Best Kieron Gillen Podcasts (2025)

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467 - Apocalypse Keys with Kieron Gillen 1:28:37

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Kieron is the writer behind some of my favorite comics, including Young Avengers, Journey Into Mystery, and The Wicked + The Divine. His latest works include The Power Fantasy, about the six superpowered individuals with the power to singlehandedly destroy the planet, and Die Loaded, the sequel to his incredible comic book/RPG combo Die, about a da…

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Kieron Gillen Talks Collaboration, DIE, The Power Fantasy, and Creator-Owned Freedom 1:28:08

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Kieron Gillen makes his long-awaited debut on Let’s Talk Comics and we go all in. We cover everything from breaking into the industry with Phonogram to redefining pop mythology in The Wicked + The Divine, to the return of DIE and the unexpected turns of The Power Fantasy. We also dig into his Image journey, what he carried over from his Marvel year…

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My Marvelous Year 2012 Variant B: We solve comics publishing, and talk Silksong! 1:19:21

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Dave forces Zack to weigh in on “Video Game Difficulty Discourse” irt Silksong, and Charlotte pitches “The French Method” of comic publishing. Up Next: My Marvelous Year — 2012 pt. 4 Avengers vs. X-Men#1 to #12Read the tie-ins IF YOU DAREUncanny X-Men#12-14Added by Patreon backer Justin W. AvX tie-insWolverine & the X-Men#17Added by Patreon backer …

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S4E62 - This is a Voyager episode 58:55

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Episode Notes Children of Time: Kira breaks up with yet another boring guy. Welcome to... Gaia? Grandfather Problem Trolley Problem Or Something. Odo's gotten pretty good at shapeshifting in 200 years. Worf gets a cult. This episode wants to do too many things, and doesn't do any of them well. Blaze of Glory: We punish Jude. Wait, we thought we wer…

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468 - Against Time & Death with Michael Turrentine 1:29:26

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Michael is one of the stars of World Gone Wrong, a fictional chat show about friendship at the end of the world, in which two best friends talk about life in a world of werewolves, humming kudzu, body snatchers, and a million other crises all at once. We sat down to play Against Time And Death, an epistolary roleplaying game of agents on opposite s…

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Pick of the Week #995 – Good As Dead #1 1:28:03

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It's iFanboy 20/25 -- 20 years of podcasting and 25 years of iFanboy! This show was recorded one time and one time only. Our billionaire entreaties continue to go unnoticed, but thankfully, it was a small landslide of Pick of the Week worthy issues this week, and at least one book that was... less than. Get yourself gussied up, and settle in for an…

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Mediasplode #62 – Our Top Ten Films of All-Time and The Bear, Season 4 1:18:40

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Thanks to our awesome Patrons, we're proud to present another episode of Mediasplode! What's a Mediasplode? It's a monthly special edition show in which we talk about what we are enjoying in media outside of the realm of comic books. It's like our All Media Year End Round-Up but in a shorter, monthly format. Note: Time codes are estimates due to dy…

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Jordie Bellaire Talks Redlands, Exquisite Corpses & the Art of Color 1:24:02

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On this episode of Let’s Talk Comics, I sit down with the one and only Jordie Bellaire, winner of all the awards, colorist of some of the most talked about books of the last decade, and the writer who set the world on fire with Redlands. We dig into her early Image Comics days on books like Pretty Deadly and Nowhere Men, talk about what it takes to…

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My Marvelous Year 2012 Pt. 3: Finale of Remender’s X-Force! 55:27

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Dave and Zack give a send off to one of the best Marvel comics of the millennia so far. On this episode we cover the following issues (all available via Marvel Unlimited): Uncanny X-Force#24 – #35Final Execution. End of the Run. Up Next: My Marvelous Year — 2012 pt. 3 Carnage U.S.A.#1 to #5Zeb Wells and Clayton Crain. Cool covers?Scarlet Spider#1 t…

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Pick of the Week #994 – Redcoat #14 1:20:09

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It's iFanboy 20/25 -- 20 years of podcasting and 25 years of iFanboy! What's in a name? A redcoat by any other name would not smell as sweet. And nor would this week's comics! Note: Time codes are estimates due to dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. Running Time: 01:16:58 Pick of the Week: 00:01:57 - Redcoat #14 Comics: 00:12:20 - Captain Amer…

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S4E61 - A president in your closet 1:07:38

