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The most divisive symbiote this side of the MCU is the focus of this weeks TV & Movie reviews; Venom: Let There Be Carnage! Directed by Andy Serkis and written by Kelly Marcel and main protagonist Tom Hardy. 

Plot:

Eddie Brock struggles to adjust to his new life as the host of the alien symbiote Venom, which grants him super-human abilities in order to be a lethal vigilante. Brock attempts to reignite his career by interviewing serial killer Cletus Kasady, who becomes the host of the symbiote Carnage and escapes prison after a failed execution.

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Today, is a spoiler free solo show on Image Comics Hidden Gem: Plastic. 

Retired serial killer Edwyn Stoffgruppen is in love with Virginia, a girl he "met online." Her affection quiets his vile urges.

If you want to talk with Tony about comics or to suggest any future shows, please connect with him on Twitter @Tricycleboombox. You can read his reviews of multiple Independent and DC comics at DC Comics News or at Fantastic Universes. You can find him online and send him an email at https://www.arfarina.com/.

Welcome to Femme on Film where host Ria Carrogan and a guest chat about films made for women, about women, by women… just awesome lady (and those who identify as awesome lady folk) content that has often been unfairly maligned, misunderstood by critics, and are often way ahead of their time and need a revisit. This is a place to discuss all of this, and more!

Join Ria and guest Tonya Todd to discuss Grease 2, exploring whether Michelle Pfeiffer's Stephanie Zinone is a feminist icon, how the messages of Grease 2 are way better than Grease, female friendship and the importance of not being anyone's trophy.

A huge thank you to the Comics in Motion network who has given space to create this podcast. If you would like to come and chat about a film for Femme on Film, drop a message via Twitter.

You can find out more about Tonya on Twitter @mstonyatodd and http://www.mstonyatodd.com/. You can read Tonya's blog on Grease 2 here  http://www.mstonyatodd.com/why-i-prefer-grease-2-to-the-original/

Follow Femme on Film on Twitter @FemmeOnFilmPod and Ria @riacarrogan and get in touch if there’s a film you would like to talk about!

Intro and outro music: Say You Will by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

This week Mike is doing another spoiler-free book review from the High Republic era, now venturing into the second wave, starting with The Rising Storm by Cavan Scott – the “main adult” novel with a huge amount of characters, major plot points and shocking moments!

In more detail, for the first half of the episode, Mike gives a bit of information on the other releases for The High Republic (the first two waves within Phase 1), gives some background/plot information on the book and then delves into his spoiler-free review; providing information from the blurb, the themes, how it continues from Light Of The Jedi, what he enjoyed about it, which characters have returned and details found within the first few pages.

From around the halfway mark, Mike reads out the blurb & crawl before providing more details on the characters and their general journeys/thoughts, the state of the Republic at the start of this book, the wider themes and how they impact story elements, as well as how it fits in with other High Republic material, which all falls into light-spoiler territory. He then talks about “connected content”, primarily the tie-in High Republic comics and gives a mini-review of the Tempest Runner audio drama before giving plenty of warning and delving into his more detailed review, which still doesn’t fully spoil the book but it does mention some plot details right at the very end, so you can listen to as little or as much info about The Rising Storm before picking it up yourself.

The Rising Storm was released June 29th 2021 by Cavan Scott. He has also written the Dooku Jedi Lost audio drama, The Tempest Runner audio drama (set just after this book), as well as one story from each A Certain Point Of View book, all of Marvel’s standard The High Republic comics plus several titles under Star Wars Adventures for IDW publishing including the Monster Of Temple Peak mini-series, all 3 sets of Vader’s Castle stories and Adventures In Wild Space.

The Rising Storm is the adult novel of the second wave of the High Republic’s first phase along with Out Of The Shadows and Race To Crashpoint Tower, while Wave 3 (due early 2022) will include Claudia Gray’s “adult” novel The Fallen Star plus junior-novel Mission To Disaster and young-adult novel Midnight Horizon.

From the first wave of phase 1 is Light Of The Jedi, A Test Of Courage & Into The Dark, which Mike has reviewed on this show in 2021; LotJ was March, AToC was August and ItD was October.

Mike also spoke with fellow THR author Claudia Gray on December 12th 2020 on this very channel/feed, so make sure you check that out if you haven’t already, plus Mike spoke with Star Wars comic artist Paolo Villanelli on the feed of his other show Genuine Chit-Chat (video version also on YouTube).

Check out the last episode of SWCIC for the penultimate chapter of the War Of The Bounty Hunters crossover, Mike goes into the many plot details of the 6 comics along with many of the connections to other content and more!

