The Book Report Podcast #163: Nerd Service

January 31, 2014

Welcome to the long-awaited 163rd edition of The Book Report, Crave Online’s comic book podcast, featuring your hosts, Iann Robinson and Andy Hunsaker. Andy’s been sick and traveling – never a good combination – and we’ve missed a couple weeks, but now we’ll dive into the nerd news that’s fit to blather about!

Michael Douglas is Hank Pym! Johnny Depp could be Dr. Strange? There’s an Agent Carter series in the works? Wally West is back? Lex Luthor’s joining the Justice League? What’s all this then? We’ll confab on those topics, plus lots of comic books! Forever Evil, Justice League, Teen Titans, Rogues Rebellion, Superior Spider-Man, Avengers World, Secret Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Gothtopia, Transformers, X-Men Legacy, All-New X-Men, Guardians of the Galaxy, X-Factor, Miracleman, Uncanny Avengers, Batman, Deadpool, Invaders, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Velvet, Thunderbolts, Black Widow, Earth 2, Black Science, Daredevil, All-Star Western, EGOs, Alex + Ada, Superman/Wonder Woman, Justice League 3000, Hawkeye, Zero, and more!

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And thanks to My Special Agent for allowing us to use their Hulk song “Anger/Danger” as our opening theme.

Comic Channel Editor

Comics Editor Andy Hunsaker has written for Yahoo! Movies, Fancast, XfinityTV and UGO, among others, covering movies and television, and has loved comics ever since he read the giant-sized Marvel Treasury Edition of The Rampaging Hulk #26 four thousand times and grew to love guys with weird heads like M.O.D.O.K. and the Bi-Beast. Therefore, he will also defend Ang Lee's Hulk, although he understands why you don't like it and won't hold that against you.

As far as reviews go, he believes the main point of being a critic is not to pass yourself off as the final arbiter of quality passing holy judgment on a work of art, but rather just to share opinions so that the reader can decide whether or not the critic is someone whose tastes generally align with theirs. If so, that reviewer is one whose work you can trust if you're curious about a particular title. If not, cue loud, angry internet vitriol.