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April 15, 2024

INTERVIEW: Jason Aaron

Joining us this week on the show is the Eisner-award-winning comic book writer behind titles like Southern Bastards, Avengers, Conan The Barbarian, Vertigo’s Scalped , The Punisher , Marvel’s 2015 relaunch of Star Wars , and…
April 12, 2024

MOVIE REVIEW: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire & Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Part Two)

"The world, right now, is experiencing unusual paranormal activity. We are here to answer that call. Because we... ARE THE GHOSTBUSTERS!" For part two of episode 151, we finish up our review of the fifth installment of the M…
April 8, 2024

MOVIE REVIEW: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire & Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Part One)

" Kong can't stop this on his own." "He won't be alone." News and Notes [Sponsored by Omnibus ] (8:06) For our news and notes segment, Aaron and Chris discuss Marvel casting Julia Garner in THE FANTASTIC 4 as the Silver Surf…

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Chris' Corner - Ghost Machine #1 (Ghost Machine Productions/Image Comics)

"We are Ghost Machine." If I can start this comic book article off with a sports analogy (as one does): do you all remember the absolute lunacy that surrounded Lebron James and 'The Announcement' of where he would be playing basketball heading into…

Chris' Corner - Helen of Wyndhorn #1 (Dark Horse Comics)

* SPOILER-FREE REVIEW * "It's going to be fine. Nightmares are as natural as rain." Author Christopher Vogler once said in his international best-selling storytelling guide 'The Writer's Journey', "Artists who operate on the principle of rejecting…

Best Comics of 2023

Comic books are pretty cool, yeah? Feels pretty safe saying that. If everyone can agree that said comics are, in fact, 'cool', we should probably just go ahead and discuss some of the best of 2023, right? Mostly because this was one of the better ye…

About the Hosts

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Chris Hacker

Co-Host, Producer, Editor

Long time enthusiast of all things comic-books, strong proponent for meeting new nerdy people, and shares a similar ideology as Victor Von Doom. Also loves going to the movies and smelling new books after buying them.

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Aaron Knowles

Co-Host, Media Liaison, Partnership Management

Loves all things Science-Fiction. Robots, Lazers, time-travel, and anything Captain America or Batman. #CATDAD