Holy crap! After a months long hiatus everybody at Booked is back for a brand new episode! First, Steve explains what happened to the live episode that was being talked about on the previous episode and all the problems there. Then the entire panel, including Jenosaur, Rob Lobster, T-Bot and Katie Findlay catch you up on what they've be reading over the extended break. So listen in and welcome the Booked crew back to the podcast world!

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Booked #53 - Thor-Machine

It's been more than enough time for people to check out Avengers: Age of Ultron, so it's time to get in depth about it. Stevil, Jenosaur, Rob Lobster and T-Bot have a total geek off after seeing the most anticipated movie of the beginning of 2015. What were their favorite parts of the movie? What character did this movie belong to? Hawkeye? Hulk? Black Widow? The panel also gets in depth with what they believe is being set up with each little easter egg. This week on Booked our heroes also give you a taste of what their reading in the "Put This In Your Eyeholes" segment. What are you reading that you think we should check out? Let us know in the comments below or on Twitter!

Booked #52 - The Age of Spoilers

With less than a month before their panel at North West Fan Fest at the end of May, Stevil, Rob Lobster and The Jenosaur are back together along with their guest, Crossfire Comics' T-Bot. They catch up with Trevor and get the scoop on what's happening with Rawhide Bushido, which is available now on Tapastic. Then our panel gets chatting about things they've missed over the last few weeks. How awesome is Daredevil on Netflix? DC Comics is trying to push a powerful female superhero after getting called out by a kid and Jenosaur is supremely excited for the AMC and Seth Rogen produced Preacher series, as casting is now complete. All these stories plus much more on this brand new episode! Another reminder that Booked will be at the North West Fan Fest on Friday, May 29th at 4:30 pm. Don't miss it!

Booked #51 - The Gang's All Here!

This week for a brand new Booked Stevil goes solo as he chats with Wes Locher, the creator and writer of Unit 44, a new comic about a couple of bumbling Area 51 agents who forget to pay the rent on a storage space filled with secret contents and is subsequently sold to some rednecks at a public auction. Stevil and Wes chat about the inception of the idea, stemmed from Wes's own fascination with aliens possible existence, the instant gratification of collaborating with artist Ed Jimenez and the style choice of comedy over the usual dark and gritty. Wes also fills Stevil in on the great freedom creating your own independent comic in the new digital landscape. Unit 44 is available now on Comixology and can also be found on Wes and Ed's website.

Booked #50 - Extraterrestrial Storage Wars

Stevil and Rob Lobster are full of information for you to consume this week. They give you the lowdown of what's in stores to check out, like Howard the Duck, Spawn Resurrection and Batman: Arkham Knight to accompany the video game's release in the beginning of June. They also commend Boom Studios and IDW for giving us comic continuations of classic movies. Through this we also find out that Robster hasn't seen a pivotal 90s classic! Gasp! Our guys again tackle the comic TV and film info with some casting news, as well as letting you know that Powers is now on the Playstation network. There's a brand new Daredevil trailer out ahead of the April 10th launch, there may be a potential Deathstroke casting for David Ayer's upcoming Suicide Squad and Valiant Entertainment is venturing into the TV and film medium as well. Booked ends off their episode with a heartfelt message to the late Terry Pratchett, a massive influence on imaginations across the world. He will truly be missed. So, join the guys for some deep comic chat, drop them a line on twitter, check out their Put This In Your Eyeholes recommendations and keep reading those panels!

Booked #49 - Just Call Him Joe M.

The Stevil Dead and Rob Lobster have an absolute metric buttload of DC Comics talk this week from the Booked-Cave, as a big announcement came regarding the future of the massive publishing company after the Convergence event. This is the end of the New 52! so what's to come after? Don't worry, Rob's got the list of what will be coming to your favorite comic shop! The guys also have the full roster of which DC characters will be gracing the small screen for TNT's upcoming adaptation Titans. Will this be a team we recognize? With Robin/Nightwing leading the team, will we see Batman in this? Which incarnation of Starfire/Princess Koriand'r will we see and in how much/little clothing? She got a little "promiscuous" in the New 52 and destroyed some of the feelings we had of the Teen Titans. Also, Superman has new powers? Is the big blue Boy Scout able to go "Super Saiyan" now? With the reveal of the Kryptonians new super flare ability, the boys discuss whether this will benefit the character or is only a short-term gimmick to bring new readers. Finally, Stevil and Rob address the news that Marvel super writer Brian Michael Bendis is leaving the X-Men world after Uncanny X-Men #600. Will he ever return? What previously untouched character does he have his sights on next? Check out the guys picks this episode for "Put This In Your Eyeholes" and, as always. keep reading those panels people!!!

