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Rob and Amanda, a couple of middle-aged comic book geeks, talk about comic and pop culture news, geek movies and TV, and a few comic books every week. There will also be dirty jokes. Many, many dirty jokes.

Crisis On Infinite Midlives


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    Episode 175: Avengers: Infinity War, or: They’re Not Called Hippie Stones

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2018 105:31


    Marvel Studios’s Avengers: Infinity War opened last week and scored the biggest box office opening weekend of all time. It pulled in about $640 million in four days, meaning that, at around $15 per ticket, it was seen by roughly 43 million people. Which is good news for us, because it means that it shouldn’t be […]

    Episode 174: The Shemp of Superman

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2018 93:55


    It’s a bit of a mixed bag this week, as we discuss, first of all, that we’re not dead (but thanks for asking!). We then talk about the ongoing process of getting ready to attend San Diego Comic-Con, which, once upon a time, was something that could be achieved in an afternoon if you had […]

    Episode 173: The Full Bonaduce

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2018 90:55


    Season two of Marvel Studios’s / Netflix’s Jessica Jones dropped late last week, and as with most of Marvel’s / Netflix’s shows, we burned through it in a single weekend binge. And this binge was more enjoyable than the last couple, because for once no one from Crisis On Infinite Midlives threw up while watching the […]

    Episode 172: Embezzly McCokeHabit

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2018 119:00


    With all the excitement and hype surrounding last week’s release of Marvel Studios’s Black Panther, it’s easy to forget that, when the movie was announced as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase Three three and a half years ago, it looked to be nothing but a flick about another mid-tier character just to keep our […]

    Episode 171: Think Pieces About Underpants: The 2017 Crises Awards

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2018 98:33


    We are smack in the middle of awards season, when networks cynically fill their airtime with slapped-together ceremonies celebrating old crap you already know about, all in the hopes that someone will get drunk and start making a damn fool of themselves, all on a short budget. Or, in other words: welcome to the 2017 […]

    Episode 170: Gleek Flings Poo

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2018 79:16


    It’s been an speedy week, from the threat of yet another government shutdown, to calling other nations ugly names, to a 30-something minute span where it seemed like a large chunk of the population of Hawaii might be on deck to have a chance at their own Silver Age superhero origin stories. It was the […]

    Episode 169: Sports is a Fantastic Album, Selina

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2018 103:42


    After a couple of weeks off due to holidays, family travel, blizzards, arctic vortices, and professional obligations, and we’ve moved past holiday genre movies and into the pre-convention season lull. Meaning that until Marvel Studios’ Black Panther drops in about six weeks, there’s nothing to talk but comics. And frankly, we’re kinda glad about that. Because […]

    Episode 168: Look at The Porgs, Artoo

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2017 110:22


    Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the inarguably most anticipated genre film of 2017 (at least the most anticipated by everyone except Rob) was released last Friday, and based on the box office returns approaching half a billion dollars in four days, it was beloved by nearly everyone on the planet, yes? Yeah, apparently not. It […]

    Episode 167: Metallo’s “O” Face

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2017 70:31


    Crisis on Earth X, the annual crossover between DCW (Rob swears he will make DCW a thing) shows Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash and DC’s Agents of Tomorrow aired a couple of weeks ago, and while we’re a little late to the conversation, we wanted to discuss it, because it wound up being one of the […]

    Episode 166: The World’s Worst Detective, or: Rorschach, Meet Vibe

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2017 89:17


    Marvel Studios’s latest Netflix series, The Punisher, dropped all at once a couple of weeks ago, and it was, in a lot of ways, very different than the series that have been delivered up until now. Sure, the other series dealt with adult themes – Jessica Jones tackled being a survivor of abuse, Luke Cage dealt with racism, […]

    Episode 165: Whiskey Tango Motherbox

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2017 96:15


    Justice League was released to theaters in the United States last weekend, and, to put it mildly, it underperformed. In the same way that the Atlanta Falcons underperformed in last year’s Super Bowl. Sure, there was a lot of weird buzz about reshoots and rewrites and new directors surrounding the movie, but none of that […]

    Episode 164: Get Opie

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2017 83:03


    There’s a new Thor movie out. If history were a guide, this would excite us not at all. While we have been, and still generally are, fully in the tank for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we have not seen any of the Thor movies in an actual movie theater, and that’s saying something considering we […]

