• INTERVIEW: Scott Snyder
    May 6 2024

    Joining us this week on the show is the Eisner-Award-winning writer of titles like American Vampire, Wytches, Nocterra, Undiscovered Country, Batman: The Black Mirror, Justice League, DC’s Dark Nights: Metal, Clear, The Wake, Swamp Thing, Barnstormers, and an epic five-year run on Batman that includes the creation of The Court of Owls.

    More recently, he’s been working on titles like Arcbound with co-creators Tom Hardy/Frank Tieri/and Ryan Smallman, Canary with artist Dan Panosian, Duck and Cover with artist Rafael Albuquerque, Nocterra with Tony Daniel, and has re-teamed up with his Black Mirror partner Francesco Francavilla for White Boat over at DSTLRY.

    It is our honor to welcome Scott Snyder onto The Oblivion Bar Podcast!

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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • *BONUS EPISODE* INTERVIEW: Zack Quaintance
    Apr 30 2024

    Joining us this week on the show is someone many may know already as a well-regarded comic book journalist for popular sites like The Beat and Comics Bookcase. Well, add “comic book scribe” to his resume, because ‘The Death of Comics Bookcase Vol. 1’ is his recent crowd-funded anthology that, as of this recording, has well over 200 backers and just surpassed $10,000!

    It is our pleasure to welcome Zack Quaintance onto The Oblivion Bar Podcast!

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    44 mins
  • INTERVIEW: James Tynion IV & Christian Ward
    Apr 22 2024

    Joining us this week on the show is the creative team behind the highly-anticipated, prestige-formatted four-issue haunted ghost story at DSTLRY Publishing: Spectregraph.

    One is the Eisner Award-winning and New York Times Bestselling author of titles like Something is Killing the Children, Nice House on the Lake, Blue Book, Department of Truth, House of Slaughter, Worldtr33, and The Deviant. They also recently started a production company ‘Tiny Onion’, which plans to develop a number of those successful series we just listed and adapt them for both television and film.

    The other is the 3x Eisner-winning comic book creator behind titles like Aquaman: Andromeda, ODY-C, Invisible Kingdom, Black Bolt, Blood-Stained Teeth, and Batman: City of Madness.

    It is our honor to welcome both James Tynion IV & Christian Ward onto The Oblivion Bar Podcast!

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    Previous Appearances on the Show By Christian Ward

    • INTERVIEW: Christian Ward (Episode 85, July 22')
    • INTERVIEW: Christian Ward & Patric Reynolds (Episode 112, March 23')
    • NYCC INTERVIEW-A-THON: Christian Ward (Episode 132, Oct 23')

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • INTERVIEW: Jason Aaron
    Apr 15 2024

    Joining us this week on the show is the Eisner-award-winning comic book writer behind titles like Southern Bastards, Avengers, Conan The Barbarian, Vertigo’s Scalped, The Punisher, Marvel’s 2015 relaunch of Star Wars, and his iconic seven-year epic on Thor.

    Recently, he’s been hard at work on newer titles like Action Comics and Batman: Off World at DC Comics, Once Upon a Time at the End of the World and BRZRKR: A Faceful of Bullets at BOOM! Studios, Uncle $crooge and the Infinity Dime at Marvel Comics, and the highly anticipated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at IDW Publishing.

    It is our pleasure to welcome Jason Aaron BACK onto The Oblivion Bar Podcast!

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    Previous Appearances on the Show By Jason Aaron

    • INTERVIEW: Jason Aaron (Episode 75, April 22')

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • MOVIE REVIEW: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire & Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Part Two)
    Apr 12 2024

    "The world, right now, is experiencing unusual paranormal activity. We are here to answer that call. Because we... ARE THE GHOSTBUSTERS!"

    For part two of episode 151, we finish up our review of the fifth installment of the Monsterverse: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and then go directly into our discussion of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.

    Aaron’s Arcade [Sponsored by G Fuel] (41:14)

    Chris’ Corner [Sponsered by The Fantasy Shop] (45:16)

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    53 mins
  • MOVIE REVIEW: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire & Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Part One)
    Apr 8 2024

    "Kong can't stop this on his own."

    "He won't be alone."


    News and Notes [Sponsored by Omnibus] (8:06)

    For our news and notes segment, Aaron and Chris discuss Marvel casting Julia Garner in THE FANTASTIC 4 as the Silver Surfer and comic creator Ed Piskor tragically passes away at 41 years old.

    Main Topic (22:45)

    For part one of our main topic, we discuss and review the fifth installment of the Monsterverse: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire! Come back for part two to hear our discussion of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.

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    58 mins
  • (Patreon Preview) The Grid - Episode 120
    Apr 1 2024

    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. New episodes every Friday!

    For episode 120, Aaron and Chris discuss Aaron's visit to Soho for Batman's 85th birthday, the eternal drama of Harry Potter, and we each pick (1) movie to defend that we know the other hates.

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    54 mins
  • Battle Royale V
    Mar 25 2024

    It's about to go DOWN 👊🏻💥

    We are back for another installment in our BATTLE ROYALE segment! Five fighters, five arena-specific scenarios, two passionate nerds debate skill and combat to determine the ultimate winner among our fictional champions 🏆

    Previous Battle Royale Episodes ⤵️

    Episode 90 - Battle Royale IV

    Episode 56 - Battle Royale III

    Episode 20 - Battle Royale II

    Episode 07 - Battle Royale I

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    1 hr and 9 mins