We are all vibes on this special interview today as Kenny has returned to us to chat about his incoming online comic book shop! We chat about how he is developing this new revolutionary app and their partnership with Image Comics.

Things go off the rails as Matt delivers an unhinged seminar on how to properly meme your way to 5 million views on Threads and we discuss comic books before losing Lauren to the woes of bad internet connection. 

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This week we are back and start things off by discussing our comics:

Lauren: Wolverine and X-Factor from Marvel
Matt: Absolute Batman 8, Aquaman 5, and Supergirl 1 from DC and Godzilla V X-Men from Marvel Comics 
Lauren talks about The Walking Dead Dead City and Star Wars A New Dawn! 

We then chat News (18Min) such as our thoughts on the Superman and Ironheart trailers.

For our Main Topics ( 26min) we go into our thoughts on Andor season 2. The series has ended and it may just be the most perfect Star Wars we have ever gotten. 

We go through the episodes and give all of our thoughts and discuss how it left us feeling. 

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We are honored to sit down with Ernie Altbacker to discuss his new Kickstarter campaign Area 51 Studios. "It turns out Area 51 is a secret government base, but not for storing alien corpses or crashed spacecraft. It's actually a studio lot where aliens come to shoot low-budget galactic reality shows."

The story focuses on Zephril Boon as he tries to save his once-great career!

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What's up family?!

We kick this episode off by discussing our comicbook recommendations:
Absolute Green Lantern 2 and Two-Face 6 from DC Comics
Star Wars 1and Laura Kinney Wolverine  from Marvel 
The Moon is Following Us 9 from Image Comics
We chat about what we have been watching as well as some news.

Our Main Topic this week (21 min) is all about Ahsoka! 
We go into her appearances in the Clone Wars, Rebels, her novel, and her show on Disney+ and everything in between. She is one of our favorite force users so we had to dedicate an episode all to her.

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The Thunderbolts* or New Avengers as we are calling them now have hit theaters bringing us one step closer to Avengers Doomsday. We saw the film and break down our thoughts and reactions to the latest MCU film. 

Spoilers ahead!

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It is officially Star Wars month here on the show! With that we kick of some quick readings recommendations and news before we go into our first episode of Star Wars month. (

18 minutes) We saw Revenge of the Sith in theaters which was Lauren's first time in theaters with the film so we discuss our thoughts as well as why it is Matt's favorite Star Wars movie as well as tie in The Clone Wars season 7 as Order 66 and everything happens chronologically!

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With Free Comic Book Day on the horizon it's the perfect time to get into your shops to pick up some new reads! we have Zack Kaplan back on the show to discuss the release of the trade for Kill All Immortals from Dark Horse Comics which can be best described as Succession meets John Wick!
When a family of immortal Vikings becomes too powerful Frey must decide what's more important to her, her immortality with her family or freedom of choice.

In addition, Zack teases his upcoming book Masterminds from Dark Horse Comics: 

When an ambitious and troubled video game programmer dares to audition for a secret society in the gaming/tech industry, composed of cutthroat, genius masterminds that promise to help their members achieve their wildest dreams, he and his rebellious co-worker find themselves in a gauntlet of real-life puzzles that quickly turn deadly. Are they truly smart enough to survive the mysterious game of the Masterminds?

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We kick things off by discussing our weekly must read comic books such as:

Peacemaker Presents: Vigilants/Eagly Double Feature, Absolute Martian Manhunter,, and Absolute Wonder Woman from DC
Predator Versus Spiderman and Deadpool/Wolverine from Marvel
Hornsby and Halo from Ghost Machine/Image
Welcome to Twilight from the world of Minor Threats from Dark Horse Comics

Matt also gives a quick spoiler-free review of Sinners before we head into a ton of news from Star Wars Celebration (shoutout to Gibson for the help!)

Our main topic this week is going into the characters set to appear in Thunderbolts as it finally releases this week! We break down in chronological order when the last time we saw these characters was to prepare you for the Marvel Studios film.

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Matt and Lauren are joined by Megan of  @VigilanteVibesPod  to discuss characters with the same name in both Marvel and DC!

Who came first? Why are there two Captain Marvels, Deathstroke v Deadpool?

 We dive into these character similarities and bring to you some history!

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Have you been watching The Last of Us on HBO Max? We have and we have thoughts!
We dive into the first two episodes giving our thoughts and reactions as well as Matt giving some information on how things are different than in the game. 


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