Thanks to iFanboy Patrons, it's Talksplode time.
We gratefully welcome comic book writer and artist Howard Chaykin to the podcast, to discuss his half century engaged in the making of thoughtful, inventive, and wholly original comic books. His life in comics started with reading golden age comics, and continues to this very day with series like Hey Kids! Comics! and the brand new Sunshine Patriots. With the groundbreaking American Flagg kicking off a new phase in his career, Chaykin produced many volumes of sublime, challenging comic book stories that we are lucky enough to be able to read.
Total Running Time: 01:14:19
Music:
“Hem of your Garment"
Cake

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Talksplode #106 - Howard Chaykin

The iFanboy.com Comic Book Podcast is a weekly talk show all about the best new current comic book releases. Lifelong friends, Conor Kilpatrick and Josh Flanagan talk about what they loved and (sometimes) hated in the current weekly books, from publishers like Marvel, DC, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, BOOM! Studios, IDW, Aftershock, Valiant, and more. The aim is to have a fun time, some laughs, but to also really understand what makes comic books work and what doesn’t, and trying to understand the craft of this great, often under appreciated art form. Sometimes they agree, and sometimes… they don’t. With decades of experience talking about comics, interacting with comic book professionals, this is all about the love of an art form. If the names Brian Michael Bendis, Amanda Conner, Geoff Johns, Gene Luen Yang, Donny Cates, Jason Aaron, Kelly Thompson, David Marquez, Kelly Sue de Connick, Kieron Gillen, Charles Soule, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Scott Snyder, Tom King, Mitch Gerads, Esad Ribic, Rick Remender, Nick Spencer, John Ridley, Skottie Young, Chip Zdarsky, Jöelle Jones, David F. Walker, Grant Morrison, and Darwyn Cooke get you excited, then this is the place for you. This podcast is so good, you don’t even need to read comic books or graphic novels to enjoy it, but it’s a lot better if you do.

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Visual Arts

The iFanboy Animation Brain Trust — Conor Kilpatrick, Paul Montgomery, and Ryan Haupt — discuss the latest release from the DC Universe Animated Original Movie line… Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part Two! Plus, looking ahead to Part Three (and Watchmen), and are we close to the end for this line of animated films that began in 2007?
Running Time: 00:39:00 
Music:
“Psycho Killer”
Talking Heads


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Special Edition – Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part Two

Comics continue to surprise us, over and over, week after week, year after year, and it is glorious. This week is no different. Plus, enjoy the return of an age old question we're forced to revisit once again.
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Running Time: 01:16:33
Pick of the Week:
00:02:08 - Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees #6
Comics:
00:11:59 – The Avengers #780 /"Blood Hunt" Tie-Ins!
00:22:48 – Transformers #8
00:27:21 – Ain't No Grave #1
00:30:41 – The Boy Wonder, Book One
00:33:42 – Fantastic Four #713
Patron Pick:
00:35:46 - Mugshots #1
Patron Thanks:
00:44:20 - Pachyderm (James Siri)
Listener Mail:
00:47:59 - Tyler F. rekindles the age old Top 5 question.
00:55:51 - Greg from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is thinking about superhero movie costumes.
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Music:
"Stinking Drunk"
Big Black
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Pick of the Week #927 – Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees #6

Thanks to our awesome Patrons, we’re proud to present another Booksplode!

This month, Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick take a look at...
Avengers: Kree/Skrull War by Roy Thomas, Neal Adams, Sal Buscema, John Buscema, Tom Palmer, Sam Gainger, George Roussos, Alan Weiss, Sam Rosen, Art Simek, & Mike Stevens. (Art & Color Reconstruction in the Gallery Edition by Tom Mullin, Michael Kelleher, Wil Glass & All Thumbs Creative.)

Running Time: 00:48:55

What’s a Booksplode? It’s a bi-monthly special edition show in which we take a look at a single graphic novel or collected edition, something we really just don’t have time to do on the regular show.

Music:
“Changes”
Jimi Hendrix
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Booksplode #61 – Avengers: Kree/Skrull War

This week it’s an early morning record time and words are sometimes hard to come by. Plus, it was a weird week of comics.

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Running Time: 01:03:28

Pick of the Week:
00:03:00 – X-Men #34

Comics:
00:13:50 – Blood Hunt #1
00:23:52 – Superman: House of Brainiac Special #1
00:32:12 – Crave #6
00:33:55 – Space Ghost #1
00:35:34 – Harley Quinn 2024 Annual #1

Patron Pick:
00:36:28 – Get Fury #1

Patron Thanks:
00:43:26 – Kal Lis

Listener Mail:
00:45:03 – Brad P. thinks that the listener mail segment deserves more respect.
00:53:14 – Dan C. from New Jersey is being driven mad by the usage of “bi-monthly.”

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Music:
“Scat Sandwich”
Space Ghost, Brak, and Zorak
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Pick of the Week #926 – X-Men #34

It’s a “yes and” kind of show, or will the “no buts” finally have their day in iFancourt? Tune in and find out along with this week in comics!

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Running Time: 01:17:41

Pick of the Week:
00:03:04 – Ultimate Spider-Man #4

Comics:
00:17:12 – Batman: Dark Age, Book 2
00:24:25 – Drawing Blood #1
00:30:59 – The Avengers #779
00:43:02 – Duke #5
00:46:59 – Blade #10
00:50:25 – Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers #119

Patron Pick:
00:54:05 – Universal Monsters: Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives! #1

Patron Thanks:
01:03:18 – Jarrod Patrick

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Music:
“Elevate [feat. Denzel Curry & YBN Cordae & SWAVAY & Trevor Rich]”
DJ Khalil
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Talksplode #106 - Howard Chaykin

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