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Seasons Greetings and Welcome to the Hellmouth. JAC and Tony recorded this first season of Seasons Greetings back in 2021. Due to copyright issues with the music, some of the shows were taken down. They are now all fixed up and back for your listening pleasure. Please enjoy your time in Sunnydale.

Buffy Lives!

Today Tony is joined by the voice that launched a thousand podcasts, the Storyteller himself, Seth Singleton to talk about the stand-alone graphic novel Decelerate Blue. 

The future waits for no one.

In this new world, speed and efficiency are everything, and the populace zooms along in a perpetually stimulated haze. Angela thinks she's the only person in her family—maybe the only person on the planet—who sees anything wrong with this picture. But the truth is she's not alone.

Angela finds herself recruited into a resistance movement where the key to rebel...

Frank Miller's first-ever original graphic novel is one of Sin City's nastiest yarns to date! Starring fan-favorite characters Dwight and Miho, this newly redesigned edition sports a brand-new cover by Miller, some of his first comics art in years! There's a kind of debt you can't ever pay off, not entirely. And that's the kind of debt Dwight owes Gail. The girls of Old Town have their own family values, their own laws, and when someone too dumb to know better breaks them, an example needs to be set. Dwight's got his own reasons for taking the job, and...

Seasons Greetings and Welcome to the Hellmouth. JAC and Tony recorded this first season of Seasons Greetings back in 2021. Due to copyright issues with the music, some of the shows were taken down. They are now all fixed up and back for your listening pleasure. Please enjoy your time in Sunnydale.

Buffy Lives!

Tony is joined by writer and all around creative person, Emmett Nahil to talk about the brilliant new book from ONI press, Let Me Out.

Listen to the show and Emmett's Playlist and then go by the book.

Seriously.

Is this the best Sin City volume? Find out.

Lars has a new album about the GOAT Edgar Allan Poe.

You should listen.

Check out Lars online here.

You can find Tony's stuff here.

This Week, Tony is joined his friend from high school, Heath Fodor. Heath is the only person to go on this year-long, quixotic journey with Tony as Sin City is his favorite comic series. Welcome to Basin City everyone.

If you want to talk with Tony about comics or to suggest any future shows, please connect with him on his website, https://www.arfarina.com/.

This week: The Big Fat Kill

On the pilot episode of Indie Comic Spotlight, Tony welcomes Chris and Dave of Comics in Motion. In this episode, they tackle the painfully, beautiful Image Comics masterpiece, I Kill Giants.I Kill Giants, was written by Joe Kelly and drawn by JM Ken Niimura, is a 7 part miniseries that first appeared on July 1st, 2008. It went on to win the IGN Best indie comic of 2008, was voted one of the 10 Best Comics of 2009 by New York Magazine, a Young Adult Library Association 2010 Top Ten Great Graphic Novel for Teens, and won the Gold Award at the 5th International...

Does Ava love anyone?

Find out.

Today’s book: TheBible

Banned Books Conversations: Where Radical ReadersDiscuss Prohibited Prose

Banned books are works that have been removed from alibrary shelf or school curriculum. Over the course of Banned Books Week, thisseries covers seven different books, the reasons they were banned, and thevalue in reading them.

Guest Links:

Lisa Rayne

Website: https://lisarayne.com/

https://www.bookbub.com/profile/lisa-rayne

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authorrayne/

Threads: https://www.threads.com/@authorrayne

Facebook: https://www...

Today’s book: Kapaemahuby Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, DeanHamer and Joe Wilson

(2022)

Banned Books Conversations: Where Radical ReadersDiscuss Prohibited Prose

Banned books are works that have been removed from alibrary shelf or school curriculum. Over the course of Banned Books Week, thisseries covers seven different books, the reasons they were banned, and thevalue in reading them.

Guest Links:

Ada McCartney

Website: https://aamccartney.com/

Femme On:

https://www.femmeon.show/

https://pod.link/1662270040

Diamond Lars...

Today’s book: TheyCalled Us Enemy by George Takeiand Steven R. Scott (2019)

Banned Books Conversations: Where Radical ReadersDiscuss Prohibited Prose

Banned books are works that have been removed from alibrary shelf or school curriculum. Over the course of Banned Books Week, thisseries covers seven different books, the reasons they were banned, and thevalue in reading them.

Guest Links:

Diana Fedorak

Website: https://www.dianafedorak.com/

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/diana_fedorak_author

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dianafedorakauthor

Today’s book: OneHundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)

Banned Books Conversations: Where Radical ReadersDiscuss Prohibited Prose

Banned books are works that have been removed from alibrary shelf or school curriculum. Over the course of Banned Books Week, thisseries covers seven different books, the reasons they were banned, and thevalue in reading them.

Guest Links:

Avitus B. Carle

Website: https://www.avitusbcarle.com/

These Worn Bodies:https://www.uapress.com/product/these-worn-bodies/

Veronica Klash

W...

