TIME FOR A REBOOT!This week heralds the return of cohost and filmmaker Chris Carter, who rejoins Aeric and AJ just in time to head back to the Sixties with X-MEN: FIRST CLASS! Just when the franchise needed it most, this film gave the series a fresh coat of paint and got audiences excited about X-Men films again!Follow us!Twitter: twitter.com/geeks…

Dallas and Anne are joined by Aeric Azana and Malcolm Russell Nelson to discuss Jason Aaron's Wolverine and the X-men! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollective/support

Dallas, Alexis, Anne, and Evan wrap up their coverage of Hellboy with Mike Mignola's masterpiece Hellboy in Hell --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollective/support

Dallas and Michael Avon Oeming sit down to discuss his upcoming comic William of Newbury--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollective/support

Dallas and Juni Ba sit down to talk about Boy Wonder, available wherever you get your comics! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollective/support

THE BEST BOOK CLUB IN THE MULTIVERSE!It’s our LAST STOP before the world changes forever… but who shaped that world? Find out alongside the Book Club Bois as they discuss the latest chapter of Brian Michael Bendis’ NEW AVENGERS SAGA!The Illuminati. An elite group of the planet’s most powerful guardians. Whenever Earth faces its greatest threats, th…

X-MAY 2024 FINALE!To wrap up this year’s festivities, Aeric and Malcolm are joined by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing to discuss their upcoming book NYX! A book with a LOT of history behind it, and even more history to be made – Jackson and Collin dig into their process of putting the book together and why it’s more important than ever to have a b…

THE ORIGIN OF THE HUGE JACKED MAN!This week, Aeric and AJ discuss their unique experiences with X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE! An infamous installment in this saga also features one of the most bizarre screw-ups in adapting a comic book character from page to screen. Hopefully they figure out what to do with that Deadpool guy!Follow us!Twitter: twitter.…

Dallas and Anne sit down with Jason Aaron to discuss his upcoming run on teenage mutant ninja turtles --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollective/support

THE BEST BOOK CLUB IN THE MULTIVERSE!This week, the Book Club Bois return to… (ugh) The “Mighty” Avengers in the latest chapter of Brian Michael Bendis’ NEW AVENGERS SAGA!With the Ultron threat neutralized, the new team Tony Stark has assembled must now turn their gaze to a new threat: a bomb made of Symbiotes has gone off in the center of Manhatta…

Dallas and Kyle Starks sit down to discuss his new comic Karate Prom, available wherever you get your comics! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollective/support

WELCOME TO THE REVOLUTION!In Part 4 of X-MAY 2024, Aeric and Malcolm are joined by Dallas Taylor (Comics Collective Podcast) to discuss the defining story in the modern era of Scott Summers! In 2013, Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo took the recently deposed Cyclops and turned him from Fallen Son to Mutant Revolutionary. But does this story h…

Dallas and Anne are joined by Owen from Owen Likes Comics to talk about Astonishing X-men --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollective/support

THE LAST STAND!This week, Aeric and AJ complete the first lap of this marathon with X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (2006)! As the end of this first era in X-Men films, there is A LOT wrong with this film… but are there any redeeming qualities? Find out here!Follow us!Twitter: twitter.com/geeksplainedpod?lang=enInstagram: www.instagram.com/geeksplainedpod/?h…

THE BEST BOOK CLUB IN THE MULTIVERSE!Who do you trust? Join the Book Club Bois as they discuss the next chapter in Brian Michael Bendis’ NEW AVENGERS SAGA!The Secret Avengers return from Japan just in time for the world to close in on them! Still reeling from the reveal that Elektra was a Skrull, our heroes reap the consequences of the Civil War wh…

Aeric and Malcolm sit down with comics writer Kelly Thompson to chat about BIRDS OF PREY, moving from Marvel to DC Comics, her upcoming Energon debut with SCARLETT, and more!Follow us!Twitter: twitter.com/geeksplainedpod?lang=enInstagram: www.instagram.com/geeksplainedpod/?hl=enSend us your questions for the Geeksplained Mailbag!Email: Geeksplained…

“I TOLD YOU NOT TO DOUBLE DARE THEM!”In our X-MAY 2024 Interlude, Aeric puts the Geeksplained Spotlight on hidden gem DEADPOOL VS OLD MAN LOGAN by Declan Shalvey and Mike Henderson!Time Stamps:00:00:56 Intro00:04:12 Spotlight on DEADPOOL VS OLD MAN LOGAN00:37:43 Wrap-UpIntro/Outro Music by the INCREDIBLE Sophie Marlon:https://sophiemarlon.bandcamp.…

Dallas, Anne and special guest David Harper sit down to talk about the X-TREME crossover X-cutioner's Song. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollective/support

