Crisis On Infinite Midlives
Rob and Amanda, a couple of middle-aged comic book geeks, talk about comic and pop culture news, geek movies and TV, and a few comic books every week. There will also be dirty jokes. Many, many dirty jokes.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 86 minutes
- Episodes
- 175
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2018
Episode 135: I Like To Light Things On Fire
After a year of superheroes beating on each other in comic books and in not one, but two different cinematic universes, sometimes you just need a good, old-fashioned superhero team-up. You know, wher…
Tue 06 Dec 2016
Episode 134: Ragegiving
Due to vagaries of comics publishing (and the fact that Civil War II has been late almost since it was solicited), this week we not only discovered the result of the battle between Captain Marvel and…
Tue 29 Nov 2016
Episode 133: The Dirty Batusi
It has been a weird couple of weeks here in the United States. Any week where the honest-to-God news in your local newspaper is more contentious, rancorous and secret identity-obsessed than your aver…
Tue 22 Nov 2016
Episode 132: Coke : Pepsi :: Constantine : Doctor Strange
This past weekend, Marvel Studios' Doctor Strange opened in theaters, marking not only the latest film in Phase Three, but the first to have an opening credit production logo featuring almost no comi…
Tue 08 Nov 2016
Episode 131: Gaijin Roll
This week, the paperback edition of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain’s graphic novel Get Jiro: Blood and Sushi, was released. This book is a prequel to his 2012 sci-fi comic Get Jiro!, and like the or…
Mon 31 Oct 2016
Episode 130: Skeeball Jesus
We discuss Marvel's latest original Netflix series: Luke Cage. This is a series that touches on a variety of classic genre fiction, from pulp to blacksploitation to 70s cop TV to good old superhero c…
Mon 17 Oct 2016
Episode 129: I Wanna Go To Canadian Jail
We are more than halfway through Marvel’s Civil War II summer event, which, like most Marvel summer events, has dragged into the fall with no end before the darkest days of winter in sight. And while…
Mon 03 Oct 2016
Episode 128: Show Me On The Doll Where Lee Majors Touched You
After yet another cripplingly busy week at the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Home Office (and, to be honest, after about a quart of single malt scotch and a few belts of mescal), we only had the time t…
Mon 19 Sep 2016
Episode 127: Happy Anniversary, or: The 90s Threw Up In My Eyes
It is the Labor Day long weekend here in the United States, and considering there was little comics news this week, we strongly considered taking a pass on a show this week. However! A quick peek at …
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Mon 05 Sep 2016
Episode 126: Team Batmanuel
We're not gonna apologize here: we love The Tick. During the 1980s Rob was a regular customer of the Brockton, MA New England Comics retail store where The Tick was born, Amanda was a fan of the 1990…
Mon 29 Aug 2016
Episode 125: Boston Comic Con 2016, Part II: The Miller Whisperer
It's been a week since the conclusion of Boston Comic Con 2016, and we're still coming to terms with the fact that we saw Frank Miller speak live.
We have a complicated relationship with Frank Mille…
We have a complicated relationship with Frank Mille…
Mon 22 Aug 2016
Episode 124: Boston Comic Con 2016 Part One, or: Monetize My Fandom
Boston Comic Con, our local convention, was this weekend, and we went after it with both hands, hammer and tong... until we realized that we'd hit all the comics news panels by the end of the first d…
Mon 15 Aug 2016
Episode 123: Binders Full of Metahumans
DC Films's Suicide Squad opened this week, to impressive box office numbers, if not so impressive reviews. But here at Crisis On Infinite Midlives, Rob in particular is a fan of John Ostrander's and …
Mon 08 Aug 2016
Episode 122: A Dick Grayson Pillow From Osaka
It is the final day of San Diego Comic-Con… which we were not able to attend. So, to make up for the fact that we were unable to report from the biggest comics event of the year, we distracted oursel…
Mon 25 Jul 2016
Episode 121: Underground Gozer Society
The new Ghostbusters movie opened this week, after a long production period marked by a non-stop screeching hate frenzy from Bill Murray fans, enthusiasts of old-school J. Michael Straczynski Saturda…
Mon 18 Jul 2016
Episode 120: The Bootstrap Paradox, or: Why Is Your Kindle Sticky?
Another season of HBO's Game of Thrones is behind us, leaving us once again with a pile of dead so high it would embarrass Jerry Garcia, were he not also dead.
This was a big season: not only was it…
This was a big season: not only was it…
Mon 11 Jul 2016
Episode 119: Wheatcakes!
It has been a busy week here at the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Home Office. Between the delivery of new cooking apparatus that can also conveniently act as an incendiary bomb, to unexpected day job …
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Mon 27 Jun 2016
Episode 118: Send In The Clones
This week, Marvel and Spider-Man writer Dan Slott announced that the this fall's Spider-Man event will be called The Clone Conspiracy, and will feature The Jackal and the clone of Gwen Stacy, possibl…
Mon 20 Jun 2016
Episode 117: You Grok What I’m Saying, Fat Bieber?
This week, The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman had an interview published in Rolling Stone where he chided George R. R. Martin for revealing the ending to A Song of Ice And Fire to the producers …
Mon 13 Jun 2016
Episode 116: They Lebowskied Superman
Well, it's the first full week of DC Comics: Rebirth, and not a single Watchmen character appears in those issues, so we decided it would be a good opportunity to complain again about Watchmen charac…
Mon 06 Jun 2016
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