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Episode Notes Ferengi Love Songs:Rene has found his niche: horny Ferengi. Starfleet pest control is... interesting. Time to visit Moogie! Strangest thing to find in your childhood closet? Wait, how big is this closet?? Brunt is a Sovereign class hater. The one place where the Ferengi>America analogy falls down in the 21st century is that they don't…

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My Marvelous Year 2012 Pt. 2: Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe & Carnage USA 43:26

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Charlotte and Zack read the peak of mid-2000s edgy Marvel! On this episode we cover the following issues (all available via Marvel Unlimited): Carnage U.S.A.#1 to #5Zeb Wells and Clayton Crain. Cool covers?Scarlet Spider#1 to #3I remember this being surprisingly good. Stopping in the middle of the first volume in case not!Deadpool Kills the Marvel …

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SPECIAL EPISODE: Party of One Says Go Birds - 007 - Justice Sworn with Alex Pearlman (LIVE) 1:13:50

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Alex is a comedian, yelling guy from the Internet, and host of Too Many Tabs. We took a trip back in time to the early 90s, to the smoky lobby of a Ground Round, to revisit some 1990s arcade madness in JUSTICE SWORN by Sandy Pug Games. Recorded live at Unity Java in Philadelphia, PA! DADDY'S DAY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWjPZArqK4A ALL MY F…

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SPECIAL EPISODE: Party of One Says Go Birds - 002 - Work/Life/Work/Life Balance with Jadzia Axelrod (LIVE) 1:19:52

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Jadzia is the writer of Galaxy: The Prettiest Star and Hawkgirl: Once Upon a Galaxy, and the longtime host of The Voice of Free Planet X (Jeff's favorite podcast of all time). We sat down to spin up a delightfully supernatural 70s superhero comic book in Work/Life/Work/Life Balance by Rudo Judo games. Recorded live at Unity Java in Philadelphia, PA…

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Pick of the Week #993 – Batman #1 1:13:34

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It's iFanboy 20/25 -- 20 years of podcasting and 25 years of iFanboy! It's still hot out there and though they (almost) don't mention it, you can feel it, can't you? This week, in addition to a great week of comics, Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick discuss adding kids to the casts of long-running TV shows and listen as they have a revelation abou…

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Frank Barbiere Talks His Image Comics Return With The Author Immortal 1:02:42

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Frank Barbiere first turned heads at Image Comics with Five Ghosts, and now he’s back with his most ambitious series yet, The Author Immortal. We dive into Frank’s path from breaking in at Image to making the jump into video games, how those experiences shaped his writing today, and why this new metafictional fantasy is the story he’s been building…

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My Marvelous Year 2012 Variant A: Eyes of Wakanda review! 1:13:51

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Zack (king of podcasts in 2050), Charlotte, and Dave chat about Eyes of Wakanda and have another “state of the MCU/DCU” talk. Also, some Predator and Alien talk! Up Next: My Marvelous Year — 2012 pt. 3 Carnage U.S.A.#1 to #5Zeb Wells and Clayton Crain. Cool covers?Scarlet Spider#1 to #3I remember this being surprisingly good. Stopping in the middle…

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Jason Fabok Talks Building the World of Rook: Exodus With Geoff Johns & Ghost Machine 1:06:35

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Jason Fabok joins the show to talk all things ROOK: EXODUS. You’ve seen his cinematic, larger-than-life art on Justice League and Batman: Three Jokers, but now, as part of Ghost Machine, he’s building something original and massive. We dig into his journey, his partnership with Geoff Johns, the worldbuilding and fan reaction to the first arc, and w…

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Pick of the Week #992 – Lazarus Fallen #3 1:18:08

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It's iFanboy 20/25 -- 20 years of podcasting and 25 years of iFanboy! The weekly cavalcade is almost too much, prompting the return of the short Bell section. Clearly this show has it all! Produced, written, hosted, edited, sweetened, promoted, and sold by Dan Mora. Note: Time codes are estimates due to dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. Runn…

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Ep 331 - Absolute Batman Volume One Review 45:11

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The Bat Force discuss Volume 1 of one of the hottest comics currently being published, ABSOLUTE BATMAN : "The Zoo", written by Scott Snyder, art by Nick Dragotta with Gabriel Hernandez Walta (issue 4), colors by Frank Martin, and lettered by Clayton Cowles.By The Bat Force

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Booksplode #70 – The Avengers in The Veracity Trap! 34:24

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Thanks to our awesome Patrons, we’re proud to present another Booksplode! This month, Conor Kilpatrick and Josh Flanagan take a look at… The Avengers in The Veracity Trap! by Chip Kidd & Michael Cho. Running Time: 00:31:25 What’s a Booksplode? It’s a bi-monthly special edition show in which we take a look at a single graphic novel or collected edit…

