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Jonah Gregory
Join hosts Jonah Gregory and Kieran Bennett as they do deep dives on comics and graphic novels in a book club style format.
New Years Even of 2016, New York City, Times Square… sure it sounds great on paper, but not when a maniac shows up and starts slashing people up! Four years and many murders later, two NYPD officers heading up the Maniac Taskforce are on the case. Faced with budget cuts, the mayor’s obsession with his …
Parenting is tough even in the best of times. When the cyberpunk distopia you’ve been escaping for the last thirteen years suddenly shows up on your door, you might start to wonder how far you’ll go to protect your kids. It’s a tale as old as time as we review Dryad on this episode of …
In this episode we dip our feet into the wackier side of the Marvel Universe, when it gets beat up by The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl! Tony Stark (Iron Man) has found a strange device and wants Doreen and her friends to help him test it out. Things go badly when a group of animal-people show …
This week we are joined by our good pal and popular podcaster Tim Lanning of The Pope Zone! (I think he does another show about dragons or something). He has joined us to discuss the original 2003 version of The Runaways. Runaways asks the question, “What if you found out your parents were super villains …
This time around we tackle the gritty reboot that Christmas has been needing for years, Super Powered Revenge Christmas by Bill Corbett and Len Peralta. Follow the show: Twitter, Twitch, InstagramFollow the hosts: Jonah, Kieran
Things start to get serious for Kuroe Akaishi, a young girl who turns into a giant Kaiju when she gets too emotional, when the school hearthrob / Insta star Arata Minami takes her on a gulp DATE?! We are joined once again by Steph from Welcome to St. Paxton to discuss this weird, yet adorable …
This week we are joined by Steph from “Welcome to St. Paxton”, a very good podcast about Cthulhu and the investigators who love them. Speaking of giant monsters, this episode we discuss Kaiju Girl Caramelise. It’s the story of a young girl who turns into a giant, city-crushing monster when she gets too emotional. Now …
This week we are joined by Nika Howard of the “Greetings, Adventurers!” podcast (among many other fun projects) to discuss the spookiest of spooky comics, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. But this ain’t your great-great-granfather’s Sabrina: The Teenage Witch. No, this Sabrina has some adventures. Chilling ones, even. Also there is a lot of blood …
Did you know Kieran has never read a Fantastic 4 from start to finish? Well we aimed to change that this week with Fantastic 4: 1234. Is it a great intro to the greatest family ever written? Or just a grim-dark romp through New York where Ben gets hit by a car? Only one way …
Thanks to people on our discord randomly posting weird comic panels, we decided to review our first Elseworld’s book. We didn’t realize this was a sequel to another Elseworld story, but that didn’t slow us down. We needed to know why Superman both looked like Santa and was weilding a semi-truck engine/gun. The answers may …
We’re back again with Ryan Santos from Torchlit Tavern to finish up on Far Sector! Things are really heating up in The City Enduring, and not just with the whole ‘murder’ thing. Is Jo up to the task? Of course she is, she’s amazing. Follow the show: Twitter, Twitch, InstagramFollow the hosts: Jonah, KieranFollow our …
A Green Lantern?! In space?! Its more likely than you think. We’re joined this week by the truly excellent Ryan Santos of Torchlit Tavern to chat about a brand new character added to the Green Lantern mythos. A murder mystery, a city in space, and cultures unlike anything on earth. This one has it all! …
What do you do when your franchise has been around a bit too long? Send them into space, of course! We can only assume that was the premise behind Josie and the Pussycats In Space’s original cartoon run. But lucky for us someone decided to dust off this old property, give it a modern feel, …
This week we break the mold for our GeeklyCon digital live show. Rather than reviewing a comic, we speculate on what other franchises would be like if they were given the Age of Apocalypse treatment. But we couldn’t do it alone. Pat Edwards, our friendly neighborhood AoA expert, joins us to speculate on what would …
We are joined once again by Brittany Gregory, our resident Sailor Moon expert, to tackle part two of our discussion of the first story arc. Can the Sailor Scouts finally band together and defeat the evil Queen Beryl? What about that guy who happens to look exactly like Tuxedo Mask that they keep running into. …
