra" and especially #givecaptainamericaaboyfriend, plus some random Disney/Star Wars talk and a deeply dysfunctional edition of the Mighty Marvel Mail Bag! We have an espec...

Face Front, True Believers! As much as it may seem like we’ve become The Marvel Comics Super Special Podcast , movies are actually supposed to be a secondary concern to the actual comic books, so we decided to do a nigh- Lady Daemon level deep dive for an anti-heroine with close ties to cult rituals who debuted in a black and white magazine and was often written by pre-fame Chris Claremont! Presen...

Note: We like our language NSFW salty, and there be spoilers here… Face Front, True Believers! Frank finally finished editing and releasing our coverage of the third; no sixth… Wait, do the solo movies count, since Origins had the team name in the title? Ah screw it most recent flick in the too long running X-Men franchise just a fortnight after its not-especially-anticipated release! And by “we”...

Face Front, True Believers! The third Avengers Captain America movie is here! So of course we compare it to all the other major Marvel films and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Just-Ass plus a lot of gabbing about T'Challa of Wakanda and Peter Parker! As a change of pace, Frank talks like a sexist pig in between his usual rambling about girl power B.S. and briefly loses his $#!+ over Deepwater Horizon!...

WE SAW THIS MOVIE AND TALKED ABOUT IT. FRANK DIDN'T BECAUSE EMOTIONS.

Note: We like our language NSFW salty, and there be spoilers here... Face Front, True Believers! Nearly a year in the... waiting... to get around to finish watching a TV show available on demand at any given time to four separate subscribers... we finally talk about Daredevil ...'s first season, just a few days before the second drops. Timely! Diabolu Frank, the guy who lost our first pass at a gr...

Note: We like our language NSFW salty, and there be spoilers here... Face Front, True Believers! Illegal Machine, Mr. Fixit & Diabolu Frank look at Ryan Reynolds' latest outing as The Merc With A Mouth, Wade Wilson, that dude who totally isn't Deathstroke the Terminator with Spider-Man's tongue, who debuted in X-Men Origins: Wolverine seven years ago no matter what Days of Future Past did to t...

Face Front, True Believers! The #MarvelSHP founding host trio of Illegal Machine, Mr. Fixit, & Diabolu Frank are joined by W.A.M. Count Drunkula and a couple of special cameo guests for a celebration of both our fiftieth episode and the 75th anniversary of the Star-Spangled Avenger with our first ever all Captain America episode! We hope you think it was worth the wait! Excelsior!

Note: We like our language NSFW salty, and there be spoilers here... Face Front, True Believers! This week is maple-syrup flavored as we welcome everyone's favorite French Canadian chronicler of sci-fi, Siskoid! Plus the usual plain American hamburger and shake that is Illegal Machine & Diabolu Frank! We of course talk about Alpha Flight, Plastique, Kids in the Hall, SCTV, Barenaked Ladies and...

Note: We like our language NSFW salty, and there be spoilers here... Face Front, True Believers! Diabolu Frank & Illegal Machine with Mr. Fixit in tow are back to back to meet Stephen Strange for the first time all over again! This episode, we look at the earliest origins of one of the first and finest heroes from the House of Ideas in Stan Lee & Steve Ditko's stories from Strange Tales #1...

Face Front, True Believers! It’s been three weeks since our last #MarvelSHP, which is like one-third as long a wait as for the last one, so we’re getting better! Illegal Machine returns to join Diabolu Frank to look at the 2004-2005 mini-series Strange , which was intended to be a sort of Ultimate Doctor Strange re-imagining by J. Michael Straczynski, but his protégé Samm Barnes got top billing ov...

Face Front, True Believers! It’s been two months since our last #MarvelSHP! We do other Rolled Spine Podcasts, so you could subscribe to another stream if you for really and truly missed us, but that’s not your scene, is it? So fine then– you get to miss Illegal Machine and Mister Fixit some more, because they’re not on this episode, either! This week we return to a forgotten feature of the podcas...

Face Front, True Believers! It's the second attempt by FOX to launch a Fantastic Four franchise, and third overall! Is it the worst so far? Reverse Excelsior?

Note: We like our language NSFW salty, and there be spoilers here... Face Front, True Believers! This week special guest Count Drunkula joins Illegal Machine, Mr. Fix-It & Diabolu Frank to discuss super hero movies coming up and from the past! Excelsior!

Note: We like our language NSFW salty, and there be spoilers here... Face Front, True Believers! This week special guest Count Drunkula joins Illegal Machine, Mr. Fix-It & Diabolu Frank to discuss the last installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase Two starring Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas & Evangeline Lilly! Does the little guy measure up? Excelsior!

Note: We like our language NSFW salty, and there be spoilers here... Face Front, True Believers! For our first anniversary, we finally finish covering the epic Annihilation story arc of 2006! Following our looks at Marvel Cosmic , Drax the Destroyer: Earthfall , Annihilation Prologue , Annihilation: Silver Surfer , Annihilation: Super-Skrull , Annihilation: Nova and Annihilation: Ronan we're ready...

Note: We like our language NSFW salty, and there be spoilers here... Face Front, True Believers! Illegal Machine, Mister Fixit and Diabolu Frank have been podcasting for one week shy of a year, and with other plans for next week, we decided to devote nearly an hour to fellating ourselves like the ribless circle jerks we are on the show's "secret origins" and such, plus we talk Comicpalooza 2015. T...

Interview conducted with the beloved comic book writer and novelist Peter David at The Texas International Comic Convention, Houston’s Comicpalooza, on May 24, 2015. The interview has been edited for time, content, consistency and quality. 00:55 Breaking into Marvel Comics 01:53 Jim Owsley & Spectacular Spider-Man 04:22 Jean DeWolff 06:23 Mark Beachum 07:14 Mark Hazzard: Merc 09:03 The Incredi...

Face Front, True Believers! This episode, Illegal Machine, Mister Fixit, and a hoarse Diabolu Frank offer extensive feature-length commentary on their theatrical experience at the sequel to one of, if not the, greatest super hero movies of all time: Avengers Assemble! Excelsior!

Face Front, True Believers! The crossover of the season, Super-Blog Team Up #6, draws in your favorite Marvel Comics Podcast that's recorded live in Houston by three dudes! The trio return from that rotten Spring Special full force with a cracking good look around Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron via top 10 lists and general discussions but with limited spoilers (which we'll save for next week's e...