Nick returns! Dave is on his honeymoon, so Nick is back to help fill in. Billy and Nick blow way past $20 each in this week’s 20, talk about what they’re both reading right now, as well as the new iZombie TV series, their mutual love of Mike Allred, and Nick’s recent reread of the Starman omnibuses.  Who’s ready for some comic talk? http://ia601508.us.archive.org/10/items/TuesdayNightComicsEpisode65/Tuesday%20Night%20Comics%20Episode%2065.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android |...

After reading SHIELD #1, I was very excited for more from Mark Waid and Carlos Pacheco, especially from Pacheco, who was one of my favorite comic book artists in the late 1990s, but seems to have disappeared over the past decade. Sadly, Carlos Pacheco does not join Waid on SHIELD #2. Humberto Ramos steps in on art, and a more perfect artist could have not have been picked for this issue. Issue #2 of SHIELD sees Simmons go undercover as a high school substitute teacher in Jersey City, NJ. What superhero highschooler happens to live in Jersey City? That’s right, Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel. After reading this issue, Ramos is now my second favorite artist of Kamala, behind only Kamala Khan co-creator Adrian Alphona. Ramos’s style of exaggerated hands and feet is perfect for a shape-changing, often-stretchy character like Ms. Marvel. Waid delivers another great script. He introduces us to Simmons’s father, who does not know his daughter is a secret agent for SHIELD. Waid uses Jemma’s need to lie to her parents about what she does for a living as a bonding moment between Simmons and Ms. Marvel. Kamala doesn’t like lying to her parents about her superheroing as much as Jemma doesn’t like lying to her parents about her secret agenting. I would love to see Kamala and Jemma meet again, as I can see Jemma being a great mentor for Kamala. The plot centers around Simmons and Coulson trying to find a black marketer of stolen supervillain tech operating out of the Kamala’s school. The tech that shows up leads to Coulson and Ms. Marvel having an obscure villain trivia-off, noting the variations in the tech that villains used over the years. They both get the chance to one up...

We start at dinner time…..someone in Coney Island is eating steak. She’s got robot hands. Hey, it’s Drea De Matteo! Her name is Karla Faye Gideon. We find that out when Kyle shows up and tells her he got her name off a Gifted Index. She asks if they’re with SHIELD. He says he’ll try not to be offended. Classic Kyle zinger! Kyle’s with Levi and Francis. Levi has control over tech. Francis has the power of looking extra creepy. Drea closes the door in their face. Smart move. She reopens the door. Less smart move. Francis gets her metal gloves off her. She’s got metal razors for fingernails. Kyle wants her to join him. He’s creating his own Masters of Evil it seems. On the bus, Skye and Coulson are sharing a meal. Coulson is adding her to the Gifted Index. Whoa, Blair Underwood’s name just popped up in the opening credits! Sweet! Is he who Coulson is bringing in from the outside? May’s apparent ex? Oooo… Bobbie and Simmons are in the lab. Simmons is having a hard time explaining Skye’s DNA. Fitz comes in. Simmons intentionally goes quiet when Fitz walks in. Aww, I miss FitzSimmons. Simmons does too it seems. Simmons tells Bobbie that a betrayl of trust like that changes everything. Just in time for Bobbie to field a call from Mac. Mac is at the safehouse where he has locked up Hunter. Hunter has the great line of the episode when he tells Mac to tell Bobbie he takes it all back…when he said he wished she hadn’t died out there. Harsh, Hunter! Then again, he is handcuffed to the bathroom sink. Bobbie tells Mac to bring Hunter in. She’ll arrange an extraction. How big is this conspiracy? Hey,...

The episode starts in Portugal. Some dude is explaining s’mores to another dude on the beach when Lady Sif emerges from the water. She’s looking for someone named Carver. The people on the beach, one who looks like Josh Jackson, don’t know who Carver is. One of the guys tries to hit on Sif. Big mistake. She punches him across the beach. She also has amnesia. Now that’s how you start an episode! At Coulson HQ, May and Skye are training. It’s intense. Do they do their own stunts? Skye flips May and pins her. May tells her that she should have gone for a finishing blow. Skye makes a Mortal Kombat joke. Skye is worried about letting loose, and hurting her friends if she does. Fitz interrupts training to get May to back off Skye. May doesn’t like training being interrupted and offers for Fitz to come back and train one on one with her if he wants to interrupt training so badly. Unsurprisingly, Fitz declines. Bobbie and Hunter are post-coitus. It was either really energetic sex or they’re both secretly in terrible shape. Hunter tells Bobbie that Coulson offered him a permanent position. She seems hesitant for him to take it. It seems like Hunter is doing this for Bobbie, but I wonder if Bobbie wants him there with what she and Mac have planned. Speaking of Mac, he’s meeting with Coulson. They’re doing inventory. Coulson wants to upgrade Mac to field agent status. Mac’s hesitant about it. He passes himself off here as a bit of a pacifist. May coomes in to tell Coulson about Portugal. The Portugal authories have Sif in custody. Coulson and company make a beeline for Portugal and Sif, who asks if Coulson is Carver. Coulson tells her...

