[Master Higgins]

It's all the Geekbox's fault.

[JEKKI]

oh yay! Dark Phoenix Saga book club!

lucky me, I picked it up digitally when it was on sale so I finally started reading it and am 2 issues in so far!

and man it'll be a long read lol, those old issues sure do pack in a lot of words.

Also I listened to the Heroclix episode today,

that Majestix place is right by where I live! I had no idea it was like the premier clix spot.

I'm kinda interested in learning and playing but not really... we'll see...

I've never actually been there tho, but it's next door to the place I get my haircut so I'll pop in and say hi tomorrow

I'll tell em Comics Conspiracy sent me

[JEKKI]

I went to Majestix.

basically I keep a few titles off my pull list so I can have a reason to visit other stores and buy something.

so I went to pick up my superior foes, and the dood working there was straight up stereotypical socially awkward nerdy comic book store kinda guy.

I was like "yeah I heard about u guys on a podcast and wanted to check out the store!" and I swear the guy could not handle a conversation...

but a bunch of nerds were off to the side buying pack after pack of magic cards fishing for rare ones and he was just enamored by what was going on over there.

anywayz, guy was real young too so I doubt he's a manager or anything, just a part time grunt

but regardless I wont ever be going there again lol.

got many more stores and options in the area, with much friendlier and interesting staff working there!

[Master Higgins]

LISTEN TO THE LATEST EPISODE: The Comic Conspiracy — Episode 151 (2014-03-24)
Bit late this week, but plenty to talk about, including listener questions, Superior Spider-Man #30, the return of Peter Parker, more Forever Evil delays, DC Comics employee questionnaire, and Arrow episode 02x16 "Suicide Squad". Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Bryce Larsen, Brock Sager, and Toby Sidler.
Running Time: 1h 05m 00s

[LiQuid]

Better late than never.

[Master Higgins]

It's all the Ryan Higgins' fault.

[Master Higgins]

LISTEN TO THE LATEST EPISODE: The Comic Conspiracy — Episode 152 (2014-03-31)
This week, we discuss some listener questions, April Fools' Day is terrible, giving up on new #1s, Batman's birthday, new Justice League character, Joker mask, ComiXology for sale, the Justice League movie is almost official maybe, and the Comic Conspiracy Book Club pick for March, X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga! Starring Ryan Higgins, Bryce Larsen, Brock Sager, Toby Sidler, and Charlie West.
Running Time: 1h 26m 33s

[JEKKI]

I finished Dark Phoenix saga the other day... it's really good!!

I swear those old comics, they put more story in 3 issues than freakin Battle of the Atom or Infinity can do in their entire run lol

[Master Higgins]

LISTEN TO THE LATEST EPISODE: The Comic Conspiracy — Episode 153 (2014-04-07)
This week, we discuss New York City, our 3rd Anniversary, selling someone on Future's End, suggestions for a new reader, March 2014 sales numbers, New 52 hate, Inhuman, Walking Dead finale, Game of Thrones premiere, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier spoiler-talk. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Brock Sager, and Charlie West.
Running Time: 1h 24m 35s

[karubah]

Congrats on the anniversary.

Regarding Loki's staff from The Avengers - there has been speculation that the blue stone in the staff could be the mind gem. Wikipedia describes it as: "Allows the user to greatly strengthen and enhance mental and psionic power and access the thoughts and dreams of other beings. Backed by the Power Gem, the Mind Gem can access all minds in existence simultaneously. When searching for it, the Illuminati apparently discovered that the Mind Gem was the personification of the universal subconscious."

If that is the case, then we have been shown three infinity gems in the cinematic universe.
1. The Tesseract is the space stone(Captain America and Avengers).
2. The Aether is the power stone(Thor 2).
3. Loki's staff gem is the mind stone(Avengers).

That leaves the soul, time, and reality gems to be shown in the next films.

[Master Higgins]

LISTEN TO THE LATEST EPISODE: The Comic Conspiracy — Episode 154 (2014-04-14)
This week, we discuss the Scalped tv show, Multiversity gets (another) release date, All-New DC Now relaunches, Grayson, Amazon buys ComiXology, comic savants, and some more Captain America: The Winter Soldier talk. Starring Ryan Higgins, Bryce Larsen, Brock Sager, Toby Sidler, and Charlie West.
Running Time: 1h 20m 12s

[Master Higgins]

Due to a mistake, a kind of huge #GoT spoiler for this weeks episode wasn't edited out of the Comic Conspiracy ep last night. I'm reuploading the edited version, please don't listen to the one from last night if you don't want to hear the spoiler! It was totally off the cuff and was intended to be cut out, but I missed it. Please check for the fixed file in just a few minutes.