    Episode 163: Batgirl’s Gap Year

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2017 82:21


    We are now fully into Marvel’s Legacy initiative to step back from years of event overload and senseless character deaths, and to reintroduce simpler, more classic versions of the character back into the monthly issues. And as we glory in the reintroduction of series’ original numbering, and the inclusion of classic Stan Lee / Funky […]

    Episode 162: Hey Girl, Are You An Electric Sheep?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2017 133:32


    DC has been teasing the inclusion of elements of Watchmen into DC Rebirth for nearly a year and a half now, which has made us, Rob especially, very nervous. That inclusion has been kept down to a dull roar until this past weekend, when DC released an ashcan of the first six pages of Doomsday Clock, the […]

    Episode 161: Forbush Man: The Motion Picture

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2017 77:12


    With everything that’s been going on at the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Home Office (goodbye flood, hello nine-foot curtain hanging!), we’ve been a little late to the party on Marvel’s latest Netflix series, The Defenders. Again, this is purely because of unrelated life events, and is in no way related to the fact that the […]

    Episode 160: Rye and Moxie and a Little Cranky

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2017 60:22


    It was yet another berserk week at the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Home Office, with more workmen in the house, the building of massive shelving that, Tardis-like, is somehow bigger on the inside, and family members evacuating South Florida to escape Hurricane Irma… before turning around to drive right back into Hurricane Irma. Let’s just […]

    Episode 159: Cthulhu Sausage

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2017 84:18


    We are back, after a lengthier-than-expected parental visit, an unexpected recording studio flood, extended remediation of water damage, and a certain amount of recording equipment replacement and testing. So please: be gentle. While the ratings were abysmal (meaning you may well not have watched it), this week gave us the first planned ending to Twin […]

    Episode 158: SDCC 2017 Wrap-Up, or: Hall H Can Smell Your Fear

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2017 81:09


    We are back and recovered from San Diego Comic Con 2017. SDCC is a show we’ve attended more than almost any other, and yet this year it seemed, I don’t know… bigger. More oppressive. More willing to empty your wallet and leave you for dead, while showing you genre spectacle you couldn’t get with an all access […]

    Episode 157: SDCC 2017 Part 1, or: Live Your Truth, Just Not on My Pants

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2017 44:07


    The first official day of San Diego Comic-Con 2017 was yesterday, and we are doing shows live (to tape) from the belly of the beast. Being our first day back to SDCC in three years, we discuss what’s changed in the intervening time, including a brand new requirement to bend the knee and pledge fealty […]

    Episode 156: Weaponized Continuity, or: Michael Keaton’s Rhinoceros

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2017 78:43


    We’re a little late to the party when it comes to Spider-Man: Homecoming, which opened a week and a half ago to the tune of 200 million dollars and 93% on Rotten Tomatoes. But late or no, there’s a lot to unpack in the movie, given that it’s the third reboot of the cinematic Spider-Man, which […]

    Episode 155: Unicorn Dingleberries

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2017 98:14


    We are mere days away from San Diego Comic-Con 2017, which will be the first we’ve attended and covered in the past three years. To say we’re excited would be a massive understatement, and we’re putting together our plans to cover the show and record and release short episodes directly from the con. But figuring out […]

    Episode 154: Contractually Obligated to be Family Friendly

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2017 85:39


    At face value, there is nothing impressive or exciting about crossovers between DC Comics and Looney Tunes or Hanna Barbara. We didn’t pay a ton of attention to these books when they started dropping last year, until we finally picked a couple of them up out of a combination of seeking relief from the impending […]

    Episode 153: Ultron Oompa Loompas

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2017


    Some weeks, you don’t record a podcast when you’re ready. You record when you’re awake. Rob had a long weekend of late nights being on call for his day gig, leading to a slim, two-hour window where he’d had enough coffee to be able to say something longer than his own name, yet not enough […]

    Episode 152: Are You A Kandorian or A Kant-dorian?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2017 77:19


    We are in a genre entertainment lull. A week after Wonder Woman debuted in theaters, three weeks before Spider-Man: Homecoming opens, and with all the geek TV shows on summer hiatus, there’s not a lot to talk about except the comic books. So we stick with comics this week, and we are thankful that we […]

    Episode 151: It’s Method. I Have To Do This.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2017


