Graphic Novice Comic Book Podcast

The Graphic Novice Comic Book Podcast spends the unofficially titled "General Banter" hour talking about podcast audio quality, death, family, and our friend Ryan screwing up his new daughter's name. Comic news is a little light, but we discuss our worst comics choices of 2015 for the HOBI Floppy Awards, our new Trade Review episodes, and some TV stuff. After nattering on like two old hens for an entire segment, Nickel & VF take on the Marvel Trivia Box in another segment of VF & Nickel vs. The Marvel Trivia Box. In "Rapid Fire Review" we look at comics released October 14 & October 21, 2015, specifically, Lantern City #6, Batman #45, Batman Eternal #2, Earth 2 Society #5, East of West #21, I Hate Fairlyland #1, Low #10, Savior #7, Sam Wilson, Captain America #1, Civil War #5, Guardians of the Galaxy #1, Ms. Marvel #19, Spider-Gwen #1, Ninjak #8, Tokyo Ghost #2, Amazing Spider-man #2, and Astonishing Ant-Man #1. Thanks for listening!

A landmark episode of Graphic Novice, where VF & Nickel bring their 'D' game and continue to try and hammer down the format and spend less time talking about nothingness... to no avail.

During the "General Banter" segment, after Nickel's microphone tries to ruin the podcast, the final episode of the show (episode 100) is discussed, the last episode of The Walking Dead, the guys toss around ideas for a new segment, probiotic gut bacteria, bidets, the invitation to present a "Floppy Award" for the History of Bad Ideas Podcast, Mr. Bloom and Poison Ivy... and theories are floated about the downtrodden state of fellow podcaster, Ryan Beagley from the Green Up podcast.

VF throws a twist in "VF vs. The Marvel Trivia Box" after being repeatedly shamed for his performance... The new segment is titles "VF & Nickel vs. The Marvel Trivia Box".

After a brief "Comic News" segment, the guys discuss comics released on October 7, 2015 during "Rapid Fire Review". The books discussed include Jughead #1, Batman & Robin Eternal #1, Detective Comics #45, Paper Girls #1, Southern Bastards #11, Starve #5, Avengers #0, Doctor Strange #1, and Secret Wars #6.

Thanks so much for listening.

Graphic Novice records during the monumental Canadian Federal Election, and get a little sidetracked talking about politics north and south of the wall, after deciding that our listening audience wasn't quite bored enough with our regular programming. In an attempt to spice things up, we sprinkle in a little bit of threesome talk, which transitions nicely into a discussion about Denny's, which transitions nicely into a discussion about chickens.

With the "Intro Banter" out of the way, we decide to actually discuss comics.

We roll through an abbreviated Comic News, and VF vs, The Marvel Trivia Box and spend "Rapid-Fire Review" trying to get caught up as we discuss books from September 16, 23 and 30th, including; Black Canary #4, '68 Last Rights #2, The Beauty #2, Manifest Destiny #17, Tokyo Ghost #1 (a review of last week's review), Spider-Verse #5, Rai #10, Batgirl #44, Grayson #12, Thief of Thieves #31, Book of Death #3, Batman Annual #4, and They're Not Like Us #8.

Thanks for spending your time checking us out. Hopefully we'll see you again next week when we finally discuss all the new books coming out in October, including the Post Secret Wars Marvel #1's.

Stay Classy.

The Graphic Novice Comic Book Podcast returns after getting our chakras re-aligned, and spends 3 hours catching up. Our apologies to fans of both "Rapid-Fire Review" and the Fantastic Four centric "Back Issue Review", as this week's episode is an exercise in self-indulgence. VF & Nickel spend the majority of this episode discussing Rose City Comiccon in Portland, Oregon, Michael Leal as the "Little Spoon", hanging out with the Beagleys, The Edmonton Comic Expo, and Metal Roofing. This episode also includes the second round of "VF vs. The Marvel Trivia Box". Listen to find out who wins.

To make up for this episode being a little light on the weekly reviews and discussion, the next episode will be comic book review heavy.

Thanks for listening, and thanks a bunch for all your support. Our apologies for the wait.

Prior to recording the most recent Walking Dead Trade Paperback review VF, Doc Thirst, and our Executive Producer, Fred, discuss a wide array of topics, including their shared love of table top gaming, Escape Rooms, Dungeons & Dragons, and eventually... the Walking Dead.

VF, Doc Thirst and Fred bring back the Walking Dead segment after a month with no Graphic Novice recordings. Its still a Graphic Novice episode though, so the guys avoid talking about the title content for as long as possible before digging into The Walking Dead - Volume 17 (issues 97-102), which, obviously, includes the controversial 100th issue. WARNING: Contains substantial board game conversation.