Booked #48 - Being Nelly

Booked returns for their first podcast in the brand new year of 2015! Rob Lobster and The Stevil Dead have some thoughts on the upcoming Secret Wars Marvel event, as well as DC Comics Convergence! How do these two massive events stack up against each other. How long has Jonathan Hickman, Axel Alonso and Tom Brevoort been planning this giant, universe ending epic? Does the DC Comics  office shifting Convergence event have the same kind of weigh behind it as Marvel does? Will any of the small miniseries being released during this have any lasting effect on the continuing New 52 universe? Then Stevil and Rob give you their favorite books of 2014. Ranging from teenage superheroes to Gods walking amongst us, they cover the bases of what you may have missed this year. Finishing off with what has them waiting outside their comic shops, the boys of Booked also have many unconvention books for you put on your pre order list in the next coming months. Did your favorite comics make our cut? What are we missing and what's got your hard earned cash in 2015? Let us know! Leave us a message below, tweet or Facebook us with you lists and keep reading those panels, people!

Booked #47 - Cake Salad

Recorded before Christmas Booked has a lot of comic movie and TV casting and news for you, as Stevil is joined by original Booked co-founder Jenosaur! Yes, it's a wonderful and warm reunion filled with, well, everything else that the League covers. No worries though, Stevil tries to tie it all back to comics. Stevil gets to ask Jenosaur, a PS4 owner, if she's seen any ads for Powers on the Playstation Network, if there's a release date and if we're going to get them week to week or binge style like Netflix. They also geek out over the Michele Forbes/Retro Girl and Eddie Izzard production photos   Then they get into some good, bad and ugly talk of casting confirmations, rumors and plot rundowns floating around on the net. What's going on with Fantastic Four dumb plot outline? Are all the castings in Suicide Squad ones we can get behind? How hopeful are we for a well done DC cinematic universe now that we have confirmations for the Wonder Woman film?   The cast is ended with a special thank you to AMC for continuing to give us gold and greenlighting a spin off to The Walking Dead called Cobalt and also a little series called PREACHER!!!!! OMG WE'RE GETTING PREACHER! FINALLY!!   Ahem, also please stay tuned for our special message about Constantine and keep reading those panels, people!

Booked #46 - The League of Comic-Philes

 Over a year ago, we had the great pleasure of having one of my favorite artists Michael Avon Oeming on our show. At the time his book The Victories had just released it's first trade paperback, Powers Bureau was in it's first few issues and we also got some great stories from the FX pilot for Powers that never was.   Well, this week on Booked, Mike returns along with Taki Soma to talk with me (The Stevil Dead). A lot of new stuff to talk about as Mike and Taki have just released their first issue of their new book wit Image Comics, Sinergy, a bad ass demon hunter book. I ask them how the idea for the book came about and how the experience differed from working with Taki to working with Brian Michael Bendis on Powers or Bryan Glass on Mice Templar. We also get into the age old question of who would be on their zombie survival routine.   I also asked every question I could think of pertaining to the December release of the Playstation Network's first ever TV show, Powers. How does it differ from the FX pilot? What was the trailer unveiling experience at New York Comic Con and what was it like meeting comedian, actor, marathon runner and linguist Eddie Izzard, because, believe me, I'm damn jealous.   There's so much more that we talked about, so check it out, then head to your local comic shop and pick up Sinergy #1, on shelves now! 

Booked #45 - You're a Dipthong

 For a comic fans, this slate of up coming movies from now until 2020 is a pretty insane treat, whether the movies turn out great or not. The sheer notion that we get to see some of our favourite characters and stories come to life on the big screen is something our younger selves couldn't even dream of. Between the big two giants we have over 20 movies and that only counts the DC Warner and Marvel Studios owned movies. That's mind blowing!   Unfortunately one company has been pretty consistent in giving us possibly the greatest comic films of all time, while the other has muddied up their waters with absolute cinematic blunders, rushed and confused franchise building and that "no jokes rule" rumour painted a pretty cold picture. Yes, it's no contest the Marvel has decimated its competitor DC/Legendary, a company that is so seemingly desperate to have what Marvel has going, that they fast tracked an expansive universe on the back of a seriously flawed film.   On our newest episode, Stevil, Rob and J.J. Webb breakdown each companies releases spanning the next six years and compare the approaches to how the slated films were unveiled to the public. With a few of the announcements coming out of nowhere, we form our opinions of what will be needed for some of these movies to be successful, what some of our dream casting ideas are and it's pretty safe to say that we're all hoping this Wonder Woman movie is going to be huge.     

Booked #44 - Keanu Reeves, Dream Bestie

Ben Morse, editor at Marvel.com and, best of all, friend of Booked, returns to gives us a rundown of the happenings at New York Comic Con and we try to pry a bit at some of the interesting events that were announced. The key word there is try. After having missed San Diego Comic Con, Ben tells us about getting used to the Con feeling and energy again, especially with Marvel hitting big the day before in Times Square with Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. Not only did legends like Kurt Busiek show up but we got the monster announcement of Secret Wars hitting Summer next year. Did we get Ben to give us some teasers? No, no, we did not. Ben likes having his job at Marvel a little too much and we can appreciate. We also discuss some of the other events in 2015 like Civil War, Age of Ultron vs. Marvel Zombies and Planet Hulk where we get a team up with Captain America as they fight Hulks with Tom Selleck mustaches? We also have some current Marvel talk as Ben informs us of how awesome Secret Avengers writer Ales Kot is, teases what's to come in Avengers and X-Men Axis and we think maybe Magneto has pushed the line too far now, even at the cost of mutant life. Lots to chat and speculate about in this episode, so get reading those panels! 

