Bagged and Bored

We sit down for a Trade-In Policy review of Vinland Saga Volume 1 from Makoto Yukimura in this weeks Main Topic! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul And Chris continue on with their reread of Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, this time with Chapter 2 - Dobby's Warning! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The gangs all here as we sit down to discuss the comics we read in May of 2025 with the Monthly Look Back! The guys crack open DC Comics Superman Unlimited #1, Marvel Comics The Thing #1, and Image Comics Exquisite Corpses #1.There's all the normal stuff too with a swelling of craft beer reviews, the Week In Geek, the comics we're grabbing this week in The List, a Dramatic Reading from Exquisite Corpses #1, and a ton of side chatter.Is there a book we missed out on? Let us know at baggedandboredcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris and Paul return to the digital book club with Word Books With Friends! This time we're diving into Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Chapter 1: The Worst Birthday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With a lull in recording, here's a Back Issue look at the Main Topic from episode 150! We talk about how going to comic book conventions changed after we started recording the show. it's a blast from the past as we don't just take a break but gear up for new Word Books With Friends and Bagged And Bored proper! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Entertainment websites will do anything for those sweet, sweet clicks, inclding making up banal lists based off of fan favorite topics! In this new game Chris presents some of his favorite listicles to John and Paul to see who can get into the writers heads the best. It's Clickbaiters! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's time for our next Tiers In Reign ranking, and this week we discuss Star Wars Television shows! From live action to cartoon to CGI, Star Wars has done it all and now it falls on us to pick the best... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris and Paul sit down to discuss the World Of Warcraft novel: Sylvanas by Christie Golden in the returning Word Books With Friends! In this episode we break down the entire story while waxing nostalgic about the MMO as well as previous Word Books With Friends entry: Before The Storm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We celebrate all movies but mostly Video Game adaptations in this weeks Main Topic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We discuss some of the comics we read in April of 2025 with our Monthly Look Back! This week we read Absolute Green Lantern #1, Summer Of Superman Special #1 and Daredevil: Cold Day In Hell #1 for the Main Topic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We get ready for this years Free Comic Book Day by going over what books we're going to be picking up on this annual celebration of all things comics! So if you need to know what to grab this year, this special episode is for you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's summer time and that can only mean one thing: the return of the annual Summer Movie Blockbuster Bracket Buster! we pick the movies that we think are going to own the screens this season as we get ready to go to the theater!There's also the usual offerings with The Week In Geek, the comic books that we're grabbing in The List, and a healthy smattering of craft beer reviews! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the Bagged And Bored Cast we bring you a Dramatic Reading! Yes, we always do that, but this week it's the Main Topic as we bring you Dramatic Reading Theatre, featuring a full read through of Astonishing X-Men #1 by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday.As always there's the regular segments with The Week In Geek, The List and a bunch of craft beer reviews. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The episode of the Bagged And Bored Cast is brought to you by the letter A as we start a new rotating Main Topic: The Comic Book Alphabet Of Awesomeness! We break down our favorite unsung comic books creators, titles, characters and tropes that start with A!We also bring you our usual collection of craft beer reviews, some news in The Week In Geek, the comics we're grabbing in The List, a Dramatic Reading from Spider-Man: The Lost Hunt #1 and a bunch of other stuff! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Get out of here March! It's time for April! But before you leave we need to talk about your comics. We sit down and review Batman #158, Absolute Flash #1, Absolute Martian Manhunter #1, and Secret Six #1 in our Monthly Look Back for March 2025 in our Main Topic.There's also some quick news hits in The Week In Geek, the comic books we're looking forward to this week in The List, a Dramatic Reading from Secret Six #1, and a bunch of craft beer reviews!So listen in, and let us know what you read this week by emailing us at baggedandboredcast@gmail.com or on any of the socials for this episode. Also join in the fun by following along on Twitch as we record! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freemium Content returns! This week we take a look at brand new gacha-RPG: DC Dark Legion, buckle in as we collect heroes, battle for rewards and wait for currency in this Free-To-Play DC Comics superhero game! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're jumping back in time this week to revisit our Main Topic from Episode 100 in this special Back Issue! We discuss what originally made us comic books fans alongside Producer Scott in this excerpt from 2011's special episode. Scary to think we've done 600 of these...If you have anything to say on the show let us know at baggedandboredcast@gmail.com and we'll read it out! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We continue on our journey into the medium of anime with The First Episode, where we talk the first episodes of show: My Hero Academia, Chainsaw Man, and Code Geass! Does anything strike hard enough that the guys will continue watching? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We sit down to takea look at some of the comics we read this week with our Monthly Look Back for February 2025! This week we look at Bug Wars #1, Green Lantern Corps #1 and Zatanna #1! