Four-Color Flashback

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Four-Color Flashback

Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 504 - FCF: Superman for All Seasons (feat. Eric Sipple)

Gobbledygeek episode 504, “FCF: Superman for All Seasons (feat. Eric Sipple),” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the Gobbledygeek season 15 premiere! Breaking from vaguely defined tradition,

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 498 - "FCF: Far Sector"

Gobbledygeek episode 498, “FCF: Far Sector,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. In brightest day, in blackest night, no listener shall escape the Four-Color Flashback’s might! In an unusual turn of events, Paul has selected a DC book–but, of course,

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 496 - "FCF: Boxers & Saints"

Gobbledygeek episode 496, “FCF: Boxers & Saints,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. For this month’s Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo tackle a blindspot from one of their favorite writers. Gene Luen Yang, author of Gobbledyfaves like American Born Chinese and

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 492 - "FCF: We Only Find Them When They're Dead"

Gobbledygeek episode 492, “FCF: We Only Find Them When They’re Dead,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. Got a hankerin’ for god meat? Well, pull out your giant lightsaber knife and feast on a new Four-Color Flashback! For the first FCF

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 482 - "FCF: Oblivion Song"

Gobbledygeek episode 482, “FCF: Oblivion Song,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. Sing, sing a song; sing of oblivion, it’s 36 issues long! For this month’s first (?) Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo are harmonizing about Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo De

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 478 - "FCF: Thor by Jason Aaron"

Gobbledygeek episode 478, “FCF: Thor by Jason Aaron,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. Listener, we would have words with thee! As the Odinson and the Mighty Thor swing their hammers onto the big screen in Thor: Love and Thunder, Paul and

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 476 - "FCF: Die (feat. Eric Sipple)"

Gobbledygeek episode 476, “FCF: Die (feat. Eric Sipple),” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. For this month’s Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo roll the Die to discuss Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans’ dark tale of a group of one-time RPG nerds

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 472 - "FCF: Smile"

Gobbledygeek episode 472, “FCF: Smile,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. Sit back and say ‘Aaaahhhh!’ For this month’s Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo take a trip to the dentist with Raina Telgemeier’s 2010 autobiographic novel Smile. Raina looks back

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 469 - "FCF: The Many Deaths of Laila Starr"

Gobbledygeek episode 469, “FCF: The Many Deaths of Laila Starr,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. What happens when a child is born who will invent immortality? According to Ram V and Filipe Andrade’s The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, Death

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 465 - "FCF: Six-Gun Gorilla"

Gobbledygeek episode 465, “FCF: Six-Gun Gorilla,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. Sometimes a gorilla is just a gorilla. Sometimes, though, that gorilla–righteously bearing arms though he may be–is a gateway to a story about the power and fluidity of

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 461 - "FCF: Black Panther - The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda"

Gobbledygeek episode 461, “FCF: Black Panther – The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. Panthers…IN SPAAAAACE! For their first Four-Color Flashback of 2022, Paul and Arlo look to the stars, where they find Black Panther: The Intergalactic Empire

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 456 - "FCF: Outer Darkness"

Gobbledygeek episode 456, “FCF: Outer Darkness,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. “And cast ye the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” So says Matthew 25:30, and in John Layman and Afu Chan’

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 450 - "FCF: The Spire"

Gobbledygeek episode 450, “FCF: The Spire,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. For their latest Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo are exploring the world of Si Spurrier and Jeff Stokely’s 2015 mini-series The Spire. Our location is a massive, tiered city

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 443 - "FCF: Sweet Tooth: Deluxe Edition - Books Two and Three"

Gobbledygeek episode 443, “FCF: Sweet Tooth: Deluxe Edition – Books Two and Three,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. Nature is healing. For this month’s Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo conclude the post-apocalyptic journeys of  The Boy and the Big Man with

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 440 - "FCF: Sweet Tooth"

Gobbledygeek episode 440, “FCF: Sweet Tooth,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. Imagine a world where a global pandemic killed millions and changed society forever. Spooky stuff, huh? Well, take a break from reality with this month’s Four-Color Flashback: Sweet Tooth:

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 433 - "FCF: Extremity"

Gobbledygeek episode 433, “FCF: Extremity,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. We’re all about lending a hand here at Gobbledygeek, so for this month’s Four-Color Flashback, we’re slicing and dicing our way through Daniel Warren Johnson’s Extremity. The

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 430 - "FCF: American Vampire"

Gobbledygeek episode 429, “Geek Challenge: Wolf vs. The Insider,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. What’s more American than ruthless bastards sucking dry the poor, hardworking souls that make this country what it is–all in the name of progress? We’

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 428 - "FCF: Prince of Cats"

Gobbledygeek episode 428, “FCF: Prince of Cats,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts. Two hosts, unalike in dignity, in fair Gobbledygeek, where we set our podcast. For this month’s Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo pull out a boombox blasting Romeo and

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 422 - "FCF: Sandman Mystery Theatre - Book One (feat. Vickie Willis Navarra)"

Gobbledygeek episode 422, “Sandman Mystery Theatre – Book One (feat. Vickie Willis Navarra)”, is available for listening or download right here and on Apple Podcasts here. For the penultimate Gobbledygeek of the year, Paul and Arlo return to an institution they dropped like a bad habit at the start of the

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 397 - "Four-Color Flashback: Black Hammer"

Art by Dean Ormston (pencils/inks) & Dave Stewart (color) from ‘Black Hammer: Age of Doom’ (2018) Gobbledygeek episode 397, “Four-Color Flashback: Black Hammer,” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. Don’t you just hate it when you’re a superhero who saves the

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 395 - "Four-Color Flashback: Watchmen (feat. Greg Sahadachny)"

Art by Dave Gibbons from ‘Watchmen’ (1986-87). Gobbledygeek episode 395, “Four-Color Flashback: Watchmen (feat. Greg Sahadachny).” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. After a year of pointedly discussing no superhero stories, Paul and Arlo revive Four-Color Flashback for a new decade with the big

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 392 - "Four-Color Flashback: Daytripper"

Art from ‘Daytripper’ (2010) by Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon & Dave Stewart. Gobbledygeek episode 392, “Four-Color Flashback: Daytripper,” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. It took Brás de Oliva Domingos so long to find out, and he found out. What, if anything, he found

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 385 - "Four-Color Flashback: Green River Killer"

Art from ‘Green River Killer: A True Detective Story’ by Jonathan Case. Dialogue by Jeff Jensen. Gobbledygeek episode 385, “Four-Color Flashback: Green River Killer,” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. For another installment of this year’s non-superhero Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo look

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 377 - "Four-Color Flashback: The Nameless City Trilogy"

Art from ‘The Nameless City’ by Faith Erin Hicks & Jordie Bellaire Gobbledygeek episode 377, “Four-Color Flashback: The Nameless City Trilogy,” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. For the next installment of this year’s superhero-free Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo leave the realm

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Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 376 - "Four-Color Flashback: American Born Chinese (feat. Johny Ho)"

Art from ‘American Born Chinese’ by Gene Luen Yang & Lark Pien. Gobbledygeek episode 376, “Four-Color Flashback: American Born Chinese (feat. Johny Ho),” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. For the next installment of this year’s non-superheroic Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo are