Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

Loosey-goosey, baby! The Geeks mull over a few 'All-New All-Different' Marvel news items and announcements; reveal which characters and/or creators make a comic an 'instant buy' for them; team up to answer the challenge of an especially demanding Muddle the Murd; and do the cha-cha like little, sissy girls. We like-a do the cha-cha. (1:42:49)

Jaunt along with Pants and Murd as they road-trip down to that queen of comic conventions, Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC! You'll hear bin-diving stories, con-floor interviews, panel recaps, a few nuggets of news, and highlights from the Inkwell Awards ceremony (for professional comics inkers) and the ever-popular Heroes Con art auction! (1:26:12)

Previews time! After some initial discussion on our pull lists, we go through the June catalog for items shipping to stores beginning in August and go on a few tangents along the way.

So you say you're curious about DC's recent two-month alternate reality showdown extravaganza, Convergence, but you just couldn't spare the time and money to buy and read 40 (count 'em, 40) two-issue para-continuity miniseries? Well, friend, today's your lucky day, because the CGS Geeks have already taken the Convergence plunge, and in this episode they break down and rate the first issues of the first twenty Convergence minis (with more to follow), to help you decide which ones are worthy of your attention! Act now, and you'll also receive bonus coverage of Convergence #0! (2:26:40)

With the Frank Miller years behind us, we Geeks continue our underworld journey through Daredevil's history with a visit to the purgatory period of the late 1980s and the 1990s. We give due recognition to prodigious scripting runs by Denny O'Neil, Ann Nocenti, D.G. Chichester, Karl Kesel, and Kevin Smith (with just a few more stories by Miller sprinkled in to sweeten the deal); Daredevil's first encounters with Mephisto, Blackheart, and Typhoid Mary; the return of Elektra, and the deaths of several more of DD's love interests; the infamous red-and-gray armored costume; and every grim vicissitude in between, from issue #192 of Daredevil Volume 1 to the first arc of the Marvel Knights series. A lot of it ain't pretty, but in the life of the Man Without Fear, what is? (2:37:01)

We're doubling down on Off the Racks in this episode, bringing you reviews of a whopping SIX comics for the (free) price of three! First, it's a time-traveling twofer as we compare and contrast Image's Chrononauts #1 and Dark Horse's Past Aways #1, with Marvel's Howard the Duck #1 thrown in at no egg-stra charge! Then, please keep your seats for a Revolutionary romp through Dark Horse's Rebels #1, an influx of insights on Uncanny Inhumans #0, and a super-timely (for us) gloss of Marvel's all-new Secret Wars #1! BUT WAIT: there's more! After the reviews, stay tuned for a very special post-dictum from Pants. It'll be more fun than podcast listeners should be allowed to have! (2:26:44)

All the new cameras in the CGS Studio must be giving us Hollywood on the brain, because this episode is dominated by Trailer and Teaser Talk! Following an important personal announcement from Pants, we react to promotional footage for upcoming film and TV projects from Supergirl to Suicide Squad to The Muppets! Plus comic shop talk, notes on the recent Wizard World Philly convention, and other televised tomfoolery. (1:23:57)

Into every month, a little Previews must fall! We go through the May catalog for items shipping to stores beginning in July. (1:34:03)

You knew it was coming: No fewer than six Geeks assemble to trade quips, quibbles, thoughts, theories, and general enthusiasm for Earth's Mightiest Sequel! It's Marvel's Avengers vs the Age of Ultron! Whether you choose to watch or listen, miss it not!! (1:18:01)

The Monitor's mighty vibratory towers, last hope for the multiverse's survival, are under attack in Arion's Atlantis and in Kamandi's home amid 'The Great Disaster,' and the Monitor's interdimensional agents issue forth to defend them. Will they prevail? Can Harbinger resist the urge to betray the Monitor? Whose side is Psycho-Pirate on? And what's eating the Luthor boy from Earth-3? No time for questions; just download this episode of The Crisis Tapes! (2:40:25)

