It's a step into new territory for the podcast, with our first animated movie - and our first movie based on a Japanese manga. To help Joe get his head around 1995's Ghost in the Shell, James is joined by anime expert Ian Grundy. In the news, meanwhile, we look at the possibility of a Blue Beetle/Booster Gold movie, and the latest on Jessica Jones.

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It's a relatively quiet week for comic book movie and TV news, but Joe touches on Gambit's directorial troubles, rumours of a Booster Gold/Blue Beetle movie and some MCU Netflix updates before getting on with last week's Incredible Hulk-inspired comics recommendations - Planet Hulk: Exile by Greg Pak and Carlo Pagulayan, and Damon Lindelof and Leinil Yu's Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk.

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Cinematic Universe returns to its Marvel namesake to re-examine Louis Leterrier's 2008 film, The Incredible Hulk, which stars Ed Norton, Liv Tyler, and a bunch of other people who subsequently disappeared from the MCU forever. But before that, we look at the latest comic book movie news, including casting news for Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel, the Jessica Jones teaser, and Scarlet Witch's potential role in Civil War.

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Joe takes a look at the latest comic book movie and TV news, before discussing last week's Howard the Duck-related recommendations: issues #5 through #8 of the original Steve Gerber and Gene Colan run, and then the recent first volume of Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones' 2015 run. He also picked up Skottie Young and Jim Mahfood's Howard the Human. Crikey, anyone would think he liked the movie or something.

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It's Marvel's first ever feature-length live action theatrical movie! What a special event for us to cover. Unfortunately... it's also Howard the Duck. Heaven help us, we actually went through with it. Before that, there's discussion of those spoilery Civil War promo images, and the potential casting of Mads Mikkelsen in Doctor Strange.

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Joe reviews Batman: Year One, Batman #455-457 and Shadow of the Bat #16-18 after Seb and James recommended them at the end of our Batman Begins episode, as well as running down the latest comic book movie news including casting news for Gambit and a new spin-off for Agents of SHIELD.

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It's our first reboot, as Joe, Seb and James look back at Christopher Nolan's 2005 film Batman Begins. As usual, there's also a roundup of the latest comic book movie and TV news, including 100 Bullets, Powerless and Wolverine 3.

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While the world recovers from Fantastic Four, Joe delves into the comics recommended by James and Matthew last week: Fantastic Four issues #52-60 and #570-575. As usual, there's also a run through the latest comic book movie news.

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It's a rare Saturday release for Cinematic Universe, as Joe, James and special guest Matt Turner discuss 2015's most controversial comic book adaptation: Josh Trank's Fantastic Four. As usual with new releases, there's a few minutes of spoiler-free chat if you haven't seen the film yet but just want to get our opinion - then it's on with the in-depth discussion after that.

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In a change to our original schedule (enforced by the Fantastic Four review embargo) this week's Cinematic Universe is another bonus episode, in which Joe, Seb and James look back at the 2009 video game Batman: Arkham Asylum. Are the Arkham games the definitive superhero video game experience - or does such a thing even exist? What other games in the genre would we recommend? And do Seb and James have a game idea of their own they can pitch to Joe?

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