Booked Comic Podcast
Booked Comic Podcast
The League Of Manchildren
Always ready to give you all your comic news, reviews and informed comic banter, the League HQ Studios is proud to present BOOKED! Hosted by Steve Stebbing, Jen Armstrong and Rob Lobster. Together they will cover everything from the greatest comic events, the lamest hero, to whether Stephanie Brown really counts as a Robin. Presented at the same Bat-Time, and the same Bat-Channel (the internet, dummy) Booked! will encourage you to visit your friendly neighborhood comic shop and pick up an issue.
Booked #53 - Thor-Machine
Holy crap! After a months long hiatus everybody at Booked is back for a brand new episode! First, Steve explains what happened to the live episode that was being talked about on the previous episode and all the problems there. Then the entire panel, including Jenosaur, Rob Lobster, T-Bot and Katie Findlay catch you up on what they've be reading over the extended break. So listen in and welcome the Booked crew back to the podcast world!
Jan 25, 2016
1 hr 12 min
Booked #52 - The Age of Spoilers
It's been more than enough time for people to check out Avengers: Age of Ultron, so it's time to get in depth about it. Stevil, Jenosaur, Rob Lobster and T-Bot have a total geek off after seeing the most anticipated movie of the beginning of 2015. What were their favorite parts of the movie? What character did this movie belong to? Hawkeye? Hulk? Black Widow? The panel also gets in depth with what they believe is being set up with each little easter egg. This week on Booked our heroes also give you a taste of what their reading in the "Put This In Your Eyeholes" segment. What are you reading that you think we should check out? Let us know in the comments below or on Twitter!
May 28, 2015
1 hr 18 min
Booked #51 - The Gang's All Here!
With less than a month before their panel at North West Fan Fest at the end of May, Stevil, Rob Lobster and The Jenosaur are back together along with their guest, Crossfire Comics' T-Bot. They catch up with Trevor and get the scoop on what's happening with Rawhide Bushido, which is available now on Tapastic. Then our panel gets chatting about things they've missed over the last few weeks. How awesome is Daredevil on Netflix? DC Comics is trying to push a powerful female superhero after getting called out by a kid and Jenosaur is supremely excited for the AMC and Seth Rogen produced Preacher series, as casting is now complete. All these stories plus much more on this brand new episode! Another reminder that Booked will be at the North West Fan Fest on Friday, May 29th at 4:30 pm. Don't miss it!
May 4, 2015
1 hr 2 min
Booked #50 - Extraterrestrial Storage Wars
This week for a brand new Booked Stevil goes solo as he chats with Wes Locher, the creator and writer of Unit 44, a new comic about a couple of bumbling Area 51 agents who forget to pay the rent on a storage space filled with secret contents and is subsequently sold to some rednecks at a public auction. Stevil and Wes chat about the inception of the idea, stemmed from Wes's own fascination with aliens possible existence, the instant gratification of collaborating with artist Ed Jimenez and the style choice of comedy over the usual dark and gritty. Wes also fills Stevil in on the great freedom creating your own independent comic in the new digital landscape. Unit 44 is available now on Comixology and can also be found on Wes and Ed's website.
Apr 16, 2015
28 min
Booked #49 - Just Call Him Joe M.
Stevil and Rob Lobster are full of information for you to consume this week. They give you the lowdown of what's in stores to check out, like Howard the Duck, Spawn Resurrection and Batman: Arkham Knight to accompany the video game's release in the beginning of June. They also commend Boom Studios and IDW for giving us comic continuations of classic movies. Through this we also find out that Robster hasn't seen a pivotal 90s classic! Gasp! Our guys again tackle the comic TV and film info with some casting news, as well as letting you know that Powers is now on the Playstation network. There's a brand new Daredevil trailer out ahead of the April 10th launch, there may be a potential Deathstroke casting for David Ayer's upcoming Suicide Squad and Valiant Entertainment is venturing into the TV and film medium as well. Booked ends off their episode with a heartfelt message to the late Terry Pratchett, a massive influence on imaginations across the world. He will truly be missed. So, join the guys for some deep comic chat, drop them a line on twitter, check out their Put This In Your Eyeholes recommendations and keep reading those panels!
Mar 23, 2015
55 min
Booked #48 - Being Nelly
The Stevil Dead and Rob Lobster have an absolute metric buttload of DC Comics talk this week from the Booked-Cave, as a big announcement came regarding the future of the massive publishing company after the Convergence event. This is the end of the New 52! so what's to come after? Don't worry, Rob's got the list of what will be coming to your favorite comic shop! The guys also have the full roster of which DC characters will be gracing the small screen for TNT's upcoming adaptation Titans. Will this be a team we recognize? With Robin/Nightwing leading the team, will we see Batman in this? Which incarnation of Starfire/Princess Koriand'r will we see and in how much/little clothing? She got a little "promiscuous" in the New 52 and destroyed some of the feelings we had of the Teen Titans. Also, Superman has new powers? Is the big blue Boy Scout able to go "Super Saiyan" now? With the reveal of the Kryptonians new super flare ability, the boys discuss whether this will benefit the character or is only a short-term gimmick to bring new readers. Finally, Stevil and Rob address the news that Marvel super writer Brian Michael Bendis is leaving the X-Men world after Uncanny X-Men #600. Will he ever return? What previously untouched character does he have his sights on next? Check out the guys picks this episode for "Put This In Your Eyeholes" and, as always. keep reading those panels people!!!