Booked #43 - Unfriended on Your Birthday

 A few months back Jenosaur and I (Stevil) were invited to do a panel at the North West Fan Fest by our friend Casey White of ShogunGamer.com, to talk about pop culture's effect on today's media, so basically comics, comics and more comics. On this panel I had the pleasure of meeting Aaron Golden, co-founder of Living Myth Magazine and writer of the column 'God of Comics' and honestly, I don't know why it took so long to have him on the show. His story of Warren Ellis pitching Next Wave to Marvel solidified his spot in the guest chair alone.   I had the chance to chat with Aaron over Skype and we settled into some pretty deep comic TV and movie discussions about all the negative reaction to Gotham, why he'd checked out of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and he enlightens me on the "fat guy with a power ring" movie that opened the door for Christopher Nolan to reboot the world's greatest detective.   Delving into the comic pages themselves, Aaron tells us his origin story. From learning to read with a Transformers comic, getting a Batman recommendation from an unlikely source, to becoming a novelist himself, our guest shows and proves his knowledge and gives us an abundance of food for thought.   Check out Aaron's God of Comics column here:  http://livingmythmagazine.com/blog/category/reviews/goc/ 

Booked #42 - Because Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

 Stevil and Rob Lobster welcome you to another episode of Booked! We start off in the realm of TV, where we give some love to our co-host Katie Findlay on the massively successful debut of her new show How To Get Away With Murder. Then we move into some of the comic related debuts of the week.   Is Gotham a little too heavy handed on the references? Do we wish it was just a straight forward Gotham Central adaptation? Our hosts also ask listeners to give it a little faith past the pilot, because when has a show ever been decided by it's pilot? Also on the TNT network, a Teen Titans series has gotten the green light with Nightwing being the rumored leader. What can we expect from this? Stevil is really hoping for Cassie Sandmark.   Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. also started their sophomore season, starting with a quick peek at Agent Carter. What can we expect from this prequel series? We will watch it all day if it has Dum Dum Duggan! And at the same time, can Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. continue the momentum it gained in the last part of it's first season? Bring on Mockingbird!   With so much to talk about in the TV world, Stevil and Rob get into the hype on the Tick revival at Amazon, the new Supergirl series, and whether or not Ollie Queen is a smart enough adversary for Ra's Al Ghul. We also talk the sad news of the Y the Last Man movie being dead in the water. Will we ever see Yorrick's story on the big screen? Is it better suited as a TV series?   Delving into some really comic talk, our hosts talk DC's big event Future's End. What were the high points? What are the lasting ramifications of this? Addressing the rumors that all the worlds will collide, Rob has worries that the proper respect may or may not be given to fan revered timelines. Words of wisdom are also given to the Batgirl creative team: Let's move on with less James Gordon Jr. for a bit.   Finally, a loving review of a book Stevil brought to the last cast as his recommendation. Rob has finally picked up his copy of Bryan Lee O'Malley's Seconds and blew through it in four hours. This means the guys can discuss it at length, as it definitely hits home for both of them. For Rob, it bring the looming reality of his thirtieth birthday that much closer and Stevil, well, dealing with exes usually sucks, we can all relate to that, right?   So join us for some deeply nerdy comic talk and let us know what you think in the comics below. Did you pick up Seconds? Or hate Gotham? What should be done with Y the Last Man? Think about it and keep reading those panels people! 

Booked #41 - A Weird Place in Pop Culture

 Rob Lobster and Stevil are here to dish on the controversies this week that have been plaguing the comic world recently. Is Milo Manara's Spider-Woman variant cover worth all the negative clout? And why is Time Magazine getting involved? Is the over sexualization of women in comics coming to an end? We also discuss the monster signing of Charles Soule to Marvel. What does it mean for his DC Comics series? So check us out, but keep it platonic! 

Booked #40 - Butt-Hurt over Spider-Woman's Butt

Finally our panel at Booked can speak openly about everything Guardians of the Galaxy and not have to spoiler alert anyone, because everyone's seen it now, right? Along with J.J. Webb, we address the ridiculous assumption that the casting of professional wrestlers in major films is a box office kiss of death, speculate where the Guardians go from here and the rest of it's tie ins with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. J.J. gets some pronunciation pet peeves off his chest, plus with all the love we give James Gunn and everyone involved in Guardians, was there room for improvement? We throw it down with no apologies this week on Booked!

Booked #39 - Nova Corpse

Always ready to give you all your comic news, reviews and informed comic banter, the League HQ Studios is proud to present BOOKED! Hosted by Steve Stebbing, Jen Armstrong and Rob Lobster. Together they will cover everything from the greatest comic events, the lamest hero, to whether Stephanie Brown really counts as a Robin. Presented at the same Bat-Time, and the same Bat-Channel (the internet, dummy) Booked! will encourage you to visit your friendly neighborhood comic shop and pick up an issue.

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