Comic Book Bears Podcast

21/12/2025

Comic Book Bears Podcast Caleb's favorite one-shot/single issue of 2025 is Disney's Gargoyles Winter Special 2025 from Dynamite - written by Greg Weisman & Nate Cosby, with art from George Kambadais. Featuring everyone's fave Good Boy, Bronx, it's a fully silent issue!
Full episode here: https://youtube.com/live/VlEkdI3AFPE?feature=share

21/12/2025

Comic Book Bears PodcastSteve M talks about his favorite comic series of 2025 - DC's Absolute Wonder Woman by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman - beautifully illustrated, dynamically written, full of magic and a redefined mythology that still gives the essence of Diana of the Amazons!

Full episode here:
https://youtube.com/live/VlEkdI3AFPE?feature=share

19/12/2025

Comic Book Bears Podcast Billy Z talks about his Best Comic Series of 2025, Vanishing Point, a scifi/horror anthology by Mark Russell out of - look for the collected edition in late January!
Full "Best Of" episode here: https://youtube.com/live/VlEkdI3AFPE?feature=share

19/12/2025

Comic Book Bears Podcast listed their best of 2025, and Caleb's Best Series of 2025 was Absolute Martian Manhunter by Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez (which will be returning in 2026!)

For the full episode and all our best-of highlights: https://youtube.com/live/VlEkdI3AFPE?feature=share

15/12/2025

Comic Book Bears Podcast Steve M recommends Space Scouts from and creators Matt Kindt and David Rubin - gorgeous art and a fun take on LoSH concept. As Bill Zanowitz calls it, "Legion of Super-Heroes on Mescaline"!

12/12/2025

Jon Runyan from Comics By Night recommends the new Strange Tales from featuring the Scarlet Witch, Nico and Karolina from the Runaways, and Wiccan and Hulking on last week's Comic Book Bears Podcast!


Full episode here: https://youtube.com/live/YJHaWbb5MwI?feature=share

10/12/2025

At the latest Black Friday sale, flipping through comic sale bins, Bill Zanowitz discovered an issue of Canadian artist Fiona Smythe's Nocturnal Emissions from 1991. Surreal, "anti-narrative", and powerfully drawn, the stories and art really shine. You never know what you can find bin diving!

Full episode here: https://youtube.com/live/YJHaWbb5MwI?feature=share

08/12/2025

Steve M talks about his pick from last week's livestream episode, Mimi Pond's Over Easy, a fun semi-fictional/semi-autobiographical graphic novel about working in a funky diner in 1970s Oakland. Check it out!


Full episode here: https://youtube.com/live/YJHaWbb5MwI?feature=share

07/12/2025

Jon Runyan of Comics By Night joins the gang on the 12/4 livestream to chat about some books, including Doomed 2099 from featuring time-travel shenanigans between Doom 2099 and a ragtag group of heroes against present-day Sorcerer Supreme Doom!
Full episode here: https://youtube.com/live/YJHaWbb5MwI?feature=share

05/12/2025

Comic Book Bears Podcast Bill Z has some concerns about Vandal Savage's current career path... w/Steve Mowry and Jon Runyon


full video here: https://youtube.com/live/YJHaWbb5MwI?feature=share

02/12/2025

For this week's Bear Cave of Terror episode, Bill Zanowitz chats with Steve M about Jaws 2, and the success of Jawsploitation that followed in the wake of the original summer blockbuster, Jaws (1975). Comment your favorites from the "big animal eats people" genre!

Full audio episode here:
https://youtu.be/oiu9LLepDmY

29/11/2025

Time for another Comic Book Bears Podcast audio episode taken from one of our recent livestreams! And this time Steve, Caleb and Billy Z have a whole bunch of cool books in this comic roundtable! And it kicks off with Deadpool/Batman #1, the first new Marvel/DC crossover in 21 years! We have more Marvel books on the docket with Avengers 29 and 30 as well as the premiere issue of Amazing Spider-Man: Torn #1! DC is also represented with the return of Gotham Academy! Lastly, we chat about the collected edition of Oni's Out of Alcatraz and the western themed Outlaw Showdown from the relaunched EC Comics line! We hope you had a great Thanksgiving and hope you give this a listen after your Tryptophan injection!!

Time for another Comic Book Bears audio episode from one of our recent livestreams! And this time Steve, Caleb and Billy Z have a whole bunch of cool books in this comic roundtable! And it kicks off with Deadpool/Batman #1, the first new Marvel/DC crossover in 21 years! We have more Marvel books on....