Episodes

It is the Labor Day long weekend here in the United States, and considering there was little comics news this week, we strongly considered taking a pass on a show this week. However! A quick peek at our Web site archives reminded us that today, September 4th, is the fifth anniversary of Crisis On Infinite Midlives on the Internet. And we couldn't let the occasion pass by unmarked. So we did a very brief show (at least a brief show for us) to reminisce about where and how we started, and how we ...

We're not gonna apologize here: we love The Tick. During the 1980s Rob was a regular customer of the Brockton, MA New England Comics retail store where The Tick was born, Amanda was a fan of the 1990s Fox cartoon that brought the character to national prominence, and we both enjoyed the Patrick Warburton live action show from back in the day when your live action TV superhero choices were The Tick, Smallville or (God help us) Black Scorpion. So we were excited when Amazon Prime video announced ...

It's been a week since the conclusion of Boston Comic Con 2016, and we're still coming to terms with the fact that we saw Frank Miller speak live. We have a complicated relationship with Frank Miller here at Crisis On Infinite MIdlives. We will always love him for what he did with Daredevil and Batman in the 1980s, helping to bring comics into adulthood at the same time we were moving through our own adolescence. We will always respect him for doing cool stuff like Give Me Liberty and Robocop V...

Boston Comic Con, our local convention, was this weekend, and we went after it with both hands, hammer and tong... until we realized that we'd hit all the comics news panels by the end of the first day, collected all our commissions and desired books by midday on the second, and had one working hip between the two of us by the beginning of the third. But our infirmities didn't stop of from seeing the whole floor and attending some excellent comics panels. So we talk about this year's show in ge...

DC Films's Suicide Squad opened this week, to impressive box office numbers, if not so impressive reviews. But here at Crisis On Infinite Midlives, Rob in particular is a fan of John Ostrander's and Kim Yale's 1980s original DC comic, so we went out of our way to see the flick, excited to spend Sunday preparing to talk about it, in depth during this week's show. Then Rob's day job called him on on Saturday night and worked him like a dog until 5:45 a.m. Sunday morning. But we refused to let th...

It is the final day of San Diego Comic-Con… which we were not able to attend. So, to make up for the fact that we were unable to report from the biggest comics event of the year, we distracted ourselves by catching up on some of the bigger recent announcements from the convention, and by […]

The new Ghostbusters movie opened this week, after a long production period marked by a non-stop screeching hate frenzy from Bill Murray fans, enthusiasts of old-school J. Michael Straczynski Saturday morning cartoons, and people who think that comedy has been redundant since Rick Moranis donned a track suit to dry hump the windows at Tavern on The Green. We here at Crisis On Infinite Midlives have long and storied histories with the original Ghostbusters, from Amanda's devotion to its scientif...

Another season of HBO's Game of Thrones is behind us, leaving us once again with a pile of dead so high it would embarrass Jerry Garcia, were he not also dead. This was a big season: not only was it the first that wasn't completely backed by one of George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire novels, but it pushed some fan-favorite characters toward their eventual endgame by (gasp!) allowing some of them to not only live, but to win. And not only to win, but to win in the layman's sense of the wo...

It has been a busy week here at the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Home Office. Between the delivery of new cooking apparatus that can also conveniently act as an incendiary bomb, to unexpected day job responsibilities, to nearly getting caught up in an unexpected session of Cornhole, it was hard to keep up on a week that was comics news-light to begin with. So we decided to keep things short and simple this week, and just talk about some comics. And while we have some general discussions about ho...

This week, Marvel and Spider-Man writer Dan Slott announced that this fall’s Spider-Man event will be called The Clone Conspiracy, and will feature The Jackal and the clone of Gwen Stacy, possibly bringing a bunch of long dead Spider-Man characters bac...

This week, The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman had an interview published in Rolling Stone where he chided George R. R. Martin for revealing the ending to A Song of Ice And Fire to the producers of HBO's Game of Thrones. And it caused the predictable Internet uproar, but it also got us to thinking: we had six out of seven Fear The Walking Dead episodes unwatched on out TiVo. We'd been complaining for years that The Walking Dead comic's pacing had been untenably slow. We'd been getting Kirkma...

Well, it's the first full week of DC Comics: Rebirth, and not a single Watchmen character appears in those issues, so we decided it would be a good opportunity to complain again about Watchmen characters appearing in the DC Universe. Specifically, it was revealed this week that DC Comics didn't contact Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons to ask him his opinion about adding Watchmen characters to Dc Universe: Rebirth. So we talk about whether that was a bush league move (protip: yeah), some of the hist...

