Comics news with creator access and fan-table chaos.
AIPT Comics keeps pace with the weekly comics churn: news, favorite books, creator interviews, and the arguments that happen between them. It is loose, nerdy, and quick to turn a headline into a superhero debate or a joke about casting Wolverine.
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AIPT Comics covers comic books with the speed and looseness of fans who have too much to say before the week’s stack changes again. It is a comics-news and review show, but its real identity sits in the collision between weekly reactions and creator interviews. The show recaps major headlines. It reviews favorite comics. Then it wanders, cheerfully and sometimes absurdly, into the side questions that make comics fandom feel alive: who should play Wolverine, what age the X-Men should be, why a premise works, or what makes a page finish different from rough storytelling. Recent episodes show a wide lane. Absolute Green Arrow becomes a conversation about a darker superhero setup, horror instincts, and a billionaire-killing premise. Franklin Jonas appears around Fireborn and Lost Fantasy, with discussion of music as a tool for writing comics. Timmy Haig brings the retail angle, talking Lost Fantasy, variant covers, owning two comic shops, and moving from selling comics into writing them. American Caper opens the door to editing, finishing, Dark Horse production, and what happens when a book’s characters are disasters by design. Steve Orlando gets room for a broad, energetic interview across Scarlet Witch, Valiant Beyond, Deadweight, Boom horror stories, Dragula Titans, and more. Grant Sandground brings a surprising detour into SkyBox Metal Universe Batman and modern trading-card culture. The show is not trying to sound neutral from a great distance. It reacts. It jokes. It corrects itself midstream and keeps going. That makes the interviews feel less like press stops and more like conversations with readers who already have opinions. There is plenty of superhero material, especially Marvel and DC, but the feed also keeps space for indies, horror, comedy, card collecting, and creator career paths. The result is accessible insider chatter: casual enough to feel like a comics hang, but connected enough to bring in people directly involved with the work.
Made for: For comics readers who follow weekly releases, superhero casting, creator interviews, and the weird side channels of comics culture. It especially suits fans who like informed coverage with jokes, tangents, and strong reactions.
What sets it apart: AIPT Comics pairs weekly review banter with unusually broad creator and industry conversations, from shop retail and page finishing to music-driven writing and trading-card culture. It feels more reactive and conversational than a polished news desk.
An exploration of the comic book art form via weekly insights, news, and creator interviews. Covering it all from Marvel Comics and DC Comics to indies publishers and creators too.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Its Music-beat value is indirect: sustained attention to creative collaboration, adaptation, and how finished work emerges from choices on the page.
AIPT Comics pairs banter-heavy discussion of comics news and favorite issues with substantial creator conversations. David Brooke anchors a rotating group of co-hosts, including Alex Schlesinger, Chris Copeland, and David Simmons, moving easily between close readings of…
A broken jaw becomes panel craft, then a creator interview takes over the room.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A brisk comics-news episode that uses Infernal Hulk and Dungeons of Doom to probe genre under pressure.
AIPT Comics Podcast episode 369 works best as a compact creator-interview episode framed by a looser comics-news opening. The conversation moves from Infernal Hulk to Marvel letting Philip Kennedy Johnson finish Adventures of Superman: Book of L, then settles into its most…
Steve Orlando connects Deadweight's gonzo influences to the practical work of writing Bobby Lee's voice.
Steve Orlando's AIPT Comics appearance makes good use of its hour, keeping the focus on how he thinks about tone, voice, and a busy creative slate.
A loose comics chat where Grodd, Hobgoblin, and episode-number jokes all get room at the table.
David Brook and Alex Schlesinger turn episode 330 into a relaxed check-in on aging, doll hairs, and the odd rhythm of returning after a two-week break.
Ryan Parrott's sci-fi series gets a lively, grounded look at jacking in, pacing, and a five-chapter plan.
AIPT Comics gives Ryan Parrott's new sci-fi series a lively, grounded read, treating the first issue less as a pitch and more as a question of form: how a comic earns its shape.
Comics criticism with the seatbelt off.
Scrappy fandom talk with deep comic roots.
Apple details, software habits, and everyday technical friction.
Records worth hearing, reasons worth arguing over.
Matthew Rosenberg discusses his new indie comic 'We're Taking Everyone Down with Us' and the DC vs.
The AIPT Comics Podcast hosts David Brooke and David Simmons recap comic news and review new releases.
Hosts David Brook and Alex Schlesinger recap comic news including X-Men Hellfire Gala costumes and Punisher's return.
Ryan North tells AIPT Comics how he accidentally pitched Doom Quest, a 10-issue series with Francesco Mobili in which Dr.
The Amputee Comics Podcast interviews the creative team behind 'Absolute Green Arrow', a dark take where Oliver Queen is a serial killer targeting billionaires.
Franklin Jonas discusses his new comic series Fireborn in the Lost Fantasy universe and how his musical background influences his comic writing.
AIPT Comics episode 373 previews Timmy Haig discussing Lost Fantasy number nine, comic-shop ownership, variant covers, and his work with Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum.
AIPT Comics hosts David Brooke and Alex Schlesinger interview Matthew Rosenberg about If Destruction Be Our Lot, a science-fiction comic co-written with his brother Mark Elijah Rosenberg, and his new assignments on Spawn and King Spawn.
The APT Comics Podcast hosts the creative team behind 'American Caper' to discuss the 12-issue series, including the role of a finisher in comic book art.
AIPT Comics episode 370 previews Christian Ward's Event Horizon: Inferno, a sequel to the film set 200 years later, with a stated April 22 release date.
Philip Kennedy Johnson talks about Infernal Hulk, Marvel exclusivity, and the pitch history behind Dungeons of Doom.
AIPT Comics episode 368 centers on a long Steve Orlando interview that covers Scarlet Witch, Valiant Beyond, Deadweight with Bobby Lee, Good Bones, Dragula Titans, DCxAEW, and X-Men Infinity.
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The AIPT Comics Podcast hosts preview SDCC 2025, discussing Marvel's Age of Revelation event and its 16 titles.
The AIPT Comics Podcast hosts an interview with the creative team behind the comic 'Archie vs.
David Brooke and Alex Schlesinger preview Caitlin Yarsky's graphic novel 'Living Hell' about a demon father and his family, then interview her.