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Marvels and Hostage With Sal Abbinanti Tonight 9pm Eastern

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Comics Getting Kids back in Comic Shops with Richard Starkings

Rich talks about his local shop @Infinity_FluxHis series @elephantmen
now publishing as a @comixology originals series Alan Davis runs like Batman in Detective
 The great Brian Bolland and The Killing Joke, His years at Marvel UK, editing Doctor Who Monthly with Dave Gibbons art, 2000AD memories and much more

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TV Jamie Farr Duck Tales and Disney Animation With Tad Stones

First Jamie Farr MASH's Corporal Klinger shared his favorite comic books with us, then Tad is the Creator Of Darkwing Duck and worked on Disney  film and Tv shows like Buzz Lightyear and Hercules for over 30 years. He also made The Hellboy animated features . He shares great stories

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Comics Bill Sienkiewicz on New Mutants DD Elektra Batman and more

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Comics Gail Simone Talks Flash Domino Birds Of Prey and Secret Six

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Axel Alonso His Vertigo and Marvel Years and AWA's Upshot Comics

Axel covers past triumphs and controversies in his years at Vertigo and Marvel, and gives us details on his new line of books Upshot Comics from AWA.

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TV Star Trek Lower Decks Preview

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Comics Frankenstien's Kung Fu Journey With Tom Kelly

Foot Fist Frankenstien takes the monster from the end of the original story to a pastiche of the far east. Tom Kelly has a kickstarter campaign for his monster martial arts graphic novel that deserves your attention and support
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Movies Greg Rucka The Old Guard Review SPOILERS

SPOILERS! The new Netflix film based on Greg and Leandro Fernandez Image series has dropped. It's a tight military espionage action film asking big questions about mortality. Charlize Theron and the cast are welll cast . We discuss the films themes and plot, and  the potential for sequels

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Comics Batman Joker War Death Metal with James Tynion IV

The creation of Punchline and other vilians, his detective comics and justice lague runs and a preview of joker war and Death Metal . All covered in this conversation.

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Bronze Age Legend Elliot S! Maggin Superman JLA The Joker & More 9PM Eastern

Elliot has a great new podcast wher he reads from his novels "Elliot Makes stuff up." We talk about various DC Runs stories from the DC Bullpen in the70s and lots more. Listen to "Comics Legend Elliot S Maggin on Spuerman JLA Joker and More" on Spreaker. 

I guested on Rick Lee James Voices In My Head Podcast

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Animation Harley Quinn Season 2 wrap with Patrick Schumacker

Think of these conversations as the DVD commentaries. SPOILERS All the Harley Ivy fans finally get what they've wanted for a long time. The admission of both that they love each other. Co-Showrunner of The Animated Harley series, Patrick gives us great stories and the episodes of season 2. From Darkseid to The team-up of Two Face and Bane from the betrayal of one of Harley's crew, to the introductions of Batgirl, Catwoman and...The Macaroni?

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Comics It's Katie Cook's Multiverse We Just Live In It

Katie is the Guardian Of Marvel's Earth-10 where she's writing The Avengers and Spider-Verse stories. We talk about those plus Star Wars Frozen 2 Tangled and her  creator owned stories like Gronk (and her NFL Superbowl Moment with the series) and Nothing Special for Web Toons the South Korean based web comics platform that has millions of subscribers globally.

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Comics Paul Jenkins Talks Batman Spider-Man Hellblazer,The Inhumans,

Paul joined us live to revisit runs on Batman, The Inhumans Spider_Man The Sentry and Captain America for Marvel, plus he touted his upcoming Kickstarter for Fairy Quest Volume 3

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Comics The Irish Zorro ? With Eoin McCauey

Think of this guy as Zorro's father and Batman's grandfather. Eion is writing a graphic novel about William Lamport a real 17th century historical adventurer who left Ireland to spy on Mexico for the King Of Spain only to become a hero for Mexican Independence. How's that for a 4th of July story?

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Kelly Sue DeConnick On Sexual Abuse In Comics Aquaman Wonder Woman and more

An intense conversation with Kelly that addresses the recent sexual harassment behavior by various creators. This includes Warren Ellis whom has mentored Kelly Sue's career in positive ways without any abusive behavior. Kel addresses what she feel needs to be done to clean up this terrible abuse towards women and men in the comics industry by people of power. Then the conversation gets into lighter subjects like her Aquaman run at DC Her upcoming Wonder Woman Black Label series with Phil Jimenez her Detective 1027 story with John Romita Jr and Klaus Janson, and her creator owned books Pretty Deadly with Emma Rios and Bitch Planet with Val D'Landro .

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Comics Nicola Scott A True Wonder Woman

Birds Of Prey Secret Six Wonder Woman are among the DC work we discuss with Nicola. Collaborations with Gail Simone JT Krull and Greg Rucka along with her creator owned book with Greg, Black Magick

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