Today’s book: ThisIs Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender (2018)

Banned Books Conversations: Where Radical ReadersDiscuss Prohibited Prose

Banned books are works that have been removed from alibrary shelf or school curriculum. Over the course of Banned Books Week, thisseries covers seven different books, the reasons they were banned, and thevalue in reading them.

Guest Links:

Wendy Wimmer

Website: https://www.wendywimmer.com/

The Doomscroller’s Companion:https://www.wendywimmer.com/the-doomscrollers-companion/

Gregory A. Kompes

Shar...

Today’s book: Crankby Ellen Hopkins (2004)

Banned Books Conversations: Where Radical ReadersDiscuss Prohibited Prose

Banned books are works that have been removed from alibrary shelf or school curriculum. Over the course of Banned Books Week, thisseries covers seven different books, the reasons they were banned, and thevalue in reading them.

Guest Links:

Tony Holt Jr.

https://linktr.ee/tonyholtjr

Brandon Mead

Website: https://www.fiercestorytelling.com/

Books by Leo Sparks:

https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keyw...

Today’s book: TheirEyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

Banned Books Conversations: Where Radical ReadersDiscuss Prohibited Prose

Banned books are works that have been removed from alibrary shelf or school curriculum. Over the course of Banned Books Week, thisseries covers seven different books, the reasons they were banned, and thevalue in reading them.

Guest Links:

Amanda Skenandore 

Website: www.amandaskenandore.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amandaskenandore/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmandaSkenandoreAuthorPage

Mike Burton

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This Week, Tony is joined his friend from high school, Heath Fodor. Heath is the only person to go on this year long, quixotic journey with Tony as Sin City is his favorite comic series. Welcome to Basin City everyone. Vol 1. The Hard Goodbye

If you want to talk with Tony about comics or to suggest any future shows, please connect with him on his website, https://www.arfarina.com/

This week on Indie Comics Spotlight, Tony is joined by Writer/Artist Mike Curato. Mike was kind enough to create an AMAZING playlist to listen to while you read his amazing book. Check it out!

FLAMER

I KNOW I'M NOT GAY. Gay boys like other boys. I hate boys. They’re mean, and scary, and they’re always destroying something or saying something dumb or both. I hate that word. Gay. It makes me feel . . . unsafe.

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It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp...

Before there was Heath and Tony Talk about...There was Heath's appearance on Indie Comics Spotlight.

Back in 2020, they talked about Tank Girl. Listen and enjoy.

Tank Girl is a British post-apocalyptic science fiction comic book series created by artist Jamie Hewlett and writer Alan Martin in 1988 for Deadline magazine. Although it was originally drawn by Hewlett in its initial run, throughout the years, since 1995 it has also been drawn by artists such as Phillip Bond, Rufus Dayglo, Ashley Wood, Glyn Dilon, Jim Mahfood, Mike McMahon, and various others...

It is time for episode 27 of Mandatory Marvel & DC, a show from the Comics In Motion network that looks back at the very biggest and best stories from the annals of the Big 2 - Marvel and DC!

Each episode, Max Byrne will be joined by a special guest to enjoy a chat about that episode's subject matter, talking about what we love about these top tier titles!

For this 27th instalment, we look back at Batman Year Two from Mike W.Barr, Alan Davis & Todd McFarlane, published by DC Comics in 1987. This roller coaster of...

Since the original release of this episode, the world has lost the myth the legend Steven J. Ray. Please listen to this and hear the joy in his voice. We miss him.

Tony and Steve cover Vault Comics masterpiece Wasted Space by Michael Moreci and Hayden Sherman. Wasted Space is described by its creators thusly: It is like putting Philip K. Dick and Preacher in a blender and taking a sip.

If you want to talk with Tony you can find him online and send him an email at https://www.arfarina...

Is Christian Slater an Icon? Yep.

It is time for episode 25 of Mandatory Marvel & DC, a show from the Comics In Motion network that looks back at the very biggest and best stories from the annals of the Big 2 - Marvel and DC!

Each episode, Max Byrne will be joined by a special guest to enjoy a chat about that episode's subject matter, talking about what we love about these top tier titles!

For this 25th installment, we look back at the classic Marvels from Kurt Busiek & Alex Ross, published by Marvel Comics in 1994. This groundbreaking story revisits several decades of...

This week, Tony is joined by Co-Host Ria and Ada McCartney is back to cover her suggestion of the award winning epic: SAGA. You can read the first issue here. 

Saga is an epic space opera/fantasy comic book series created by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Fiona Staples, published monthly by Image Comics. The series is heavily influenced by Star Wars, and based on ideas Vaughan conceived both as a child and as a parent. It depicts two lovers from long-warring extraterrestrial races, Alana and Marko, fleeing authorities from both sides of a galactic war a...

Can't we all just get along?

It is time for episode 26 of Mandatory Marvel & DC, a show from the Comics In Motion network that looks back at the very biggest and best stories from the annals of the Big 2 - Marvel and DC!

