This week host Chris Owen welcomes Marty Birthelmer as fill in co-host (Walter Durajlija has the week off). Chris and Marty discuss Daniel Champion’s Batman Live interview, the boys also pick a few new comics to highlight, fill you in on more industry news and spin some great tunes so...

So after our podcast this week, a listener wrote to me talking about how he was thinking about why the Iron Man comic hasn’t really translated into huge sales, given the enormous success of the movies. Ian Warren writes: The comic itself was further ostracizing. The movie “Iron Man”...

Last week I talked a little bit about the advent of how the Comics Code Authority came into being. It was a really quick review. If you are interested in finding out more history on the subject, I highly recommend reading The Ten Cent Plague by David Hadju. He reconstructs a time when comics...

One of the topics I generally like to talk to my students about sequential art and thus comics are how they are really just another way of telling a story. Not unlike prose, visual art, dance, poetry, etc, sequential art is just a medium. The problem with this medium, is that it was massively...

ARRRGH!!! That was my first thought when I decided to I wanted to write about comics on a regular basis. “ARRRGH!!!”. Why? Because I have too much to talk about and too many topics. Artists? Collecting? Comics in the classroom? Moral implications of having scantily clad women...

Every week CBD’s Editor in Chief Pete DeCourcy asks the question and the crew (and special guests) give their answers, we’ll be doing this for 52 weeks. Tip of the hat goes to the gang at Scans_Daily for the inspiration. Today’s Question: Who is Your Favourite Female...