This episode Jonah and Kieran attempt to fill a massive gap in their pop culture knowledge. For their first experience with delving deep into the Sailor Mooniverse, they knew an expert on the subject would be required. Thankfully, Brittany is back to school them on the story and lore of Sailor Moon as we discuss …
We’re back baybeeeee! Our long national nightmare is over… oh wait, it’s not. But hey, that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy some comics. In The Way of the Househusband, we follow the misadventures of Tatsu, a feared yakuza boss nicknamed “The Immortal Dragon”. At the height of his influence he retires so that he can …
What if, in Star Wars, Luke and Vader didn’t kill Emperor Palpatine after all. What if he actually has been using techniques that some considered to be unnatural? What if… he was never really dead at all and was actually in a clone body this whole time? No, we aren’t talking about The Rise of …
This week we discuss the second half of Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau’s Bloom. Can Ari learn that not everything is about him and get Hector back? Will the bakery survive complete devistation? Will Cameron continue to be the absolute worst? Find out this episode! Follow the show: Twitter, Twitch, InstagramFollow the hosts: Jonah, Kieran
Nothing quite like a gay romance is there? And nothing quite like a culinary themed gay romance. Jonah and Kieran take a dive into Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau’s graphic novel, Bloom. Will love….uh….rise? Proof? Come out crunchy? Listen and find out! Follow the show: Twitter, Twitch, InstagramFollow the hosts: Jonah, Kieran
Enter the DC universe, where there are super guys, and various bat people, and wonderful women... except throw all of that out the window and hang out with these strange plant people for 150 pages.
Thanks to all of our wonderful Patreon backers (join now and get a bunch of extra content), we are finally reviewing our very first Garf! And not just any Garf, but the relatively famous Garfield: His 9 Lives. As if that alone weren’t enough, we delve into not just the new release, but also the …
This week we are joined by GeeklyInc. superstar Nika Howard to discuss the spooktacular horror comic Wytches. Sometimes when you have mysterious ties to an ancient evil, it can really mess up your day. Join us on a journey into the woods to discover why you shouldn’t make promises to creatures that think babies are …
Take a journey back to the 80’s with special guest Vince from Transformation Sequence. This week we review Akira, the series that got a lot of people in the west interested in anime in the first place, to see how it holds up. Follow the show: Twitter, Twitch, InstagramFollow the hosts: Jonah, KieranFollow our guest: …
We thought we were prepared for the absurdity of Tank Girl. We were wrong. Find out what happens after fame and success go to Tank Girl’s head and she had to go on an epic quest to save her beloved Booga from evil movie executives. This episode was chosen by YOU, our lovely Patrons. Follow …
After the apocalypse, there is only one way to survive. You must participate in the Wacky Races… OR DIE. This week we take a look at the gritty reboot from DC of the Hanna-Barbera “classic” Wacky Racers as the Mad Max inspired (i.e. directly ripped off) Wacky Raceland. Who is the mysterious anouncer that gathered …
When we last left our heroes, everything was back to normal. That’s right, no more problems for The Vision family, no siree bob. Not only is everything fine, but Vision’s brother Victor shows up to stay for a while. Now I know what you’re thinking, “Wasn’t he made by Ultron to grow up to be …
This week we take a look at Marvel’s Vision, as voted on by our Patrons! What happens when an android wants to have a normal life? Why, he builds himself a family of course. After successfully creating a wife and twin children, Vision becomes an upaid whitehouse intern/adviser to the president. Then the murder happens. …
This week we take on one of the most famous X-Men stories of the entire franchise, The Dark Phoenix Saga. Sure they already made about a dozen movies about it, but how does the source material hold up? Is it better than Age of Apocalypse? Join us as we delve into the question that has …
Here is our live show from GeeklyCon 2019 in Columbus, OH titled Trans-Dimensional Possibilities, Or, What Were They Thinking?: The Greatest Multiverse Characters of All Time. Join us as we explore the multiverse and talk about the strange characters we find there. We are also joined by Mike Bachmann of Greetings, Adventurers, and you’ll never …
We decided to do our usual in-person Bonus episode live from Jonah’s house like we’ve done in the past for everyone, so this won’t count as your July bonus episode. It is also why it’s number twelve in that series of shorts episodes we’ve recorded in person while Kieran is traveling the US. This time …