In what promises to be an annual tradition, Chris and Murd recently made their second guest appearance on the Back to the Bins podcast, to while away a few hours discussing a trio of vintage back issues with hosts Paul Spataro and Bill Robinson. Emerging from the Bins this time are two landmark DC/Vertigo offerings of yesteryear... and one pretty good issue of Secret Defenders. (2:10:28)

The CGS Video Revolution continues with our first visually-enhanced general-topic all-purpose loosey-goosey Comic Talk episode! We've got Star Wars trailer talk, news and anecdotes from C2E2 2015, a (literal!) look at a few select back issues from Pants' collection, CGS Mailbag, Muddle the Murd, and other eye candy, all filmed in stunning three-camera GEEK-O-RAMA! (But fear not, podcast traditionalists: we're still all about the audio!) (1:31:39)

Pants was in Chicago for C2E2 this past weekend and did some recording from the floor of the show. He chats with Steve Bryant, Brent Schoonover, JK Woodward, Katie Cook, and more. (59:17)

Nearly three months after its untimely interruption, our dream of the Season of Mists recurs! In which Morpheus delivers Hell to its new owners and makes peace with his ex-lover; we meet the Dead Boy Detectives for the first time; and Nothing Really Ends. Blessed closure is only a download away! (1:03:08)

What does a death-obsessed demigod do after he acquires six impossibly powerful talismans that make him Master of All Reality? ANYTHING HE WANTS. Join the Geeks on a cosmic odyssey back to the early '90s as they turn their attention to The Infinity Gauntlet, the six-issue Marvel miniseries that began an ongoing cycle of Warlock/Thanos 'Infinity' stories by Jim Starlin. Thoughts are shared on the cosmic philosophy and mind-bending magniloquence of writer Starlin, the artwork of George Perez and Ron Lim, the characterization of Thanos (SPOILER: not all of us were impressed!), and the ramifications of this story for the future of Marvel Cinematic Universe. (2:37:57) (*Also available on YouTube, as the first-ever CGS vidcast!)

When Kevin Moyer is in-studio and Bryan Deemer's on the line, you know CGS has something big to talk about! First, we mark the passing of artist Herb Trimpe, and Chris talks about his discouraging experience as an exhibitor at the East Coast Comic Con in Seacaucus, NJ. Then, here comes DAREDEVIL, as we devote the second half of this episode to an animated discussion of the new Netflix original series! (1:34:07)

Off the Racks goes 'elseworlds' in this episode, featuring reviews of stories set in the alternate reality of Earth-65 (Spider-Gwen #1), the parallel universe of Earth-10 (The Multiversity: Mastermen #1), and the strange nether-realm of Toronto (Secret Identities #1)! Also, Pants shares some bin-diving stories from the Great Philadelphia Comic Con. (1:35:06)

It's Previews time once again as we go through the April catalog for items shipping to stores beginning in June. We also have a brief chat with artist JK Woodward about his upcoming 'Behemoth' book coming out through Monkey Brain Comics. (1:34:17)

The Monitor's 'Great Fifteen' original multiversal defenders have been summoned and gathered and are now aboard the Monitor's satellite to be briefed on their dire, life-or-death mission, while far below on Earth-One, the first cracks in time and space begin to appear! It's the beginning of the end for the mainstream DC Universe, and Rios and Murdough are there to comment on the chaos in Crisis on Infinite Earths issue 2 part 1! (3:06:30)

It's another blissfully structureless romp through the groves of geeky garrulity, as we take some time to talk about whatever! Pants and Murd recount their weekend road-trip to a sale at a comic shop outside Wilmington, DE. Shane reacts to the announcement of a new Batman '66-style direct-to-video animated project, then briefly ascends his soapbox, touching off a debate about cover-price inflation. Chris rails against the failings of the Walking Dead comic. Plus Muddle the Murd and TV talk (featuring the new 'iZombie' series), with many a tantalizing tangent along the way! (1:22:28)