Comics talk with long-box memory.
Comic Timing Podcast gathers comics-minded friends and guests for conversational debate about books, movies, fandom, and publishing history. Its best moments feel casual but specific, moving from jokes and life updates into close reads of covers, comic adaptations, and old favorites.
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Comic Timing Podcast is a comics roundtable with the easy continuity of old friends and repeat guests. It does not treat comics fandom as homework, but it clearly respects the homework. Recent episodes show a program comfortable moving from guest catch-ups to cover analysis, from retro movie reviews to syndicated conversations from neighboring shows. The tone is casual. The references are not. A discussion of Sonic the Hedgehog X Godzilla can sit near talk about Comic-Con memories, while a Marthais Wade episode can slide from Jetta: Tales of the Toshigawa into Power Rangers and Super Sentai frustration. That mix gives the show its shape. It is fan conversation with enough history behind it to make the tangents matter. The New History of the DC Universe material points toward a more meticulous mode, where covers, eras, and character lineages become the center of the room. The Batman Year One syndicated episode shows the same ecosystem from another angle, connecting Comic Timing to Back to the Bins, Raging Bullets, and the broader comics podcast circuit. Movie episodes widen the lens. Night of the Comet and the Captain America Albert Pyun director's cut give the panel room to compare cult-film memory, comic-book expectations, and the odd pleasures of older adaptations. There is also a personal layer. Episodes often begin with travel, recording setups, Patreon notes, rooms, brewery stories, or the practical problem of keeping a long-running show alive. Those openings can ramble, but they establish the social world the show comes from. The result feels less like a segmented review product and more like a standing conversation among people who remember the same back issues differently. It is especially strong when a small correction or aside turns into a sharper point. Comic Timing Podcast suits listeners who like fan specificity, creator names, publishing context, and affectionate disagreement. It also suits anyone who enjoys comics podcasts that leave the seams of the conversation intact. The show can be blunt and lightly messy, but its center is warm. It keeps returning to why stories, covers, creators, and adaptations stay lodged in memory.
Made for: For comics fans who enjoy conversational analysis, guest catch-ups, retro reviews, and debates that assume some comfort with fandom vocabulary. It especially fits listeners who like comics history, adaptations, and side trips into Power Rangers, wrestling, and cult movies.
What sets it apart: Comic Timing Podcast stands out through its lived-in panel chemistry and its willingness to let personal memory, publishing detail, and casual banter share the same table. The show feels connected to a broader comics podcast community rather than isolated from it.
Comic books are a medium that has grown substantially over the years. But what is behind that growth? What do comic fans look for in a book? Whats new and tantalizing for the average fan? Join in as Ian Levenstein, Brent Kossina, and a rotating panel of guests discuss whatever comes to mind, time after time, on Comic Timing!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Comic Timing Podcast connects occasional sports spectacle to the wider machinery of comics, adaptations and fan culture.
Comic Timing Podcast turns comic criticism into an animated group conversation, with Ian Levenstein, Brent Kossina and rotating company testing opinions against one another.
Godzilla licensing meets movie-marketing arguments when your inner continuity cop wants lively company.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose comics conversation lands best when it tracks the shaky business around movie theaters.
Comic Timing Episode 258 finds Ian Levenstein and Brent indoors in Florida after they decide against recording at the park in heat described as feeling around 105 degrees.
A relaxed comics catch-up tracks Cobra's early edge as G.I. Joe, Transformers, and Void Rivals begin to connect.
Comic Timing frames a catch-up conversation around the way G.I. Joe, Transformers, and Void Rivals are beginning to point toward a broader shared universe.
A lively comics roundtable tests where modern art begins, from early-1990s coloring to manga-esque style.
Comic Timing Episode 246 turns a question about modern comic-book art into a brisk, good-natured debate over where that era really starts. Ian Levenstein and Brent weigh early-1990s work in a Robin compendium, computer-separated colors, Spawn, Image, and the manga-esque look…
Brent hosts a loose, funny comics conversation with a sharp debate about Marvel's reveal-heavy marketing.
Brent Cassina joins Chris Natas and Brandon Christopher for a loose, joke-heavy conversation that moves from the Chiefs' Super Bowl burial to comics and Marvel trailers. The sharpest stretch tackles movie marketing and how much it should reveal.
A loose, affectionate retro review that enjoys Night of the Comet most when its tone will not settle down.
Comic Timing Episode 266 looks back at Night of the Comet as a retro movie review drawn to the film's odd balance of grim apocalyptic stakes and bright popcorn energy.
A lively, inside-baseball look at the creative and licensing rules behind Sonic meeting Godzilla.
Comic Timing treats the Sonic the Hedgehog X Godzilla crossover as more than a novelty match-up, using it to unpack how licensed comics are actually made. Nick notes that 99 of the 101 pages stay in Sonic's world, while Sega and Toho had to negotiate what each side could allow.
X-Men rankings with jokes, grudges, and continuity damage.
Fandom recap with receipts and side roads.
Moon Knight talk with lore-soaked judgment.
Nick Marino explains there was no rulebook for the Sonic and Godzilla crossover, despite fan expectations.
Ian Levenstein and guests review the 1984 B-movie 'Night of the Comet,' a post-apocalyptic zombie film they call the most MTV-esque movie they've seen.
Comic Timing episode 279 features Ian Levenstein and Raf Suhu interviewing comics writer Nick Marino about Sonic the Hedgehog X Godzilla and licensed-comics constraints.
Ian Levenstein catches up with Martheus Wade to discuss the removal of Power Rangers from streaming and their shared nostalgia.
The hosts of Comic Timing introduce a special episode breaking down the cover of the new DC Universe history issue 1.
Ian guest hosts on the Wrestling Conversations podcast, discussing wrestling, comic book collecting, and his podcasting history.
Ian announces a syndicated episode of Back to the Bins featuring Batman Year One discussion while on holiday break.
Ian and Chris discuss the adaptation of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Kirby's Netflix deal.
The hosts of Comic Timing introduce a retro movie review of Night of the Comet, with guest Shane, Adam Murdo, and Chris Eberle.
Ian and Chris review the director's cut of Albert Pyun's Captain America movie.
Ian Levenstein and Brent record episode 258 at a local tap room in Warehaven, Florida, after deciding against a 98-degree park session and comparing a beer break to a two-hour recording.
Shane is down to “18 issues” and three Brave and the Bold issues in a decades-long Justice League hunt.
Ian Levenstein argues that modern comic art is often just "whatever the hell you read most recently."
Ian Levenstein interviews DC Comics writer Jeremy Adams about his work on Aquaman, Green Lantern, and more.
Comic Timing Episode 241 has Brent Cassina hosting Chris Natas and Brandon Christopher in an informal discussion spanning Captain America: Brave New World, animation, streaming television, and comics.
The hosts of Comic Timing introduce themselves and discuss their Patreon support before reviewing Radiant Black, Volume 1.