On this week's live show, we're welcoming guests James Asmus and Jim Festante ("Survival Street") + Angel Fuentes, Amy Joscelyn, Luis S. Ramos (Panico Press) + Sal Crivelli ("Terminator")!

Comic Book Club: James Asmus, Jim Festante, Angel Fuentes, And Sal Crivelli

On the Stack podcast for the week of September 25, 2024, we've got new comic book reviews for Batman: The Long Halloween - The Last Halloween #1, Ultimate Spider-Man #9, and so many more!

The Stack: Batman: The Last Halloween, Ultimate Spider-Man, And More

Back in 1993, Dark Horse Comics started a shared universe of comic books and characters. Week 3 of the launch brought the first appearance of GHOST. Let's talk about that first issue! 

#323 S9E29 Ghost #1 (1993)

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Ghost #1 (1993) - Comic Book Review #323

On this week's live show, we're welcoming guests Saurabh Bhatia (Comix.one) + Christopher Golden and Thomas E. Sniegoski ("Hellboy and the B.P.R.D: The Goddess of Manhattan")!

Comic Book Club: Christopher Golden, Thomas E. Sniegoski, And Saurabh Bhatia

We discuss WITH SPOILERS, the Joker 2, but we kick it off with some Penguin talk!

Joker 2 SPOILER Discussion, PLUS, Penguin Episode 2!!

On the Stack podcast for the week of October 2, 2024, we've got new comic book reviews for Absolute Power #4, DC All In Special #1, Storm #1, and so many more!

The Stack: DC All In Special, Storm, And More

Joker: Folie À Deux has arrived in theaters! And we're getting twisted by reviewing every single singing, dancing, and wince-inducing moment of the movie on our podcast. Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is rotting in Arkham. That is up until he meets Joker super-fan Harleen Quinzel (Lady Gaga)... Who teaches him that he has a song in his heart. He learns to live, laugh, love... And then presides over the trial of the century as he pays for his crimes in the first movie. We discuss all of that, the twist ending of the movie, and the first weekend's disastrous box office.

Joker: Folie À Deux | Spoiler Review

It's time to party we recap The Penguin Episode 3, "Bliss," on our podcast. Now that Sofia Falcone and Oswald Cobb have teamed up, they're making a big move to take over the Gotham City drug trade with their new party drug, Bliss. Meanwhile, Victor's origin story is revealed and it's even sadder than we thought. Plus, Johnny Viti gets a phone shoved in his mouth.

The Penguin Episode 3: "Bliss" | Spoiler Recap

2019's Joker, which gave the iconic supervillain an all-purpose mental health disorder, a tragic origin story, and a name - Arthur Fleck - was never meant to have a sequel. But it made a billion dollars, so Joker: Folie à Deux is here. And, being a jukebox musical based primarily on show tunes from the mid-20th century canon, we ask who it's for. The first film took risks in eschewing so many trappings of the comic book genre; did the filmmakers hope that their audience would respond similarly to further experimentation? Or is it a means of punishing an audience they attracted but loathe?

If the film hates its audience... well, so does Mike, which might explain why he got on with it. José, on the other hand, liked the first film, and is happy to see more of Joaquin Phoenix and hear those classic songs. Joker: Folie à Deux is far from a great film, not that close to a good film, and doesn't have much of interest or intelligence to say about its themes - but it's fascinating that it exists.

Recorded on 7th October 2024.

429 - Joker: Folie à Deux

On the Stack podcast for the week of October 9, 2024, we've got new comic book reviews for Absolute Batman #1, Sentinels #1, and so many more!

The Stack: Absolute Batman, Sentinels, And More

"I have this romantic idea of the movies as a conjunction of place, people and experiences, all different for each of us, a context in which individual and separate beings try to commune, where the individual experience overlaps with the communal and where that overlapping is demarcated by how we measure the differing responses between ourselves and the rest of the audience: do they laugh when we don’t (and what does that mean?); are they moved when we feel like laughing (and what does that say about me or the others) etc. The idea behind this podcast is to satiate the urge I sometimes have when I see a movie alone – to eavesdrop on what others say. What do they think? How does their experience compare to mine? Snippets are overhead as one leaves the cinema and are often food for thought. A longer snippet of such an experience is what I hope to provide: it’s two friends chatting immediately after a movie. It’s unrehearsed, meandering, slightly convoluted, certainly enthusiastic, and well informed, if not necessarily on all aspects a particular work gives rise to, certainly in terms of knowledge of cinema in general and considerable experience of watching different types of movies and watching movies in different types of ways. It’s not a review. It’s a conversation." - José Arroyo.

"I just like the sound of my own voice." - Michael Glass.

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