What happens when a shinki acts out like the rebellious teen that he is? He hurts those that care about him the most, that’s what! And by that OF COURSE I mean that he actions put blights on the god he is connected to. So how can a simple god deal with a teen this …
Everybody be cool. Our boss is here and we want to make a good impression. That’s right friends, we are joined by none other than Michael DiMauro of “Greetings Adventurers”, “Dear Internet”, and one of the founders of GeeklyInc. This week we review the first several chapters of Noragami: Stray God, a manga that about …
Pat Edwards (Space Tripping, Let’s Rewatch) returns once again to help us sort through all seven-hundred plot threads that are finally coming together in the epic finale of Age of Apocalyspe. It’s been a long and crazy ride but things actually start to make a bit of sense by the end of this episode. Also, …
Welcome back to THE AGE OF APOCALYPSE, where everything is made up and the points don’t matter. We are joined once again by Pat Edwards (Space Tripping, Let’s Rewatch) to discuss the 90-est of all 90’s comics. Can Magneto and his X-Men fix the past and save the world? Will the Summers brothers ever stop …
The boys are joined this week by author/podcaster extrodinaire Pat Edwards (Space Tripping, Let’s Rewatch) to tackle one of the most epic tales of the 90’s, Age of Apocalypse. In an alternate reality, Charles Xavier is murdered by his time traveling son, altering the course of the entire world. In this new reality, the ancient …
Last episode we saw a lot of intrigue around The Queen, Sir Nicholas, The Grand Inquisitor, and loads of other Marvel staples. This time around we learn what is going on with the explorers of the Fantastick, Count Von Doom, and the new world. Will the heroes be able to put aside their differences and …
What happens when the timeline is disrupted and heroes start appearing 400 years too early? That’s the question asked by Neil Gaiman in this 8 part series from Marvel. It’s all the characters you know and love like Spider-Man (except he doesn’t have powers yet), Nick Fury (the white version), and Queen Elizabeth, joining forces …
This week we are joined by Ray of Brute Force and Sugoi Corp. fame to discuss an a manga that none of us had ever heard of but had been listed as a good comedy book for roudy teens, The Voynich Hotel. It’s the story of a Yakuza who is living at a hotel owned …
Billy Batson is a foster kid who has had a hard life. He is also a huge jerk. But like all good heroes, he learns from his jerkish ways and after being given extrodinary powers by a wizard and eventually fighting a supervillain. It’s a tale as old as time. This week Kieran and Jonah …
The world will end in three days. Can a broken family of superheroes work through their personal disfunction and forgive each other enough to stop it? Does loving and supporting one another actually make things better, or does it all just lead to more heartache? That’s what The Umbrella Academy delves into. Well, that and …
If you’ve listened to the show before, you probably know that Kieran is a huge Green Lantern fan. Despite this, it somehow took us 65 episodes to finally review one of his books. Like most mainstream comics, the character has been rebooted to hell and back, so we decided to pick one of the reboots …
You thought one ghost was spooky? You haven’t seen anything yet! This week Kieran and Jonah dive into the pulp-styled world of Fabian Gray. He’s an adventurer, a ladies man, a treasur hunter, and possessed by, you guessed it, five ghosts. But the good news is they also give him weird super powers. Follow the …
This week we dive into the graphic novel adaptation of the real play Dungeons & Dragons podcast that is The Adventure Zone. It’s a fourth wall breaking, gerblin killing, dead man’s boots steeling good time. Full disclosure, this book was written by the McElroys (as I’m sure you know) and we did have Clint on …
This week we are joined by storyteller and podcaster Veronica (Cthulhu & Friends) to discuss American Vampire. When old school vampires come to America’s wild west and accidentally create a new breed, things get crazier. You could even say they get even wilder. Like some sort of wild, wild west. Follow the show: Twitter, Twitch, …
For the first time ever, we are diving into the True Crime podcast genre. But since we are a bunch of comic book nerds we are doing it in comic form as we discuss Green River Killer, the tale of the real-life detective that spent a huge part of his career trying to track down …
As you know, we here at Inks & Issues love a good crossover. When we heard Planet of the Apes was crossing over with King Kong, It was as if the fates had aligned and all the things that Jonah loves that he has thrust upon his friend and co-host Kieran came together to form a …
