It's iFanboy 20/25 -- 20 years of podcasting and 25 years of iFanboy!
Jamokes tried to concentrate. And at times, there was concentration. There were also many alleys and tributaries best not taken, but taken they were. So wrap a ribbon on your luxury car, and enjoy all the parts, both on target and off.
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Running Time: 01:19:26
Pick of the Week:00:01:38 - Supergirl #7
Comics:00:12:29 - Transformers #2600:17:56 - 1776 #100:25:00 - Marvel/DC Thor/Shazam! Infinity Comic #100:30:48 - Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Ghost Ships of Labrador #100:34:25 - Strange Tales #200:42:45 - Fantastic Four #731 (5)00:46:13 - Redcoat #15
Patron Pick:00:49:32 - American Caper #1
Patron Thanks:00:57:34 - Matt Mendoz
Listener Mail:01:01:28 - Deezer I. wonders if Matteo Scalera has finally stopped it, and who else needs to cut it out.01:07:10 - Philip R. asks the tough question. What's worse: Rats or Rebar?
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Music:“Weird Fishes & Symphony No. 25 in G Minor”Rodrigo y Gabriela
Watch The iFanboy After Show for Pick of the Week #1003!
Listen to Conor, Josh, and Ron on their other show Goodfellas Minute.
Listen to Conor, Josh, and Ron discuss Blade (1998) on Cradle to the Grave.
Listen to Josh discuss Fargo on Movie of the Year: 1996.
Listen to Conor discuss Swingers on Movie of the Year: 1996.
Watch Ron talk about pinball technology on the Daily Tech News Show.
Listen to Conor discuss Ghostbusters on Movie of the Year: 1984.
Listen to Conor, Josh, and Ron discuss The Crow (1994) on Cradle to the Grave.
Listen to Josh discuss Jaws 4: The Revenge (1987) on Cradle to the Grave.
Listen to Josh discuss Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) on Cradle to the Grave.
Watch Josh and Conor talk about how to start a podcast on OpenWater.
Listen to Ron talk about The Phantom Menace minute 80 on Star Wars Minute.
Listen to Ron talk about Return of the Jedi minute 124 on Star Wars Minute.
Listen to Conor talk about Return of the Jedi minute 104 on Star Wars Minute.
Listen to Ron talk about The Empire Strikes Back minute 115 on Star Wars Minute.
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Pick of the Week #1002 – Assorted Crisis Events #6
Josh Flanagan embarks on a campaign of adventure with his trusty ward, Dr. Ryan Haupt. What race and class would be best for discussing this week in comics? Tune in to find out!
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Running Time: 01:18:05
Pick of the Week:00:02:54 - Assorted Crisis Events #6
Comics:00:13:45 - DC K.O. Knightfight #100:19:35 - Alien vs. Captain America #100:24:15 - Planet She-Hulk #100:28:42 - Huck: Big Bad World #600:31:16 - The Amazing Spider-Man #979 (15)
Star Wars Corner:00:40:22 - Star Wars: Legacy of Vader #10
Patron Pick:00:43:22 - JSA #13
Patron Thanks:00:52:24 - A Bunny VTuber
Listener Mail:00:56:39 - Patrick K. from North Carolina wants to know what characters the DC trinity would play in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign? Fortunately Ryan has done his homework...01:06:16 - Eric P. from Alexandria, Virginia wants to know what "evil" organization we'd sign up to work for if living in the world of comics.
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Music:“Time & Confusion”Anberlin
Listen to Conor, Josh, and Ron discuss Blade (1998) on Cradle to the Grave.
Listen to Josh discuss Fargo on Movie of the Year: 1996.
Listen to Conor discuss Swingers on Movie of the Year: 1996.
Watch Ron talk about pinball technology on the Daily Tech News Show.
Listen to Conor discuss Ghostbusters on Movie of the Year: 1984.
Listen to Conor, Josh, and Ron discuss The Crow (1994) on Cradle to the Grave.
Listen to Josh discuss Jaws 4: The Revenge (1987) on Cradle to the Grave.
Listen to Josh discuss Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) on Cradle to the Grave.
Watch Josh and Conor talk about how to start a podcast on OpenWater.
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Mediasplode #64 - Year-End Mailbag: Answering Your Questions!
Thanks to our awesome Patrons, we're proud to present another episode of Mediasplode!
What's a Mediasplode? It's a monthly special edition show in which we talk about what we are enjoying in media outside of the realm of comic books. It's like our All Media Year End Round-Up but in a shorter, monthly format.
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SPOILERS BELOW!
Running Time: 01:06:23
This month, Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick are joined by their original Pick of the Week co-host Ron Richards to discuss...
What We've Been Enjoying:00:03:15 - Josh loved Downey Wrote That on Peacock but didn't really love Smoke on AppleTV+00:15:25 - Conor (and Ron) loved the latest season of Only Murders in the Building on Hulu and salutes the end of WTF with Marc Maron00:22:04 - Ron (and Conor) are loving The Lowdown on Hulu and he got to the theaters to see Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein
Year-End Mailbag!:00:30:52 - Patrick K. from North Carolina asks if any movies we saw as kids shocked us that we were allowed to see?00:34:02 - Dan C. from New Jersey wants to know what IP could be translated to opera?00:37:27 - Woulter L. asks a great question about the impact of removing the Beatles or another media creator from the timeline and what the impact would be00:43:22 - Pete wants to know if we listen to college radio?00:50:55 - Zak H. from Milwaukee is looking for (hypothetical) book recommendations about the mafia (which doesn't exist).00:53:11 - Doug M. wants to know more movies that are "bad" but also "good"?00:58:28 - Stephen H. from Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom wants to know if anyone in our families shame us for our interests?01:01:02 - Jacob asks a fantastic question about G.I. Joe vs. Predator that breaks our brains.