Mike returned to Star Wars Timeline to talk about The Force Awakens here: https://youtu.be/c4VMXeBU3W4 The Last Jedi here: https://youtu.be/7dGEsdfSMkY and The Rise of Skywalker here: https://youtu.be/9fZWXji7_Jo

Mike & Megan spoke with Alex & Mollie of Star Wars Explained, you can listen on this very feed or check out the video version on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/R2fr4-TdbQA

Intro theme arranged by Mike Burton, backing music by Eric Matyas at www.soundimage.org

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Welcome to a new era of Indie Comics Spotlight. Once a month, Tony will be joined by his Seasons Greetings co-host JAC. This week, they will spend some time in working out the rules of Fight Club 2

Follow JAC on twitter or read his amazing work on I am JACs Musings

If you want to talk with Tony about comics or to suggest any future shows, please connect with him on Twitter @Tricycleboombox. You can find him online and send him an email at https://www.arfarina.com/.

It's episode 27 of "Superheroes For Dummies" featuring Animal Man and B'Wana Beast.

Superheroes For Dummies is a podcast where a comics novice with an interest in finding out more, a comics related movie/TV/game fan, and a comics specialist (or two) answer questions about the characters YOU want to know more about.

This episode is hosted by Paul McGuigan, Daniel Belgrave and Steve J. Ray.

The show is produced, mixed, and edited by Adam Ray.

Please contact us on Twitter:

@PaulDaMac @Dark_Ronin84 @el_steevo @IzzetTinkerer

"Theme Music" by Professor Elemental and Tom Caruana. Please check out professorelemental.com and Teasearecords.com for more information.

You can find the DC Comics News Podcast, Mad Love: The Harley Quinncast, I Am The Night and The Spinner Rack here https://dcnewsnetwork.fireside.fm/

Find Mandatory Marvel/DC Podcast, The Indie Comics Spotlight, Classic Comics, The VHS Strikes Back, and a whole host of other great shows at https://play.acast.com/s/comicsinmotion#:~:text=The%20Comics%20In%20Motion%20Podcast,Dave%20Horrocks%20and%20Chris%20Phelps.

Reading List:

Animal Man by Grant Morrison Book One

Animal Man by Grant Morrison Book Two

Both of these are also now currently available as 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Hardcover collections, and as an Omnibus

Animal Man by Jeff Lemire - now only available as an Omnibus

B'Wana Beast is a featured character in the Grant Morrison Animal Man books, and is currently appearing in Suicide Squad: King Shark - available monthly from DC Comics

Crisis On Infinite Earths - not essential for the characters, but a classic tale, nonetheless.

VADER CONFRONTS LUKE AFTER EMPIRE STRIKES BACK! In the penultimate chapter of the War Of The Bounty Hunters crossover, Mike goes into the many plot details of the 6 comics along with many of the connections to other content and more! Join Mike as he takes you through the end of the “Auction For Han Solo” which is rife with conflict, including Vader fighting Luke, Valance & Dengar confronting Boba Fett, Lando speaking with L3-37 again, Aphra attacking Just Lucky and some backstory to the bounty hunter named Boushh!

This story is set just after Empire Strikes Back (& after the first runs of the Star Wars, Darth Vader & Doctor Aphra comics) and the reading order is DA14>WoBH4>DV16 >BOUSHH>BH16 >SW17.

DA14 was released 8th September 2021, it written by Alyssa Wong with Federico Sabbatini as artist and Rachelle Rosenberg as colour artist. WoBH 4 was also released 8th September 2021, it written by Charles Soule, Luke Ross with David Messina as artists and Neeraj Menon with Guru eFX as colour artists. DV16 was released 15th September 2021, was written by Greg Pak with Raffaele Ienco as artist and Jason Keith & Rachelle Rosenberg as colour artists. Boushh 1 was also released 15thSeptember, with writer Alyssa Wong, artist David Baldeòn and colour artist Israel Silva. BH16 was released 22ndSeptember 2021, it written by Ethan Sacks with Paolo Villanelli as artist and Arif Prianto as colour artist. SW17 was released 29th September 2021, was also written by Charles Soule and has Ramon Rosanas as artist and Rachelle Rosenberg as colour artist.

In case you missed the War of The Bounty Hunters prelude and chapters 1, 2 & 3, check episodes 60, 64, 68 & 72 of SWCIC and check ep 43 for the Age of Rebellion Villains, which includes stories for Jabba, Boba, IG-88 and Vader, along with additional bio information. Episodes 67 & 71 to show how Aphra got into this mess and ep 75 confirms what happened between Valance & Boba before this encounter!

Keep an eye on Mike’s other podcast; Genuine Chit-Chat where Mike's conversation with Paolo Villanelli drops tomorrow!

