Comic Book Bears Podcast

Through new tattoos, foot injuries and holding down the fort at home, Bill Z, Steve and Caleb return with another new Comic Book Bears audio episode! After a little bit of catching up with each other and a little bit of news (a new DC/Marvel crossover planned for the summer, Daredevil: Born Again), the CBB Boys dive into comic talk. And it's a varied grouping this time around - from the latest Green Lantern Corps relaunch (DC) to the Captain America and Volstagg one-shot (Marvel) to Ashes by Àlvaro Ortiz (Top Shelf) to Final Cut by Charles Burns (Pantheon) to some manga with The Marshal King by Boichi (Viz) and wrapping up with the Techno-Noir of Warm Fusion by Scott Hoffman and Alberto Ponticell (DSTLRY)! Hit play for 2+ hours of funnybook talk from some hairy, heavy homos!

It's back to the movies for the Comic Book Bears on this new podcast audio episode! The film this time is Captain America: Brave New World! It is the 35th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise, directed by Julius Onah starring Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America alongside Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas, Carl Lumbly, Xosha Roquemore, Giancarlo Esposito, Liv Tyler, Tim Blake Nelson, and Harrison Ford as President Thaddeus Ross. Caleb, Bill Z and Steve offer up what they thought about the movie (spoiler warning natch) and as is custom in our movie centered episodes they also make suggestions regarding past comic book arcs featuring the film's characters we think you may enjoy. The CBB boys also roundtable a few new books - The Secret of the Garden (from the world of Hellboy), Safer Places by Kit Anderson and the Green Hornet/Miss Fury crossover series - and there a few tangents sprinkled throughout as always. So hit play or download and enjoy our latest comics and movies gabfest!

Time for a new Comic Book Bears Podcast audio episode! Steve, Caleb and Billy Z reconvene for two hours of four color funnybook talk! On the docket this time are a few news items (Diamond's bankruptcy, Marvel Studios not inviting Rob Liefeld to an afterparty) followed by a half dozen books we wanted to spotlight. Hit play and hear about what we thought of the inaugural issues of a few new series: Aquaman (DC), West Coast Avengers (Marvel), Lawful (Boom!) and The Death of COPRA (Image). We also chat about Tim Bird's autobiographical graphic novel Adrift in a Painted Sea (Avery Hill Publishers) and DC's tabloid reprinting of the 1980 Untold Legend of The Batman mini-series.

Also, please note that this episode was recorded at the beginning of the month and as 2/3rds of the team here are huge football fans we offer up what were our Super Bowl LIX predictions. (One of us gets it spectacularly wrong.)

The Comic Book Bears podcast goes All In this time around in our new audio episode! As much of the US is contending with a January winter freeze, Bill Z, Steve and Caleb once again huddle around the mic. And after a deep dive into recent news (specifically Diamond Comic Distributors filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the allegations by various women against Neil Gaiman), the CBB boys turn their attention to DC Comics and their All In publishing initiative which finds their entire main comics line enjoying a refresh! Justice League Unlimited, Justice League: The Atom Project, Action Comics, Birds of Prey, New Gods and Metamorpho are the main books discussed. And all you have you have to do is hit the play button to go All In with us!

The CBB Boys are thrilled to bring you the audio version of their 300th episode! And for this anniversary they welcome back to the show a very familiar name and a great friend - writer Richard Rivera! Richard is here to chat about his new Kickstarter for the latest Stabbity Bunny project: a remastered version of Stabbity Ever After #1 which takes Stabbity on a more humorous path through an alternative reality. But this time Richard brings along some friends to the show with their own Kickstarter campaign! Making their CBB debut to discuss it are writers and Insymmetry Creations co-founders Matt Knowles and Steph Cannon! Matt and Steph take us into the world of Heirs of Isildur, a collision of sci-fi, steampunk, heavy metal and graphic storytelling that is on its fourth issue! Heirs of Isildur is not the only project under the Insymmetry Creations banner and we also get to hear about a number of those. And best of all, there is a campaign component where Stabbity and Isildur crossover!!! (Links to the Kickstarter campaigns are below in the comments!)

