This week, the boys sit down with Antony Johnston, writer of the incredible series Wasteland, the upcoming Umbral (tell your comic shop to reserve you a copy!) and video games like ZombiU.  In a surprisingly - offensively, even - on-topic discussion, the conversation goes from world-building to collaborating to Antony's goals as a writer.  Oh, and also they talk about Judge Dredd, the NFL and James' bank of unprintable Archie Comics pitches.

Phew, we dodged a bullet there!  We almost talked about comics for an hour.

Find Antony online at:

Twitter: @antonyjohnston

Tumblr: Antony Johnston

Web: Antony Johnston dot com

Man, that's waaaaay too straightforward.  Throw in a car chase or obscure Morrissey lyric or something, Johnston!  You're on notice.

Oh, and Wasteland #48 is out today!  Buy it!

This week, the boys take a break from the occasionally serious sex farce that is The Newsroom to watch some new TV comedies, namely the surprisingly great Andy Samberg-starring Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which seems to have found its voice right from the pilot, and Wander Over Yonder, the unsurprisingly great show from Craig McCracken and Lauren Faust, which combines old-style Disney optimism (and bobbing) with T-Rexes that fight giant robots.

TV is pretty great, folks.

After this, the guys discuss comics, like X-Men #5, Red Sonja #3 and Batman Incorporated Special #1, and end kinda on-time for once.  It's a Comics! The Blog miracle!

This week, the boys are absolutely DEDICATED to not talking about wrestling and finishing in a decent amount of time, which means they still went over-time and talked about wrestling.  But not very much!  It's honestly mostly comics talk and TV talk and all that fun stuff.  Brandon picks on our Texas listener, though.  Sorry, sir!  I can't control him.  He's a monster and he threatens me.

After talking Beware the Batman and Sam & Cat, the boys dig into this week's comics and some of the recent happenings in the industry, including Marvel's latest NOW/Point ___ initiative and the creative changes across town at DC with Batwoman.  On the plus side: Bendis and J.H. Williams III might work together?  That would be pretty neat.

Most importantly, though, the show eulogizes Excused being viewable on TV in Edmonton.  We're all suitably crushed here at C!TB.

This week, the boys get together to "quickly" discuss their weekends, the comics they enjoyed and why Mark Waid is wonderful, but, well, this is Podcast! The Comics, after all.  This is still an hour and twenty-five minutes, after all.  But dammit, there are just so many things to say about comics and Mark Waid!

But before James and-just-one-more-comic-s Brandon to death, it's quite fun!  Brandon talks about his stressful week and James talks about his wonderful weekend dancing at a wedding and catching up with old friends.  And seriously, if you'd forgotten to talk about Journey Into Mystery #655, you'd bring it up, too.

Oh, and Brandon tells a story about Holocaust denial.