The Book Report #167: Ian Evilpants

March 18, 2014

Hidey ho, strangers! It’s time once again for The Book Report, Crave Online’s comic book podcast, with your friendly pals Andy Hunsaker and Iann Robinson, ready to cuss and groan and bitch and moan about sequential art and its related multimedia expansion!

By request, we weigh in on the state of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, and the first ten minutes we’ve seen of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Then it’s funnybooks! Forever Evil, Superior Spider-Man, Secret Avengers, Batman, Superman/Wonder Woman, Afterlife with Archie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Captain Marvel, Loki: Agent of Asgard, Starlight, Worth, All-New X-Men, Hawkeye and much much more!

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

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.