Pedro, Jamaal and Joseph get together for a chat on Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely’s freshly concluded All-Star Superman. Is Superman prophet or messiah? Unsurprisingly, Joseph ends up the contentious dissenter on this matter, though he loved the book as much as anyone else. The first half of the series is available now, if […]
Jon, Pedro, Chris, and Joe got together on Wednesday to discuss the current status of Marvel’s (not-so) Secret Invasion.
Enjoy your Labor Day weekend!
…except for the the one Joe wrote when we started this site. But then, everyone else seemed to ignore it and it never saw the light of day, so probably that was for the best. Look at the track record for public manifestos, it’s not pretty.
This week we review:
Batman #679: The fourth chapter of Grant […]
FBB is at full power, discussing the relaunches of The Authority, NYX: No Way Home, and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane as a nice appetizer platter. We cleanse the palate with a quick Jeph Loeb Happy Hour toasting the Hulk before our main course:
Final Crisis #3 gets the full treatment as we discuss the philosophical issues […]
With Pedro risking his Dominican ass in Boston drinking Incredible Hulks, Chris, Jamaal and Joe discuss The Dark Knight. Seems like we miss having Pedro’s unabashed enthusiasm around, because we don’t really convey how much we all seriously enjoyed this excellent movie.
We also discuss news from the San Diego Comic Con, including two and a […]
Back from a long hiatus due to birthdays, movings, and sheer laziness, the Funnybook Babylon crew discusses two recent standout books:
Geoff Johns and Scott Kollin’s Final Crisis: Rogues Revenge #1 has some kinetic art that Joe loves, but does Chris warm to Johns’s new treatment of the Flash Rogues? We also discuss the recently completed […]
We’re back from a Mac-induced hiatus (Can you believe an Apple product had the gall to break on us?), and we talked about Marvel’s massive week (thirty-four books!!!) and whether any of them were worth your money. Marvel’s tidal wave didn’t stop us from talking about DC’s big book, Final Crisis #2. Have Jamaal and […]
And so was NYC this weekend. Jon was in town, so we blame him, but we understand. The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) art show/convention/whatever was down at the Puck Building downtown on Saturday and Sunday, so that’s what we’re mostly on about, but we also talk DC’s Trinity, Cam Stewart and Catwoman, […]
This week’s podcast featured more Scotsmen than a Mel Gibson fight scene!
Grant Morrison! (All-Star Superman! Batman! Final Crisis!)
Frank Quitely! (All-Star Superman too!)
Mark Millar! (1985!)
Joining us on the podcast is FBB’s own David Uzumeri, an expert on this exotic species.
Back in America, Marvel is pushing Fred Van Lente and the Periscope Studios Crew. Under Mark Paniccia, […]
Maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but the gap from recording to posting was pretty wide this time. David Brothers fills in for Pedro, as we look at a raft of new books on the shelf!
Issues addressed:
Is Batman getting better/more accessible?
How cool are the Super Young Team?
What’s the deal with Lyja the Lazerfist? Did […]
The original FBB Trio come together for Round One of “Summer ‘08 Funnybook Blockbusters” and discuss Iron Man. The opening discussion of Clinton/Obama and Jimmy Carter’s potential as a supervillain informs the rest of the chat, responding to political readings of the movie out in the media. Is Tony Stark a Neocon? A Goldwater […]
Yeah, we are never doing a podcast like the last ones.
Batman can be nicer than you think and Pedro talks about the last issue of Checkmate. Archaia Studios Press attempts to steal our hearts from First Second. Jamaal discusses the merits of what has to be the best written collection of essays on the Legion […]
After Saturday’s adventures we got a fair number of people together. The resulting podcast was a bit of a mess, but enjoyable (to record at least). Some of the people involved were giddy like little school girls because of this man:
The Guru of Living Fabulously.
Much was learned, and we leave the NYCC.
BIG SHOUTOUT: The Whole […]
I know the official face of Funnybook Babylon looks like an old dude, but he’s hip! He reads Kelly, so he knows that kids today are always into “some gizmo” or other, watching videos on their computer and generally Web 2.0ing it up. Come on kids, some older folks have barely figured out […]
A lot of people are here in New York.
A bunch of drunk idiots podcasting
Pedro, Jamaal, Jeff, David, Gabe, Ash, Jon, get together at our favorite firefighter’s house for a preshow, involving lots of drinks and cigars. Enjoy.
PS: Make sure you listen to the very end for a very special quote from Stan “The Man” Lee.