“Welcome True Believers!” I recently had the luck to travel over to Los Angeles with Podwits contributor J. Blake on what proved to be one of the most exciting, and rewarding trips that I have ever had the pleasure to enjoy. The bulk of that is due to the GREAT content we were able to gather and will be […]
Posts Tagged ‘Spider-Man’
Stan Lee and the Podwits: A Q&A EXCLUSIVE
Posted: 16th April 2013 by Dion in Celebrities, Comic Books, News, Podwits Exclusive, The Comic SpinnerTags: Batman, Boris Karloff, Captain Blood, Daredevil, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Errol Flynn, Frankenstein, Galactus, Iron Man, Jack Kirby, Jim Starlin, Marvel Comics, Professor Xavier, Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Spider-Man, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Storm, Sub-Mariner, Superman, The Avengers, The Fantastic Four, The Hardy Boys, The Heap, The Human Torch, The Incredible Hulk, The Silver Surfer, The Thing, Thor, Wolverine, X-Men, X-Men First Class
Science!!!
Posted: 15th December 2012 by Podwits Administrator in PodcastTags: Alan Alda, Back To The Future, Bob Gale, Flame Challenge, Peter Jackson, Spider-Man, The Asylum, The Hobbit
Yes, with visions of Thomas Dolby dancing in their heads, Dion and Brian chew over Alan Alda’s Flame Challenge II, the Asylum’s laughable defense of their Hobbit knockoff, film and TV writers “slumming it” in comic books, and all manners of other whatnot and frippery. The Podwits Podcast: laughing in the face of the Mayan Apoca>BOOM<
Out of the Trunk
Posted: 13th October 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Comic Books, PodcastTags: Alias, Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC Comics, Fringe, George Lazenby, James Bond, JJ Abrams, Lost, Marvel Comics, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Spider-Man
Brian’s back, and that means comics will be talked about, beer will be drunk on-mic, and Dion’s in big trouble for the whole trunk of a Dodge Monaco thing. But it’s all forgiveness, kumbaya, and (of course) nerd talk galore on this latest Podwits Podcast. Enjoy!
These Island Earths
Posted: 11th August 2012 by Podwits Administrator in PodcastTags: Batman, Calvin And Hobbes, DC Comics, Earth One, Frank Miller, Frank Welker, Garfield, Ghostbusters, Heathcliff, Kevin Bacon, Lorenzo Music, Marvel Comics, Spider-Man, Superman, The Farside, The Flash, The New 52, The Smurfs, Year One
This week the lads regroup after Dion’s trip to 1974 and discuss cartoon characters in their various incarnations from comic strip to small screen, and then try to discern, for the layman, the many (and questionable) reboots of the Marvel and DC worlds, while at the same time trying to keep their own sanity. Earth […]
It’s All Brian’s Fault… HONEST!
Posted: 7th July 2012 by J. Marcus in Books, Comic Books, Doctor Who, Film, PodcastTags: Batman, Detective Comics, Doctor Who, Douglas Adams, Ernest Borgnine, San Diego Comic Con, Shada, Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man
With Dion on the lam again, J. and Brian are forced to go it alone once again. Amazing technical goofs aside, the boys manage to run the bases, covering such amazing topics as the upcoming San Diego Comic Con, Doctor Who, the new Spider-Man movie and even a little bit of historical comic lore! So […]
Reading Marvel in the ’60s, Part 1: The Uncanny (X-Men) Valley
Posted: 3rd July 2012 by Brian in Comic Books, The Comic SpinnerTags: Avengers, Fantastic Four, Hulk, Jack Kirby, Martin Goodman, Marvel Comics, Spider-Man, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, X-Men
Join Brian every other Tuesday as he talks comic books from a reader’s perspective, both his new experiences with the medium and reflections on over thirty years of enjoying the finest in sequential art. The “uncanny valley” is a term used in robotics (and, more generally, in the science fiction community) to describe the phenomenon […]
Rebuilding in a Superhero World
Posted: 2nd June 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Comic Books, Film, PodcastTags: Alien, Aliens, Ernest Borgnine, Godzilla, Prometheus, Ridley Scott, Spider-Man, Superman: The Movie, The Avengers, The Fantastic Four, The Great Gatsby, X-Men
Now that the three wits-of-the-pod have finally seen The Avengers film (Dion!), this week the gang tackles the long-debated question: “who the heck is going to pay for all this (damage) when a superhero battle lays waste to an entire city?!?!” The pros and cons are debated, the lads discuss the Prometheus trailer and the […]
The Comic Rack
Posted: 26th May 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Comic Books, PodcastTags: Avengers, Captain Marvel, ComiCat, Elon Musk, Fourth World Comics, NASA, New 52, Shazam, SpaceX, Spider-Man, Stan Lee, Starship Enterprise, Ultimate Spider-Man, Victoria Hand
The comic book rack is the new water cooler, as your three well-read masters of ceremony discuss gay superheroes, digital comics, the old Spider-Man newspaper strip, and a whole host of other superheroic topics, along with some other unrelated side-excursions. Podwits Assemble!