Comic Book Bears Podcast Issue #318: Go, Speed-er Gwen, Hulk Smash the Justice League!
Release Date: 09/30/2025
Comic Book Bears Podcast Issue #320: Bears Say Boo!
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We are almost at Halloween and the CBB boys are back with another new audio episode! Since the last episode was horror themed, we opted to travel down our familiar round table route for this one. Join us to hear Caleb, Bill Z and Steve talk about a host of new comics! Both DC and Marvel have new crossover events starting up so we first discuss DC K.O. #1 (and the prologue issues associated with it - Justice League Unlimited #11 and Justice League: The Omega Act Special #1) and X-Men of Apocalypse: Alpha #1! Two Image books are on our spinner rack in the form of the first issues of Good as Dead...
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Comic Book Bears Podcast Issue #319: Horror Comics on the Big Screen!
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It's spooky season and to pay tribute to that, on this new Comic Book Bears Podcast audio episode Steve and Bill Z head to the movies to talk about films based on horror comic from the past six decades! Among the many films discussed on the episode are Tales from the Crypt (1972), The Vault of Horror (1973), Swamp Thing (1982), The Crow (1994), Spawn (1997), Blade (1998), Virus (1999), From Hell (2001), Blade II (2002), Alien vs. Predator (2004), Blade: Trinity (2004), Hellboy (2004), Constantine (2005), Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), Ghost Rider (2007), Hellboy II: The Golden Army...
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Comic Book Bears Podcast Issue #318: Go, Speed-er Gwen, Hulk Smash the Justice League!
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It's another roundtable of recent comics with your hairy heavy funnybook reading homos as we say goodbye to September! Hit play to hear Steve, Caleb and Bill Z opine on new series like Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League (DC), All-New Spider-Gwen: The Ghost Spider (Marvel) and Speed Racer (Mad Cave!) We also discuss the touching done-in-one Incredible Hulk #27 (Marvel), the immensely consequential Transformers #24 (Image) and we touch base on the latest developments in the long running Something is Killing the Children (Boom Studios!)
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Comic Book Bears Podcast Issue #317: Batman v TNF: Most Smartest Priorities
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We have reached the end of another month and that means more Comic Book Bears Podcast audio episodes! This time around the principal focus is on the new Batman #1, the relaunch of the title from writer Matt Fraction with superstar artist Jorge Jiménez! Establishing a new status quo for the Caped Crusader and his home city of Gotham, Batman #1 from DC hits the ground running including a supporting cast shakeup and a much more high tech Batman. But that isn't the only new title discussed this time around. Hit play to hear CBB boys Bill Z, Steve and Caleb also discuss The Adventures of...
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Comic Book Bears Podcast Issue #316: The Dog (or Pup) Days of Summer
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We have reached the symbolic end of Summer 2025 and the CBB Boys are back with a new audio episode. Caleb, Bill Z and Steve reconvene to discuss a set of new comics and graphic novels as we close out August. We have the Big Two represented by this year's Titans Annual from DC with Donna Troy in the spotlight with a story written and drawn by Phil Jimenez and by a new Captain America #1 from Marvel from the team of Chip Zdarsky and Valerio Schiti. We have Oni's EC Comics revival represented by Catacomb of Torment #1 and Cruel Universe #1. We also have the manga body horror of Brain Damage by...
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Comic Book Bears Podcast Issue #315: The Fantastic Four: First Steps
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The CBB Boys head back to the movies, this time for for The Fantastic Four: First Steps!!! TFF:FS is the 37th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franschise and the second reboot of the Fantastic Four for the cinema. The film was directed by Matt Shakman and features an ensemble cast including Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn as the family-based super-hero foursome, alongside Julia Garner, Sarah Niles, Mark Gatiss, Natasha Lyonne, Paul Walter Hauser and others. Set in the early 1960s of a retro-futuristic world, the film finds the Fantastic Four desperate to...
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Comic Book Bears Podcast Issue #314: The Bear Cave of Terror - JAWS!!!!!
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This new Comic Book Bears Podcast audio episode is a little bit different. We were down to two bears in the cave this week so we elected to use this time together as a "backdoor pilot" for Steve Mowry's new horror-centered podcast The Bear Cave of Terror. BCOT will be available in its own feeds going forward but with Bill Z as the first of Steve's guest co-hosts, we are thrilled to present you our discussion of the seminal 1975 film Jaws as it celebrates its 50th anniversary this summer! Jaws was the first wide-release summer blockbuster which changed the way films were marketed forever and...
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Comic Book Bears Podcast Issue #313: Superman 2025 Movie Review
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We could not wait to bring you this episode!!! Superman, the new film, is written and directed by James Gunn and is the kickoff movie for the new DC Universe media franchise! David Corenswet stars as Superman/Clark Kent, alongside Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor along with Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Nathan Fillion, Isabela Merced and others. In the film, Superman must prove to a suspect world that he is a protector after billionaire Lex Luthor enacts a plan to turn public opinion against him. Be forewarned, this episode is COMPLETELY spoileriffic! We all...
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Comic Book Bears Podcast Issue #312: Wrapping Up HeroesCon 2025
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To finish out Pride Month we have another new Comic Book Bears Podcast audio episode! Bill Z and Steve share their HeroesCon experience in Charlotte in the beginning of the episode. And though Caleb was not with them for the con, he is back with them on the mic to discuss a series of new books! We first cover this year's Pride Month anthology offerings from the Big Two - Marvel United: A Pride Special #1 and DC Pride 2025! The queer anthology talk continues with a discussion of Young Men in Love: New Romance (Wave Blue World), and the new book chat is rounded out by Blood Type #1 (Oni),...
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Comic Book Bears Podcast Issue #311: Heroes Before Heroes
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New Comic Book Bears Podcast audio episode! On June 19th, CBB boys Steve and Bill Z were actually together in the same place for this mini-episode previewing HeroesCon in Charlotte which ran from June 20th-22nd! Though sadly Caleb-less, hit play to hear what we had planned for the con ... and you won't have to wait too long for the follow-up as our post-convention wrap up episode is following right behind this one tomorrow!
info_outlineIt's another roundtable of recent comics with your hairy heavy funnybook reading homos as we say goodbye to September! Hit play to hear Steve, Caleb and Bill Z opine on new series like Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League (DC), All-New Spider-Gwen: The Ghost Spider (Marvel) and Speed Racer (Mad Cave!) We also discuss the touching done-in-one Incredible Hulk #27 (Marvel), the immensely consequential Transformers #24 (Image) and we touch base on the latest developments in the long running Something is Killing the Children (Boom Studios!)
