The Comic Conspiracy

This week, we discuss cleaning the back room, Chris Ware, unspoiled surprises, Marvel must-have graphic novels, New 52 and MarvelNOW! wish lists, The Rocketeer, carrying indie books, resurrecting Jack Kirby, decline of stand-alone issues, price-gouging on current issues, and a big, spoiler-filled Batman #17 discussion. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Brock Sager, and Charlie West.

We knew it couldn't last forever... This week, we have an epic discuss about the end of Geoff Johns' run on Green Lantern, the cancelation of 6 more DC titles, the return of Power Girl's original costume, the current issues of Avengers and New Avengers, Marvel's Free Comic Book Day book, and answer a few listener questions. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrock, Bryce Larsen, Brock Sager, Toby Sidl...

Join most of the regular crew this week as we fake knowing sportsball stuff, making terrible Super Bowl jokes, Super Bowl commercials, lots of listener questions, Ryan's annual discussion of not actually hating Marvel, Young Avengers #1, Star Wars #1 shortages, DC's WTF month, Marvel's Hulk movie plans, and updates on Green Lantern TAS and Young Justice. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Brock...

With most of the cast out this week, we're joined once again by Kris Faraone and his partner at Heroes and Dice, Chris Roe. Join us as we discuss Chris' Secret Origins, some more Green Arrow love, Justice League International, some new titles and cancellations, Doctor Strange movie, ranking the Marvel movies, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, guessing the Man of Steel box office, Jenny Olsen, the cancella...

Long-time customer Scott Shea joins us this week as we discuss his Secret Origin, indie comic reviews, the possible death of Darkhawk, why they keep making new Defenders comics, ongoing vs mini-series, tracking comics, sexy comics, which hero you'd want to be, the best Green Arrow comics, and playing your first HeroClix game. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Kris Faraone, Brock Sager, and Sco...

This week, we're joined with Heroes & Dice co-owner Kris Faraone as we discuss Kris' Secret Origin, Hawkeye, MarvelNOW sales, DC's newest editorial disasters, casting the Justice League movie, our comic budget, music tastes, X-Men suggestions, and how to get into Heroclix. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Kris Faraone, Bryce Larsen, Brock Sager, and Charlie West.

It's a new year, yet we're still here, doing what we do best. This week, it's discussing hating monthly sales chart columnists, Wonder Woman suggestions, fun DC comics, best New 52 art, 2013 books and movies we're looking forward to, our 2012 Top 10 Comics and Graphic Novels, and discussion of the new episodes of Green Lantern and Young Justice. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Brock Sager, a...

It's New Year's Eve, and seven comic nerds gathered to talk about their favorite comics of 2012, as well as Amazing Spider-Man #700. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Seth Kane, Bryce Larsen, Brock Sager, Toby Sidler, and Charlie West.

It's an all Q&A episode, where we discuss awesome toys for babies, Man of Steel trailer, most anticipated comic movies of 2013, ranking characters, characters vs creators, collection size, preferred comic format, Green Lantern: The Third Army updates, not giving a shout-out, comic letter columns, and the return of DC Nation. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Brock Sager, Toby Sidler, and Charl...

It's a full cast this week, as we discuss Fear Agent, giving comics as gifts, favorite Aquaman stories, killing momentum, comic hipsters, Gail Simone fired off Batgirl, and Avengers #1 talk. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Bryce Larsen, Brock Sager, Toby Sidler, and Charlie West.

We're short a few members, so we've got special guest Alex Gannaway join us this week, as we discuss Alex's Secret Origin, Uncanny X-Force, returning characters, omnibus quality, recommending classic DC comics, Karen Berger stepping down, Justice League's movie villain, and looking at some more MarvelNOW! releases. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Alex Gannaway, and Charlie West.

We welcome listener Brandon Freid to the podcast as we discuss his Secret Origin, catching up on some books, re-reading books, directors writing comics, which Deadpool comics to recommend for a 10 year old, Batman Heroclix, and Amazing Spider-Man #698 spoilers. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Brandon Freid, Brock Sager, and Toby Sidler.

Join us this week as we discuss Superman vs Charlie West, comic tattoos, original comic art, Marvel vs DC, New Warriors Omnibus, MarvelNOW! reviews, The Worst Comic Book Ryan Higgins Ever Read, and the 20th Anniversary of the Death of Superman. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Brock Sager, Toby Sidler, and Charlie West.

