Graphic Novice Comic Book Podcast

The Graphic Novice Comic Book Podcast is back for the second time this week, because we figured you just couldn’t get enough of us… then we realized that yes, yes you can get enough of us… but we decided to release this episode anyway. Before we get to comics, we talk about Hollaback Girls, friend of the show Gwen Stefani, fatherly dating advice and Doc Thirst, VF’s new mattress, pillows, Nickel’s crowdfunding initiative for a new grill, our new staff writer Desmond Hassing, Salty Language and our monumental Moon War victory.

Then we discuss VF’s crush on Michael Leal.

Then we talk comic news. We look at the Netflix Daredevil series, Lady Mechanika, The Avengers sequel, and avoid discussing the 2015 Eisners once again.

In Rapid Fire Review we discuss Lady Mechanika The Tablets of Destinies #1, Curb Stomp #3, Convergence #3, Deadly Class #12, The Empty #3, Lazarus #16, Manifest Destiny #14, Postal #3, Velvet #10, All-New X-Men #40, Amazing Spider-Man #17.1, Amazing X-Men #19, Guardians of the Galaxy #26, Inhuman Special #1, Guardians of the Galaxy And the X-Men The Black Vortex Omega #1, Woverines #15, Ninjak #2 and Kaptara #1.

As always, we look ahead to the following week of comic book releases (April 29, 2015) and let you know some of the books we're excited to check out.

Thanks for listening. Check out www.graphicnovice.com for all of our back catalogue and several articles and reviews.

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VF and Nickel get together with a couple of their favorite podcasters, Annaleis (@wiretechgirl) from The Dark Angels and Pretty Freaks Podcast and Michael Leal (@michael_leal) from Who The What Now to share tales of Free Comic Book Days Past and Present. Before we get to Free Comic Book Day, we take everyone down the rabbit hole with us and discuss parenting other people’s children, Tenacious D heading north of the wall, the financial woes of podcasters, Gotham, Gotham Lights, and more. Eventually we talk comics, and discuss Free Comic Book Day, opening a Comic shop in Napa City, and The Avengers Age of Ultron movie.

Our thanks to Annaleis and Michael for taking a couple hours to chat, and to everyone who takes the time to listen. We’ll be back to our regular broadcasting format next episode.

To celebrate the 60th episode of Graphic Novice, Nickel and VF attempt to record a 60-minute episode, and it almost happened. An abbreviated "Banter" segment touches on our new website staff reporter, VF's new mattress, a Doc Thirst update, and Nickel's issues with the craft beer scene.

The comic news segment takes a quick look ahead to Free Comic Book Day 2015 (Saturday May 2, 2015), including some shopping tips and free book suggestions. We address the Eisners, but postpone our in depth examination of the nominees until our next non-sixty minute episode.

For "Rapid-Fire Review", finally accurately named, we look at books released April 15, 2015 including Sabrina #2, Crossed Plus 100 #4, Convergence #2, Convergence: Shadow of the Bat #1, Chrononauts #2, Fade Out #5, Kaptara #1, '68 Bad Sign One-Shot, Magneto #17, Ms. Marvel #14, Nova #29, Thor #7, Uncanny X-Men #33, Wolverines #14, The Avengers Rage of Ultron Graphic Novel, and Bloodshot Reborn #1.

The sixty-minute buzzer goes off, VF loses his mind, and we painfully work through "Next Week's Books" and the books that we want to check out after April 22, 2015. As always, thanks for listening, and please check out our website graphicnovice.com for newly released articles.

Enjoy Free Comic Book Day!

Nickel and VF (aka Benjamin) return for another episode, ready to take a shot at recording a 60-minute episode. And, they fail miserably. Instead, you get 160 minutes worth of stories about VF's roof, purchasing a cabin, thoughts on the Edmonton Oilers winning the NHL draft lottery, new comics versus back issues, digital comic sales as well as the superman v. batman and star wars trailers, and some discussion of March comics sales... and then some actual comic discussion.

In the aptly named "Rapid-Fire Review", Nickel and VF discuss books released the week of April 8, 2015, including: Four Points #1, Evil Empire #12, Rebels #1, Convergence #1, Convergence Batgirl #1 (of 2), Convergence Harley Quinn #1 (of 2), Convergence Nightwing Oracle #1 (of 2), Convergence The Question #1 (of 2), Birthright #6, Descender #2, Jupiter's Circle #1, Nameless #3, Saga #27, Savior #1, Walking Dead #140, All-New Hawkeye #2, Ant-Man #4, Howard The Duck #2, Spider-Woman #6 and Rai #8.

The episode wraps up with a look ahead at some of the books we'll be reading from the April 15, 2015 release date.

Ben (VF) makes his triumphant return after a week away from the podcast with jungle flu, and has some comments on last week's episode with Desmond Hassing (from the Slackademia and Musings of a Geek podcast) and Jason Brigger (from the Musings of a Geek podcast). The pre-recording plans were to get to the comics quickly and efficiently to keep this week's episode as close to 60 minutes as possible... and sadly, this might be as close as it gets… so instead of sticking with the plan, the first half hour of the show is spent talking about camping and lawn care. Once that's out of the way, Nickel and VF discuss the first appearance of the Great Lakes Avengers, and once again rehash their ongoing Civil War debate before eventually moving on to the namesake of this episode, the recently launched Daredevil series on Netflix.

