The Comic Conspiracy

Toby and Charlie are up at Emerald City ComicCon, so we catch up on emails and discuss Hunger Games, low-selling DC titles, how to start reading comics, busts and statues, cosplaying, Green Lantern pre-and-post relaunch, Guillem March's Cover Girls, Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic Four, and All-Star Western. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, and Brock Sager.

One year. Fifty-two episodes recorded. Fifty episodes fit for release. About six good ones. Celebrate one year of The Comic Conspiracy Podcast where we discuss your questions and comments from Twitter. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Brock Sager, Toby Sidler, and Charlie West.

Time for a new episode! This week, we discuss good starting points for Spider-Man and Daredevil, Marvel's Infinite Comics, Mark Waid's digital comic, our experience with digital comics, Moebius, the Airtight Garage, and our big Walking Dead Season Two finale discussion. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Brock Sager, and Charlie West.

We're back, after some technical difficulties last week, to talk about the first six months of DC's New 52 relaunch, what books we're liking, what book we're disappointed with, Justice League #6, which characters we want New 52'd, and some John Carter talk. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Brock Sager, Toby Sidler, and Charlie West.

Welcome our special guest Omar Brodrick, host of ComicsandDakine.com, as we discuss Omar's Secret Origin, Toby & Omar's San Diego Team-Up, Image Expo 2012, Wizkids' HeroClix, Jonathan Hickman's FF, Christina Strain's Fox Sister, Marvel's Age of Apocalypse Omnibus, and the Paul Dini/Carlos D'Anda Batman: Arkham City mini-series. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Toby Sidler, and Charlie West.

It's new episode time! This week, we're discussing how to back in love with Marvel, Darkhawk, the new $8 Marvel comics, the New 52 trade paperback releases, Doctor Who and Star Trek vs The Cybermen and The Borg, DC's Free Comic Book Day book, the new Earth-2, de-aging Wally West, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Kevin Smith's Comic Book Men, Thief of Thieves #1, Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, and Ch...

No time for reviews this week, outside Charlie's X-Sanction #3 discussion delayed from last week, as we discuss some huge comic news including Chronicle, the Amazing Spider-Man trailer, Peter Parker's parents, Smallville Season 11, Tony Moore's lawsuit against Robert Kirkman, Marvel's lawsuit against Gary Friedrich, the future of artist alley and commissions, creator's rights, and tons of other le...

It's post-Superbowl time, and for some reason, people spend tons of money making ads during it, so we discuss a few of them, including Met-Life's Cartoon All-Stars and the Avengers trailer, as well as losing our religion, Before Watchmen, and an epic discussion of Max Landis' "Death and Return of Superman" educational parody film. Starring Ryan Higgins, Brock Sager, Toby Sidler, and Charlie West.

All sorts of stuff to talk about this week, including foreign comics, recap pages, Marvel Zombies, Star Trek/Legion of Super-Heroes, The Tick, Bone, Marvel Apes, Darkwing Duck, Duck Tales, Boom! Studios trade paperbacks, Warner Bros. "We Can Be Heroes" charity, the new Azzarello/Bermejo DC graphic novel, new Marvel animated comics, Spectacular Spider-Man, Thundercats, toy sales, Order of the Stick...

It's e-mail time! This week, we discuss The DC Flip, how to open a comic book store, comic book supplies, Kevin Smith's Comic Book Men, new superhero concepts, how our earliest comic books influence our current reading, Prophet #21, 100 Bullets, and Justice League: Generation Lost. Starring Ryan Higgins, Brock Sager, and Toby Sidler.

Big news this week, including Jupiter's Children, Garth Ennis' The Shadow, The Spirit, the return of backup stories in Batman, the Court of the Owls crossover, value vs price, the return of shock endings, the first wave of cancelations from The New 52, the second wave of launches from DC Comics, Rob Liefeld, DC's possible new logo, Scarlet Spider, Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye, and Invinci...

This week, we're wrapping up our Best of 2011 as Toby and Charlie join us to talk about their favorite comics of the past year, Walking Dead, Young Justice, Arkham City, Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America, X-Men: First Class, Daredevil: Director's Cut, and Avengers/X-Men: X-Sanction #2. Starring Ryan Higgins, Brock Sager, Toby Sidler, and Charlie West.

It's a new year, and the same old bitching. The start of a 2011 retrospective, we discuss some notable events of the year including DC's New 52, digital comics, being sick, top selling comics and graphic novels, and our favorite comics of the year. Starring Ryan Higgins and Brock Sager.