It’s a new episode of the Tuesday Night Comics podcast and we’re here with our picks for what new comic books you should not miss at the comic book store this Wednesday!   We’ve also got some new reviews for you, including The Wake by Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy. We also talk about the new Avengers: Age of Ultron TV spot and give our takes on the Batgirl cover controversy that has been ripping through comic book sites this week. Do you agree with us? Disagree with us? Let us know in the comments below. http://ia801504.us.archive.org/25/items/TuesdayNightComicsEpisode64/Tuesday%20Night%20Comics%20Episode%2064.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android |...

It’s time for another episode of the Tuesday Night Comics podcast, where Dave and Billy give their picks on what new comics to buy on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 if you only had $20 to spend.    Then, we reach back in time and talk about Ultimate Comics All-New Spider-Man #1-16, reach back further to talk about Kevin Smith and Terry Dodson’s Spider-Man and Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do, and then reach even further back to talk in-depth about Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee’s Inhumans. In our final segment, we go where no other comic book podcast has gone before and talk about the connection between Martian Manhunter and the Emcee from Cabaret. http://ia601504.us.archive.org/19/items/TuesdayNightComicsEpisode63/Tuesday%20Night%20Comics%20Episode%2063.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android |...

In this episode, Billy and Dave preview new comics coming out Wednesday, March 11, and review Spider-Gwen #1, AXIS: Hobgoblin and Carnage, All-New Hawkeye #1, Lady Killer #3, Descender #1, Neverboy #1 and more! Plus, Billy and Dave give their thoughts on the new Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer, and the recent casting announcements for Supergirl and DC’s team-based live action show. Oh, and if you’ve ever wondered about the convoluted history of the Hobgoblin, have we go the episode for you! http://ia801500.us.archive.org/25/items/TuesdayNightComicsEpisode62/Tuesday%20Night%20Comics%20Episode%2062.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android |...

And we’re back! Man, the hiatus since the last episode of Agents of SHIELD seemed longer than it actually was. Having Agent Carter around helped, but that show just didn’t have the same intensity that Agents of SHIELD has had since the middle of last season. In case you’ve forgotten what’s what and were we are, this episode starts with a previously, and I want it just be rocks floating around Skye. Seriously,nothing else matters. That said, I’m still sad about Trip’s death. RIP Trip. 🙁 We start in the past. There’s a boy who’s like Nightcrawler in X2. He’s in a room, just porting around the place uncontrollably. It’s 1982. The weird thing isn’t his porting. And it’s not even that he can’t port out of the room. It’s that he has no eyes. Skye’s mom walks in with an old dude. They let you know immediately that this is not Nightcrawler, for this is no mutant, “he passed through the mists,” *cough* Inhumans *cough* (besides, Nightcrawler has eyes…and is blue). Skye’s mom tries to talk some calm into Gordon, the eyeless wonder. Hmm, it’s interesting that they didn’t go with more established Inhumans like Gorgon, Blackbolt, Triton or Medusa. I wonder when we’ll see them? Skye wakes up…with an iPhone armband strapped to her. I love running and I don’t sleep with my armband on. Coulson is there when wakes. Skye confirms Trip is dead. Man… 🙁 Skye and Coulson are in quarantine. Everyone else is going about their own business, trying to work through the grief of losing Trip. Simmons is documenting what’s in the tunnells with a team. Everyone on the team is wearing hazmat suits. How much os this episode is going to be Coulson and Skye talking, Diner style? Skye is depressed....

It’s episode 61 of the Tuesday Night Comics podcast! What can you expect inside? Billy and Dave preview new comics coming out the week of Wednesday, March 4, 2015 and give you their top picks. We got a lot of Supergirl TV news this week and we break it down for you. Plus, Robert Downey Junior is sponsoring a very very cool contest for charity. We talk about it on the podcast, and if you’re interested in entering, you can find the contest here. The guys both review Spider-Man: Family Business by Mark Waid, James Robinson and Gabrielle Dell-Otto. Billy continues his Scott Snyder marathon with a review of Snyder and Jim Lee’s Superman Unchained HC, and Dave reviews Harley Quinn (New52) #0-13 and James Robinson’s run on All-New Invaders. Welcome to Tuesday Night! http://ia902603.us.archive.org/8/items/TuesdayNightComicsEpisode61/Tuesday%20Night%20Comics%20Episode%2061.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android |...

I had the choice between About Time or Thor: The Dark World. Some of us were going to see one and some of us were going to see the other. Walking out after Thor: The Dark World, I thought I made the right choice. Thor: The Dark World exceeded my expectations and now I’d be ready for the Agents of SHIELD episode that was advertised as tying into the movie. Besides, wasn’t Rachel McAdams in The Time Traveler’s Wife? That movie stunk (the book is so good!). Well, now that I’ve finally seen About Time, I’m wondering if I made the wrong choice that weekend. Yes, I am a bit obsessed with Agents of SHIELD, which is part of the reason I needed to see Thor: The Dark World on opening weekend, but I would have understood that episode even if I hadn’t seen the movie. It didn’t tie in as much as Captain America: The Winter Soldier did. Now that was a game changer for Agents of SHIELD.   About Time is fantastic! It is a terrific romantic comedy about a time traveler who can only travel pack in time along his own life. Sure, that’s a limited form of time travel, but think of the possibilities if you had that power! All the things you could go back and not say, or go back and say! About Time uses the time travel power to its fullest, using it to comment on the relationships between lovers, friends, parents and children, and siblings. I defy you to watch this movie and not want to call your dad afterwards and tell him that you love him. Bill Nighy steals this movie. He is amazingly charming as the father of main character and time traveler Tim....