What relaunch titles are you picking up? Fear Itself vs. Flashpoint New Comics Release Spotlight Journey into Mystery #624 Booster Gold #45 Flashpoint: Emperor Aquaman #1 Flashpoint: Deathstroke and the Curse of the Ravager #1 Fly #1 Batman and Robin #24 Just one week left ’til big episode 100. We’re getting our tuxes pressed and […]
In Knights of Reignsborough Issue #0, we learned about Hair Trigger, Ricochet and The Coyote. We learned where they were when Partisan died, what they did. In this issue, we meet a young doctor whose bright future crumbles to dark knights in our fair city. And we are ministered to by Father Dominic Argento, a […]
In this the biggest comic book news week in years, Paul and Wayne go missing. Slackers. No commitment, I say. In the blinding flashpoint of this monumental news they were found wanting, consumed no doubt by fear itself. But that’s okay. Aron, Tim and Andrew bring it this week. DC’s reboot and day-and-date digital distribution […]
Remember how we said that Sandbox Session 7 was our final sandboxing session? Well, we went and got ourselves a new player, which means we needed one more turn in the sandbox. In this episode, Andrew (aka New Jonathan) joins the team and we run him through character generation. While the artwork and title reveal […]
Ron Marz returns to the show to talk about his all new, creator-owned project – Shinku. Shipping this week from Image Comics, Shinku tells the tale of vampires both in modern-day and feudal Japan. There are samurai, motorcyles and lots of bloody killing. It’s a terrific book. We also discuss Ron’s upcoming Green Lantern one-shot […]
Paul has an announcement to make Memorial Day Plans Tim’s small itty bitty banter topic The Mighty Thor #2 Amazing Spider-Man #662 FF #4 Green Lantern #66 Green Lantern Corps #60 Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #10 Spider-Girl #7 Kirby: Genesis #0 Xombi #3 Just a few weeks left ’til big episode 100. We’re getting our […]
This week, both Paul and Wayne saw Pirates of the Caribbean, but not together. It’s not like they’re dating or anything, though they do tend coordinate they’re wardrobe with freakish regularity. At the theater, they had wildly different experiences. Be that as it may, we all grooved to this week’s new Green Lantern trailer. We […]
This is an actual play of a game Tim ran at Fear the Con 4. Tim ran this for Paul (playing Tommy Lee), Wayne, (playing Slash), Scott from Thistledown AP (playing Alice Cooper) and Chris (playing Gene Simmons). t’s 1984 and the Hair Metal Bands are just about to destroy the bubble gum pop groups […]
The first thing you have to understand about Daryl Gregory is that despite all evidence to the contrary he is not in fact British. I know, right? The next thing you need to know about Daryl Gregory? He’s writing two of the best comics around. His Dracula: Company of Monsters is simply the best Dracula […]
This week, a lot of folks called in sick… so they didn’t get to join us for our Thwipster.com conversation. They didn’t get to lament the sad news of NBC’s Wonder Woman decision. And they didn’t get to ruminate over the Smallville series finale. That’s fine. Podcasting is done by those who show up. So […]