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S4E60 - Crack open a fresh Weyoun 59:59

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Episode Notes Business as Usual:Quark is broke and up to his ears in debt. Obviously he needs to get into arms dealing. Holosuites are a legal loophole? Quark may be an immoral gremlin, but he has lines. Miles suffers: dadmode. Ties of Blood and Water:Cardassian shenanigans! Dukat always acts with 100% certainty. Cardassian worldbuilding by way of …

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2012 Pt. 1: More Kieron Gillen Asgard! 1:15:33

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Charlotte and Zack rewrite history to make this the best episode of MMY yet! On this episode we cover the following issues (all available via Marvel Unlimited): Journey Into Mystery#633-#636, 639-641More like Journey into Mastery am I right?The Mighty Thor / Journey Into MysteryJiM #642, TMT #19, #643, TMT #20, #644, TMT #21, #645Everything Burns U…

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466 - Shadow / Giant with Rahrah 1:20:36

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Rahrah is the creator and GM of The Heart is a Dungeon, an actual play TTRPG podcast focused on sad, emotional storytelling with a primarily BIPOC and fem presenting cast. We tapped into that deep, vulnerable spirit in a game of Shadow / Giant, an asymmetrical RPG about a gruff loner forced to take care of a mysteriously magically powerful child. C…

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Pick of the Week #991 – Detective Comics #1100 1:20:59

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It’s iFanboy 20/25 — 20 years of podcasting and 25 years of iFanboy! This week Josh Flanagan is drunk (sleep drunk) and Conor Kilpatrick just can’t remember words. He was sober! Note: Time codes are estimates due to dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. Running Time: 01:17:00 Pick of the Week: 00:03:16 – Detective Comics #1100 Comics: 00:16:30 –…

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Mediasplode #61 – The Gilded Age, Season 3 and The Summer Mail Bag! 1:18:00

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Thanks to our awesome Patrons, we’re proud to present another episode of Mediasplode! What’s a Mediasplode? It’s a monthly special edition show in which we talk about what we are enjoying in media outside of the realm of comic books. It’s like our All Media Year End Round-Up but in a shorter, monthly format. Note: Time codes are estimates due to dy…

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2011 Pt. 8: X-Men, X-Men, & MORE X-Men 1:02:14

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Charlotte, Dave, and Zack GET IN THE MECH and OBLITERATE this comic book review! On this episode we cover the following issues (all available via Marvel Unlimited): X-Men: Schism / X-Men: Regenesis#1 to #5 / #1A new era of XWolverine & The X-Men#1 to #3Uncanny X-Men#1 to #3 Up Next: My Marvelous Year — 2012 pt. 1 Journey Into Mystery#633-#636, 639-…

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465 - Shitty Ensigns with Dan Ludwig 1:25:46

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Dan is one half of Breaking Mayberry, an anti-nostalgia podcast about watching old TV (starting with, as the title suggests, The Andy Griffith Show) and figuring out how it broke your grandparents' brains. After last week's episode all about analyzing TV and talking about storytelling, we wanted to spotlight the fun and goofiness of old genre TV. A…

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Pick of the Week #990 – I Hate Fairyland #43 1:24:10

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It's iFanboy 20/25 -- 20 years of podcasting and 25 years of iFanboy! Quality week! Plenty of well done comics and very good times. Josh reaches for a book that hasn't had the Pick in a very long time, and of course, there's time spent on figuring out how long that time was before moving on to the actual show again. But take heart, for there is ple…

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David Finch Talks the Making of Skinbreaker with Robert Kirkman 58:23

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Legendary comic book artist David Finch joins Let’s Talk Comics to talk about his long-awaited new project with Robert Kirkman, Skinbreaker. We dig into how the project came together, what it’s like building a brand-new world from the ground up, and the challenges (and rewards) of working in an oversized format. David also shares stories from his e…

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James Tynion IV on 5 Years of The Department of Truth 50:32

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Fan favorite writer James Tynion IV joins the Let’s Talk Comics podcast to celebrate five years of The Department of Truth, his critically acclaimed Image Comics series with artist Martin Simmonds. We dig into James' origin story breaking into comics with Scott Snyder, to launching The Department of Truth in 2020 and so much more. James takes us be…

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S4E59 - M. Bison Syndrome 1:06:54

