The Oblivion Bar: A Comic Book Podcast
May 5, 2025

MOVIE REVIEW: Thunderbolts*

“Being the hero, there is no higher calling.” ⚡💥 News & Notes [Sponsored By Oni Press (https://www.onipress.com/) ] (7:50) For our News & Notes segment, we discuss DC Studios CLAYFACE film is reportedly undergoing a “page 1 rewrite”, Jeremy Renner turned down HAWKEYE Season 2 over Disney’s lowball offer, and…

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May 2, 2025

INTERVIEW: Ben & Max Berkowitz

Joining us today are the co-founders of the communications and marketing firm Not A Billionaire (https://www.notabillionaire.com/company) and the co-writers of the Jewish fantasy folklore comic series The Writer (https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/3012-056/The-Writer-1) with actor/co-writer Josh Gad (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1265802/) and artist Ariel Olivetti. In their series The Writer, amidst a dark and mysterious turn, comic…

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April 28, 2025

INTERVIEW: Curt Pires

Joining us today is the comic book writer of titles like You've Been Cancelled (https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/8663664/youve-been-cancelled-tp) over at Mad Cave Studios, It's Only Teenage Wasteland (https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comics/series/161671/its-only-teenage-wasteland) & Youth (https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/7526694/youth-vol-1-tp) at Dark Horse Comics, & Olympia (https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comics/series/143952/olympia) and Indigo Children (https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comics/series/163416/indigo-children) at Image Comics. More recently, he has the ultraviolent space romance…

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April 28, 2025

INTERVIEW: Curt Pires (4/28/25) | The Oblivion Bar Podcast

Joining us this week is the comic book writer of titles like You've Been Cancelled over at Mad Cave Studios, It's Only Teenage Wasteland & Youth at Dark Horse Comics, & Olympia and Indigo Children at Image Comics. More recently, he has the ultraviolent space romance Galactic coming from DSTLRY…

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April 25, 2025

INTERVIEW: Arree Chung

Joining us today is the author and illustrator of celebrated children's books like Mixed: A Colorful Story (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250142733/mixedacolorfulstory/) , NINJA! (https://arree.com/books-ninja/) , and many others. His most recent book Don’t Cause Trouble (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250887306/dontcausetrouble/) –which officially releases on April 22nd–tells the tale of middle schooler Ming Lee and what it’s like…

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April 25, 2025

(Patreon Preview) The Grid - Episode 160

This is a preview of our Patreon-exclusive show called The Grid. Check this out, along with a bunch of other awesome perks over on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/oblivionbarpod) . Brand new episodes every Friday! For episode 160 of The Grid, Aaron and Chris discuss Aaron's spoiler-free Thunderbolts* (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqnRzjPfb5A) thoughts, Predator: Badlands (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8-_Ei9ESmI)…

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April 21, 2025

MOVIE REVIEW: Sinners & Warfare w/ Brad Gullickson

“You keep on dancin’ with the devil... one day, he's gonna follow you home” Double feature time! Brad Gullickson (https://www.instagram.com/mouthdork/) of The Comic Book Couples Counseling (https://www.comicbookcouplescounseling.com/) joins us to discuss Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan's part-delta gothic, part-musicological meditation: Sinners (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGxHflevuk) (10:51). ‘Sinners’ Director Ryan Coogler Explains Film…

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April 18, 2025

INTERVIEW: Anthony Iannaccio & Joey Murphy

Joining us today is NYC-based writer and co-host/editor/producer of the comic book podcast Comics and Chronic (https://www.comicsandchronic.com/) and the artist of Bears Grand Day (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bears-grand-day-joey-murphy/1136240912) , Dinosaur Daycare, Space Penguin, and much more. Together, they are the creative team of the crowd-funded comic series Superguy (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mrtonynacho/superguy-1) , which tells the…

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April 14, 2025

INTERVIEW: Matt Yocum

Joining us this week is the comic book writer of titles like An Army of Hope (https://globalcomix.com/c/an-army-of-hope) , Requiem for a Robot (https://globalcomix.com/c/requiem-for-a-robot) , and his most recent venture–the successfully crowd-funded ClosetWorld (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hangar19studios/closetworld) . He is also a retired United States Air Force Colonel, but maybe most impressively: he wrote…

