Comic Book Bears Podcast

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. P...

It's another roundtable of recent comics with your hairy heavy funnybook reading homos as we say goodbye to September! Hit play to hear Steve, Caleb and Bill Z opine on new series like Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League (DC), All-New Spider-Gwen: The Ghost Spider (Marvel) and Speed Racer (Mad Cave!) We also discuss the touching done-in-one Incredible Hulk #27 (Marvel), the immensely consequential Transformers #24 (Image) a...

We have reached the end of another month and that means more Comic Book Bears Podcast audio episodes! This time around the principal focus is on the new Batman #1, the relaunch of the title from writer Matt Fraction with superstar artist Jorge Jiménez! Establishing a new status quo for the Caped Crusader and his home city of Gotham, Batman #1 from DC hits the ground running including a supporting cast shakeup and a much more high t...

We have reached the symbolic end of Summer 2025 and the CBB Boys are back with a new audio episode. Caleb, Bill Z and Steve reconvene to discuss a set of new comics and graphic novels as we close out August. We have the Big Two represented by this year's Titans Annual from DC with Donna Troy in the spotlight with a story written and drawn by Phil Jimenez and by a new Captain America #1 from Marvel from the team of Chip Zdarsky and ...

The CBB Boys head back to the movies, this time for for The Fantastic Four: First Steps!!! TFF:FS is the 37th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franschise and the second reboot of the Fantastic Four for the cinema. The film was directed by Matt Shakman and features an ensemble cast including Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn as the family-based super-hero foursome, alongside Julia Garner, Sarah N...

This new Comic Book Bears Podcast audio episode is a little bit different. We were down to two bears in the cave this week so we elected to use this time together as a "backdoor pilot" for Steve Mowry's new horror-centered podcast The Bear Cave of Terror. BCOT will be available in its own feeds going forward but with Bill Z as the first of Steve's guest co-hosts, we are thrilled to present you our discussion of the seminal 1975 fil...

We could not wait to bring you this episode!!!  Superman, the new film, is written and directed by James Gunn and is the kickoff movie for the new DC Universe media franchise! David Corenswet stars as Superman/Clark Kent, alongside Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor along with Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Nathan Fillion, Isabela Merced and others. In the film, Superman must prove to a suspect world that h...

To finish out Pride Month we have another new Comic Book Bears Podcast audio episode! Bill Z and Steve share their HeroesCon experience in Charlotte in the beginning of the episode. And though Caleb was not with them for the con, he is back with them on the mic to discuss a series of new books! We first cover this year's Pride Month anthology offerings from the Big Two - Marvel United: A Pride Special #1 and DC Pride 2025! The quee...

New Comic Book Bears Podcast audio episode! On June 19th, CBB boys Steve and Bill Z were actually together in the same place for this mini-episode previewing HeroesCon in Charlotte which ran from June 20th-22nd! Though sadly Caleb-less, hit play to hear what we had planned for the con ... and you won't have to wait too long for the follow-up as our post-convention wrap up episode is following right behind this one tomorrow!

We move into a new season and the Comic Book Bears are back with this new summer-sized audio episode! Hit play to hear Steve, Caleb and Billy Z talk about a number of new books and graphic novels! From the Big Two we explore the newest iteration of Giant-Size X-Men from Marvel and DC's The Power Company Re-Energized #1. On the independent side of things we dig into The Fairy Godfather by Robert Mailer Anderson and Jon Sack, Muybrid...

The CBB boys (Bill Z, Steve and Caleb) say farewell to Spring with the end of the Merry Month of May and look forward to Summer with this new audio episode! After an opening tangent salvo about Diamond's bankruptcy and all that brings, toys and tariffs and ... um ... the 2008 Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy, our fellas finally get focused on the funnybooks. Absolute Green Lantern (DC), Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma (DC), Th...

The CBB Boys head back to the movies and discuss Thunderbolts*, the 36th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe on this latest audio episode! The movie is directed by Jake Schreier and stars an (amazing) ensemble cast including Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen and Julia Louis-Dreyfus! Thunderbolts* finds the unlikely team of Yelena Belova, Winter Soldier, U...

It is hard to believe that it has been over four years since our special group of Star Wars fans (Mike Lovins and Craig Lantz joining CBB regulars Steve Mowry and Bill Zanowitz) have been gathered around the mic together, so we are thrilled to bring this Force Sensitive Foursome back on this new audio episode! We very recently saw the second season of Andor begin with the first three episodes released at once. We weigh in on that (...

It has been a few years since we had a Comic Book Bears Podcast episode wholly dedicated to manga and figured it was time for a new one! So hit play to join in on 2+ hours of chatter about some great works, old and new, that have come out of Japan! The CBB Boys - Bill Z, Steve and Caleb - have chosen Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Wild Strawberry, Mach GoGoGo (aka Speed Racer), The Liminal Zone, Astro Baby and Inuyashiki as the sub...

Spring has sprung and March is in its "out like a lamb" phase and the CBB Boys (Steve, Caleb and Bill Z) are back with a new audio episode! For a change there is a good deal of comics related news between Diamond's auction completing, the cast roll out for Avengers: Doomsday and the New History of The DC Universe and we cover each of these at the beginning of our show. Then onto the new comic talk with Avengers #21 (with an Avenger...

Through new tattoos, foot injuries and holding down the fort at home, Bill Z, Steve and Caleb return with another new Comic Book Bears audio episode! After a little bit of catching up with each other and a little bit of news (a new DC/Marvel crossover planned for the summer, Daredevil: Born Again), the CBB Boys dive into comic talk. And it's a varied grouping this time around - from the latest Green Lantern Corps relaunch (DC) to t...

It's back to the movies for the Comic Book Bears on this new podcast audio episode! The film this time is Captain America: Brave New World! It is the 35th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise, directed by Julius Onah starring Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America alongside Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas, Carl Lumbly, Xosha Roquemore, Giancarlo Esposito, Liv Tyler, Tim Blake Nelson, and Harrison Ford as President Thadd...

Time for a new Comic Book Bears Podcast audio episode!  Steve, Caleb and Billy Z reconvene for two hours of four color funnybook talk! On the docket this time are a few news items (Diamond's bankruptcy, Marvel Studios not inviting Rob Liefeld to an afterparty) followed by a half dozen books we wanted to spotlight. Hit play and hear about what we thought of the inaugural issues of a few new series: Aquaman (DC), West Coast Avengers ...

The Comic Book Bears podcast goes All In this time around in our new audio episode! As much of the US is contending with a January winter freeze, Bill Z, Steve and Caleb once again huddle around the mic. And after a deep dive into recent news (specifically Diamond Comic Distributors filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the allegations by various women against Neil Gaiman), the CBB boys turn their attention to DC Comics and their Al...