It's the end of the week of May 25th, 2016: the Wednesday the Big Two drooled on themselves, shrieked "Excelsior!" into the Black Void, and keeled over. At least if you believe the Internet comments. But before we talk about that, there was one major positive for comics fans this week: AMC debuted the pilot episode of their adaptation of Garth Ennis's and Steve Dillon's Preacher this past Sunday. We're big fans of the comic, which really meant something to us... back when we were in our twentie...

Here's a warning about this week's episode right out of the gate: details about DC Universe: Rebirth #1 have leaked to Reddit, including images from that issue. The user who leaked the pages has since deleted his or her account, but those images have been picked up and published by Bleeding Cool (Seriously: there are massive spoilers at that link, so beware), and have led to major spoilers about the book being published across the comics Internet. And those images and spoilers contain a revelati...

It has been a stone bummer of a week when it comes to comic news. From the tragic loss of Darwyn Cooke to DC Comics having to release a statement on sexual harassment in the face of protests over allegations about Superman Group Editor Eddie Berganza, there haven't been a lot of laughs in comics this week. Hell, when the most welcome news is that Supergirl was renewed and only has to reduce their budget and expatriate to Canada, you're not talking a barrel of laughs. But these things all happen...

It feels like only yesterday that we were discussing why a movie about superheroes fighting each other was a painful, depressing and contrived experience, doesn't it? Well, good news! We can put Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice out of our minds, because we've got another movie about superheroes trying to kick each other in the junk! Captain America: Civil War opened in the United States last week, so in the interest of equal time with Batman V. Superman, we have brought back the same guests ...

After a busy week of vacationing, video gaming, and day job hunting, we are back, just in time to deal with the latest comics vs. filmed adaptation battle! If you are a fan of The CW’s The Flash, you know that the current storyline involves Zoom from E...

We have been fans of The Walking Dead since the seventh issue of the comic book. That means that we have hung in with Rick Grimes and company, and their doomed world, for literally almost twelve years. We've stuck with them through prisons, and horrors performed in Woodbury, and the semi-friendly takeover of Alexandria, and All-Out War, and The Whisperers. For more than a quarter of our lives. Which meant we were surprised last week, after the conclusion of season six of The Walking Dead series,...

Convention season has been underway for a few weeks now, but what with Image Expo happening this past Wednesday in Seattle, followed almost immediately by Emerald City Comicon happening only days later in the same city, this is one of the bigger weeks for comics news we’ve had in quite a while. So while we […]

If you've listened to this show for any length of time, you know that Rob has long been a defender of Man of Steel as potentially an excellent Superman movie, provided that we discover in subsequent sequels that Superman learned from the events of that movie to become more of the hero that we all know from the comics. Well, the first sequel, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, was finally released last week, finally answering the question as to whether Rob's faith in Man of Steel was justified....

There were two big comics-related items in the news this week: the premiere of Zack Snyder's Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and the announcement of the creative teams attached to DC's semi-kinda reboot, Rebirth. And while the Internet is abuzz with opinions about the movie, since work and family holiday commitments meant that we had to schedule our regular movie-related guests, comedians Benari Poulten and Ross Garmi, for next weekend, well, that means we're talking Rebirth. DC Entertainm...

Last week, in Batgirl #49 - a comic with an apparent target demographic of Millennials - writer Cameron Stewart and artist Babs Tarr told a story that could be seen as retconning the events of Alan Moore's and Brian Bolland's 1988 one-shot, Batman: The Killing Joke.In the wake of that story, Stewart argued that his story could be seen as a retconning of The Killing Joke, or not, depending on how you interpret the story... as if the plot of a story that is intertwined in almost 30 years of DC his...

Sorry for last week’s unexpected absence, but something unexpected made its way into our home and made us feel terrible. And on a completely unrelated note… A couple of weeks ago brought us the conclusion of the much-anticipated return of The X-Files.

Open registration for San Diego Comic-Con 2016 came to us on Saturday... and it left us in less than an hour. As has become the norm, the convention completely sold out in less than an hour, and, like many of you, we were frozen out. So we spend a few minutes talking about how SDCC attendance has basically become a lottery system over which we attendees have no control, and discuss various options for making the con more available, from moving it to another city, to expanding San Diego's facilit...