Music:"B A D I D E A"Militarie Gun
Listen to Conor, Josh, and Ron discuss Blade (1998) on Cradle to the Grave.
Listen to Josh discuss Fargo on Movie of the Year: 1996.
Listen to Conor discuss Swingers on Movie of the Year: 1996.
Watch Ron talk about pinball technology on the Daily Tech News Show.
Listen to Conor discuss Ghostbusters on Movie of the Year: 1984.
Listen to Conor, Josh, and Ron discuss The Crow (1994) on Cradle to the Grave.
Listen to Josh discuss Jaws 4: The Revenge (1987) on Cradle to the Grave.
Listen to Josh discuss Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) on Cradle to the Grave.
Watch Josh and Conor talk about how to start a podcast on OpenWater.
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Pick of the Week #1001 – Batman & Robin: Year One #12
It’s iFanboy 20/25 — 20 years of podcasting and 25 years of iFanboy!
After last week’s epic anniversary episode you wouldn’t blame Conor Kilpatrick and Josh Flanagan for phoning this one in… but they are comic book podcasting professionals and that would never happen. What did happen is that Josh is sick with a cold and so we all just have to deal with that.
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Running Time: 00:56:35
Pick of the Week:00:02:52 – Batman & Robin: Year One #12
Comics:00:13:05 – Absolute Batman 2025 Annual #100:17:56 – Superman: Red and Blue Special #100:23:22 – Imperial #400:28:47 – The Expanse: The Little Death #200:31:02 – Runaways #500:35:08 – Moonshine Bigfoot #400:37:28 – Batman: The Long Halloween – The Last Halloween #10
Patron Pick:00:40:41 – Dick Tracy: Halloween Special
Patron Thanks:00:45:51 – Karl Erikson
Listener Mail:00:47:48 – Patrick A. from Panang, Malaysia asks how the iFanboys go about catching up on a book they’ve missed.
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Music:“’Batman’ TV Series Theme”Neil Hefti
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Pick of the Week #1000 – Fantastic Four #730 (4)
iFanboy celebrates its landmark 1000th episode with a quadruple-sized extravaganza! Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick try in vain to hold it all together as they're joined by Ron Richards, Gordon the Intern, Dr. Ryan Haupt, Jim Viscardi, Tom King, Chris Eliopoulos, Mike Norton, and Brian Michael Bendis! Plus, a special appearance by Rick Remender!
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Running Time: 03:58:42
Pick of the Week:00:03:34 – Fantastic Four #730 (4)
Patron Pick:00:18:02 – Captain Henry and the Graveyard of Time #1
Audience Questions:00:24:36 – The tradition continues as iFanboy fields questions from the loyal iFanbase for over three hours! Plus, special guests and old friends pop in and out to join in the fun and chat and just generally derail the show’s format.
Scott H. from Portland, Oregon asks how the iFanboys have changed as readers over 25 years.
Ian S. asks Tom King how much he credits iFanboy for his successes and failures and also what level of Patron he secretly is.
Jim W. wants to know how much input creators have with collected editions and why Conor is always hot, and wants to know how the iFanboys obtain their weekly comics.
Sheldon A. from Paradise, Newfoundland, Canada asks what makes a good Talksplode.
Tom C. from Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom asks everyone for their three favorite Beatles albums.
Jack H. wants to know which Beatles would get along best with which members of the Fantastic Four.
Tyler F. is curious which comics and which TV and films are harder to watch after having kids.
Mark H. from Chicago, Illinois has a gotcha question for Ron about the Deadpool films.
Ilan P. from Johannesburg, South Africa wants to know how important the quality of the dialogue is when reviewing comics.
Chris from the iFanboy Data Analytics Department presents his annual report on Patron Powers.
Edward A. asks who out there in the comics media world today would have fit in with the old iFanboy.com writing staff.
Jonathan S. from Albuquerque, New Mexico wants to know what aspects of podcasting (and media) in 2025 would the iFanboy have found most surprising in 2005.
Adam T. from Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom asks how the iFanboys decide which comics to keep indefinitely.
Doug M. wants to know what brings everyone joy.
Nick M. asks if there are any funny stories involving iFanboy’s fellow OG comics podcasters.
Ben F. from Erie, Pennsylvania asks about superhero costume redesigns. (W
Adam from Orlando, Florida, Duke W., Morgan B., Ben A. from Washington D.C. (via London), and Josh H. from Australia all want to know what iFanboy’s mysterious re-brand was going to be.
Wes A. from Fridley, Minnesota, Brian D., Pete D., and Matthew F. all want to know what was in the closet.
Eddie R. from Soledad, California wants to know everyone’s favorite Seinfeld character and if Tony Rocky Horror really gave Mia Wallace a foot massage.
Kip R. asks if Ron ever paid Bendis for the bounty he put on the life of The Sentry.
Patron Thanks:01:53:10 – Taylor Tobeck
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Music:“Back and to the Left”Texas is the Reason
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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.