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iFanboy - Comic Books

Pick of the Week #149 – The Roberts #1

iFanboy - Comic Books

iFanboy

Visual Arts, Arts

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2008

⏱️ 67 minutes

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True crime and grisly murder take over this week's show! Running Time: 01:06:00 Pick of the Week: 00:01:22 - Ron was freaked out by The Roberts #1. Comics: 00:17:50 - Conor and Ron were also freaked out by the ending of Detective Comics #848. 00:20:03 - Ron is in giddy love with Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane #2. 00:23:09 - Is Green Lantern #34 the penultimate chapter of the greatest Hal Jordan story ever? 00:28:47 - Noble Causes #36 allowed for cross-promotion. 00:31:00 - In Savage Dragon #137, Erik Larsen dips his toe back into politics. 00:33:02 - Ron and Josh found The End League #4 perplexing, but the second half art was fantastic! 00:36:26 - Josh dug that Fables #75 brought the main story to a surprising close. 00:38:40 - Marvel Apes #1. So that happened. User Reviews: 00:40:35 - WilliamKScurryJr is loving The Amazing Spider-Man #570, even Anti-Venom. 00:42:43 - Mart found Secret Six #1 surprising, in a good way. Book of The Month: 00:44:45 - Josh selects A Treasury of XXth Century Murder: The Lindbergh Child. Voicemail: 00:54:00 - Dave from Denver, Colorado has a comic book scene query. 00:57:18 - Erica needs Polaris explained to her. Music: "… And We Exhale And Roll Our Eyes In Unison" Los Campesinos! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You are listening to the IFanboy Pick of the Week podcast episode 149 sponsored by e-music and Netflix.

0:41.8

Music 149, sponsored by e-music and Netflix. Let's brag, you know if you ever use, the word is an adjective.

0:44.8

But since we do it and heal, it's really quite crass, and frankly, we're reasonably practical.

0:50.1

We know the benefits of always doing these things in flats, and I spent the last seven years pushed on the edge of my high bed.

0:59.8

I am incredibly sincere.

1:04.6

Hey, welcome to the eye fan boy.

1:06.3

Pick of the Week of the Week Podcast, episode 149.

1:08.9

My name is Connor.

1:10.0

I'm here with Ron. Hello. And Josh.

1:13.8

Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Here we go. Hey. What's with this guy? What's with this guy?

1:18.9

Hey. Hey. Hey. We are a fan boy. And we like comics. We read comics. And every week we read a bunch of comics.

1:29.2

And then one of us picks the best one they read that week.

1:49.5

They write about it on the website, and then they talk about it. We talk about on this year's show, along with other books of the week, other topics of interest, other goofy things. And before we get started, we'd like to remind everyone that this is a spoiler-filled show. We talk about the past couple of this week. So, if you don't want to be spoiled, get the fuck out of here.

1:53.6

Ron had to pick this week.

1:54.8

Yes, I did.

1:56.9

So let's get right down to it.

1:59.1

So it was a light week, I thought.

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