In this week’s ball-hunting episode, Magnus nears the end of his downtime before a virtual onslaught of mini and megaseries occupies virtually the entire next year. As part of the “festivities”, it seemed like a good idea at the time to gab about the Punisher MAX “Kitchen Irish” storyline. The […]

In this week’s ball-slapping episode, Magnus continues enjoying what little remains of the downtime before the 100th episode and the onslaught of megaseries that 2015 and 2016 portend. This week’s comics focus on Batman #467-#469, a three part story entitled Shadowbox, wherein Chuck Dixon and Tom Lyle pretty much nail […]

In this week’s ball-startling episode, Magnus and his fellow Big Book Reporter Chris Honeywell prepare for Halloween 2014 as they literally warm up from the cold and figuratively warm up for the Big Book of Death. It’s a podcast about nothing as the Big Book Reporters discuss politics, religion, Fight […]

In this week’s ball-freezing episode, Magnus dips a toe into a couple of Superman issues from the Byrne Age. The common misconception about stories from this vintage of Superman’s career is that there was never a two-part story taking place in a single Superman title because of the triangle numbering […]

In this week’s ball-rocking episode, Magnus feels like talking about absolutely nothing. Before poor Tom Panarese has even realized what’s happened, he finds himself roped into long, meandering discussions about music, the art of the mix, how rock music fans have a strange habit of reflecting their band of choice’s […]

Two down, eight to go. In this week’s ball-flogging episode, Magnus winds up his long, fond look back at the second season of Smallville in the last of two back-to-back Smallville episodes leading up to the epic, epic, EPIC 100th episode. This week, the spotlight falls on Visitor (a decent […]

In this week’s ball-drugging episode, Magnus starts wrapping up his fond look back at the second season of Smallville in the first of two back-to-back Smallville episodes leading up to the epic, epic, EPIC 100th episode. This week, the spotlight falls on Suspect (a new cinematic benchmark for the show), […]

In this week’s ball-bootlegging episode, Magnus is joined by Chris “Not Guilty, Your Honor” Honeywell for another entry in the Big Book Report. This week, the Big Book Reporters take wander aimlessly through red light districts teeming with hookers, drug dealers, smugglers, gun-runners, pornographers, bootleggers and jaywalkers. And this is […]

In this week’s ball-zapping episode, Magnus is joined by J. David Weter (but you can call him “Dave”) for a fond look back at the pure, unadulterated, undiluted awesomeness that is Flash- Born to Run from Flash #62-#65, written by Mark Waid and illustrated by Greg Larocque. Not to worry, […]