Feb 26, 2015
53 min
Booked #47 - Cake Salad
Booked returns for their first podcast in the brand new year of 2015! Rob Lobster and The Stevil Dead have some thoughts on the upcoming Secret Wars Marvel event, as well as DC Comics Convergence! How do these two massive events stack up against each other. How long has Jonathan Hickman, Axel Alonso and Tom Brevoort been planning this giant, universe ending epic? Does the DC Comics  office shifting Convergence event have the same kind of weigh behind it as Marvel does? Will any of the small miniseries being released during this have any lasting effect on the continuing New 52 universe? Then Stevil and Rob give you their favorite books of 2014. Ranging from teenage superheroes to Gods walking amongst us, they cover the bases of what you may have missed this year. Finishing off with what has them waiting outside their comic shops, the boys of Booked also have many unconvention books for you put on your pre order list in the next coming months. Did your favorite comics make our cut? What are we missing and what's got your hard earned cash in 2015? Let us know! Leave us a message below, tweet or Facebook us with you lists and keep reading those panels, people!
Feb 6, 2015
1 hr 1 min
Booked #46 - The League of Comic-Philes
Recorded before Christmas Booked has a lot of comic movie and TV casting and news for you, as Stevil is joined by original Booked co-founder Jenosaur! Yes, it's a wonderful and warm reunion filled with, well, everything else that the League covers. No worries though, Stevil tries to tie it all back to comics. Stevil gets to ask Jenosaur, a PS4 owner, if she's seen any ads for Powers on the Playstation Network, if there's a release date and if we're going to get them week to week or binge style like Netflix. They also geek out over the Michele Forbes/Retro Girl and Eddie Izzard production photos   Then they get into some good, bad and ugly talk of casting confirmations, rumors and plot rundowns floating around on the net. What's going on with Fantastic Four dumb plot outline? Are all the castings in Suicide Squad ones we can get behind? How hopeful are we for a well done DC cinematic universe now that we have confirmations for the Wonder Woman film?   The cast is ended with a special thank you to AMC for continuing to give us gold and greenlighting a spin off to The Walking Dead called Cobalt and also a little series called PREACHER!!!!! OMG WE'RE GETTING PREACHER! FINALLY!!   Ahem, also please stay tuned for our special message about Constantine and keep reading those panels, people!
Jan 6, 2015
1 hr 5 min
Booked #45 - You're a Dipthong
Over a year ago, we had the great pleasure of having one of my favorite artists Michael Avon Oeming on our show. At the time his book The Victories had just released it's first trade paperback, Powers Bureau was in it's first few issues and we also got some great stories from the FX pilot for Powers that never was.   Well, this week on Booked, Mike returns along with Taki Soma to talk with me (The Stevil Dead). A lot of new stuff to talk about as Mike and Taki have just released their first issue of their new book wit Image Comics, Sinergy, a bad ass demon hunter book. I ask them how the idea for the book came about and how the experience differed from working with Taki to working with Brian Michael Bendis on Powers or Bryan Glass on Mice Templar. We also get into the age old question of who would be on their zombie survival routine.   I also asked every question I could think of pertaining to the December release of the Playstation Network's first ever TV show, Powers. How does it differ from the FX pilot? What was the trailer unveiling experience at New York Comic Con and what was it like meeting comedian, actor, marathon runner and linguist Eddie Izzard, because, believe me, I'm damn jealous.   There's so much more that we talked about, so check it out, then head to your local comic shop and pick up Sinergy #1, on shelves now!
Dec 10, 2014
1 hr 8 min
Booked #44 - Keanu Reeves, Dream Bestie
For a comic fans, this slate of up coming movies from now until 2020 is a pretty insane treat, whether the movies turn out great or not. The sheer notion that we get to see some of our favourite characters and stories come to life on the big screen is something our younger selves couldn't even dream of. Between the big two giants we have over 20 movies and that only counts the DC Warner and Marvel Studios owned movies. That's mind blowing!   Unfortunately one company has been pretty consistent in giving us possibly the greatest comic films of all time, while the other has muddied up their waters with absolute cinematic blunders, rushed and confused franchise building and that "no jokes rule" rumour painted a pretty cold picture. Yes, it's no contest the Marvel has decimated its competitor DC/Legendary, a company that is so seemingly desperate to have what Marvel has going, that they fast tracked an expansive universe on the back of a seriously flawed film.   On our newest episode, Stevil, Rob and J.J. Webb breakdown each companies releases spanning the next six years and compare the approaches to how the slated films were unveiled to the public. With a few of the announcements coming out of nowhere, we form our opinions of what will be needed for some of these movies to be successful, what some of our dream casting ideas are and it's pretty safe to say that we're all hoping this Wonder Woman movie is going to be huge.    
Nov 25, 2014
1 hr 7 min
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