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April 11, 2025

INTERVIEW: Matt Yocum (4/11/25) | The Oblivion Bar Podcast

Joining us today is the comic book writer of titles like An Army of Hope, Requiem for a Robot, and his most recent venture–the successfully crowd-funded ClosetWorld. He is also a retired United States Air Force Colonel, but maybe most impressively: he wrote an issue of Wolverine where he begrudgingly…

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April 9, 2025

MOVIE REVIEW: A Minecraft Movie

Here is a bonus (unedited) episode where we discuss the wildly successful adaptation of one of the most important game franchises of all-time: A Minecraft Movie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1EtVPBSMw) ! "A mysterious portal pulls four misfits into the Overworld, a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they'll…

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April 8, 2025

INTERVIEW: Aubrey Sitterson (4/7/25) | The Oblivion Bar Podcast

Joining us this week is the comic book writer of titles like Savage Hearts, No One Left to Fight, The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling, & the upcoming Image Comics series Free Planet—a geopolitical space opera that tells the tale of the first completely free planet in human history…

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April 7, 2025

INTERVIEW: Aubrey Sitterson

Joining us this week is the comic book writer of titles like Savage Hearts (https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/3006-649/Savage-Hearts-TPB) , No One Left to Fight (https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/search?keyword=No%20One%20Left%20to%20Fight) , The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling (https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/5539676/the-comic-book-story-of-professional-wrestling-tp) , & the upcoming Image Comics series Free Planet (https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/4829302/free-planet-1) —a geopolitical space opera that tells the tale of…

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March 25, 2025

INTERVIEW: Patrick Horvath (3/25/25) | The Oblivion Bar

Joining us this week is the Eisner-nominated comic book creator of the 2024 smash hit Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees over at IDW Publishing. He’s here to discuss his upcoming giant-sized one-shot at Oni Press Free For All which delivers a brutal new vision of capitalism where in the…

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March 24, 2025

INTERVIEW: Patrick Horvath

Joining us this week is the Eisner-nominated comic book creator of the 2024 smash hit Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees (https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/3261284/beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees-tp) over at IDW Publishing. He’s here to discuss his upcoming giant-sized one-shot at Oni Press Free For All (https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/9802382/free-for-all-1) which delivers a brutal new vision of capitalism where…

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March 20, 2025

Yo @marvel, I just wanna talk… #marvel #doctordoom

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March 19, 2025

Matt Fraction talks about his upcoming run on #Batman 🦇

Matt Fraction talks about his upcoming run on #Batman with artist Jorge Jimenez 🦇

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March 18, 2025

Michael Allred talks about the impact of comic books 💫 #comics #comicbooks

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March 17, 2025

Matt Fraction & Michael Allred join The Oblivion Bar to talk about The Minor Threats Universe 🪽🌊

Matt Fraction & Michael Allred join The Oblivion Bar to talk about The Minor Threats Universe over at @darkhorsecomics 🪽🌊

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March 17, 2025

INTERVIEW: Matt Fraction & Michael Allred

Joining us today are the creative team of the first issue of the new Minor Threats four-issue anthology Welcome To Twilight (https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/4834065/from-the-world-of-minor-threats-welcome-to-twilight-1) . One is the Eisner & Harvey Award winning writer behind titles like Adventureman (https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/search/145888?keyword=Adventureman) , ODY-C (https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/search/113963?keyword=ODY-C) , November (https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comics/series/144189/november) , & Sex Criminals (https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comics/series/110179/sex-criminals) over at…

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March 15, 2025

INTERVIEW: Matt Fraction & Michael Allred (3/17/25) | The Oblivion Bar

Joining us today are the creative team of the first issue of the new Minor Threats four-issue anthology Welcome To Twilight. One is the Eisner & Harvey Award winning writer behind titles like Adventureman, ODY-C, November, & Sex Criminals over at Image Comics. You may also know his Marvel work,…

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March 14, 2025

An entire generation of anime/manga fans owe their love of the art form to Sci-Fi/Toonami #anime

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March 13, 2025

If you haven’t read Otomo’s original manga, let us be your reminder to do that immediately #akira

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March 12, 2025

Playing Japan-exclusive Dragon Ball Z video games in the 90s was a STRUGGLE #dragonball #videogames

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