Bryce joins us again this week, as we discuss keeping Comixology comics, length of crossovers, some Green Lantern: Rise of the Third Army talk, thoughts on Valiant, MarvelNOW Deadpool, Bendis' X-Men, our trip to the book binding company, the cancelation of Hellblazer, DC dropping variants, and Uncanny Avengers lateness. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Bryce Larsen, Brock Sager, and Charlie W...

Omar’s back from Hawaii, so the whole crew is here to week to discuss how to get Comic-Con tickets, some hardcover suggestions, new creative team on Green Arrow, Justice League of America’s 52 variant covers, how to properly offer variants, the next superhuman president, old Star Wars news, and He-Man: The Most Powerful Game in the Universe. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Brock Sager, Toby...

It's almost Halloween, so join us as we almost discuss spooky stuff, like the animated Young Justice comic book, Daomu, was New 52 #0 Month a mistake, Green Arrow vs Hawkeye, Robin vs Robin vs Robin vs Robin, some spooky comic suggestions, Telltale's The Walking Dead game, a Walking Dead Season 3 update, comic movie sequels, the official Once Upon A Time podcast, and the Phantom Variants. Starring...

We continue our coverage of news from NYCC 2012, including Superman vs New 52 Superman, Snyder's Man of Steel, costume changes, Joe Mad back on Battle Chasers, Guardians of the Galaxy vs the Green Lantern Corps, David Goyer's DC event comic, Bendis/McNiven's Guardians of the Galaxy, Team 7, Alternative Press Expo 2012, Walking Dead and Arrow numbers, and some Random Picks of the Week! Starring Rya...

More news this week than we can fit into one episode, so we put it in two! This week, we discuss Uncanny Avengers #1, Batman #13, Ant-Man gets a release date, Coulson lives!, new DC cancellations, DC's new space books, Cartoon Network being the worst TV station on Earth, Superior Spider-Man, and the Walking Dead Season 3 premiere. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Brock Sager, Toby Sidler, and...

Another slow news week, but we've still got a lot to talk about, including who we'd like to see in the Avengers movie, sexy comics, disappointing New 52 changes, Flashpoint suggestions, Avengers vs X-Men #12 spoiler discussion, AvX: Versus, Phantom Stranger, FF, and Gambit. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Brock Sager, and Toby Sidler.

Long-time friend and customer Bryce Larsen joins us this week as we discuss his Secret Origin, his love of Marvel, our favorite major events, what DC characters we want back, our Best and Worst of Marvel Now!, new episodes of Green Lantern and Young Justice, and our Marvel Random Picks of the Week. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Bryce Larsen, Brock Sager, and Charlie West.

Full table this week, and we discuss Castle Grayskull, comic backups, Judge Dread, sorting issue #0s, Fables, disappointing popular titles, double-shipping and variants, the ending of Punisher, the big Stan Lee rumor, Batman Live, and Omar's big HeroClix update. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Brock Sager, Toby Sidler, and Charlie West.

This week, Brock regales us with tales of the Portland comic book store scene, we discuss Avengers vs X-Men #11, as well as answer tons of questions about Alex Ross, Team 7, Dial H, getting into comics, Spider-Men, the next Batman movie villain, Batman vs Detective Comics, confusing Legion of Superheroes continuity, Supergirl suggestions, and variant covers. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, B...

It's a week where we answer a bunch of listener e-mail and tweets, including questions about the best hardcovers to get, the trouble with omnibi, the great Marvel/DC creator switcheroo, the problem with Hawkeye, Collection Intervention, Saga, DC's annuals, Omar and listener's Top 5 DC New 52 books, the possible Wonder Woman pilot, Arrow, Robot Chicken's DC Comics Special, and the new Avengers team...

Technical problems with Toby's mic aside, this super-long episode is all about DC Comics New 52: One Year Later! We discuss sales numbers, some of the controversies, our favorite and disappointments from the different families, and our personal Top 5 New 52 book lists. Starring Ryan Higgins, Brock Sager, Toby Sidler, and Charlie West.

There's a lot to talk about this week, including Heroes Reborn, DC's New 52 One Year Later, DC's first big crossover, recommending some X-Men comics, the launch of Justice League of America, Superman and Wonder Woman getting it on, Wonder Woman #12 spoilers, creators departing the Big Two, and the epic Rob Liefeld twit-out. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Brock Sager, Toby Sidler, Charlie We...