    While Patty Jenkins’s Wonder Woman was certainly the big comics movie of the week, we start off talking about, of all things, M. Night Shyamalan’s five month old movie Split. We talk about it because, well, we weren’t expecting it to be a comic book style story, and were extremely surprised to find it so. Mostly we were […]

    Episode 150: My Pine Weasel is Out

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2017


    Look: we’re talking about Twin Peaks: The Return. We know, this might not seem like the topic for a comics podcast, but hear us out. Twin Peaks is one of the main inspirations for The X-Files which is clearly turf for genre shows. It features a shared universe of different genre stories like any good […]

    Episode 149: The Joe Dirt Cinematic Universe

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2017


    A wise man once said, “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” I think it was Harvey Dent. Or maybe Billy Dee Williams. Either way, it’s a statement that certainly applied to last week in comics and comics-related entertainment. In column A was the United States debut of Marvel Studios’s Guardians […]

    Episode 148: Home Movies in the Man Cave, or: Neglecting the Button

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2017 74:41


    As we ease into convention season, the comics news starts to slow down so publishers have something to discuss in panels. You know, other than garbage news items about the dangers of trying to be funny in 140 characters or less. So we briefly discuss the next step in the million-mile march toward San Diego […]

    Episode 147: iPatch

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2017 82:54


    And lo, we return to you from lands afar, with the legendary tale of The Mighty Conquest of the Editing Robot with the Holy Union of the Irish and Columbia or: How We Killed Our Podcast Editing Computer with a Cup of Irish Coffee! Seriously, we’re back after some serious technical difficulties, but ready to discuss […]

    Episode 146: Kenny Powers of The Sea

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2017 72:00


    Sometimes, the best laid plans to watch thirteen episodes of Iron Fist on Netflix and talk about them on the Internet go wrong, particularly when one of your hosts is on call for work all weekend, and when neither of your hosts are particularly engaged by Kung-Fu stories. However, this week gave us the releases […]

    Episode 145: Stick Figures With Boobs

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2017 76:46


    Yes, we’re a day late again, but after a weekend of pulling, cleaning and replacing every connection on the board, at least, unlike last week, this episode doesn’t sound like we’re talking through a bowl of Rice Krispies. This weekend, the first full trailer for DC Films’ Wonder Woman dropped, and as big DC Comics […]

    Episode 144: Feline Tertiary Syphilis

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2017 89:35


    Yes, we’re a day late, and for that, we’re sorry. But it’s a jam-packed show this week, so we wanted to take the time to get it right. That, and we had weird audio issues it took a while to resolved, but let’s focus on the positive. First, we discuss some long-awaited and welcome comics […]

    Episode 143: Purple Monkey Slashfic

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2017 88:41


    As we move slowly into convention season, there is kind of a dearth of interesting comics news to work through some weeks. Oh sure, we could weigh in on Marvel’s comments at ComicsPRO that the reason their sales are down is because of DC shipping cheaper books, but that’s a little inside baseball even for […]

    Episode 142: Polonium Whiskey

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2017 84:22


    We are living in an age where we are spoiled for choice, when it comes to comics-related television shows. From The Flash to Supergirl to The Walking Dead to Cinemax’s Outcast to the (possibly) upcoming Scalped on WGN America, there’s something for everyone… which is why we weren’t particularly excited for FX’s Legion, based on […]

    Episode 141: Exposition and Necrophilia

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2017 87:33


    Yes, we are late after a weird weekend, but we still have a good show for you! A show barely prepared for, fueled by caffeine and alcohol, but as far as shows go: this is one! Anyway, for the past few years, DC Films seems to have gauged whether or not to proceed making live […]

    Episode 140: The Soft Emo Underbelly of Batman

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2017 81:34


    It was a weird week for comics and genre news. Having recorded this episode one day before the announcement of the official title of the new Star Wars movie (spoiler alert: the spoiler is that the title is Star Wars: The Last Jedi), the only comics related news was whether it was still kosher, so […]

    Episode 139: This Time It’s Personal: The 2016 Crises Awards

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2017


    It’s awards season, and you know what that means: networks will cynically use the concept of an awards show to fill time by looking back at old entertainment rather than looking forward and creating something new. By which we mean: welcome to the third annual Crisis On Infinite Midlives Crises awards! 2016 was a weird […]

    Episode 138: Doctor Superman: The Quest For Plot

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2017 97:20


    It is the holiday season, and while that means things like delayed flights, family political battles and regifting, it also means the annual Doctor Who Christmas Special. And this year’s, The Return of Doctor Mysterio, was a double whammy: not only was it the first Doctor Who story in almost a year, but it was […]