Check out last week’s ep of SWCIC, which was a Halloween special and to celebrate the spooky time of year, Mike delved into the canon comics by IDW Publishing; Tales From Vader’s Castle – 5 stories with many familiar faces, character information & connections all perfect for the Halloween season including Lina Graf, Hera & Kanan, Han & Chewie, Ewoks, Obi-Wan & Dooku, ghosts, vampire-bats, sacrifices and a whole bunch of references & connections to Star Wars and famous horror movies!

Mike appeared on the Hall of Mears podcast, listen here: https://spoti.fi/3bxgXwS or watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/K5epyHW-TPs

Mike returned to Star Wars Timeline to talk about The Force Awakens here: https://youtu.be/c4VMXeBU3W4 and The Last Jedi here: https://youtu.be/7dGEsdfSMkY

Mike was recently on the Beernuts Productions podcast, listen here: https://spoti.fi/3jpLjpD

Mike & Megan spoke with Alex & Mollie of Star Wars Explained, you can listen on this very feed or check out the video version on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/R2fr4-TdbQA

Find Mike @GenuineChitChat on Twitter, @Genuine_ChitChat on Instagram & /GenuineChitChat on Facebook!

Intro & outro by BZ The Voice: http://www.bzthevoice.com/

Intro arranged by Mike Burton, backing music by Eric Matyas at www.soundimage.org

This week, Tony is joined by Mr. I comment on comics himself Chase Black to deep dive into Sweet Tooth.

Comics in Motion is now a Humble Bundle Partner.

If you want to talk with Tony about comics or to suggest any future shows, please connect with him on Twitter @Tricycleboombox. You can read his reviews of multiple Independent and DC comics at DC Comics News or at Fantastic Universes. You can find him online and send him an email at https://www.arfarina.com/.

The Pop Guerrillas are a collective dedicated to providing spoiler  free reviews in less time than it takes to listen to a song. Music,  movies, TV, comics, books and much more. They reviewed each of the 12  Halloween films in order.  Enjoy and have a happy Halloween!

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! To celebrate this spooky time of year, Mike is delving into the canon comics by IDW Publishing; Tales From Vader’s Castle – 5 stories with many familiar faces, character information & connections all perfect for the Halloween season including Lina Graf, Hera & Kanan, Han & Chewie, Ewoks, Obi-Wan & Dooku, ghosts, vampire-bats, sacrifices and a whole bunch of references & connections to Star Wars and famous horror movies!

The continuous story is set somewhere in the original trilogy era (between 0ABY - 4ABY) and the other stories are all over the prequel & original trilogy era! The writer for these comics was Cavan Scott and Derek Charm is the artist & colour artist for the continuous story. The guest artists are Chris Fenoglio, Kelley Jones, Corin Howell, Robert Hack & Charles Paul Wilson III and the guest colour artists are Chris Fenoglio, Michelle Madsen, Valentina Pinto, Charlie Kirchoff & Michael Devito.

Issue 1 was released 3rd October 2018, Issue 5 was released 31st October 2018, the trade paperback collection was released May 2019 and the hardcover collection of this & the sequel collection Return To Vaders Castle was released January 2021.

Keep an eye on Mike’s other podcast; Genuine Chit-Chat where Mike recently had an hour-long conversation with artist Paolo Villanelli (which should be released in early November)!

Check out episode 74 of SWCIC for the story of how & why Vader’s Castle was built!

Shout-out to Alex Hart for buying these comics for Mike, check out his Instagram @Modern_Day_Exploration

Also go listen to the last episode of SWCIC where Beilert Valance returns! After his mutilation from imperial service, the cyborg bounty hunter returns in a new comic series, joined by many famous bounty hunters including Bossk, Boba Fett & more! Listen as Mike takes you through the plot of this first volume, showing how a job that went wrong has caused a war between two syndicates; The Mourner’s Wail & The Broken Clan, but things are not how they seem… Plus Mike gives background information on Bossk (including his beliefs in the “scorekeeper”), featured planets, species and more!

Mike returned to Star Wars Timeline to talk about The Force Awakens here: https://youtu.be/c4VMXeBU3W4and The Last Jedi here: https://youtu.be/7dGEsdfSMkY

Mike was recently on the Beernuts Productions podcast, listen here: https://spoti.fi/3jpLjpD

Mike & Megan spoke with Alex & Mollie of Star Wars Explained, you can listen on this very feed or check out the video version on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/R2fr4-TdbQA

Check out Mike’s Patreon, where he releases 1 or 2 episodes of his “Afterthoughts” a week, plus unsplit full-length episodes of GCC, additional photos (including early access to photos of comics) & more, so if you want to support the show and get more content, check out http://patreon.com/genuinechitchat

Find Mike @GenuineChitChat on Twitter, @Genuine_ChitChat on Instagram & /GenuineChitChat on Facebook!

Intro & outro by BZ The Voice: http://www.bzthevoice.com/

Intro arranged by Mike Burton, backing music by Eric Matyas at www.soundimage.org