Instead of hopping on the bandwagon, Nickel attempts to nitpick the hell out of Netflix's Daredevil series. There isn’t that much to criticize, and so as usual, Nickel talks for a long time without really saying anything at all, and after all that, the guys agree... Daredevil, at least through the first few episodes, is pretty darn good.

In this week's edition of the aptly named "Rapid-Fire Review" books released on April 1, 2015 are discussed, including: The Woods #12, UFOlogy #1 (of 6), Arkham Manor Engame #1 (one-shot), Batman Eternal #52, Convergence #0, Gotham Academy Endgame #1 (one-shot), Black Science #13, Dying and the Dead #2, Nailbiter #11, Southern Bastards #8, Amazing Spider-Man #17, Avengers #43, Spider-Gwen #3, Uncanny Avengers #3, Uncanny Inhumans #0, Wolverines #13, and Rai #8.

With no room left for a feature segment, its straight to the April 8 book release, and a discussion of which books Nickel and VF will be reading. Thanks a bunch for listening and continuing to download these ridiculously long episodes.

Left to his own devices due to VF's debilitating cold, Nickel invites Desmond Hassing (from The Musings of a Geek Podcast) and Jason Brigger (from the History of Bad Ideas Podcast) to join him for a discussion that lasts far too long to be presented as one podcast episode, but is presented here as one none the less.

The Graphic Novice Comic Book Podcast returns for another week. After announcing a new 60-minute format change proposal, we changed nothing, and to the surprise of noone, we didnt mangage to cut any time off the podcast. We spend the non-comic book portion of the show talking about past break-ups, sleeping habits, sneaking back home after a night of drinking and a plethora of other self-indulgent subject matter before moving on to our focus content, comic books. Comic news includes a cutting and insightful review of iZombie and the CW App. In our weekly review of the books we read from March 18, we discuss Batgirl #40, Batman Eternal #50, Alex + Ada #13, Chrononauts #1, Outcast #7, Red One #1, All-New Captain America #5, All-New X-Men #39, Amazing Spider-Man #16.1, Magneto #16 (Nickel's Book of the Week), Moon Knight #13, Silk #2, and Wolverines #11. We didnt leave enough time to discuss the February Sales totals, so we moved right to a quick look at the books coming out March 25, 2015, and say our weekly goodbyes.

Two-thirds of the original cast returns for episode number “double nickel” where VF reveals a major secret in the first couple minutes of the show. After VF is done blowing minds, we remember the magic of Ultima Online, we discuss Nickel’s work commitments, fonts, PowerPoint, VF’s roof, podcast networks, podcaster vacations, hot tubs, and winter road conditions.

A trippy new bumper kicks off the "Comic News" segment, where VF stalls as long as he can with news of Greg Capullo’s original art going up for sale before we finally get into the hot topic of the day, the controversy over the Batgirl #41 variant cover.

Two weeks’ worth of “Rapid-Fire Review” finally brings us back to the reading books from the current week again, after we discuss the books that came out March 4 & 11, 2015.

As always, we wrap things up by looking ahead, and talking about the comics we want to check out on March 18, 2015.

Thanks so much for listening.

Its just VF & Nickel in this landmark episode of Graphic Novice. The opening banter touches on some of the other podcasts Nickel may or may not be showing up on, technical and non-technical issues on the Gotham Knights podcast, VF's thoughts on Gotham thus far, VF's texting etiquette, The Angry Ginger's ability to keep Nickel on topic during the Better Call Saul podcast, and eventually... the elephant in the room that is the absence of Doc Thirst, and the seed of an idea that could one day be the Doc Thirst Memorial Karaoke Jam.

In comic news, which takes us quite a while to get to, we discuss the Batman Bunny Suit coming up in Batman #41, DC's Convergence, Marvel's Secret Wars, and the DC movie poster variant covers.

When we finally get to "Rapid-Fire Review" the guys start out trying to get through some of the new releases from both February 25, and March 4. Some of the books up for discussion include Curb Stomp #1, Evil Empire #11, Batman #39, Low #6, The Wicked + The Divine #8, All-New X-Men #38, New Avengers #30, Spider-Gwen #1, Spider-Man 2099 #9, Superior Iron Man #5, Uncanny Avengers #2, and Wolverines #8. At this point, Nickel starts to feel the heat at this point, and tries to pull the pin before finishing up the segment, so the guys decide to carry some of the most memorable books from March 11 over to the next episode.

Before calling it a night, we run through the books coming out on March 11, 2015 and leave everyone to our musical dedication to our now semi-retired co-host Doc Thirst.

The pre-comics conversation focuses mainly on Doc Thirst's emotional breakup with his comic shop, as the Graphic Novice team guts out a 53rd episode with VF half in the bag on cold medicine.

The "Rapid-Fire Review" segment reviews some of the books released February 18, 2015, including Crossed Badlands #72, Burning Fields #2, Plunder #1, Batgirl #39, Batman Eternal #46, Teen Titans #7, Tooth and Claw #4, Bitch Planet #3, Deadly Class #11, Lazarus #15, Manifest Destiny #13, Secret Identities #1, All-New Captain America #4, Legendary Star-Lord #9, Nova #27, Uncanny X-Men #31, Grimm Tales of Terror #8, and Lady Mechanika.

Our review of The Walking Dead Volume 16 – A Larger World has been released as a separate stand-alone podcast episode for your listening enjoyment (please see Episode 53.1).

As always, we look ahead to the following week and look at some of the books we’ll be reading after February 28. Thanks a bunch for listening.