Recorded this past MLK Birthday, the CBB boys took advantage of the federal holiday by getting together to discuss recent comics!! Steve, Caleb and Billy Z roundtable six new books, so hit play to hear the hairy, heavy chit chat about Hulk: Smash Everything (Marvel), Aquaman #12 which features the title character's K.O. battle with Hawkman (DC), the Absolute Batman: Ark-M one-shot (DC), the new horror anthology ShiverSuspensestories (EC Comics/Oni), Mauruce Vellekoop's touching graphic novel memoir I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together (Pantheon) and the latest incarnation of Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt (Dynamite Entertainment) on this latest audio episode!

The Comic Book Bears Podcast is back for its first audio episode of 2026! After getting caught up with what their holidays were like (including a little bit of early Geek Gets show and tell) Bill Z, Steve and Caleb take us into the first rotation of the 2026 virtual spinner rack to talk about recent comics! DC is represented by Absolute Wonder Woman #15 (the first ever team up with Absolute Batman), by Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum, and by the second omnibus of The Question by Denny O'Neill and Denys Cowan. Two new Mad Cave books are also discussed - Look Into My Eyes and The New Space Age! And Kieron Gillen's Die series continues with Die Loaded from our friends at Image Comics!

One quick note - this episode was recorded on January 8th, one day after the killing of Renee Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis.

A lot has gone down since.

#abolishice

The final Comic Book Bears Podcast audio episode of the year finds us providing our picks for the best of comics for 2025! Hit play and discover what each of the CBB boys - Caleb, Bill Z and Steve - selected for our favorites in a number of categories: Best Series, Best Single Issue, Best Graphic Novel, Best Writer and Best Artist! We also chime in on what our other favorites were for 2025 in music, film, television, Happy Meals toy promotions (!), video games and more! Thank you again for your continued support for our podcast throughout 2025 and we look forward to joining you again soon in 2026!!! Hoping that you all had an awesome holiday season and wishing you all safety and success in ringing in the new year!!

Join us for the penultimate audio episode of the Comic Book Bears Podcast for 2025! Unfortunately Caleb was unable to join us so in his seat we welcome back to the show longtime friend Jon Runyan of Comics By Night and A Comic Book Look! Listen in as Steve, Billy Z and Jon roundtable a bunch of recent comics including Strange Tales (Marvel), Nightwing Annual 2025 (DC), Matt Kindt's Space Scouts (Dark Horse), Doomed 2099 (Marvel), the Over Easy graphic novel from Mimi Pond (Drawn and Quarterly) and the dollar bin discovery of Nocturnal Emissions by Fiona Smyth from 1991. All this plus our Woofs of the Week and Geek Gets segments and some speculation about a Marvel Comics reboot potentially being on the horizon.

One more new Comic Book Bears Podcast audio episode for November! Recorded on a livestream before Thanksgiving 2025 but hitting your ear buds after, Bill Z, Steve and Caleb discuss some of the comics they were thankful to have read recently - the origin expanding Mr. Terrific: Year One (DC), the spicy sci-fi romance of Maria Llovet's Artificial (Image), the action packed Skinbreaker from Robert Kirkman and David Finch (Image), the kick-off of a mini-series based on TV's Gargoyles mini-series focused on Demona (Dynamite), the tarot inspired fantasy of Arcana: The Lost Heirs graphic novel (Feiwel and Friends) and the first issue Mark Russell's new sci-fi horror anthology series Terrorbytes (Mad Cave!!!) GOBBLE GOBBLE!!!

Time for another Comic Book Bears audio episode from one of our recent livestreams! And this time Steve, Caleb and Billy Z have a whole bunch of cool books in this comic roundtable! And it kicks off with Deadpool/Batman #1, the first new Marvel/DC crossover in 21 years! We have more Marvel books on the docket with Avengers #s 29 and 30 as well as the premiere issue of Amazing Spider-Man: Torn #1! DC is also represented with the return of Gotham Academy! Lastly, we chat about the collected edition of Oni's Out of Alcatraz and the western themed Outlaw Showdown from the relaunched EC Comics line! We hope you had a great Thanksgiving and hope you give this a listen after your Tryptophan injection!!

We are almost at Halloween and the CBB boys are back with another new audio episode! Since the last episode was horror themed, we opted to travel down our familiar round table route for this one. Join us to hear Caleb, Bill Z and Steve talk about a host of new comics! Both DC and Marvel have new crossover events starting up so we first discuss DC K.O. #1 (and the prologue issues associated with it - Justice League Unlimited #11 and Justice League: The Omega Act Special #1) and X-Men of Apocalypse: Alpha #1! Two Image books are on our spinner rack in the form of the first issues of Good as Dead and News from the Fallout. We also check out the new body-swap book Flip by Ngozi Ukazu and published by First Second. Lastly, we are thrilled to discuss the espionage-based graphic novel Shaken and Stirred written by good friend of the show Steve Bryant with art by Rob Jones! So hit play - we promise no tricks and all treats!

It's spooky season and to pay tribute to that, on this new Comic Book Bears Podcast audio episode Steve and Bill Z head to the movies to talk about films based on horror comic from the past six decades! Among the many films discussed on the episode are Tales from the Crypt (1972), The Vault of Horror (1973), Swamp Thing (1982), The Crow (1994), Spawn (1997), Blade (1998), Virus (1999), From Hell (2001), Blade II (2002), Alien vs. Predator (2004), Blade: Trinity (2004), Hellboy (2004), Constantine (2005), Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), Ghost Rider (2007), Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011) and the Hellboy (2019) and The Crow (2024) reboots! And that's not even the full list! Halloween is only a few days away and if you wanted to get in the spirit and watch a horror movie, hit play and we will definitely give you some ideas for one, albeit with a funnybook bent!