Each episode, Max Byrne will be joined by a special guest to enjoy a chat about that episode's subject matter, talking about what we love about these top tier titles!

For this 26th instalment, we look back at Batman Endgame from Scott Snyder & Greg Capullo, published by DC Comics in 2014. This twisted tale brings a close to the...

This week, the plan was for Tony and the host of Genuine Chit Chat and Star Wars Comics in Cannon, Mike Burton, the official ICS Mark Russell guest of record to talk about Mark’s scathing, hysterical political satire, The Flintsones.The Flintstones, Vol. 1byMark Russell (Goodreads Author),Steve Pugh (Illustrations)Fred and Barney reunite for Mark Russell's modern take on Hanna-Barbera's most famous stone-age family! This new series starring the first family of Bedrock (and civilization, really) tells the story of who we are and why we do what we do as if it all began with Fred, Wi...

This show was recorded a LONG time ago. We are finally releasing it. Can you separate art from the person? We discuss this through the lens of Batman.

Hang on.

It is time for episode 24 of Mandatory Marvel & DC, a show from the Comics In Motion network that looks back at the very biggest and best stories from the annals of the Big 2 - Marvel and DC!

Each episode, Max Byrne will be joined by a special guest to enjoy a chat about that episode's subject matter, talking about what we love about these top tier titles!

For this 24th instalment, we look back at the classic Old Man Logan run by the legendary Mark Millar, published by Marvel Comics in 2008/2009. This milestone story, set 50...

Today, Tony and Paul dive deep into Image Comics Cowboy Ninja Viking.

It started with Dr. Sebastian Ghislain: rogue psychotherapist/covert op/DJ. Tasked with creating a counter-intelligence unit, he turned to those long thought useless to society...patients with Multiple Personality Disorder. These agents became known simply as Triplets. Misguided? Yeah. Impractical? Sure. But did it work? Absolutely not. Now someone has located each Triplet and created a band of ridiculously disturbed, but highly effective assassins. Our only hope? A Triplet known as Cowboy Ninja Viking!

If you want to talk...

You wouldn't know it, but H&T played a lot of sports. They were both really good at American Football. Should they have been playing? Should anyone?

 [-]The Lost Boys [Original Soundtrack] Review
by Theresa E. LaVeck

Joel Schumacher's 1987 film The Lost Boys capitalized on a temporary lull in horror movies in the late '80s and created a heavily music-video-influenced vampire homage with enough campy humor, heavy metal costumes, and hunky stars to put a fresh spin on the genre. An amusing piece of eye candy spiked by a few creepy moments, the movie, in typical '80s style, relies heavily on the soundtrack to bolster its emotional core. The soundtrack, like the film, works great on the surface -- but d...

Dark Horse presents new editions of the entire Hellboy line with new covers, beginning with Seed of Destruction, the basis of director Guillermo del Toro's blockbuster films. Hellboy is one of the most celebrated comics series in recent years. The ultimate artists' artist and a great storyteller whose work is in turns haunting, hilarious, and spellbinding. Mike Mignola has won numerous awards in the comics industry and beyond. When strangeness threatens to engulf the world, a strange man will come to save it. Sent to investigate a mystery with supernatural overtones, Hellboy discovers the secrets of his own...

Rock on!

Dave and Chris are back reviewing the icon TV Series pilot Wonder Woman starring Lynda Carter. This was a re-boot of the 1974 pilot starring Cathy Lee Crosby. Luckily Carter’s portrayal born an iconic TV series but does it hold up 44 years later. Plot Summary:During World War II, a plane piloted by Major Steve Trevor crashes near Paradise Island, the secret hidden island home of the mighty and eternally young Amazons. He is rescued by Princess Diana, who learns of the war against the Nazis. The Amazons decide to send one of their own to help fight in th...

In brightest day

In blackest night

No Evil shall

escape my sight

Paranoid Review
by Steve Huey

Paranoid was not only Black Sabbath's most popular record (it was a number one smash in the U.K., and "Paranoid" and "Iron Man" both scraped the U.S. charts despite virtually nonexistent radio play), it also stands as one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time. Paranoid refined Black Sabbath's signature sound -- crushingly loud, minor-key dirges loosely based on heavy blues-rock -- and applied it to a newly consistent set of songs with utterly memorable riffs, most of which now rank as all-time metal...

Comics in Motion is now a Humble Bundle Partner.

This week it takes two guests to grapple with this spoiler free dive into Vertigo Comics Fables.

Ms. Kelly Gaines. Please check her out at DC Comics News as a writer and Podcaster.

This week, Tony is once again joined by Matthew B. Lloydof DC Comics News. Matt an editor and writer at DCN and has contributed to the book Politics in Gotham.

Bill Willingham  (Writer),

Lan Medina (Artist),

Steve Leialoha (Artist),

Terry M...

Heath and Tony Talk about Frank Miller's Born Again.

The Fall Of Heroes © 2016 by Shane Ivers is licensed under CC BY 4.0