    Episode 137: Alderaan Truthers, or: Swipe Right on Lobot

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2016


    Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opened this past weekend, and, if you’re any kind of regular listener to the show, you know that we’re from Generation X, and therefore addicted to Star Wars. And not only that, but everyone we know is from Generation X and feels the same way. And luckily, most of […]

    Episode 136: I Am The One Who Yubs

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2016 98:10


    “That’s what I love about these [Spider-Men], man… I get older, they stay the same age.” -Michael Keaton (unconfirmed) (probably made up) (I totally made this up) So we’re on our third person playing Spider-Man since the last time we had a Glutton Bowl, which seems not only unfair, but kinda wasteful. However, this time […]

    Episode 135: I Like To Light Things On Fire

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2016


    After a year of superheroes beating on each other in comic books and in not one, but two different cinematic universes, sometimes you just need a good, old-fashioned superhero team-up. You know, where the good guys fight each other at first because of a misunderstanding or mind control or something, then they come together to […]

    Episode 134: Ragegiving

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2016 74:08


    Last week was Thanksgiving in the United States, a holiday where family members travel for hours and miles to share a table with family members and take a moment to express gratitude for the good things in their life. Then they follow that moment with hours of barely-suppressed acrimony, sarcasm-dipped references to long-buried grievances, and […]

    Episode 133: The Dirty Batusi

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2016 96:57


    It has been a weird couple of weeks here in the United States. Any week where the honest-to-God news in your local newspaper is more contentious, rancorous and secret identity-obsessed than your average comic book is one where talking about what comic creators are skipping what conventions in which American states, and which writers are […]

    Episode 132: Coke : Pepsi :: Constantine : Doctor Strange

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2016 79:09


    Sorry this week’s episode is late, but we had this thing, and we are late because of it. However! This past weekend, Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange opened in theaters, marking not only the latest film in Phase Three, but the first to have an opening credit production logo featuring almost no comic books. So we […]

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    Episode 131: Gaijin Roll

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2016


    This week, the paperback edition of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain’s graphic novel Get Jiro: Blood and Sushi, was released. This book is a prequel to his 2012 sci-fi comic Get Jiro!, and like the original, it is steeped in modern foodie culture. Luckily, Amanda is also steeped in foodie culture. So we talk about Get […]

    Episode 130: Skeeball Jesus

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2016


    We’re back, after yet another interruption – this time, we left the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Home Office to go to the American Classic Arcade Museum, where Amanda beat her personal best on Centipede, and Rob, after 30 years, finally learned the secret to escaping the building in Elevator Action (Take the elevator to the […]

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    Episode 129: I Wanna Go To Canadian Jail

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2016 86:40


    We are more than halfway through Marvel’s Civil War II summer event, which, like most Marvel summer events, has dragged into the fall with no end before the darkest days of winter in sight. And while we previously have idly wondered how Marvel intends to deal with characters who are on the side of profiling […]

    Episode 128: Show Me On The Doll Where Lee Majors Touched You

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2016 66:11


    After yet another cripplingly busy week at the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Home Office (and, to be honest, after about a quart of single malt scotch and a few belts of mescal), we only had the time to discuss a few of the comics of the week. But that turns out to have been a […]

    Episode 127: Happy Anniversary, or: The 90s Threw Up In My Eyes

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2016 50:07


    It is the Labor Day long weekend here in the United States, and considering there was little comics news this week, we strongly considered taking a pass on a show this week. However! A quick peek at our Web site archives reminded us that today, September 4th, is the fifth anniversary of Crisis On Infinite […]

    Episode 126: Team Batmanuel

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2016 86:28


    We’re not gonna apologize here: we love The Tick. During the 1980s Rob was a regular customer of the Brockton, MA New England Comics retail store where The Tick was born, Amanda was a fan of the 1990s Fox cartoon that brought the character to national prominence, and we both enjoyed the Patrick Warburton live […]

    Episode 125: Boston Comic Con 2016, Part II: The Miller Whisperer

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2016


    It’s been a week since the conclusion of Boston Comic Con 2016, and we’re still coming to terms with the fact that we saw Frank Miller speak live. We have a complicated relationship with Frank Miller here at Crisis On Infinite MIdlives. We will always love him for what he did with Daredevil and Batman […]

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