This week, James is on vacation, so Brandon takes over the podcast! Boy, is he ever gonna' hear about it next week...

In this episode, Brandon and special guest host Danica LeBlanc talk about Veronica Mars, House of Cards, the best of this week's comics, and the ever ongoing plight of the female fan. (Seriously guys: cut the crap.)

This week, the boys discuss their weekends, which included both of them attending two friends' wedding, where a third friend was arrested and James was nearly rolled by street toughs on the way home.  James also played kickball, which is something that grown-ass adults who aren't Happy Endings (RIP, we miss you!) characters actually play, apparently, except for that one dude who just sat around disaffectedly smoking.  They also discuss this week's surprisingly dark episode of The Newsroom and the tonal difference that the new season seems to be showing over the first.  Also, Brandon gets a nosebleed, forcing James to do something he avoids whenever possible: anything more than the bare minimum amount of editing possible.

Thanks a lot, Brandon's dumb nose.

Oh, and they discuss a bunch of comics and how great it is to have so many amazing comics around these days that the Eisners don't know what to do with them all.  Comics!

This week, the boys talk about their busy weekends - they each saw movies they really enjoyed and James tried a board game that he won by being a coward - and also TV.  Did you know there are a bunch of cool new TV series starting up?  We didn't even get to the return of Whose Line is it Anyway?  We didn't even get to Sam & Cat!  Truly, this is the darkest timeline.  What we did discuss, however, was the season premiere of The Newsroom (still great, less preachy!) and the series premiere of Beware the Batman (imagine if Grant Morrison did Batman: The Animated Series!)  It was a good night.

After this we talked about some comics.  Jesus, what do you want from us?  It's not like that's in the title or anythi-oh wait.  Well, in our defense, it's not a very good title.

This week, the boys talk about their weekends quickly before getting into the good stuff: children's television!  They discuss the second-last episode of the season of Gravity Falls (don't ask them how they got it before it aired) and the first episode of Teen Titans Go!, which meets their main metric for quality by showing a cavalier disregard for human life.  Seriously, a lot of people die in the second Teen Titans Go! story.  A lot.

After this, the boys discuss the amazingness that is Jim Steranko's alleged twitter account and how the main reason James hopes it's real is "Jim's" story about meeting comic industry villain Bob Kane, thief of credit for creating Batman.  This, of course, segues into a detailed rationale for why Bob Kane can burn in hell forever.  Finally, they discuss something happy: the comics they loved last week, including Satellite Sam, Batman Incorporated and The Superior Foes of Spider-Man, and legend George Perez being wooed over to an exclusive contract at BOOM! Studios.

Folks, Bob Kane might suck forever, but comics are still pretty amazing. 

This week, the boys sit down to discuss the goings on in their lives - Brandon watched Netflix!  James has been taking care of a dog! - while going through the pop culture they've talked about recently.  A few minutes of WWE NXT gets the boys talking about wrestling storytelling done right - and easy - while the latest episodes of Sam & Cat and Gravity Falls get discussed.

Finally, the boys wade through Tuesday's amazing spate of announcements from Image Comics, including their DRM-free digital comic sales, and end the episode discussing just a few (like, a fifth) of the great comics that came out last week.

Last week's comics cost James a lot of money, you guys.