[LiQuid]

[spoiler]Was it about Joffrey dying?[spoiler]

[Master Higgins]

Yes it was, Brock.

[jw_6179]

WGN has been around for a long, long time. Back in the 1980s, we used to get it on UHF here in Philadelphia. I remember they used to air the Cubs' day games.

Ever heard of Bozo the clown? He was an old mainstay of WGN.

[Master Higgins]

LISTEN TO THE LATEST EPISODE: The Comic Conspiracy — Episode 155 (2014-04-21)
This week, we apologize for last week's unedited spoiler bomb, a decent proposal, the comic reboot cycle, keeping weekly comics fresh, Comic Book Men, worst costumes, Darwyn Cooke's Batman short, Batman: Assault on Arkham trailer, WonderCon 2014, and the maybe eventual Bone movies. Starring Ryan Higgins, Brock Sager, and Charlie West.
Running Time: 1h 04m 07s

[karubah]

Good episode.

Congrats on the proposal.

I would watch a reality show with Kevin Smith, going around to comic book stores across America. I only saw part of the first episode of Comic Book Men and parts of other episodes, but it always seemed like a very boiler plate reality show with staged drama scenes and gross elements of shows like Pawn Stars were the cast try to screw someone out of money for memorabilia. If you want to watch a good reality show see Swamp People. Hunting alligators seems like a crazy fun way to make a living.

[Master Higgins]

LISTEN TO THE LATEST EPISODE: The Comic Conspiracy — Episode 156 (2014-04-28)
This week, we discuss the return of Wally West, the return of The Joker, the death of Wolverine, Deadpool vs X-Force, AXis, new comiXology app, Comic Book Men customer, and the thirty-second official announcement of the Justice League movie. For real this time. Really. Starring Ryan Higgins, Omar Brodrick, Bryce Larsen, Brock Sager, and Toby Sidler.
Running Time: 1h 12m 34s

[Master Higgins]

Obligatory shout-out to LiQuid during our JL movie talk.

[LiQuid]

Higgins have any of you dorks tried Infinite Crisis yet? I bet you would all be terrible at it but you should give it a try. Pass out my referral link:

https://account.infinitecrisis.com/en/r ... ign=IC_RAF

I'm currently playing a lot of Mecha Superman but he is about to be out of the free rotation so I'm giving Joker a shot.

[Master Higgins]

I have a friend working on it, played once in F&F alpha, then remembered it's a moba and I hate them.

[CrossXhunteR]

Do you hate mobas because you are bad at them?

[LiQuid]

Do you hate mobas because you are bad at them?

Good thing there's an entire tier of player that sucks at MOBAs. It's great!

[Master Higgins]

Do you hate mobas because you are bad at them?

Yes.

[LiQuid]

Then how do you like anything?!

[Master Higgins]

LISTEN TO THE LATEST EPISODE: The Comic Conspiracy — Episode 157 (2014-05-05)
This week, we discuss upcoming comics we're excited for, the return of Rich Rider, video game comics, Future's End, the Avengers’ next big event, Free Comic Book Day 2014, the first Gotham trailer, The Comic Conspiracy's Book Club pick University², and Amazing Spider-Man 2. Starring Ryan Higgins, Brock Sager, Toby Sidler, and Charlie West.
Running Time: 1h 41m 50s

[karubah]

Higgins - fiancee. Not Girlfriend. hehehe. I bet you are still getting used to the change.

With the Amazing Spider-man movies I would have been fine if they just acted like the Sam Raimi films happened and moved forward. Seems to me with these new movies they are trying to do too many things at once. They don't want to alienate anyone new to the character so they gotta do a back story, but they want to move the series forward so they bring in new villains to the movies that get short changed. And what happened to that big plot thread from the first movie, for that matter, of Peter finding Uncle Ben's killer? They totally forget about that? What a mess.

Gotham trailer was cool, but isn't it early to be judging whether the series will be good or not? I'll give it three or four episodes before passing judgement.

[LiQuid]

Saying fiance is stupid unless you're French. Girlfriend works until you're actually married.

[Master Higgins]

Saying fiance is stupid unless you're French. Girlfriend works until you're actually married.

That's our feeling, too.

[LiQuid]

Sometimes you're alright Higgins.