SHE’S BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!In Issue #4, the Book Club Bois – OH WHO ARE WE KIDDING YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED THIS ISSUE! Perhaps the best issue of the series so far sees a double date for the ages and the return of YOU KNOW WHO!Covers Ultimate Spider-Man #4 by Jonathan Hickman and David MessinaSend us your questions for the Book Club Mai…

X-MEN UNITE!In the second session of this retrospective series, Aeric and AJ are joined by Good Brother™ and longtime friend of the pod Chris Dobson to discuss X2: X-MEN UNITED (2003)! The film that many people herald as the best in the franchise is front and center… but does it hold up 11 years later?Follow us!Twitter: twitter.com/geeksplainedpod?…

THE BEST BOOK CLUB IN THE MULTIVERSE!With the Secret Avengers now established, it’s time for the Book Club Bois to travel to the other side of the aisle in the next chapter of Brian Michael Bendis’ NEW AVENGERS!In the aftermath of the superhero Civil War, Tony Stark finds himself in a world without Avengers. But he’s about to change all that. Ms. M…

TO ME, MY ASTONISHING X-MEN!In part two of X-MAY 2024, Aeric is joined by Book Club co-host Malcolm Russell-Nelson to wind the clock back 20 years and revisit ASTONISHING X-MEN #1!Time Stamps:00:01:02 Intro00:02:52 Astonishing X-Men #1 Revisited w/ Malcolm01:28:44 Wrap-UpIntro/Outro Music by the INCREDIBLE Sophie Marlon:https://sophiemarlon.bandcam…

Dallas, Anne, Lexi (sort of), and Doug sit down to chat about Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollective/support

THE MUTANT AGE HAS NOW BEGUN!Welcome to a Geeksplained Extra series we’re calling “PREVIOUSLY, ON X-MEN”! Aeric is joined by his Film Club cohorts AJ Kincaid and Chris Carter on a quest through the history of X-Men in film!In our first installment, Aeric and AJ discuss the groundbreaking film X-MEN (2000) - the film that started the franchise and k…

THE BEST BOOK CLUB IN THE MULTIVERSE!With CIVIL WAR officially concluded, the superhero community finds itself irreparably fractured. The Book Club Bois catch up with one side of the conflict, as Luke Cage leads the Secret Avengers in the next chapter of Brian Michael Bendis’ NEW AVENGERS!Luke Cage. Iron Fist. Spider-Woman. Wolverine. Doctor Strang…

WELCOME BACK TO X-MAY!!!For the fourth time, it’s our annual month-long series on Marvel’s Merry Mutants! Kicking off a full month of X-Men related episodes is a discussion with Connor Goldsmith of CEREBRO on Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s E IS FOR EXTINCTION!Time Stamps:00:01:01 Intro00:02:55 E is for Extinction w/ Connor Goldsmith02:16:30 Wra…

Dallas, Anne, Lexi and Evan sit down to talk about the best Hellboy omnibus yet! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollective/support

THE BEST BOOK CLUB IN THE MULTIVERSE!This is the big one. This week, the Book Club Bois have a GIANT-SIZED discussion on the Marvel Comics event that changed Comic Book Events forever: MARVEL’S CIVIL WAR.Change has come to America. After a tragedy in Stamford, Connecticut, the Superhuman Registration Act becomes law – dividing the superhero communi…

Dallas, Anne, and Lexi are joined once again by Matt Draper to talk about Daredevil: Born Again --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollective/support

THE BEST BOOK CLUB IN THE MULTIVERSE!This week, the Book Club Bois take a detour to examine reports of young superheroes who have taken crime fighting into their own hands! Join Aeric, Malcolm and Jacob as they dive into YOUNG AVENGERS!In the aftermath of AVENGERS: DISASSEMBLED, the world found itself without its mightiest heroes. But from the ashe…

We love sex positivity here at the comics Collective! We also love awesome Kickstarter projects which is why we have friend of the show, Wells Thompson, here to talk about his new comic "Smut"! And I mean, hey, you gotta stick around to see what that's about, right? :D Smut Kickstarter Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wellsthompson/smut-1…

WELCOME TO VOLUME 7!We kick off Volume 7 with an annual tradition, as Aeric counts down the TOP 10 Comics YOU Should be Reading in 2024!Time Stamps:00:00:44 Intro00:04:50 Top 10 Comics 202401:15:06 Wrap-UpFollow us!Twitter: twitter.com/geeksplainedpod?lang=enInstagram: www.instagram.com/geeksplainedpod/?hl=enSend us your questions for the Geeksplai…

Anne and Lexi tackle HEATHEN by Natasha Alterici and Ashley Woods--a story of a brave Viking, exiled from her home, on a perilous quest to free the queen of the Valkyries from her curse and Odin's wrath! There will be Gods, there will be smooches, and the nipples will be FREE! Check it out! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/p…

