By now, we all know how Captain America was frozen and brought back in the Avengers, but the more interesting story is WHY Marvel decided to revive the Sentinel of Liberty. Why would Stan Lee take a chance and bring back a hero whose popularity died out after World War II? Simply put, because we wan...
2015-07-03 22:01:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Charles Xavier is arguably the most powerful psychic on the planet, but man does he have some bad luck. Every time he regains the use of his legs, the comic book status quo takes away his ability to walk yet again, and puts him right back in a wheelchair. So how is it that Professor X became paralyz...
2015-07-01 20:27:41 +0000 UTC View PostWe are going to vote on next month's comic book reading like last time. We have it narrowed down to two possible books. Just let me know which one you'd be more interested in reading, and the majority vote will be what we choose.
First up, one of my personal favorites. Moon Knight! Spec...
2015-07-01 20:07:22 +0000 UTC View Post
It's pretty standard fare when we see superheroes beating up villains in comics or movies, but we're starting to see a bit more of heroes vs other heroes. We want to know why is that?
Today, we're discussing the reasons why we think we want to see Captain America take on Iron Man in Civ...
2015-06-29 18:46:37 +0000 UTC View Post
We've seen Green Arrow and the Flash team up recently on their respective CW shows, but did you know that the 90s Flash show was also supposed to involve Green Arrow? It's true... kinda. On today's Tie-In, we're discussing Unlimited Powers, the show that never got made!
Tie-Ins are ...
2015-06-26 23:33:40 +0000 UTC View Post
The Flash has been known to use his powers of super speed to travel through time. As we all know, when you travel through time you need to be careful not to create any temporal paradoxes. Flash comics showcase (pun?) a few great examples of time travel paradoxes like the Ontological Paradox, the Pre...
2015-06-25 01:13:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Fellow comic book YouTuber Sal from the channel ComicPOP drops in this week to talk about how he got started writing his own comics! We discuss things like finding and working with talented artists, the daunting task of writing the actual script, and much more.
We're also talking about ...
2015-06-23 00:27:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I have created the event page for this month's hangout. Let me know if I need to change the time at all.
Also, if you are a new Patron, make sure you send me your Google+ profile link so I can add you to my circles and invite you.
Thanks, guys!
2015-06-20 18:05:22 +0000 UTC
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There's no doubt that Superman helped kickstart the superhero comic book, but what if his creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, never got into the comic book business? Would Superman never have existed, or would someone else come along and independently create a similar super-character? Were popul...
2015-06-17 19:55:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Comic books are full of superheroes will extraordinary powers, but there is also the power of simply being a comic book character. There are endless tropes and clichés in the world of comics, and we're bringing them into the real world!
Things like splash pages that tell you when somet...
2015-06-15 19:41:31 +0000 UTC View Post
With Marvel spotlighting Hawkeye in Avengers: Age of Ultron, and DC's Arrow headed towards its fourth season, I'm curious about why superhero archers appear to be pretty popular these days. Is there a secret behind the success of Oliver Queen, Clint Barton, or other comic book characters who fight w...
2015-06-12 17:05:51 +0000 UTC View Post
We're searching our respective headcanons and workshopping some fan theories surrounding comic book movies and tv shows!
Is Falcon really a bad guy? Is Thor's hammer sentient? Do the Tim Burton Batman movies exists in the same timeline as the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight trilogy? And m...
2015-06-09 20:21:56 +0000 UTC View Post
In this month's Comic Book Club, we will be reading Doctor Strange: The Oath written by Brian K. Vaughan with art by Marcos Martin. Here's a synopsis of what the book is about:
"Doctor Strange embarks on the most important investigation of his career, as he sets out to solve an attempte...
2015-06-07 23:20:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I've always been a fan of the t-shirts that make fake vintage logos for fictional organizations, so I thought it might be fun to try and create a logo for the Heavenly Help-Mates (aka, another Mopee reference). Tell me what you think?