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As we continue on our journey into All-New and All-Different territory we bring you a brand new addition to the Main Topic rotation with Defenders: Die On That Hill. With this new segment one of the guys will be picking a topic to discuss and we'll bring in our hot takes that we're ready to defend. WIth this first episode John decides we should discuss Hot Summer Foods. Not something pop culture related like we normally do, instead he tries to get us into BBQ Boys territory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We bring back the Tiers In Reign as we continue on with our All-New, All-Different direction, and this week we tackle a big one: the DC Superheroes! You would think being a comic book podcast we'd do this one before something like Breakfast Cereals, but nope. We're doing it now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As we continue on with our All New and All Different direction, it's time to dip back into one of our old favs: the Trade-In Policy! This week Paul picks the first volume of the James Robinson and Tony Harris DC Comics classic: Starman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Continuing on with the return of a more regular MovieFix, John and Chris sit down to talk about 2022's Here For Blood, a "bad" movie focusing on B-movie tropes that's a blast to watch and talk about! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're officially in full 2025 swing as we take our first Look Back at the comics for the month of January with reviews of The Seasons #1, Aquaman #1 and Green Lantern: Fractured Spectrum #1 in this weeks episode.There's also the Week In Geek, the comics we're grabbing this week in The List, a Dramatic Reading from Night Force #1, as well as a few beer reviews. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The MovieFix returns! This time we take a look at 2017's Anna And The Apocalypse, a horror-comedy, musical, Christmas movie. Wait, that can't be right... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're continuing on with our All-New All-Different direction with a return to our rotating Pub Trivia Main Topic! This week we're bring a bunch of trivia and games to the table focusing on the subject of Robots. Who wins? Tune in to find out!There's no news this week for The Week In Geek. but we still have books to talk about in The Week In Geek, the comics we're grabbing in The List, a Dramatic Reading from Dazzler #2, and then some craft beer reviews! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're continuing on with our ongoing Great Marvel Movie Retrospective with Spider-Man: No Way Home! It was a big discussion but we still find time for some news in The Week In Geek, the comic books we're buying in The List, a Dramatic Reading from Spider-Geddon #1, as well as special themed cocktails and some craft beer reviews as well! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's our final Monthly Look Back for the year of 2024 with the comic books that we read in December! This week we discuss Green Lantern/Green Arrow: World's Finest #1, and Superman #21 both from DC Comics, and from over at Marvel we take a look at TVA #1.There's also some quick news hits in The Week In Geek, the comic books we're buying in The List, a Dramatic Reading from GI Joe #1 and a bunch of craft beer reviews! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bagged And Bored is back for the new year! This episode we're getting excited for 2025 with our Annual Look Forward: a sneak peek at all the movies, comics, tv shows and games we're going to be discussing for the next 365 days! So check it out and let us know what you're excited for at baggedandboredcast@gmail.com!In addition to the Main Topic we've also chat news stories in the Week In Geek, the comic books we're grabbing in The List, bring a panel from Detective Comics #994 to life, and review a bunch of craft beer! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's time for our annual celebration of our favorite things we've consumed in the past year with the Annual Look Back for 2024! Join us as we discuss our favorite Movies, TV Shows, Comic Books, Games and Beers of the past 365 days.It's a long one as we still bring the usual segments in with The Week In Geek, the comics we're grabbing in The List, a Dramatic Reading from Dazzler #1 and a slew of craft beer reviews!How was your 2024? Let us know at baggedandboredcast@gmail.com and we'll see you in 2025! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We sit down and discuss the second volume of Chinese detective noir story: The Good Asian.Plus news in the Week In Geek, the comic books we're buying in The List, a Dramatic Reading from The Question: All Along The Watchtower #1 and a bunch of craft beer reviews! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

November is over and that means it's time for the Monthly Look Back! This month we sit down and check out four comics: Boom Studios Power Rangers: Prime #1, and then from DC Comics we have Justice League Unlimited #1, The Question: All Along The Watchtower #1, and JSA #1.There's some quick news hits in The Week In Geek, the comics we're grabbing in The List, a Dramatic Reading from Archie Is Mr. Justice #1, and a bunch of craft beer reviews. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're dipping back into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the Disney+ show Hawkeye for the 31st part of our ongoing Great Marvel Movie/Television Retrospective. 2021 doesn't seem that long ago but here we are three years later!We also try something different with doing special themed cocktails to go alongside the Main Topic, and all that time we save not doing beer reviews means more time for The Week In Geek, the comic books we're grabbing this week in The List, as well as a Dramatic Reading from Hawkeye #13.So check it out and have a Happy Thanksgiving and let us know what you're thankful for at baggedandboredcast@gmail.com! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode we build trivia questions based around some of our fake popculture locations for Paul in our Pub Trivis main topic! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris digs back into the longbox for another Back Issue, and this weeks excerpt comes from episode 103 where we call the listeners to action by pitching our board game picks to be adapted into a Christmas movie! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Trade-In Policy time, and this one is Chris' pick: Kaiju No. 8 by Naoya Matsumoto. We sit down for the first manga we've ever discussed on the show, while we also discuss the first episode of the anime adaptation as well as compare it to American comic books.There's also your weekly news hit in The Week In Geek, the comics we're buying this week in The List, a Dramatic Reading from Kaiju No. 8 and a bunch of craft beer reviews!Have you checked out Kaiju yet? Let us know your thoughts, or if there's a different manga or trade paperback you want us to review let us know at baggedandboredcast@gmail.com! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We take a look back at the MovieFix from episode 62 of the Bagged And Bored Cast in our first Bagged And Bored Cast Back Issue!This snippet from 2010 brings us our thoughts on the newly released penultimate chapter of the Harry Potter franchise with special appearances from Super Friend of the Show Janet and Producer Scott! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We close out October by taking a look back at some of the comic books we read in the Monthly Look Back. This month it's all DC books as we discuss Batman: The Long Halloween - The Last Halloween #1, DC All In Special #1, Absolute Batman #1 and Absolute Wonder Woman #1. That's a lot of books! We manage to stay hydrated with plenty of craft beer reviews as we bring some news stories in The Week In Geek, the comic books we're buying in The List, and bring a panel from Dazzler #1 to life.Was there a book that we missed? Let us know at baggedandboredcast@gmail.com! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tiers In Reign is back! And in celebration of Halloween we're digging through our pillowcases and building our ultimate tier list of Halloween Candy! We still find a couple random stories to talk about in The Week In Geek, discuss the comics we're grabbing this week in The List, conjure a Dramatic Reading from Batman And Robin: Year One $1, and review a selection of craft beer!Sooo all treats no tricks? Let us know at baggedandboredcast@gmail.com! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After a bit we're back with a Team Building Excercise, where we make the next big superhero team! This time the criteria are all set from a forum post from over a decade ago, so who knows what the teams gonna be.We also hit the news with The Week In Geek, the comic books we grabbed this week in The List, bring a Dramatic Reading from Action Comics #1070 to life and feature a bunch of craft beer reviews! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we discuss the recently wrapped up DC Comics crossover event: Absolute Power, from Mark Waid and Dan Mora.There;s some quick bits in The Week In Geek, the comics we're grabbing this week in The List, a Dramatic Reading from Absolute Power #4 and plenty of craft beer reviews. So listen in! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We sit down to check out a few first episodes of anime as we dip into The Next Episode. This round we have Mashle: Magic And Muscles, Fire Force, Samurai Champloo and Paul's secret shame: Food Wars!We still find time to talk about comics with The Week In Geek, the books we're grabbing in The List, a Dramatic Reading and plenty of craft beer reviews, datebayo! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're gonna be short and sweet today because we got some comics to talk about! It's time for our Monthly Look Back for the month of September 2024, and this week we've got X-Factor #1, Exceptional X-Men #1 and Tin Can Society #1! We also still have all the regular features like The Week In Geek, the comic books we're buying in The List, a Dramatic Reading from Black Cat #1 and a bunch of craft beer reviews! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every year we go over the movies coming out for the summer, and we each build a bracket picking who we think will reign the summer box office. This episode is the culmination of the 2024 Summer Movie Blockbuster Bracket Buster VI: The Return Of The Bracket. Who will win? If you've been listening week to week, you've heard the updates and maybe done the math. Let us know at baggedandboredcast@gmail.com so we don't have to add! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With Halloween approaching Chris and John are back with more themed viewing in the MovieFix! This time it's a double feature with Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U. This one two punch of horror fun from 2017 and 2019 keeps us coming back for more, so sit down and enjoy with us! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After a week off, Paul is back for a proper episode! In this one we break down the comic books we read in August 2024 for the Monthly Look Back! This months offerings include: Uncanny X-Men #1, Universal Monsters: Frankenstein #1 and Standstill #1. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John and Chris sit down for another episode of the MovieFix! Today we're tackling 2019's Ready Or Not! So if you're looking for a podcast about fun horror flicks, you found it! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul is out celebrating his anniversary so it's John and Chris bringing you a MovieFix! In this side show we talk about a movie or tv show that we watched specifically for this show! Today we sit down to talk about 2024's vampire horror/comedy Abigail, so grab a beer and settle in as we talk about this fun spooky flick, but be warned: spoilers are in full effect! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Posted late but still great! We sit down and talk about Marvel's Eternals in the 31st part of our ongoing Great Marvel Movie Retrospective.There's also some news in The Week In Geek, the comic books we're buying today in The List, a Dramatic Reading from Secret Wars, and a bunch of autumn beer reviews.So get in and get on Bored and let us know your favorite character that won't matter over at baggedandboredcast@gmail.com or on any of the posts for this episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we sit down to discuss IDW Publishings: The Hunger And The Dusk: Book One by G. Willow Wilson and Chris WIldgoose, in this months Trade-In Policy Review from John.We also bring the other usual segments with The Week In Geek, the comic books we're grabbing in The List, a Dramatic Reading from Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow and a bunch of craft beer reviews!Do you like comics? Do you like beer? Let us know anything you want us to check out at baggedandboredcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris sits down with comic book writer Jason Douglas to talk about the Kickstarter campaign for his new original graphic novel: Jane American. We get into all aspects of fandom with this discussion so check it out and make sure you back the project! If you're a creator and want to get the word on your project out let us know at baggedandboredcast@gmail.com or on any of our social media pages! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.