Exciting post-Christmas/pre-New Years podcast wonderment, with special guest and friend of the store, Seth Kane! This week, we discuss Christmas, Sergio Aragones, villains winning, comic book mapping, comic binding, Watchmen 2 promo art, Seth's comic book Secret Origin, oddball comics, Tintin (both the movie and the comics), Kindle Fire, DC's 52, and DC's science comics. Starring Ryan Higgins, Set...

In a row? Tons of silly conversations this week, including something called "Christmas", X-Sanction #1, lots of Cable love, Avengers vs The X-Men, time-travel paradoxes, Marvel downsizing, comic cover stock, Dark Knight Rises trailer, Catwoman: When In Rome, Chew, Green Lantern: Larfleeze Christmas Special, Memorial #1, and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. Starring Ryan Higgins, Brock Sager,...

All sorts of news to discuss this week, including what's in the New 52 and what's not, pre-New-52 reading, comic storage, Jerry Robinson's passing, Bendis off Avengers, creator burn-out, The Big Three, Avengers vs X-Men, new blood, JMS, old comics, Supreme Powers, and All-Star Superman. Starring Ryan Higgins, Brock Sager, and Toby Sidler.

All sorts of news and stories this week, including talk about Big Bang Theory, Seven Soldiers of Victory, Watchmen 2, copyright and trademark, working for The Man, remembering Smallville, Smallville: Season 11, Nic Cage's Action Comics #1, drugged out customers, Dark Horse's digital dilemma, Marvel's LCS coupon, DMR, DC Universe Online, Bizarro Comics, Daytripper, University(Squared), and A Family...

Some very random conversations this week, as we discuss how terrible Big Bang Theory is, Daredevil: Director's Cut, DC is HOT!, low sales on James Robinson's Shade maxi-series, agreeing with Mark Millar, huge discussion on retail vs online stores, great record store shopping experiences, retail theory and practice, Planet Hulk, Planet Human Torch (Fantastic Four #600), and the Muppets Movie! Starr...

Lots of love and hate this week, as we discuss international comics and shipping, Korean comic conventions, Marvel's excess publishing of graphic novels, double-dipping, print to order, bagged comics, Uncanny X-Men #1, Dark Avengers #18, Batman: Arkham City spoilers, and drinking. Starring Ryan Higgins, Brock Sager, and Toby Sidler.

Brock is out this week, but Toby and Charlie are back! We discuss Punisher and Daredevil (haven't we talked about these books before?), Avenging Spider-Man #1, Joe Mad, Marvel Point One, the worst comic dialogue of 2011, the Scarlet Spider, Green Lantern: The "Animated" Series, 3D vs 2D animation, DC Nation, the winner of our Suicide Squad contest, correcting our mistakes, Avengers: Origin, TMNT,...

One big topic to talk about this week, and it's only the possible destruction of the entire comic book industry because of...trade paperbacks?!? We also talk about favorite missing heroes, cutting The New 52 orders, DC's domination of the sales charts, and totally forgetting to talk about Wonder Woman's pants. Starring Ryan Higgins and Brock Sager.

Slow news week, so it's an all e-mail episode! We answer all sorts of questions about comics about villains, not reading the Ultimate books, the Spider-Man: Adventures in Reading comics, promotional comics, free comics, digital comics, Jason Aaron/Mark Silvestri's Hulk, comic recommendation litmus test, the Mutant X tv show, international comic prices, creators like Garth Ennis (there aren't any),...

Bunch of geeky comic stuff to talk about this week, including Fear Itself, more space books talk, the ongoing digital vs print debate, getting back into comics, supporting comic retailers (hey, that's us!), Marvel's layoffs, Watchmen 2, Alan Moore losing it, more Arkham City talk (little spoilers), Greg Rucka's Punisher run, and Gotham Central. Starring Ryan Higgins and Brock Sager.

It's new episode time! This week, we discuss canceled comic books, reading every comic ever, New York Comic Con 2011, the Dexter and Burn Notice comics, Superman: Earth One Volume 2, Johns/Frank's Captain Marvel, back-up comics, the Green Lantern animated series, the return of the Phoenix, Avengers Assemble, the Avengers trailer, Batman: Arkham City, Sandman #8, Batwoman: Elegy, and hating the Gre...

We're back for Part 2 of our DC Comics' New 52 #1 recap/review episode! We also talk a bit about Witchblade and the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco, CA. Starring Ryan Higgins, Brock Sager, Charlie West, and Toby Xi.