2015-06-05 09:17:51 +0000 UTC View Post
What is a superhero without a colorful costume to fight crime in? Today, we're looking at the visual shorthand that is COLOR which artists use to tell us who is a good guy and who is a bad guy. Superheroes are generally sporting costumes with the primary colors red, blue and yellow, whereas villains...
2015-06-04 00:57:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I think we're finally going to start selling t-shirts! We were approached by TeePublic (created by CollegeHumor and Busted Tees) to create a merch store on their site where people like you can go and buy t-shirts!
The way it works is that we can use other people's designs on our store, ...
2015-06-04 00:30:14 +0000 UTC View Post
We're taking a trip to the trivia orchard and plucking ourselves some fresh comic book quizzes! (Just ignore how odd that was)
Chris starts us off with a quiz about songs that reference comic book characters. Scott follows it up by testing everyone's knowledge of the various acronyms in...
2015-06-01 20:28:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I haven't been posting here as much as I should, and I apologize for that. To make it up to you, here are some thumbnails I'm working on for videos that will premiere after the hiatus. Any guesses about what the episodes will be about?
2015-06-01 04:32:11 +0000 UTC View Post
It's an age old debate between comics fans: Marvel vs. DC! maybe it's just me, but I feel like Marvel superheroes tend to feel more like street level heroes, while DC superheroes are portrayed as gods. While that's just all opinion, what if there was objective evidence that proved that the heroes in...
2015-05-27 19:42:52 +0000 UTC View Post
We're creating our own 'What If' and 'Elseworlds' stories about our favorite comic book characters! These are basically just stories that we made up that we think would be awesome, but would probably never happen since they would change up characters and entire worlds too much. But hey, it's fiction...
2015-05-25 21:52:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! We're setting up for next month's Comic Book Club. On the last one, we decided that we'd leave what we're going to read next up to a vote. The three that we have narrowed it down to are: Moon Knight vol. 1 (2014) Batman: Under the Red Hood Doctor Strange: The Oath How I want to do the vo...
2015-05-20 22:10:49 +0000 UTC View Post
We've talked in the past about how we might define comics, but if you boil it down to simply "sequential art," then is a string of emoji considered a kind of comic? Today, we're talking about just that, plus whether or not comics might break through language barriers, and if a comic can convey a mes...
2015-05-20 19:00:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the hangout for all of you who missed it!
2015-05-18 23:04:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we're joined by Joel Daly from the popular YouTube channel and podcast ComicBookCast! He sheds some light on how he got started on YouTube and what it's like working with a whole crew of people from around the world without actually meeting all of them in real life! He and Scott also disc...
2015-05-18 23:02:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Bruce Wayne underwent an immense amount of training before he became Batman, but it seems members of the Bat Family naturally have some of those skills. From Nightwing's natural acrobatic skill, Batgirl's photographic memory, Tim Drake's detective skills, and even Jason Todd's drive, it seems like t...
2015-05-13 17:38:06 +0000 UTC View Post
In this month's Comic Book Club, we will be reading Green Arrow: Year One written by Andy Diggle (doesn't that name sound familiar!) with art by Jock. Here's a synopsis of what the book is about: "Oliver Queen has been a faithful member of the Justice League of America and defended Star City with h...
2015-05-12 23:18:23 +0000 UTC View Post
We went to the 2nd annual Marble City Comicon and talked to some awesome people! Bryce interviewed everyone from voice actors, Power Rangers, and cast members from the hit show The Walking Dead! We also close today's show with an interview we did at last year's con with the wonderful comic book arti...
2015-05-12 01:29:34 +0000 UTC View Post
The Vision is an android that was created by Ultron, but how exactly was he built? Specifically, where did his body come from? We're tracing the history of Vision all the way back to his roots as the original Human Torch from the Golden Age of comics in a search to shed some light on the somewhat co...
2015-05-08 17:17:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the latest episode of Comic Misconceptions, available for your eyes before anyone else. I haven't even added the description text yet, nor the annotations or cards or really anything else. It's just been uploaded right now. Have fun! 2015-05-08 05:33:34 +0000 UTC View Post
