DVD Extras (1:52) Spending limit (7:10) Trade Paper Back Recommended Reading: Our Top 6 Trade Paper Back Picks… (7:53) Maus (12:10) Invincible (15:50) Identity Crisis (20:40) Danger Girl (26:30) The Complete Concrete (32:00) The Complete Bone (38:37) What if we were writing… The X-Men? (50:00) We apologize for Aron’s barking dogs in the background. They […]
Back in the old days (mid 90’s or so), I wasn’t a big fan of Deadpool. Sure, he’s a mutant with ties to Wolverine’s origin and occasionally made appearances in the X-Books, but I always considered his books to be as close to the X-Men as Ghostrider. Now, that I’m back in, and branching out […]
Listeners to Ideology of Madness’ podcast, Funny Books with Aron & Paulie, will recall Jonathan Landreth had a lot to say about comics on his podcast, Kicked in the Dicebags, after our first episode. Jonathan was out of comics for a lengthy period. Listening to Funny Books, got him back into the hobby. We’ve invited […]
DVD Extras (1:52) Spending limit (7:10) Trade Paper Back Recommended Reading: Our Top 6 Trade Paper Back Picks… (7:53) Maus (12:10) Invincible (15:50) Identity Crisis (20:40) Danger Girl (26:30) The Complete Concrete (32:00) The Complete Bone (38:37) What if we were writing… The X-Men? (50:00) We apologize for Aron’s barking dogs in the background. They […]
Fan favorite zombie comic series The Walking Dead is on its way to series television. According to Variety, cable channel AMC is inches away from sealing the deal with Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont to bring the show to its network. Holy crap! Y’know, I think this would make a great TV series. The Walking […]
I’ve been bachelor boy (newest member of the Legion of Super Heroes) with The Wife out-of-town, so I thought I’d share some of the links I’ve enjoyed this weekend (sorry, no pron). If you’re anything like me, you are constantly plagued with unwelcome demons showing up at your front door. I mean, WTF?!? Can’t these […]
My friendly local comic shop, Zeus Comics, has released the first of their new series of web episodes, The Variants. It is to comic shops what Kevin Smith’s Clerks was to convenience and video stores. Awfully funny and promises a lot more good stuff to come.
Aron’s at GenCon this week! If you wanna chat about comics, send him a note on Twitter. Greeting cards (1:45) The Barnes & Noble bargain bins (3:41) Christmas in August (6:32) Justice League: Cry for Justice #2 (13:00) Captain America: Reborn #2 (19:47) Chew #1-3 (27:35) Mayhem #1 (oops…Paul meant BloodSTRIKE, not Bloodshot) (38:20) War […]
This post will be at the top through Tuesday, so scroll down for all the latest stories, including our NEW CONTEST! It’s a show chock-full of four-color-goodness this week: Comics at the public library (2:30) Comics keep you fit (4:58) Our first podcast contest winners! (6:10) The new contest! (12:20) Detective Comics #855 (Batwoman) (14:50) […]
Seems like just a few weeks since we started off Funny Books with Aron and Paulie and here we are already on issue 600. In this very special 600th issue we at long last discuss some Marvel books >gasp<… Incredible Hulk #600 Amazing Spider-man #600 Guardians of the Galaxy, Nova, and War of Kings Green […]