This week, the boys talk about all the TV they watched, from Gravity Falls to Doctor Who, and James makes some bold, correct statements about Oblivion, the latest Tom Cruise movie that is Just Not Very Good(tm).  Brandon and James also have a disagreement (gasp!) about Tumblr (oh.)  Finally, they talk about comics, from Mark Waid's latest ongoing masterpiece in Daredevil #25 to Danger Club #5, which is basically a Mark Millar comic if it was better written.

We don't shy away from the tough stuff here, guys.

This week, Brandon returns from his Portland vacation and gives James a recap of how it went, including a pretty amazing gift that he and Danica got for him.  James proceeds to be a level of ungrateful that can most charitably be described as "monstrous."

It's back to normal!

After this, the talk turns to the important things in life, like Louis C.K.'s new comedy special, Oh My God, and several episodes of Gravity Falls that had accumulated while Brandon was gone.  Eventually, the talk turns to comics, from the stupendous Hawkguy #9 to Saga #12 and the drama over it last week.  And then, faster than the Oakland A's can hit a home run, they're gone in the night... forever.  Or until next week.

This week, James sits down with friend of the show (and weekly Doctor Who talker-abouter) Scott Williams to discuss the Showcase of Immortals, the grandest stage of sports entertainment, WrestleMania 29!  

Wait, come back!

First, James and Scott discuss the night's  events, match by match, including the one James was really looking forward to that didn't happen, because the WWE is bad at planning things.  For goodness' sake, they didn't even show the debut of the Swaggermobile!  Unforgivable.  That's not the only bone the boys had to pick, though; moving on from the night itself, they talk about the things WWE does well, the things it does poorly, and why two grown men who aren't John Cena marks stick around if so much of what the company does disappoints them.

It's riveting, really.

When he's not writing about Doctor Who here, find Scott online at:

Twitter: @scottowilliams

Web: Sound of the Week 

This week, Brandon is gone to Portland on vacation, but shit around here still needed to get done, no thanks to him, so James brought in a guest host to fill in.  Jay Runham, of Edmonton's top movie podcast Jay N J, stepped up to the task, and had James over to his place to record, where Jay and his wife gave James fancy water and pizza, which is to say they did better than Brandon's ever done!  He should really replace the dead weight more often.

Jay and James catch up about Jay's recent vacation to Hawaii, and talk about G.I. Joe: Retaliation, basketball, comics and Mr. Met, the objectively greatest mascot in professional sports.  James also gets Jay's wife involved, which means he can also replace Danica too, apparently.  He should have done this years ago!

Jay is also here with an exclusive announcement about Jay N J and its future, so listen on and discover what that's all about.

Find Jay online at:

Twitter: @jayrunham

Podcast: Jay N J (for now)

This week, the boys... you know what?  Fuck it.  Yes, we talk about comics.  We even say some nice things about DC Comics and their new Batman 1966 comics.  We talk about a lot of issues that we liked and that you should be reading, but that's not where our passion is anymore.  You know that, right?  We've been hinting at it for ages, but we're finally ready to come clean:

This is a show about Excused, the greatest dating show in television history.  This is a show about Iliza Shlesinger, the Voice of the People(tm).  This is a show about the greatest episode in the show's history, which features literally everything that makes the show great, from insane sociopaths to wry commentary, and then adds a twist ending and musical number.  Why is nobody else watching this?

We also talk about the latest Ice King-centric episode of Adventure Time, too!  All in all, it was a pretty good evening.

NOTE: As announced at the end of the episode, Brandon will be away for the next two weeks as he goes on vacation.  In the meantime, James will be joined by guest hosts for the next two weeks, who will probably be wrong about a lot of things, if we're being totally honest.

This week, the boys get together to record a little bit late because James arrived home late from a wedding in Ontario, so they set to do what's important: watch TV.  They talk about why Parks and Recreation is so enjoyable, another great episode for Cougar Town - TV's greatest current comedy - and the amazingness that is the sociopathy of contestants on Excused.  Call us, Iliza Shlesinger!  We'd love to have you on the show.

Finally, they talk about comics, from recent issues they loved to the recent creator changes at DC, the idiocy of Injustice: Gods Among Us and why they're so frustrated and worried by the current state of the company.

They also make it clear that they're bribable, but you're probably already writing that cheque, aren't you?

This week, the boys take a record-length full hour in this podcast about comics to actually talk about comics.  But don't worry, we're changing the focus of the show formally to represent these delays.  From now on... we're The Carrie Diaries: The Podcast!  All the hard-hitting content you crave about the weekly developments in the life of a young Carrie Bradshaw, and that episode of iCarly that Austin Butler was totally on.  Strap in, guys!

In other developments, the boys talk about wrestling for a full 10 minutes, the impending end of Superman Family Adventure and James takes another mostly unearned swipe at the English before making a series of entirely reasonable demands.  Does this sound bad?  This sounds bad.

This week, the boys talk to superstar artist slash curled beard enthusiast Steven Sanders again, who is making his return appearance to the show.  Back in his first appearance, Steven talked about a Kickstarter project he had coming up, and with the project's debut, it seemed like a great time to have him back on to talk about Symbiosis, his creative commons art book and world-building tool set in a 1940s biopunk world, or as James refers to it, "Steampunk 2.0."

As you can imagine, that suggestion was very well received.  Good job, James!

Of course, James also sets about asking questions about Steven's thoughts about people using Symbiosis to create pornography, and then almost immediately starts pitching it himself.  You've been warned.

In all seriousness, Symbiosis is a great project that really excites us here at C!TB, and we heartily recommend backing it to anyone who's at all interested in things like world-building, creative fiction or just good art.  Here's the best thing we can say: we backed it enthusiastically and without reservation.  We believe in it, and we hope you end up believing in it, too.

Find Steven online at:

The Symbiosis Kickstarter page

Twitter: @StevenSanders

Tumblr: Unparalleled Self-Aggrandizement 

Web: Studio Sputnik

This week, the boys convene to watch TV and talk about comics I guess.  Instead of talking about The Carrie Diaries, they instead discuss one of TV's Josh Schwartz's many shows on the CW, Cult, which is basically what would happen if Lost fans were actually psychotically obsessed instead of just regular obsessed.  And that, of course, brings us to another week of Excused, television's most insane, lowest budget dating show that is nothing but one bad decision after another.

The boys love it.

Finally, they talk about comics or something.  What's the name of the podcast again?  Something about Bull Durham?  Let's talk about that.

This week, the boys record the episode from the floor of a real-life TARDIS (read: children's play set)!  However, with the lack of cable TV available there, the boys instead discuss what they did this last weekend, including James' take on A Good Day to Die Hard and convincing each other to watch Archer and Justified.  Finally, they have a good, lengthy discussion about comics they enjoyed in the last week!

There's no Carrie Diaries, though.  You'll have to wait until next week for a double shot of that, as well as the Cult premiere and the return of Gravity Falls!