THE BEST BOOK CLUB IN THE MULTIVERSE!This week, the Book Club Bois discuss the consequences of the House of M in Volume 3 of Brian Michael Bendis’ NEW AVENGERS SAGA aka THE COLLECTIVE!When Wanda Maximoff whispered “No More Mutants”, millions of Mutants lost their powers and left only 198 powered Mutants on the planet. Many of those Mutants controll…

Anne gets to speak with writer Matthew Erman about his and artist Sam Beck's upcoming OGN "Loving, Ohio", a coming of age story about a supernatural cult in the most terrifying place imaginable...Ohio! Oh! The horror! Join us, won't you? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollective/support…

Welcome to week 1 of girls, girls, girls as Lexi and Anne take on "Nimona" by ND Stevenson. It should go without saying, but we were pretty inspired by it...inspired to be the biggest gremlins we could possibly be, anyways. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollective/support…

THE BEST BOOK CLUB IN THE MULTIVERSE!This week, the Book Club Bois deal with the fallout of HOUSE OF M, as they discuss Volume 3 of Brian Michael Bendis’ NEW AVENGERS!The Avengers are hot on the trail of the Silver Samurai – one of the escaped 42 super criminals from the breakout at The Raft. And joining them on this crusade is their newest member:…

THE GOBLIN UNMASKED!In Issue #3, we get reveals galore! Join Aeric and Malcolm as they discuss the next chapter of Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto’s ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN SAGA! In the most action-packed issue so far, Peter’s new persona finally materializes – just in time for a new challenger to come to town! Enter: BULLSEYE!Covers Ultimate Spi…

Join Anne and Lexi (for a little bit) with special guest Evan Von Doom as they sit down and discuss the Hellboy Complete Short Stories Omnibus Vol. 2 Did they like this one as much as the first? Tune in to find out as our journey to tackle all of HELLBOY continues! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollectiv…

Anne is joined by fantastic writer and friend of the show David Pepose to discuss his upcoming new Space Ghost comic! All fans coast to coast better tune in to this one! Final Order cut-off is THIS SUNDAY! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollective/support

THE BEST BOOK CLUB IN THE MULTIVERSE!This week, the Book Club Bois discuss the first event of the Brian Michael Bendis New Avengers Saga: HOUSE OF M!Ever since the events of AVENGERS: DISASSEMBLED, a clock has been ticking. The time has come to decide the fate of the Scarlet Witch. The Avengers and the X-Men team-up for a story that will have ramif…

THANK YOU FOR SIX YEARS!To celebrate our sixth anniversary, we’re bringing back the fan favorite segment Pitch It! Join Aeric as he pitches the SEQUEL to his original Batman Beyond pitch - BATMAN BEYOND: SHADOW OF VENGEANCE!Time Stamps:00:01:13 Intro00:04:56 Pitch It! Batman Beyond 200:15:53 Previously, on Batman Beyond…00:18:43 Prologue00:32:54 Ac…

Anne and Dallas sit down to chat about Alan Moore and Gene Ha's Top 10 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollective/support

Anne talks with comics writer and editor Michele Abounader and comics writer David Booher about their new kickstarter comic for charity "When I Was Young...", an LGBTQ+ anthology comic about reflections and growing up as a queer child. As of posting this episode, there is now one week to back this comic and help get it to its goal! You can find mor…

THE BEST BOOK CLUB IN THE MULTIVERSE!This week the Book Club Bois dive into the secret history of the hero that time forgot, as they discuss the next chapter of the Brian Michael Bendis NEW AVENGERS saga: THE SENTRY!Now that the New Avengers have been assembled, it’s time to answer a lingering question: Who is The Sentry, and why does no one rememb…

Dallas and Anne sit down to talk about Alan Moore and Chris Sprouse's Tom Strong --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollective/support

THE BEST BOOK CLUB IN THE MULTIVERSE!There came a day unlike any other… and that day is TODAY. The Book Club Bois have finally arrived at the dawn of a new era, as they discuss the opening chapter of Brian Michael Bendis’ NEW AVENGERS Saga: the iconic blockbuster known as BREAKOUT!The world is more dangerous than ever, and the team formerly known a…

Anne, Dallas and Alexis sit down to talk about Promethea by Alan Moore and JH Williams III --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollective/support

Dallas sits down with Evan to talk about his upcoming short story in the comics anthology: The Cloakroom --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecomicscollective/support

THE BEST BOOK CLUB IN THE MULTIVERSE!The GREATEST Marvel Comics event you’ve NEVER heard of! This week, the Book Club Bois continue their journey through the Brian Michael Bendis NEW AVENGERS Saga! Join Aeric, Jacob and Malcolm as they dive into the hidden gem political thriller that is SECRET WAR!One year ago, Nick Fury waged a secret war… and his…