The least informed comic book podcast returns the week before the much anticipated 2015 Rose City Comicon in Portland Oregon. Nickel has flaked out, and the guys spend a significant amount of time discussing the great betrayal.

After the details of Nickel's absence from Portland are discussed, and VF shoulders the responsibility of representing Graphic Novice in Portland we move onto the aftermath of VF's 40th birthday, and our attempt to piss off Jason Brigger. VF almost picks a fight with Ryan Beagley, Nickel questions the format of the show, VF's chickens, Sue's Coffee, and Nickel's appearance on the Podcast Without Borders, episode #31 (not necessarily in that order).

In comic news, we discuss Rachel McAdams hotness, the five books being cancelled by DC comics, contraversay surrounding friend of the show, Greg Capullo, the X-Men and the Terrigen Mists, and at long last, comic sales for July 2015.

The Graphic Novice Comic Book then introduces a new segment... VF vs. Marvel Comics Trivia!

In "Rapid Fire Review" we discuss the comics that were born unto this world on September 2 & September 9, including Broken World #4, Detective Comics #44, Green Lantern #44, The Empty #6, Lazarus #19, We Stand On Guard #3, Daredevil #18, Silk #7, Lantern City #5, Batman #44, Earth 2 Society #4, Deadly Class #16, Outcast #12, and Starve #4.

We wrap things up with a look ahead to the comics being released on September 16, 2015, and a final look ahead towards Portland. Thank you so much once again for spending some time with us.

SPECIAL:

Some friends of the podcast wish VF/Benjamen a happy 40th birthday. Framed by the extremely questionable editting skills of Craig Nickel, we are even graced with a voice from the past chiming in on this importatnt Graphic Novice milestone.

Happy 40th Old Timer!

Help us celebrate Ben/Scott/VF's 40th birthday by downloading and listening to episode 71 of the Graphic Novice Comic Book Podcast: The Least Informed Podcast Available. We start things out by discussing Ben's birthday plans, our mortality, Doc Thirst's hockey career and table top gaming during our 45 minutes of regularly scheduled off-topic banter. After which, we transition ever so smoothly to a jam packed "Comic News" segment.

This week in the news, we discuss DC Comics financial woes, the term "Batgirling", Marvel Comics' hip hop variants and variant covers in general, Kevin Feige throwing his influential weight around at Marvel, the new Outcast trailer, The upcoming Dark Knight III series, Chip Zdarsky writing a Jughead series, and Stan Lee's alleged abuse of his Executive Assistant.

After our loaded news segment, we roll into "Rapid Fire Review" and discuss books released on August 19 & 26, 2015, including Archie #2, Black Canary #3, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #49, Manifest Destiny #16, Postal #6, Amazing Spider-Man Renew Your Vows #4, House of M #1, Valiant's Book of Death #2, Hacktivist Volume 2, #2, Batgirl #43, East of West #20, Low #9, They're Not Like Us #7, Magneto #21, Spider-Woman #10, and Ninjak #6.

We wrap things up with a look at books we plan on reading being released September 2, 2015.

Thanks for listening, and Happy 40th Birthday VF!

The Graphic Novice Comic Book Podcast returns for at least one more episode as Nickel, VF, & Snow lay down another 2 hours down on tape. Almost 3 weeks of life have passed since episode 69, and the guys catch up before moving on to discuss all the comics they haven’t read.

Nickel recalls an encounter with Canadian Reggae Sensation and friend of the show, Snow, and man of adventure, VF, recalls a day in the Escape room, but only after complaining about Episode 69.1. Mix in a debate about twitter, some brief discussions about going to the movies, drinking habits, Whale Wars, plans for Rose City Comiccon, and a discussion of Neil's reaction to "The Slut Whisperer", and you've got about an hour of non-comic related banter to start out this episode of the Graphic Novice Comic Book Podcast before the subject matter gets back to comics.

In "Comic News", the guys discuss friend of the show, Nate's, Tupperware full of '90's comics, and some of the gold that Nickel was gifted out of said Tupperware full of 90's comics.

For the "Rapid-Fire Review" segment, we review some of the comics released way back on August 5 & August 12, 2015, including Detective Comics #43, Deadly Class #15, We Stand On Guard #2, Amazing Spider-Man Renew Your Vows #3, Broken World #3, Batman #43 (first appearance of Mr. Bloom), Earth 2 Society #3, Starve #3, and Secret Wars #5.

Next Episode we'll get caught up with the reviews, and hopefully, we'll both have read a few more of the books that we purchased. Thanks so taking the time to check us out. Your listener appreciation gift bags will be mailed out soon.