Tom Taylor is just your average Joe who’s dad wrote a bestselling series of books using his son’s name as his protagonist, which has subsequently ruined his life. Now Tom is all grown up, his dad has mysteriously vanished, and his world is turning upside down thanks to his crazy fans, generation spanning conspiracies, and …
It’s the 11th hour and our heros have to band together to stop full-on nuclear annihilation. Can Night Owl get that lovable scamp Rorschach out of prison? Can The Silk Spector convince Dr. Manhatton that humanity is worth saving? Who is the mask killer and what’s up with Ozymandias’s cat and can we pet it? …
It’s a new year and it’s time to get super serious. No more of these “funny books”. It’s all grimdark adult “Graphic Novels” from here on out. We ONLY talk about serious things, and make zero goofs by popular request of our listeners. Because this week we take on one of Time Magazine’s 100 best …
How do you followup your first success when your life has stalled out and you have major impostor syndrome? Bryan Lee O’Malley digs into this question mixing his own experience with Scott Pilgrim and adding a dash of the supernatural. Except it’s about food, a subject that appears to be very near and dear to …
Jennifer Cheek returns to the show for the second half of our discussion of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency. This time around JoJo must face his strongest opponents yet in the form of Esidisi, who is obsessed with battle and honor, and Kars, who, it turns out, has no honor to speak of. Can the combined …
We are joined this week by GeeklyInc’s own Jennifer Cheek of Drunks & Dragons to discuss a topic that is very near and dear to all of our hearts, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Since we all knew going in that we love this comic (and the anime) we picked a specific section to cover that we …
There are times in a young persons life that will define them. Often they happen when we are too young to really understand their significance. This week Kieran and Jonah discuss This One Summer, which exists in one of these moments. This book was voted on by you, our lovely Patrons. And speaking of our …
Way back in the halcyon days of our first episode, we reviewed Batman: Year One. And in that very first episode nearly two years ago, we made a goof that our 52nd episode would revisit the caped crusader for Batman: Zero Year. We are nothing if not commited to a goof, but little did we …
We are again joined by our wonderful editor, Logan Pawley, to finish our review of Scott Pilgrim. Drama unfolds for Scott and his band and friend group as Sex Bob-omb puts band practice on hold in an attempt to record an album. Ramona dissapears for a month which isn’t great for their relationship and Scott …
It’s time to play the bass line from Final Fantasy II and get sad and stuff! Our fantastic editor, Logan Pawley, joins the podcast for the first time to discuss one of his favorite comics, Scott Pilgrim. In part one we cover the first three volumes. Can Scott take responsibility for his poor decision making …
Batman returns in the second half of our review of The Long Halloween. We are joined once again by Brittany Gregory, batfan extraordinaire. Things start to heat up as Harvey goes further off the deep end in his quest to bring down the Holiday Killer. Can Kieran’s dad, Commissioner Gordon, keep him from going too …
There is a killer on the loose that only strikes on holidays. I know what you’re thinking, but Calendar Man is already locked up in Arkham. Unable to track down the “Holiday Killer” on his own, Batman must team up with his usual ally Commissioner Gordon and the new hotheaded District Attorney, Harvey Dent. Can …
If you thought things were weird in part 1 of our Uzumaki review, then strap in. You haven’t even begun to see weird yet. Thankfully, Kym and Ben Stonick of Transformation Sequence have returned to help guide us through the strange world of cursed hospitals and snail men that Junji Ito has thrown our way. …
Hello friends, and welcome to Inks & Issues! We are incredibly excited to be the newest member of the GeeklyInc family of podcasts. If you haven’t heard us before, we are a book-club style podcast that covers comic books. But we don’t only focus on the latest and greatest. We often take a look back …
Our second episode that was selected for review by our lovely patrons! (https://patreon.com/inksandissues). This episode we look into the twisted mind of Warren Ellis and how he seems to hate writing Captain America. Also the mystery of Fing Fang Foom’s purple underwear and lots of explosions. It certainly is a comic book! Follow the show: …
It’s October 1st and you know what that means? That’s right, Archie! Also horror, I suppose. Join Jonah & Kieran as we take a look at the incredibly strange idea of melding Archie with a zombie apocalypse. Follow the show: Twitter, Twitch, InstagramFollow the hosts: Jonah, KieranJoin our Patreon!
