Graphic Novice Comic Book Podcast

Your pals Benjamen Scott VF & Nickel are back for the team hand-job that is The Graphic Novice Comic Book Podcast. After experiencing a 30-minute delay, you'll find the our podcast in the "After Hours" time slot this week, where sensual massages, and the art of dual hand release are both fair game on the table of discussion.

The "General Banter" segment covers International Thanksgivings, helping friends move, Christmas gifts from suspended Graphic Novice scribe Desmond Hassing, Christmas work parties in Edmonton, the first installment of The Graphic Novice Book Club, Jessica Jones, Salty Language and the "Sexy VF" episode, 7 Days A Geek's 30 Days of Podcasting, and the 100th episode of both the Green Up & History of Bad Ideas Podcast.

In "Comic News" we discuss the Civil War trailer, The Books of Doom, Jessica Jones, and the newly released Book One of The Dark Knight III: The Master Race.

Tune in for VF's most memorable performance of "The Marvel Trivia Box" to date.

During the "Rapid Fire Review" segment, we review new comics released November 4, 2015 including Klaus #1, Batman & Robin Eternal #5, Detective Comics #46, Unfollow #1, Black Science #17, Lazarus #20, Monstress #1, Nailbiter #17, Paper Girls #2, Velvet #12, We Stand On Guard #5, Amazing Spider-Man #3, Doctor Strange #2, Extraordinary X-Men #1, Howard the Duck #1, Invincible Ironman #3, Spider-Gwen #0, Uncanny X-Men #600, and Ninjak #9.

Before wandering off into the night, we look ahead to the books about to be released on December 2, 2015. Thanks for listening listeners. We appreciate the fact that you let us into your ears every once in a while. Keep it sexy!

Its just VF & Nickel in this landmark episode of Graphic Novice. The opening banter touches on some of the other podcasts Nickel may or may not be showing up on, technical and non-technical issues on the Gotham Knights podcast, VF's thoughts on Gotham thus far, VF's texting etiquette, The Angry Ginger's ability to keep Nickel on topic during the Better Call Saul podcast, and eventually... the elephant in the room that is the absence of Doc Thirst, and the seed of an idea that could one day be the Doc Thirst Memorial Karaoke Jam.

In comic news, which takes us quite a while to get to, we discuss the Batman Bunny Suit coming up in Batman #41, DC's Convergence, Marvel's Secret Wars, and the DC movie poster variant covers.

When we finally get to "Rapid-Fire Review" the guys start out trying to get through some of the new releases from both February 25, and March 4. Some of the books up for discussion include Curb Stomp #1, Evil Empire #11, Batman #39, Low #6, The Wicked + The Divine #8, All-New X-Men #38, New Avengers #30, Spider-Gwen #1, Spider-Man 2099 #9, Superior Iron Man #5, Uncanny Avengers #2, and Wolverines #8. At this point, Nickel starts to feel the heat at this point, and tries to pull the pin before finishing up the segment, so the guys decide to carry some of the most memorable books from March 11 over to the next episode.

Before calling it a night, we run through the books coming out on March 11, 2015 and leave everyone to our musical dedication to our now semi-retired co-host Doc Thirst.

Join us for a very special installment of the Graphic Novice Book Club, as we are joined by Tony High, of the Salty Language Podcast, to discuss Alan Moore's "From Hell".

Join us for another installment of the Graphic Novice Book Club, as we are joined by Jeffrey Nau, of the History of Bad Ideas podcast, to discuss the Watchmen.

Ben (VF) makes his triumphant return after a week away from the podcast with jungle flu, and has some comments on last week's episode with Desmond Hassing (from the Slackademia and Musings of a Geek podcast) and Jason Brigger (from the Musings of a Geek podcast). The pre-recording plans were to get to the comics quickly and efficiently to keep this week's episode as close to 60 minutes as possible... and sadly, this might be as close as it gets... so instead of sticking with the plan, the first half hour of the show is spent talking about camping and lawn care. Once that's out of the way, Nickel and VF discuss the first appearance of the Great Lakes Avengers, and once again rehash their ongoing Civil War debate before eventually moving on to the namesake of this episode, the recently launched Daredevil series on Netflix.

Instead of hopping on the bandwagon, Nickel attempts to nitpick the hell out of Netflix's Daredevil series. There isn’t that much to criticize, and so as usual, Nickel talks for a long time without really saying anything at all, and after all that, the guys agree... Daredevil, at least through the first few episodes, is pretty darn good.

In this week's edition of the aptly named "Rapid-Fire Review" books released on April 1, 2015 are discussed, including: The Woods #12, UFOlogy #1 (of 6), Arkham Manor Engame #1 (one-shot), Batman Eternal #52, Convergence #0, Gotham Academy Endgame #1 (one-shot), Black Science #13, Dying and the Dead #2, Nailbiter #11, Southern Bastards #8, Amazing Spider-Man #17, Avengers #43, Spider-Gwen #3, Uncanny Avengers #3, Uncanny Inhumans #0, Wolverines #13, and Rai #8.

With no room left for a feature segment, its straight to the April 8 book release, and a discussion of which books Nickel and VF will be reading. Thanks a bunch for listening and continuing to download these ridiculously long episodes.