Afterwards Steve, Caleb and Bill Z launch into an unexpected Manga tangent and roundtable a few new comics including Wonder Woman (DC), The Question: All Along the Watchtower (DC) and Maria Llovet's Violent Flowers (Image) - so hit play and enjoy two hours and 34 seconds of hairy, heavy, Kickstartery anniversary goodness!!!

This new Comic Book Bears audio episode is our last episode of 2024 and a loaded one it is! The CBB trio of Caleb, Bill and Steve are all on hand to chat about a whole bunch of things! The teaser trailer for the upcoming Superman film written and directed by James Gunn dropped on December 19th and this turned out to be a very big deal. We opine on it along with the new Creature Commandos animated series on Max which kicks off this new DC Universe for film and TV. In terms of Marvel, in the movie theaters right now is Kraven the Hunter - the new film based on the Spider-Man adversary starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the title role, Ariana DeBose and Russell Crowe. 66.6% of the bear crew saw it and provide their viewpoints on it. We also take a few new books off of the virtual spinner rack and discuss JSA by Jeff Lemire and Diego Orlotegui (DC), Arcbound by Tom Hardy, Scott Snyder, Frank Tieri and Ryan Smallman (Dark Horse) and Tender by Beth Hetland from Fantagraphics. Lastly, each of us choose their favorite series or graphic novel of 2024 which were ... well, you will just have to hit play to find out what our picks were!

Hoping you all are having a great holiday season and our best wishes to you in 2025!

The Comic Book Bears shake off the snow and ice from their fur ... well, two of them do at least ... to regroup to chat about some new comics now that winter has hit! One of them is DC's Absolute Wonder Woman! Three more of them are from Image: The Department of Truth, Falling on Love on the Path to Hell and Grommets! Another is a new interpretation of Dracula courtesy o Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones! And we also chat about Being Gordy, a situation comedy in comic book form! So heat up some hot chocolate (or whatever your favorite wintertime drink is), hit play and enjoy!

In our first Comic Book Bears audio episode recorded after the US election, the CBB boys (Bill Z, Caleb and Steve) spend the first few minutes talking about the results and the state of the nation. We then (mercifully) put that to the side to chat about some recent comics. And what a line up we have! Absolute Superman #1! DC Horror Presents Creature Commandos #1! Animal Pound, written by Tom King and published by Boom! The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen! Horny & High, Volume I by Ed Firth from our good friends at Northwest Press! And the new Jonny Quest series from Dynamite! Hit play and enjoy!

New Comic Book Bears audio episode! For the first time in ages it is just Big Two books this time around as Caleb, Steve and Bill Z reconvene to talk about recent additions to Marvel's X-Men line and DC's most recent soft relaunch! Who are the Exceptional X-Men? Which recent X students are featured in the NYC set NYX? Why is Dazzler going back out on tour? What is the new status quo for the DC Universe set by the DC All In Special? And why are the Trinity confronting a rabbit with a Brooklyn accent in Multiversus: Collision Detected? Hit play and all will be answered!

We are catching up on our backlog so this next Comic Book Bears audio episode dates back to this past September 26th when Bill and Steve had just returned from Baltimore Comic Con! BCC is one of the best comic book conventions out there and we have been past guests of the con as press for a number of years, so it was a thrill to return to Inner Harbor! Bill and Steve talk about their experiences, gets and hijinks that happened during this year's edition. Then Caleb joins in on the fun as we have an all-indie roundtable chatting about books including Jeff Lemire's Minor Arcana (Boom Studios), Morning Star (Mad Cave), EC's Epitaphs from the Abyss (Oni Press), Howard Chaykin's Hey Kids! Comics! (Image) and A Phone Call Away (Mad Cave)!!! So please hit play and enjoy this Charm City inspired ep!