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Episode Notes S05E16: Doctor Bashir, I PresumeS05E17: A Civil Investigation Doctor Bashir, I Presume: Holo-doc? No, real doc. Making a custom GPT in the future is hard work, apparently. Bashir is khaaa--no, just genetically modified. The sins of the father. Gross, Robert Picardo. Finally Rom asks Leeta out! Julian's unplanned but really solid chara…

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2011 Variant D: Fantastic Four (2025) Movie Review! 1:28:06

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The Gruesome Threesome review Fantastic Four: First Steps and Zack can’t remember who is going to eat a bug. Up Next: My Marvelous Year — 2011 pt. 8 X-Men: Schism / X-Men: Regenesis#1 to #5 / #1A new era of XWolverine & The X-Men#1 to #3Uncanny X-Men#1 to #3 Play along with: Comic Book Herald’s Marvel Reading Order A Marvel Unlimited subscription! …

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464 - Lights Out with Marty Schneider 1:20:57

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Marty is one of the hosts of Breaking Mayberry, an anti-nostalgia podcast focused on watching old TV (starting with, as the title suggests, The Andy Griffith Show) and assessing what holds up and what caused permanent damage to the psyche of an entire generation. We wanted to talk TV, and storytelling, and the weird politics of creating collaborati…

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Pick of the Week #989 – Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell #3 1:20:40

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It’s iFanboy 20/25 — 20 years of podcasting and 25 years of iFanboy! This week, Josh Flanagan has Captain America angst, Conor Kilpatrick has Superman angst, and a trip down memory lane tests their neuroplasticity. Note: Time codes are estimates due to dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. Running Time: 01:16:40 Pick of the Week: 00:02:23 – Dare…

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Jacob Phillips Talks Zombies, Westerns & Everything Dead & Dying 57:27

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Artist Jacob Phillips (That Texas Blood, The Enfield Gang Massacre, Newburn) joins Let’s Talk Comics to talk about his brand-new horror western, Everything Dead & Dying, co-created with writer Tate Brombal and coming this fall from Image Comics. We dig into Jacob’s unexpected path into comics, how early “just another illustration job” gigs turned i…

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463 - CLASH! with Sabrina Hawthorne 1:24:13

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CLASH! Shonen Battle Roleplay is a Tabletop Roleplaying Game love letter to shonen anime such as Bleach, One Piece, and Naruto in which big, bombastic characters grapple with dramatic fights and the dramatic emotions those fights represent. I sat down with the game's designer, Sabrina Hawthorne, to see the game in action. CLASH!: https://sabrinahaw…

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Pick of the Week #988 – Assorted Crisis Events #5 1:10:29

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It's iFanboy 20/25 -- 20 years of podcasting and 25 years of iFanboy! With Conor on his microbiological research trip to Kuala Lumpur with a group of Pokemon fanatics, Josh is joined by Dr. Ryan Haupt, on a thankfully light week. After briefly toying with doing a full audible and discussing Project Hail Mary, they move forward with a great stack of…

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Special Edition – The Fantastic Four: First Steps 1:05:21

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It's the dawn of a new era, along with a new phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the coming of the highly anticipated film The Fantastic Four: First Steps! Arriving like the Silver Surfer heralding Earth's doom, Josh Flanagan and Mike Romo come together to brave their cautious optimism for Marvel's first family. Running Time: 01:02:22 Music…

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S4E58 - Don't call him daddy 53:14

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Episode Notes In Purgatory's Shadow: Odo's newly re-gooey lifestyle. Garak on a... rescue mission? Garak, played by Jason Mantzoukas. Martok's on the prison! Wait... and Julian??? Goolian brings the lunch order. By Inferno's Light: Dukat (that asshole) has sold Cardassia to the Dominion. Worf does the prison fight ring trope. Gowron and Sisko re-es…

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2011 Pt. 7: Norman Osborn solo series & Dave forces us to read Alpha Flight 1:12:25

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Dave forces us to read Alpha Flight, but Zack and Charlotte try their best to steer the conversation towards better comics. On this episode we cover the following issues (all available via Marvel Unlimited): Alpha Flight#0.1Defend yourself, ZackOsborn#1 to #5Kelly Sue Deconnick and Emma RiosRed Skull: Incarnate#1Added to the list by Patreon back Et…

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Pick of the Week #987 – DC Vs. Vampires: World War V #11 1:26:32

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It's iFanboy 20/25 -- 20 years of podcasting and 25 years of iFanboy! On and on and on and on they go about comics from the week. Vampires and Soooopermans and Ultrons and Minotaurs and amazing panels layouts and more are all coming your way. Note: Time codes are estimates due to dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. Running Time: 01:22:31 Pick …