Tim Lanning of Drunks & Dragons joins our lads once again as we wrap up the initial Thor: God of Thunder story arc in part 2, “Godbomb,” which is either the greatest title a comic book has ever had, or the stupidest. We’ll let YOU decide! Follow the show: Twitter, Twitch, InstagramFollow the hosts: Jonah, …
It’s our 42nd episode and we make zero Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy references. This is either extremely good or bad depending on who you are. But what’s more important is we delve into Marvel’s Thor for the first time with special guest Tim Lanning from The Pope Zone (also the award winning Drunks & …
This week we take a look back at Chew from Image comics. The story of a detective that uses vore to solve crimes. Trust us, it’s better than it sounds. Follow the show: Twitter, Twitch, InstagramFollow the hosts: Jonah, KieranJoin our Patreon!
Join Kieran and Jonah as they discuss the horror comic from Joe Hill, “Locke & Key.” If you like mysteries in haunted houses with lots of murder, definitely check this one out. Follow the show: Twitter, Twitch, InstagramFollow the hosts: Jonah, KieranJoin our Patreon!
We are joined by Brittany Gregory to discuss the romantic independent comic from Tee Franklin, Bingo Love. It’s a love story about two people torn apart by their families and society. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will warm your heart. Warning: This episode might bring you to tears. But …
We’re live once again from GeeklyCon in 2018! We’re joined by Mike Bachmann from Drunks and Dragons to discuss the ultimate crossovers! Follow the show: Twitter, Twitch, InstagramFollow the hosts: Jonah, KieranFollow our guest: MikeJoin our Patreon!
To celebrate the release of a movie from over two years ago, Jonah and Kieran are joined by Richard Martin of Cult Popture to review Civil War. Is everyone really just a massive ass? Check out Cult Popture, @cultpopture on all good social media channels! Follow the show: Twitter, Twitch, InstagramFollow the hosts: Jonah, KieranJoin …
Vince Kenny from Transformation Sequence returns this week to discuss the horror manga Tokyo Ghoul. What further antics does our sad anime boy get up to, and how do the well established horror tropes of consumption and menstruation figure into it all. Find out in the conclusion to our discussion of Tokyo Ghoul! Follow the …
This week we are joined by Vince Kenny of the Transformation Sequence podcast to talk about the horror manga Tokyo Ghoul. How does a sad anime boy react to finding out the girl he wanted to date actually wanted to eat him? If the only human food you can eat was coffee would that be …
We are joined this week by Cody Boker from the S House Network to talk all about Deadpool. But not just any Deadpool, Cable & Deadpool. What do these two have in common? They’re both after the same virus that will lead to everyone on Earth looking like a member of the Blue Man Group. …
On this very special episode of Inks & Issues, we are joined by Ben Stonick of Transformation Sequence to finally, after 31 episodes, cover a Spider-Man comic. Unfortunately Ben decided we needed to start at zero so that we would appreciate all other Spider-related comics in the future. Is the legendarily bad “One More Day” …
On our first episode, hosts Jonah Gregory and Kieran Bennett give a rundown of what got them into comics, explain the show format a bit, then get on with the main event: Batman: Year One! Does it hold up? Listen to find out! Follow the show: Twitter, Twitch, InstagramFollow the hosts: Jonah, Kieran